13. Veil and Holy Place
Having become all that the Mercy Seat is and means, not just in our understanding but as our habitual practice, we now discover that Salvation has turned entirely around for us.We are not longer "getting saved"; now we are the Salvation of God going forth to reconcile all to Him, beginning with His Church.
Suddenly the veil becomes something different for us, the same flesh of Christ, yes, but now our flesh as well. We see our brethren who have remained in the Holy Place, and our question now is, "Will you not enter in?"
Yet, at the same time we see that the Holy Place has become an extension of the Holiest and all that the Holiest means reveals itself in the Holy Place as the furnishings of the Holy Place become the very expressions of God through His Church.
Lesson 13.1 A Broken Altar explores the reasons why it is that God's people are stuck in the Holy Place and will not enter into full union with Christ. The lesson uses the altar of Elijah on Mt. Carmel, and alter that was broken down, as a picture of what the "dealings of God" have become for many, a place of hard unbelief. Yet we understand that, in the revelation of Christ through us, we bypass that broken down altar just in front of the veil and go straight with God to the Table of Showbread.
Lesson 13.2 The Holy Place sets in front of us what this portion of the Tabernacle now means for us as we go forth from and as the Holiest into the Church of Christ to show them what God and Salvation are really all about. We must know where we are going before we can talk about the Veil that is our passage there.
Lesson 13.3 The Veil then recasts the veil now as Christ through us as we show our brethren the life and love of God. We are flesh of His flesh; we are God made visible.
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