Life Inside the Veiled Holiest

April 11, 1999 pm
MF Blume

Exod 26:31-35  And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy. And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy [place]. And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

Hebr 10:19-22  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And [having] an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.



A place called the most holy place was separated by another place called simply the holy place. We are told that the veil of the Temple was a symbol of Christ's flesh. And since Christ's flesh is the veil, and we pass through the veil and "into" the most holy place, then being IN CHRIST is being in the most holy place. In Christ is where God decided to meet mankind. THROUGH the blood of the cross... When Jesus died and at the same moment, the veil ripped in the temple, that was trying to tell us that the Holy God who dwelt inside the Holiest of Holies was inside the Body of Christ. ...When He died on the cross, the veil ripped open. You have to get past the veil in order to get the fullness of God. God was manifest IN THE FLESH. Christ is the most holy and was anointed already.

We have been put in Christ, and since he is the most holy, what do you think getting into Him is going to do for us?

Colo 1:21-22  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
It says that if we are in Christ, and He is the most Holy, then WE WILL BE PRESENTED Holy and Unblameable and unreproveable in God's sight! Colossians went on to say that we will be presented if we continue in the faith.

God dwelt in the Holiest of Christ---

Since we united with Jesus' death, burial and resurrection, it was only proper that we should \also have the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead. Jordan was rent at the end of the exodus, where Jesus was baptized centuries later, and the promises of God were opened up to the Hebrews. When we sing SHUT IN WITH GOD IN A SECRET PLACE. Moses walked on HOLY GROUND. Like two cherubim on either side of the mercy seat, Moses and Elijah stood with Christ. They spoke of the decease or the death of the cross that Jesus should accomplish at Jerusalem. In a sort of performace of what truly happened with mankind, Peter and the disciples slept while this went on. They entered the cloud. MOSES
Exod 24:15-18  And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
All this scenery of a holiest of holies is seen again and again in the Old Testament, and is focused around the death of Jesus, and something being opened up to us.

Life was inside that Holiest.

This covenant makes us one with Christ. Union to Christ is the only way we are ever going to be presented Holy to God. Jesus lived by the Father. SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST. Blood flowed from one person INTO the other's arm. In Revelation we read of a throne of God and the Lamb. The last verse tells us that this river is not a thing that is not flowing right now.