O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Romans 11:33)
The most tragic event in the life of man (as God’s creation) is his banishment, expulsion, dismissal from the presence of the Holy God. Sin evicted man from his domain and man became a fugitive, miscreant and alien to the relations and interactions of God.
About this fallen man, the Bible says, “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart.” (Gen.6:5-6 AMP).
To be great is indeed a great and noble achievement but definitely not as God observed of the fallen man. Man being cast and expelled from the presence of God became great in doing wickedness. Man became so obnoxious, abhorrent and repugnant that God “…regretted that He (ventured) had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart.” How little man (even now) knows about his deplorable state and the urgent need for salvation, a washing, cleansing and regeneration to become luminous (full of light and emitting light) again rather than opaque, impervious and as the Bible called man…”For ye were sometimes darkness…” (Eph. 5:8). We must all become aware of the despicable nature of the natural man that we must cry and desperately seek to extract ourselves from such stock of brazen vanity to inherit the glorious inheritance of the Saints in Christ who shine as light in the darkness of the World.
God, in a bid to help, redeem and restore man, instituted the construction of the Tabernacle among the Israelites in their traverse through the wilderness; the portrait of a people and their sojourn that God would call His own through their faith and reliance on Him. God said, “…And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” (Exo. 25:8) “And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.” (Exo. 29:43)
Because man had become fallen and so plummeted, “The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: “for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it” (Exo.19:23) and about the Tabernacle constructed to symbolize the presence of God among the people, there was installed a vail to control and limit man’s access to the Most Holy place which is the presence of the Holy God, “…thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy” (Exo.26:33)
It was this vail that was removed by the sacrificial death of our Lord Jesus Christ; “For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified…Having therefore, brethren, 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; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19-22) This is the greatest and all surpassing door ever opened…that man may approach God without restriction, recourse or regret. God in His surpassing Wisdom has restored Man to the glorious fellowship with Himself through the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord!
