Here, 1. The shelter and special protection that the church is under
are signified by the curtains of hair-cloth, which were spread over the
tabernacle, and the covering of rams' skins and badgers' skins over
them, v. 14-19. God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat,
and a covert from storm and rain, Isa. iv. 6. They are armed against
all weathers; the sun and the moon shall not smite them: and they are
protected from the storms of divine wrath, that hail which will sweep
away the refuge of lies, Isa. xxviii. 17. Those that dwell in God's
house shall find, be the tempest ever so violent, or the dropping ever
so continual, it does not rain in. 2. The strength and stability of the
church, though it is but a tabernacle, are signified by the boards and
bars with which the curtains were borne up, v. 20-34. The boards were
coupled together and joined by the bars which shot through them; for
the union of the church, and the hearty agreement of those that are its
stays and supporters, contribute abundantly to its strength and
establishment.