We are going to talk a little bit about the tabernacle in this article. The Hebrew letter Vav is all over the tabernacle of Moses. It’s amazing how much the Vav was used because the Vav is a hook and it’s a nail that’s used to build things. The letter Vav builds things.
Exodus 27:9-10 says: “And you shall make the court of the tabernacle; for the south side, toward the south, there shall be curtains for the court of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits long on one side: “And its twenty pillars and its twenty bases shall be of bronze; the capitals of the columns and their moldings will be of silver.
To show you that in the making of the tabernacle, the hooks hold up the curtains and those are called Vavs. They are connecting something. The tabernacle has a fence that runs around it. This is quite amazing because you see a bronze at the bottom and some silver caps and a hook at the top of the fence. You should know that in Biblical colors and metals, silver always represents redemption or truth, while bronze always represents judgment. I mean you have an image of Messiah built into the side of the tabernacle because Messiah is crucified on wood and remember that in the book of revelation John describes the feet of Messiah as bronze or brass.
Interestingly, the Torah is also called a fence. For the last 4,000 years, they have been calling the Torah a fence. In fact, so much so that the rabbis, the people, the scribes who actually build Torahs, have over 4,000 laws on how to put together a Torah scroll. They modeled it after the tabernacle of Moses, the fence that runs around the tabernacle. That’s where they were modeled, so the scrolls aren’t a small sheet of paper. They are all connected and have these columns and you should also know that each column starts with a Vav. Each column will start with a Vav because they are trying to send a message that Yahweh’s word never ends. Every paragraph in every word in every sentence in every column is connected to the next. You see, that’s why it rolls to the end.
I found out and understand that the Vav connects and what does that really mean. You should also know that each one of you is a Vav. Remember that God does not look at us through a personal relationship, that is how he looks at us on judgment day but until then we are corporate. He looks at us corporately, which is why he said that it is a big problem if there is sin in our house or in our congregation. We’ve got to get rid of it or it’ll infect the whole body, a little leaven, leaven the whole lamb. If God looks at us in a personal relationship, it wouldn’t matter but it doesn’t. The point is that we have to understand that we are connected to each other. So if you get out of that connection, you’re breaking the very fence that protects that congregation.