You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.The separations between areas of the tabernacle, and later the temple, has been of interest to me for a while now. In our modern culture, the idea of having places that are more and more holy seems to have been lost. The ark is such a special item, so closely linked to God, that the people cannot even be permitted to see it. Even almost all the priests, those closest to God, cannot see it, if I remember correctly.
Contrast this with our modern Christianity, where there is theoretically little divide between priest and laity, between holy and secular. Protestants do not even recognize there being any special sanctified status of items. If somebody were to rediscover the ark today, what would be the reaction? After all, Christ's death ripped apart the veil described here, exposing the holy of holies. With the Holy Spirit endwellt in us, is the ark no longer worth concerning ourselves about? Is the specialness of God's presence no longer to be found there? Or would we still be afraid to approach it, and wall it off again from the people?
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