However, when one of them turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit; And where is the Spirit of the Lord, is there freedom?2 Corinthians 3:16, 17
“Is the Lord the Spirit? I believe that after ascension, the Lord (typically Christ in Paul’s writings) is seen, known, received, and communicated by the Spirit. The Spirit is the one in whom and by whom to receive the Lord; it is the glare of God for whom and in whom we receive the light of knowledge of the glory of the Father before the Son; If we want to contemplate god’s glory, we will see him through the Spirit in the Son.
- In addition.
- It must be said about Paul’s difficult and unique uses of “Lord?”In this section.
- But what I want to focus on is removing the veil.
- Paul took the image of a veil on Moses’ face and turned it into a veil.
- However.
- In addition to these two images.
- We find it hard to believe that a spirit as deeply Jewish as Paul’s can speak of a “veil”.
- Without referring so much to the veil of the Holy One of Saints.
- A veil that.
- Like that of the radiant glory of Moses’ face.
- Separates the person from the presence of the Lord.
- YHWH.
In this case, it is interesting to consider the glory of God resting on Moses’ face as something like him?Saint of Saints?this had to be hidden from the people. Is it even more fascinating to consider the veil that separates Moses’ face and the veil that separates the Most Holy as being?Last minute? Not as veils separating a small part of the world (Moses’ face/holy from the saints) from the real and larger world, but as veils separating narrow and sinful space (the sinner’s heart) from the fulness of reality in God.
Is it as if the whole real world, the whole universe of glory is in the Holy Place of Saints, while the veil that seems to separate it from everything else is actually a veil over human hearts?Is the real world “there”, Is the real world, complete and free behind the veil, within the Holy Place of Saints, in the presence of God?The whole world on this side of the veil is just the monotonous and sad projection of my sin. Heart blinded by glory. Human beings do not really wake up to reality, they only become truly free when they remove the veil that separates them from the glory of the Lord (which is actually just a veil in his own heart).
To see the Glorious as glorious, to contemplate and recognize the glory of God before Christ crucified by the Spirit?is freedom? that is, to leave the narrow space of our hearts veiled to the vast land of its glory. Until we know what glory is, until we see the Beauty of God through the Spirit on the Son’s cross, we will still be enslaved, still trapped, still locked behind. the veil of our hearts.
Seeing and knowing beauty is free if, by Beauty, we mean “the Name of God manifested in Jesus Christ”.