Verse 19 “And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.”
The ceiling of the tabernacle was made from rams skins dyed red, the red picturing the blood of Christ. Every priest who went into the tabernacle, and all who were instructed about the meaning of its colors, would know about the absolute necessity of being under the blood of the promised Messiah. It is not simply the fact that Jesus died that saves the sinner, but sinners are saved by His death through the shedding of His blood. “Without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb.9:22). Think of that! Except for Jesus shedding His blood on the cross there could be no forgiveness of sin! John, the Apostle, says it is Jesus who has “washed us from sins in his own blood” (Rev.1:5). Jesus’ blood is not a euphemism for something different, nor is it a trivial matter. Our salvation could not be possible with out it.