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God shall provide “himself” a lamb (Genesis 22:8) “through the VEIL, that is to say, his flesh; ” (Hebrews 10:20)
God veiled in flesh! His flesh body was like a restriction, a limitation, a barrier, a cage, for the purpose of humanity and being human. God couldn’t be man and God if he had no body! His body gave him access to the human world. To feel its pain and take on our sins. Without a body there could be no sacrifice. Without the sacrifice there could be no resolution, redemption or salvation.
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the GATE, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice. Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them. So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before ere thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness. (John 10:1-11)
Think of this, to vote in this country you haver to be a citizen of this country, to have authority here you have to be born in that country. I n America this is so. No man can be president unless he is born in America. His body (gate) itself gave God legal access to the human world. The thief comes to steal kill and destroy. the thief comes into the fold (world) ‘another way,’ the illegal way. I’m talking about Satan himself, who comes not through birthright (a woman) but through demonisation. He comes as a thief in the night. Jesus comes in the day, he came through the woman this gives him legal access in earth.
Now his body was a limitation. think of this The human body keeps us in one place at one time. God who is spirit is omnipresent that is everywhere present yet when he took on flesh he limited himself, to do the work of God. Only through his body could he be the sacrifice, only through his body could he be made sin. Only through his body and the death of it could we be united with him. Only thought the body, his body could he be made a curse with our sins.
Only God could become what he was not, mere man! Only an incarnation could prove God is one. What man did not know was that his flesh was the son among us, what man did not see that behind the veil was the mighty God, “God” with us! (Isaiah 9:6).
Paul….