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INDEED.

imho,

A LOT of Scripture and Old Testament . . . rituals and symbols were efforts to . . .

DECLARE VIVIDLY

A DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN THE COMMON AND THE HOLY.

The fellow who died trying to steady the Ark of the Covenant on the oxe cart . . . crossed that line. DEAD. INSTANTLY.

There’s a message there.

GOD HAS PRIORITIES.

They are HIS priorities.

And, HE does NOT tolerate unfitting encroachment on HIS turf.

NEVER HAS. NEVER WILL.

Even kids and best buds and chosen people and servants and John the Beloved . . . all have each THEIR PLACE.

God is happy to work through them and to share with them.

He’s particularly jealous over HIS GLORY and many geographies of HIS TURF.

Our land and the Western world in general has gotten away from a fitting respect for THE HOLY.

I think sometimes the ritualized pontifical Christian organizations’ members congratulate themselves on how intimately they are acquainted with THE HOLY this’s and the HOLY that’s

when actually, they are talking about mere shells, dry husks that have long ago lost any habitation of Holy Spirit having anything to do with them whatsoever.

However, there IS a HOLY. God deplores formulas and hollow rituals regarding THE HOLY. Yet, there IS THE HOLY.

And He will insist on respect for THE HOLY.

imho, There is NOTHING MORE HOLY in our sphere than CHRIST’s CROSS, HIS BLOOD.

Interlopers . . . regardless of how well intentioned . . . ought to be very soberly wary of crossing the line. The man seeking to steady the Ark on the oxe cart was seeking to DO GOOD. He still died instantly.

[Alamo-Girl]

Truly, God mandated certain art for the Ark and the Tabernacle and Temple.

Because we love Him, anything that is important to Him should be important to us.

The cross was prophesied in Psalms 22 and Isaiah 53. And Jesus' fulfillment changed everything forevermore.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.

For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.– Colossians 1:15-20

Shouldn't that symbol be all the more important to us because of it?