It may not be obvious in a light reading of this scripture but the inside and the outside of the tabernacle were different sizes. The resilient outside was a little bigger to make sure it could cover the more delicate and valuable material inside. Matthew Henry in his commentary says this is a picture of the church which on the outside looks rough but on the inside is full of the glory of God. This may be true but I lean towards the idea that besides being practical is a picture of Jesus. Isaiah 53:2 says, "He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." Jesus on the outside looked like nothing very special but yet he was, as it were, on the inside the most precious and valuable of persons, the God come in the flesh. So even in the making of the Tabernacle God is showing the person of Jesus, the ultimate way to God.
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