Archive -> March 25, 2006

God’s veil

Eli (aka God) spoke to human beings from behind “a veil.”

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; – Hebrews 10:20 (King James Version)

The New Testament, Hebrews 10:20 says that the veil was “the flesh or body of Jesus Christ.”

Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; – Hebrews 6:19 (King James Version)

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; – Hebrews 9:3 (King James Version)

In Hebrews 6:19 veil is used as a state of being and in Hebrews 9:3 it speaks of a first and second veil for the holy tabernacle. In one sense Jesus is called the veil in Greek. The word being used in these three quotes is katapetasma: a veil spread out, a curtain – the name given to the two curtains in the temple of Jerusalem.

God spoke to humans from “behind a veil,” a form being a physical body, when his word became flesh.

Excerpted from Did God Create The Devil? by Dr. Malachi Z. York