Bible Study with the Cincotti's - Behind the Veil - 08/14/2022

 

Today's Bible Study, Authored by Arthur Cincotti. 08/14/2022

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Behind the Veil

 

“...because the veil is taken away in Christ.”   II Cor. 3:14

 

This veil, it’s purpose and function are of great importance to add to our understanding of who God is, who we are, and who I am before God and man.

         The first place we see it used in the Scripture is Gen. 24:65, where Rebekah sees her future husband from far off.

This is also the first place in Scripture where we see a betrothal.

Rebekah covers her face, only to uncover it (inferred) at the consummation of her marriage to Isaac, who’s name means “he will laugh, he will rejoice.”

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For today’s study I would like to consider word veil as a film or even an impenetrable field – similar to the sci-fi notion of a force field – over the human heart and soul.

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         We all know people that we just can’t seem to penetrate with the gospel. They won’t even talk to us about it, and no logical progression will convince them, as if they had a veil over their hearts.

 

         The veil represents a separation between parties who should be intimate. Even though it is a different word, I believe that conceptually this is very similar to Gen. 3:7, and 3:21 respectively where man and God made coverings for their nakedness.

 

         In Ex. 26:31 the word veil occurs in the lengthy description of the instruction for the building of the Tabernacle (meeting place) of Moses. Verse 31-33 is the description of the veil that covers the “Most Holy” place. 33 “The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.”

We should immediately be thinking, when Christ was on the cross, the veil (same veil) of the temple was torn in two.

         But first, let’s consider Moses (taken out of water) who had an intimate relationship with God. Ex. 33:11, “So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.” Further on, in Ex. 34:29-35 we see that Moses wore a veil over his face because the glory of the LORD caused his face to glow. Verse 30 says, “Aaron and the children of Israel...were afraid,”

I Jn. 4:18 says, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.”

 

In II Cor. 3:7-18, we get a clearer understanding of Moses, the law,  the veil, and our relationship with God in Christ.

 

Shame, which consumed man in the garden (compare Gen. 2:25 with 3:7) is removed when sin is removed. Consider Ps. 34:4,5 “I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed.”

 

“Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom…” Mat. 27:51, Mk. 15:18, Lk. 23:45

 

This demonstrated two things:

         1) That the Jewish religious system was a sham because the ark of the covenant was not there.

         2) That the presence of God, which previously was only available to the high priest, was now available to all who would come.

 

This is confirmed by the final reference to the veil is in Heb.10:19-22.

 

Christ alone can penetrate the impenetrable heart. He takes the “heart of stone (impenetrable) and gives us a heart of flesh (soft and pliable)” Ez. 36:26

As “ambassadors”, II Cor. 5:20, “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us…” we have authority to use the word of God, “sharper than any two-edged sword” to “pierce” the veil of a hardened heart Heb. 4:12

 

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