06 - The Pillars of the Vail

THE PILLARS OF THE VAIL.

Exodus 26:32- "And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver"

Exodus 36:36- "And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver." THE pillars of the vail were four in number (Exodus 26:32; and Exodus 36:36.) Unlike those on which hung the curtain for the tabernacle-door, they had no capitals; thus they lacked the ordinary architectural completeness of a pillar. May not our thoughts be directed by this, to the contemplation of those Scriptures which speak of the Lord as cut off? (Isaiah 53:8.) "Who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living." And Psalms 102:23-24, "He shortened my days: I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days!" And yet the very fact of this seemingly abrupt termination of the life of the Lord Jesus, in the days of His flesh, has made Him to be unto us “wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption;" a fourfold perfection, meeting our fourfold need; to which possibly the number of vail-pillars may allude.