THE FUNCTION OF REVELATION
April 10, 2011
by Jimmie Altman – New Castle, PA, USA Age: 27
According to the book of Hebrews chapter 6, God is calling us into the Holy of Holies! Coming into prophetic revelation of who Jesus Christ is, is the keystone to coming into the Holy of Holies, to being transformed and to becoming like Him, to coming into the glory, and to having an intimate face to face everyday relationship with the Father.
If this isn’t happening, then we are not coming into revelation, but information…
The very function of revelation is to bring us into the presence and glory of the Father, so that we can see Him face to face, even plainly.
Hebrews 10:19-22
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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Aaron, the natural high priest would enter into the natural tabernacle, made by the hands of men, remove the natural veil, enter into the natural Holy of Holies and sprinkle the blood of a natural animal on the mercy seat for his sins and for the sins of the people. This would only foreshadow how our Great and High Priest Jesus Christ would enter into a heavenly tabernacle, [true worshippers, not fashioned by man] remove our veil, [at the cross] and in His mercy, sprinkle His redeeming blood upon our hearts, cleansing our conscience to give us such a boldness and full assurance of faith to enter into the Holy of Holies, and to be presented faultless before Him in the presence of His glory (Jude 1:24!) Hallelujah! This is the essence of coming into revelation!
There are three prophetic realms in the tabernacle; the outer court, the Holy place, and the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies is where the LORD spoke with Moses face to face; therefore the Holy of Holies speaks of the divine presence, intimacy and glory of the Father.
In the tabernacle, there were veils or curtains which separated the outer court from the Holy place, and the Holy place from the Holy of Holies. Each veil or curtain functioned as a separator from the Father, His presence, intimacy, and glory.
Exodus 26:33
33 “And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.
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The Hebrew word divide (badal) simply means separate. So, the function of the veil is to separate. It separated the people from being in the face to face presence of the Father. Needless to say, with the veil in their view, God was not seen. Since we can see the function of the veil [to separate] let us begin to see what the veil is symbolic of.
Isaiah 59:1-2
1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
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The Hebrew word separated used here in reference to iniquities is the same word (badal) that is used in Exodus 26:33 in reference to the veil.
The Hebrew word hidden (sathar) means to conceal and to cover, but it also speaks of a mystery, a mystery because it is concealed or hidden. According to this scripture, what was concealed from the people was face of the LORD, which means they were separated from the Holy of Holies, the face to face realm. The Father was a mystery to them because He was hidden from them because of the veil of their sin (wrong understanding) and iniquity (guilt as from twisted actions or living a perverse life).
Our sins and iniquities functions as a veil that separates us from God, and in order to enter into that face to face realm with the Father the veil (sins and iniquities) has to be removed.
Ephesians 3:3
3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already…
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When we come into revelation, the mystery, or that which is hidden and concealed from those who are veiled is made known. In Isaiah 59:2 Isaiah said that the face of God was hidden or a mystery to the people because of their sin and iniquity (veil).
The Greek word revelation (apokalupsis) means to make something known, but it also means a manifestation or an appearing. This word comes from (apokalupto) which means to uncover what has been veiled or to remove and take away the veil.
I John 3:5
5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
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Jesus was manifested to take away the veil [our sins]!
This word manifested (phaneroo) means to make something known by teaching [revelation] and also to appear! Who is appearing? Jesus is appearing! What happens when Jesus appears? When Jesus appears or manifests through a revelation of the mystery, our sins (the veil) are removed, so that we can have access into the Holy of Holies!
If the revelation of Jesus Christ does not remove our veils and bring us into the Holy of Holies and into a face to face realm, where we can see Him and become like Him, (i.e. be changed) then it is not revelation, IT IS INFORMATION!
Furthermore, every revelation takes us straight to the cross, because that is where the veil was torn! It was prophetic!
Mark 15:37-38
37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.
38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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There are two words in the Greek or New Testament for the word temple: The Greek words Hieron and Naos.
(hieron) is used of the natural, physical temple. That word is used here:
Matthew 21:12-14
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”
14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
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(naos) is used of the spiritual temple, the temple of our bodies and also the ecclesia! That word is used here:
1 Corinthians 3:16
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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The word temple used here (naos) is the same word that is used for when after Jesus was crucified the veil of the temple (naos) was torn!
The veil is within us. Revelation removes the veil! It was at the cross that after Jesus gave up His Spirit to die that the veil was torn. When revelation comes it brings us straight to Golgotha, the place of dying to self, the place where the veil is torn! The place where the blood is sprinkled! The place where we have access into the Holy of Holies and can be changed!
Revelation is a removal of the veil; therefore it is not something that you get, it is something that happens. It isn’t us reading a definition or reading a scripture that we never saw before and getting excited about it. While that is admirable and great when it happens, it speaks very little of the function of revelation, which is to bring us face to face with God, to change and transform us, to take away sin!
I pray that the tithe of this word will fill you!