Hebrews 10:1,
For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 10:4-9,
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU HAST NOT DESIRED,
BUT A BODY THOU HAST PREPARED FOR ME;
IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN THOU HAST TAKEN NO PLEASURE.
“THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME
(IN THE ROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME)
TO DO THY WILL, O GOD,’” Hebrews 10:4-7.
After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN THOU HAST NOT DESIRED, NOR HAST THOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
then He said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO THY WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
The Law was only a shadow of the good things to come. The Law came through Moses and the kingdom of God came through Jesus. The first was taken away in order to establish the second.
So the veil Moses wore represents the ending of the old covenant which was fading away:
Jeremiah 31:31-34,
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
2 Corinthians 3:7-11,
7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,
8 how shall the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
10 For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory on account of the glory that surpasses it.
11 For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
God made two covenants with Israel. Moses represented the first covenant, and Jesus represents the second covenant. The first covenant was filled with commandments, and the second was the perfect law of liberty (the kingdom of our God), James 1:25.
This second covenant was the Word who was with God, and who was God in the beginning, that is Christ in you. The mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations is Christ in you, and this mystery is the Word.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18,
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech,
13 and are not as Moses, who used to put a veil over his face that the sons of Israel might not look intently at the end of what was fading away.
14 But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains unlifted because it is removed in Christ.
15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;
16 but whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Please notice the veil on Moses’ face lies over the hearts of those who don’t believe in Christ. “But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away,” verse 15. The veil is removed in Christ.
The veil on Moses’ face foretold of the veil of the Temple of God splitting in two, for it was fading and coming to an end. So one veil represented the end of the old covenant, the other represented the birth of a new covenant.
The first covenant faded and gave way to the second covenant. If one peeks out from the veil on his heart, he will see no veil of the Temple. He will instead see beyond the gates of heaven because the veil was torn in two when Jesus died. “Whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil of Moses, the only remaining veil, is taken away,” verse 16.
In closing:
There were two veils, one on Moses’ face, the other in the Temple. One brought death, the other prevented people from going before the presence of God.
Now when someone believes in Jesus the veil that was once on the face of Moses is removed and he walks straight into the heavenly places of eternal life and stands in the presence of God, because the veil of the temple between man and God was torn in two when Jesus completed His sacrifice, making a straight path to God the Father. The veil of the temple was the body of Christ which was broken for us. Thus the mystery hidden from the past ages and generations, Christ in you.
Jon David Banks, God’s most unworthy servant
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