The Story the Curtains Unfold.

What a story of Christ all this unfolds. The Tabernacle both outside and inside, whether as viewed by an observer without, or by a worshipper within, proclaimed the name and worth of JESUS THE CHRIST AND SON OF GOD. These types and shadows speak alone of Him; otherwise all are meaningless.
“The fine twined linen” refers to the personal purity of Christ; His righteous character and absolute purity in word, in life, in ways as shown here on earth. The fine linen in which the bride is adorned is said to be the righteousness, or righteous acts of the saints (Rev. 19:88And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (Revelation 19:8)). In these the heavenly saints are adorned and clothed. Righteousness and Purity are symbolized by the pure linen: see Rev. 15:66And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. (Revelation 15:6); Lev. 16: 4. The linen fine twined would intimate that there was no sameness in the wondrous life of Jesus. His life was one complete whole in which every act and word had each its fitting place. His attributes, traits of character, and details of life, were inseparably and harmoniously blended together. Facts and principles, character and life, were “twined” and wrought into one whole: no discordant note or discord in the music of that life which ever thrilled heaven, and above all, the heart of God itself.
Then the colors wrought by hand in the linen contribute to these exquisite unfolding’s of Christ. Why those special colors, and why ever in the same order — blue, purple, and scarlet? These colors in brief tell the history of Christ. In heaven (John 3:1313And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (John 3:13)), yet as come from heaven (1 Cor. 15:4747The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. (1 Corinthians 15:47)), Christ ever bore the impress of heaven in all life down here (blue). But He who came from heaven suffered here as none other, and surely this is the symbolic meaning of the purple (Num. 4:1313And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: (Numbers 4:13)). Then in a day not far distant, the glories and splendors of a redeemed world shall center and circle round Him “Who is KING of kings and LORD of lords.” “To Him shall be given of the gold of Sheba” (Ps. 72:10-15), and of this the scarlet is the witness: see (Rev. 17:3-43So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: (Revelation 17:3‑4): Lev. 14:66As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: (Leviticus 14:6)),
“O the joy to see Thee reigning,
Thee my own beloved Lord;
Every tongue Thy name confessing:
Worship, honor, glory, blessing
Brought to Thee with one accord.
Thee, my Master and my Friend,
Vindicated and enthroned,
Unto earth’s remotest end
Glorified, adored, and owned.”
The purple is a combination of blue and scarlet. The purple speaks of the sufferings and death of One who came from heaven (the blue), and Who would step from the garden, the cross, and the sepulcher and mount to the throne and glory of the world (the scarlet) (Luke 24:2626Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? (Luke 24:26)).
The same combination of colors, in the same order, and proclaiming the same wondrous story of Christ, are written in the mystic veil, in the door of the tent, in the beautiful set of ten curtains, and in the gate of the court.
The curtains must have been exceedingly beautiful. The highest skill, the finest and most exquisite needle-work, were lovingly and willingly spent on these curtains. Christ was imprinted on every fiber of the pure linen, on every color, and on every cherubic figure. Ah! little did those generous and wise- hearted men and women of Israel know that in their work and labor of love, they were publishing to generations to come, the history of Christ―His wondrous Person, His offices, His suffering, His excellencies in life and death, and His coming glories.
 
1. Cherubim plural, Cherub singular; Seraphim plural, Seraph singular.