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. 19:8). In these the heavenly saints are adorned and clothed. Righteousness and Purity are symbolized by the pure linen: see Rev. 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 3:13), yet as come from heaven (1 Cor. 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. 4:13). 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. 17:3-4: Lev. 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 24:26).
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.
Cherubim skillfully wrought in the three colors throughout the linen, shadowed forth the truth that the government of the world, as well as its glory (scarlet) is committed to Him Who alone is competent because of His Person, and alone worthy because of His work to sustain such a burden. The judicial authority of the Throne of the Eternal is to be publicly administered by the Son of Man (John 5:22-27).
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.