What is beyond that door? As a boy, I once almost joined a secret club. At the door to the initiating room, I heard screams and laughter beyond. I became frightened and retreated. Afterward I often wondered what I had missed, but I could never make up my mind to go through that door to find out.
Israelites approaching the tabernacle first saw the seven-and-a-half-foot fence around it. They knew the tabernacle was the place to make things right with God to worship Him, and to personally offer a sacrifice and have their sins forgiven; but to do so, they had to enter the door.
The tabernacle was enclosed by a white linen fence, five cubits, or seven and one half feet, high. Details for making and hanging the fences are given in Exodus 27:9-19.
The material was to be fine twined white linen.
The "fine twined linen" tabernacle fence typified or pictured holiness or righteousness. God is surrounded by holiness; as we approach Him we are confronted with His holiness and made aware of our lack of holiness. When Isaiah "saw...the Lord...high and lifted" in all His holiness (Isa. 6:1), he realized his own uncleanness and that of the people. He cried, "Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts" (v. 5). Any man approaching God must see the Lord's holiness and his own unworthiness. Only then will he recognize the need to enter the one door into God's presence.
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