The Scarlet Thread

Let's look at verse one. It says, Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple and scarlet thread.

So these would have been the colors you would have seen in the tabernacle, blue, purple and scarlet.

And I would argue that Christ is the scarlet thread that is woven through every book of the

Bible. This color red or scarlet represents, we believe, the blood of Christ.

I just think about a few stories in the scripture. Remember in Joshua chapter two, when

Rahab was hiding the Israelite spies, what was she told to do? To bind a scarlet cord outside of the window so that when the

Israelites saw it, all those in her household were were spared.

So the scarlet cord with Rahab represents the blood of Christ.

She was protected or she was under the blood of Christ. There have been many articles, books and sermons about this concept of the scarlet thread, that there's a scarlet thread of redemption that's woven throughout the tapestry of scripture, if you want to put it that way.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says about the Old Testament, These are they which testify of me.

So the Old Testament scriptures point to Christ. So somehow all of these things are pointing ahead to Christ.

And the scarlet thread, I think, is woven throughout the scripture. So the red represents the blood.

I think that's fairly well established. So Exodus 26 verse one, Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with 10 curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple and scarlet thread with artistic designs of cherubim, that's the angels, you shall weave them.

So scarlet is the color of blood. Purple, what do you think of when you think of the color purple?

Jim? Okay, royalty. Jesus is the king, king of kings. He was clothed with a purple robe, right before.

Of course, they were mocking him, the soldiers were. So this, you say,

Okay, what is purple and blue and red? What is this about? This may just be speculation.

I thought this was interesting. Okay, the scarlet, the red blood of Christ, we got that. But before Jesus was crucified, he was beaten.

And normally we talk about bruise marks on the body as being black and blues, right?

You have black and blues, but they're not really black and blue. What are they? They're purple and blue.

So that may be the significance of these colors. There's the blood of Christ, he was beaten, bloody, beaten, black and blue.

Jesus as a man of sorrows, this may be pointing ahead to his, his wounds.

And then also, it's talking about the wood that's used in the ark is acacia wood.

All right, why do we need to know what kind of wood it is? Does it, does it matter? Well, I thought this was interesting.

The acacia wood, the Hebrew word that's derived, that is derived from, is the word for scourging.

And Jesus was scourged. So acacia wood, it's believed had thorns on it and was used for, for harming people.

And of course, Jesus was crowned with the crown of thorns.

He was beaten, having wounds of blue and purple. So all of that might be the symbolism that is, that is pictured here.