The cost of the tabernacle was estimated to exceed two million dollars.  All of its framework and its furniture was overlaid with pure gold.  All of this points to the infinite value and worth of Jesus of whom the tabernacle was a shadow.  Everyone was excluded except those who came by way of the door and the blood and the altar at the entrance of the tabernacle.  It was surrounded by a white linen fence and the enclosure was called the court of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:9-13).

The purpose of the fence was to keep man out.  It was suspended on sixty pillars or posts of solid brass, resting on sockets of brass.  The white linen speaks of God's perfect righteousness.  The brass pillars point ot God's judgment upon sin.  The linen fence separated the camp of Israel from the presence of God.  It represented the law and said stay out.

But there was a way provided for the sinner whereby he could approach from the outside and enter into communion and fellowship with God.  He couldn't come over the fence, or under or through it, but he could enter through a door that was provided. At the eastern end of the enclosure was a wide gate which was the way into the tabernacle where God dwelt (Exodus 38:18).

This was the only opening in the linen fence, and the only way into the tabernacle.  It was an opening thirty feet long, seven and a half feet high and was made of white linen embroidered with blue, scarlet and purple needlework.  The door points to Jesus as the only approach to God.  Jesus Himself said "I am the door:  by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved" (John 10:9).  In John 14:6 He says: I am the way, the truth and the life.  No man comes to the Father but by me.

The curtain which hung across this door also speaks of Jesus, who is the Door.  It was made of fine white linen, and worked into it were patterns of purple, scarlet and blue needlework.  These were the four prominent colors of the tabernacle, and each one points to some particular aspect of the nature and character of Jesus our Savior.  Purple is the sign of royalty, the color of the King.  Scarlet is the color of blood, and speaks of sacrifice.  White is the color of perfection and righteousness, and blue is the color of heaven.

These four colors speak of Jesus in a four-fold way as the King, a sacrificing Servant, as a perfect Man, and as perfect God.  They suggest the picture of Jesus that's recorded in the four Gospels by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  Matthew corresponds to the purple and tells of Jesus as the King of Israel.  mark's gospel corresponds to the scarlet and presents Jesus as the suffering Servant.  Luke presents the perfect, sinless humanity of Jesus and corresponds to the White linen.  John, through his gospel, introduces us to the heaven-sent Son of God, the eternal Creator, represented by the blue color in the hangings of the court.