The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXVI.
THE OPENING UP OF THE HOLIEST.
IX. 11. But Christ having come a High Priest of the good things to come,
through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, that is to say, not of this
creation,
12. Nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own
blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal
redemption.
IN studying the meaning of the Mosaic ritual, there are specially
four
shadows forth to us
things, through which the Holy Spirit
the mysteries of redemption, the good things
dispensation that Israel was to look for. These are THE PRIEST,
to come of the new
THE SANCTUARY, THE BLOOD, and THE WAY INTO THE
HOLIEST. We have these four things here together. There is
Christ the High Priest of the good things to come, there is the
greater and more perfect tabernacle, there is His own blood,
and there is His entering in into the Holiest. As we apprehend
the power of these things, we shall know the meaning of His
having obtained eternal redemption. Let us hear what the
Holy Spirit speaks of the opening up the Holiest, and the
wonderful path in which that was effected.
The writer uses a very remarkable expression, Christ through
the greater and more perfect tabernacle, entered into the
Holiest.
The two compartments of the sanctuary are the sym
bols of two states of life, two degrees of fellowship with God.
The Epistle teaches us that Christ knew this difference in His