Tabernacle Lectures (11) The Pillars of the Tabernacle

The walls of the tabernacle are the linen curtains. When they spread the 100 cubit long curtains to the north and the south, they set up 20 pillars at every 5 cubits. The east and west sides had 50 cubit long curtains, so they set up 10 pillars. The entire length of the walls that surrounded the tabernacle was 300 cubits, and cubits were set up every 5 cubits, so the tabernacle had a total of 60 pillars.

Exodus 27:10 “And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver.”

It tells us what material all the different parts of the tabernacle are made of, but strangely only the material of the pillars are not mentioned. The sockets of the pillars are made of bronze, and the hooks and the bands of the pillars are made of silver, but it does not say what material the pillars are made of. God’s deep meaning is hidden here.

The pillars are pointing to us who are used by God as tools. It means that God does not talk at all about who we were before we met the Lord. No matter what things were in our hearts in the past, those things are no problem at all. Simply, if we come before Jesus Christ and empty our hearts, the evil and filthy thoughts we had in the past become completely irrelevant to us. No matter what kind of life we lived in the past, if we come before Jesus Christ and empty our hearts, the Lord fills our hearts with the Holy Spirit.