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Exodus chapter 26, verse 33,

and you shall hang the veil from the clasps

and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil,

and the veil shall separate for you the holy place

from the most holy.

There's a ton we could talk about in Exodus chapter 26 and pray according to when you read this chapter, you just read a bunch of instructions for what the tabernacle should look like and how it should be set up.

And if you read through it, just kind of in a superficial kind of cursory way, you're

like, what does all that mean?

Why is that all that important?

And what in the world is all that have to do with my life?

But then you realize that every detail here is specific because every detail here matters.

Specifically, so verse 33, this veil that will separate for you the holy

place from the most holy. This place, the tabernacle, where the glory of God would dwell among his people.

Even there, though, there would be separation from God in His holiness.

Even there, there's a clear picture that man cannot just come into the presence of God, that God is holy and

sinful men and women are not. And there is separation there, separation that has affected

every single one of us. This picture of separation and a veil is evident in every single one of our lives.

We've all sinned against God, fallen short of the glory of God.

Romans 323 says are separated from him.

And yet, when we read the gospel accounts of Jesus' death on the cross,

what happened as soon as he died? The curtain of the temple, the veil, was torn into. And when

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