We all need to from time to time.
@Van said:
2) We are NOT speaking exclusively of a "Day" but of how the Old Covenant models, illustrates and foreshadows the New Covenant.
Well...we were speaking of a specific sacrifice, but each offering in the law has it's own lesson to teach about Christ's One offering of Himself. The view presented in the Burnt Offering, is not the view presented in the Sin Offering. And the view in the affirmation of the Covenant in Exodus 24 is not the view presented in the sacrifices on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 14, and we were talking about the sacrifices on the Day of Atonement.
But that's neither here nor there. Let's open it up to the entire Old Testament, as @Van wishes to do, and how it illustrates Christ's work. (I call the Old Testament, God's Picture Book.)
I'll start:
Exodus 26:31-33 - 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.
Exodus 36:35 - And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Hebrews 9:1-3, 6-8 - Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; ... Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews 10:20 - By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Matthew 27:50-51 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
We can clearly see
1) While Christ's body was yet unbroken, we were separated from God.
2) It was the breaking of Christ's body that opened the way.
3) The veil was not torn by men. God broke Christ's body.
@Van said:
2) We are NOT speaking exclusively of a "Day" but of how the Old Covenant models, illustrates and foreshadows the New Covenant.
Well...we were speaking of a specific sacrifice, but each offering in the law has it's own lesson to teach about Christ's One offering of Himself. The view presented in the Burnt Offering, is not the view presented in the Sin Offering. And the view in the affirmation of the Covenant in Exodus 24 is not the view presented in the sacrifices on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 14, and we were talking about the sacrifices on the Day of Atonement.
But that's neither here nor there. Let's open it up to the entire Old Testament, as @Van wishes to do, and how it illustrates Christ's work. (I call the Old Testament, God's Picture Book.)
I'll start:
Exodus 26:31-33 - 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.
Exodus 36:35 - And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Hebrews 9:1-3, 6-8 - Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; ... Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews 10:20 - By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Matthew 27:50-51 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
We can clearly see
1) While Christ's body was yet unbroken, we were separated from God.
2) It was the breaking of Christ's body that opened the way.
3) The veil was not torn by men. God broke Christ's body.
