Summary of the Curtains

Looking, on the Lord Jesus while on earth as typified by the tabernacle (John 1:14), the inner wrought, curtains answer to him as the Son of God, in his excellency and beauty. “Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness.” (Romans 1:4.)
The goats’ hair curtains, as the Son of Mary (Luke 1:35) made in the likeness of men; yet personally that holy thing, born of the Virgin.
The rams’ skins dyed red present him as the Son, of Man, who gave his life a ransom for many—God’s spotless Lamb. Arid the badgers’ skin covering, as Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph, the stranger here, to whom the world was a wilderness wide, and life one weary pilgrimage from the manger to the Cross.
But regarding the tabernacle and tent, with its coverings, as typical of the Church of God, the curtains of fine linen represent the Church in spirit, as the workmanship of the Holy Ghost.
The goats’ hair curtains, the Church in testimony, and in outward responsibility.
The rams’ skins dyed red, the Church as seen of God in Christ, and under the cover of his atoning blood. And the badgers’ skin, the Church as seen by the world in their pilgrimage character, and their outward condition here.
In resurrection glory, however, the internal workmanship of the Holy Spirit, as typified by the curtains of the tabernacle, will appear in all its Divine perfection and beauty.
The flesh, with all its imperfections, will be done away forever, these vile bodies fashioned like Christ’s glorious body, this mortal will have put on immortality, and this corruptible incorruption. The goats’ hair tent will be exchanged for the “building of God, the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” (2 Corinthians 5:1.)
But the Church will ever appear as accepted in God’s beloved, their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
While the pilgrim garb wills be exchanged for the becoming robes of royalty and triumph, the priestly garments—of glory and of beauty. No longer the badgers’ skin covering externally visible, but having the glory of God. (Revelation 21:11.)
(The Boards of the Tabernacle (D.V.) hi the Number for April.)