Saturday, October 29, 2005
The Most Holy Place (The Curtain)
You, pretending to be the High Priest, stand in the Holy Place. You start to shake and cold shivers go throughout your body; however, under all the layers of clothes (Exodus 28) you notice you are sweating. You look toward the Most Holy Place. If you were the High Priest in Solomon's temple, you would probably see two doors.
"For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood with five-sided jambs. And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with beaten gold." (1 Kings 6:31-32 NIV)
"... the inner doors to the Most Holy Place" (2 Chronicles 4:22)
However, when the doors were opened, you would see the curtain. There were no doors in the Tabernacle.
"He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it." (2 Chronicles 3:14)
"Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman. Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place." (Exodus 26:31-33)
"Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' ... And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split." (Matthew 27:45-46, 51 ESV)
"Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." (Hebrews 10:19-22)
"For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood with five-sided jambs. And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with beaten gold." (1 Kings 6:31-32 NIV)
"... the inner doors to the Most Holy Place" (2 Chronicles 4:22)
However, when the doors were opened, you would see the curtain. There were no doors in the Tabernacle.
"He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it." (2 Chronicles 3:14)
"Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman. Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place." (Exodus 26:31-33)
"Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' ... And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split." (Matthew 27:45-46, 51 ESV)
"Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." (Hebrews 10:19-22)
# posted by Wesley Son of Cornelius @ 2:29 PM 
