The Dimensions of the Curtains

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits. The dimensions and limits of the curtains, of the tent of the congregation, as well ‘as of the’ tabernacle, are fixed and laid down by God himself in his word.
There are two cubits more in the curtains of the tent than in those of the tabernacle, and this is significant.
The quickening and indwelling of the Spirit of God, and faith in the Lord Jest’s Christ, is all that is requisite in order to any one’s forming part of the Church in Spirit now, as the body of Christ; “for by one Spirit we. are all baptized into one body.” (1 Corinthians 12:13.) Where there is the revelation of the Son by the Father in the power of the Holy Ghost, there is a living stone; but, in order to form part of the Church as the witnessing company to Christ in the earth, there must also be the confession, of Christ, the Son of the living God, as the result of Divine teaching. (See Matthew 16:13-18.) And those who are built upon the foundation, and associated together in this confession, compose the Church of Christ, as the witness for him in the world. (John 12:42,43.) There must also be consistency with this confession; for the brother that has offended, and will not hear the Church, or the assembly of those who are gathered together in the name of the Lord Jesus, such an one is to be regarded as a heathen man, and a publican. (Matthew 18:15-20.) He is outside of that Which is the witness for Christ in the earth.
The inscription on the curtains of the tabernacle is, “The foundation of God standeth sure; having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his.”
The inscription on the curtains of the tent is, “Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” (2 Timothy 2:19.)
As to the Church of God in Spirit—the tabernacle of God—the Lord Jesus knows every one of those who belong to him. They may not be able to apprehend themselves with certainty that they belong to Jesus; the world may riot know it; they, may be hidden ones; but the foundation of their security is this: the Lord knows them, and all they that are his at his coming, shall be raised to the first resurrection, and every member of his mystic body shall form part of the Bride in the glory. But as the witness to Christ in the earth—the tent of the congregation—the pillar and ground of God’s truth separation from evil is the principle of its very existence: without this it crumbles into ruins. Moral or doctrinal evil, admitted into an assembly of witnesses for Christ, is like a fretting leprosy in one of the curtains of the tent, which will destroy it in the warp and woof. (Leviticus 47-52.)
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” This is true of all who compose the tabernacle, or Church of God in Spirit.
And, “Let everyone that nameth—the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” This is the precept which, is imperative on all who form part of the tent of the congregation—the witness to the name and truth of Christ on the earth.