| Our Lord Jesus Christ has “for us entered” “into that within the veil,” “for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” But He has entered “into that within the veil” as “the forerunner.” A “forerunner” is one who goes ahead, cutting a pioneer path, like a scout, that others may follow. None could ever follow the Old Testament high priest “within the veil,” for “into the second [the holy of holies] went the high priest alone once every year.” But we who know the Lord Jesus now have “boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.” Moreover, our Lord has entered heaven in a body of flesh and bones, as our forerunner, and one day He will take all His glorified saints “within the veil,” fulfilling His promise that “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also,” “and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” |
