Ans. The true tabernacle for us now is the holiest of all, the place where we meet God. We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. Our worship is spiritual and heavenly. It is the contrast between Judaism and Christianity. Our hearts worship and adore God by the Holy Spirit in His very presence, without ordinances or ceremonies.
Ques. Is there any scripture that tells the state of the departed saints before they get their bodies?
M. E. J.
Ans. All we know about the saints who have died, is in the following verses: "Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise" (garden of delights). Luke 23:4343And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:43).
We must be content with what scripture says. God leads our hearts on to the resurrection, when clothed upon with our bodies glorified. We shall be perfected in His glory.
Ques. What does the clay and the spittle, and the Pool of Siloam in John 9:6, 76When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. (John 9:6‑7) mean? P. T.
Ans. In John's gospel we have the mystery of the person of Christ as the Son of God from all eternity. He is the Word that was in the beginning with God. He Himself had no beginning. This is a mystery, for we cannot know God's being, but we can believe it.
In Luke 1:3535And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35), that holy thing born of the woman is His holy humanity. He is a man, yet God, manifest in flesh, sent of the father into this world (1 Tim. 3:1616And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16); John 10:3636Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? (John 10:36)).
This is what the spittle made into clay presents, and the Pool of Siloam, which means, "sent," presents the thought of faith in Jesus the Son of God, the Sent One of the Father. This opened the eyes of the man born blind.