Even if you’re familiar with the Tabernacle, you might not have ever thought about how exactly it got disassembled and packed up.

I love that it’s so organized and systematic. There are teams. They know what they’re in charge of. In a way, the disassembly and set up of the Tabernacle reminds me of the circus crews who would put up and take down the Big Top. 🎪

Except for the the Kohathites. They were more like the guys handling nuclear warheads at a Cold War era testing site. ☢️

Arron, Eliezar and Ithamar would go in and take down the veil and drape it over the Ark so that even they didn’t see it. 🫣

They would likewise completely cover every article of the sacred furnishings and even pack up and cover the holy utensils, then the Kohathites could come in and move everything.

[I’m guessing Uzzah never read this part of the Torah. 🫤 ]

One thing stood out to me. And I’m probably reading more into this than what is here, but this…

“They will remove the fat-soaked ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭4‬:‭13‬ ‭LEB‬‬

That just hit me. It made me think of this:

“And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed it on his head, and put a purple robe on him…

Then Jesus came outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, “Behold the man!”
‭‭John‬ ‭19‬:‭2‬, ‭5‬ ‭LEB‬‬

The brazen altar also had a crown of 4 thorns. It was the place where the sacrifice was made. It was the messiest piece of all the Tabernacle furnishings. For this very brief moment, robed in purple, with its blood-stained horns poking out, it is a bronze prophet foretelling the final sacrifice.

Isn’t God amazing?