Exodus 36: 35-38, “And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work. 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. And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.”
The most holy section of the Tabernacle was set aside for this was where the Lord Himself would come to communicate. When King Solomon built the Temple he said this during the dedication service, “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?” (1 Kings 8: 27) Of course the Lord was far more powerful than someone who could actually inhabit a third of the Tabernacle. He is not just the God of Israel, He is the God of the whole earth (Psalm 97: 5, “The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.”) However, the Lord understood that Israel needed evidence of His presence so He gave them what they needed without compromising His own glory. They needed to set the holiest place apart so that no one would be tempted to try and reduce the Lord God to that size by attempting to see Him. When the Tabernacle was taken down the high priest would go into the holiest place and cover the ark with the curtain so that no one, who was not properly qualified, would ever see it. In this way the Tabernacle could be moved easily without compromising the Lord’s glory in any way.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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