Make the Tabernacle from ten curtains of freshly woven linen. Decorate the curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread…Exo. 26:1.

All throughout the chapters that God instructs Moses on how to build the Tabernacle we see over and over again the use of these 3 colors. In reading them over and over again I could only realize that there had to be great meaning in them for God to make them the color pallet of His Tabernacle. Here is a brief version of what the HS showed me:

Blue- the first color to be listed. Represents humanity and normality. God made man to be supernatural but because of the fall he could only be natural at best. Nothing special about blue in means of process and value.

Purple- the color of royalty. In this case, divinity! God wants to be in fellowship with man and to dwell with him day by day as He set up in the Garden of Eden. This union is impossible without the next color.

Scarlet- has 2 prophetic meanings according to the Scripture. Isa. 1:18 compares our sin to the stain of scarlet. So God and man were separated from each other by the stain of sin that was scarlet. The second meaning (glory to God!) pulls it all together. It speaks of the Blood of Jesus that was shed on Calvary and that precious Blood had the power to reunite God and man. We are no longer separated from God by sin but united with Him through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb (don’t get me peachin’).

As you can see, the colors of the Tabernacle speak a powerful truth of that which was to come. The plight of mankind and the solution of God’s grace poured out on the Cross were all encoded in the colors specified by Almighty God for the sacred tent of worship that the Israelites would carry with them for hundreds of years.

1 Tim. 2:5- For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity–the man Christ Jesus.

Each year you must celebrate 3 festivals in My honor- Exo. 23:14. In a day where we are so busy and our calendars seem to bulge with commitments vying for our time and attention, we must always come back to the Word of God to align our hearts and priorities. God gave the children of Israel three things that they needed to take time and celebrate every year in order to maintain as a priority in their daily lives and walk with the Lord. These 3 things remain timeless in their instruction to us as modern day believers.

1. Feast of Unleavened Bread-The Cross: Passover was a picture of the Cross and the sacrifice of Jesus, our Lamb. The first and highest priority of our life is to be saved and discipled by the Cross of Jesus Christ. We should never get away from the power of the Cross to set us free from sin and keep the old man crucified so that we can walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

2. Feast of Harvest-The Lost: Jesus died so that none would perish and all inherit eternal life. BUT, if you and I don’t tell people the Good News and get active in the harvest as a laborer everyone WILL perish for lack of knowledge concerning their salvation and deliverance.

3. Feast of the Final Harvest- Eternity: Heaven and Hell are both a reality that we should live in constant awareness of day and night. We should never allow eternity to minimized or nominalized in our lives. Heaven causes us to rejoice in the work of salvation and long for that day of perfect alignment with God’s presence. Hell should motivate us to reach out to the lost at all cost in order to keep them from the awful reality that awaits all that have rejected (directly or indirectly) the Savior, Jesus Christ.
As you can see, these 3 things go together and focus us on Jesus every day. Keep them as your priority in this life and great will be your reward in the life to come!