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God has seen fit to give us a powerful Old Testament illustration of the necessity for a divine illumination, an experience of supernatural transformation and understanding in the quickening of the soul. It is in the account of the progress of Israel’s high priest into the Holy Of Holies. First in the order that God established was the outer court, over which there was no roof or covering. When the priest was there, he was aided by the natural light of the sun.
Then he passed through a veil into the Holy Place. Here there was no light of nature, but an artificial light was kept kindled by the priests themselves.
Still beyond was the Holy of Holies where there was neither natural light nor artificial light. There was only the Shekinah glory, the supernatural light of God shining from the mercy seat. When the priest came into the Holy of Holies, there was nothing human upon which he could lean. The intellect was of no consequence. There was no ecclesiastical light nor associate preacher in long tails intoning in a ministerial voice.
Think about that man chosen to minister as the high priest in those days. He came into the Holy of Holies knowing that the God who made heaven and earth was dwelling in fire between the wings of the cherubim. He knew that this was the great and living God with His thousands of attributes and His sea of endless and boundless Being. This man, a human, knew that God dwelt there and that as priest he was to move into that Presence.
In the outer court, there was a light above to help him. That could represent our church and denomination—the natural things upon which we often depend.
Moving into the Holy Place, there was still the artificial light, and perhaps that could be a representation of our theology.
But he had to go on until there was no natural or artificial light—only a supernatural shining! There in that Presence he had nothing to assure him but the character of God, nothing to protect him but the blood that he presented.
I Talk Back To The Devil - A.W. Tozer
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