The Presence of God and The Spiritual

One day in 2014, I was reading my Bible. I was reading about the Temple of God, and the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies was The Most Holy Place, where the very presence of God dwelt. The Holy of Holies was separated from the rest of the Temple by a curtain or veil. Only the High Priest was allowed in the Holy of Holies, and only once a year during Yom Kippur. He would crawl in on his hands and knees with a cord tied around him, he was tethered. Given he came into the presence of God in an unclean state, or with crap in his heart and soul, he may have died. The tether was to pull him back out just in case. Between the physical and the spiritual, there may have been a curtain or veil. This has been there as a protection. Given man could experience God’s very presence in an sinful state, he could die.

When Jesus died on the cross, the veil tore. This was the veil or curtain in the Temple separating the Holy of Holies. This may have been the veil between the physical and the spiritual. This would be an Apocalypse.

For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.(Matthew 13:15-17)

There are multiple ways someone could be in the presence of God.  Isaac means laughter.  God promised Abraham a son.  God did not say when.  When Abraham and Sarah finally had a healthy baby boy, they may have laughed.  They were experiencing God, and seeing prophecy fulfilled.  Have you ever seen a church full of people laughing like they were drunk?   (Acts 2:15)

Being in God's Presence as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, like someone was in God's Courtroom, that is different.  Given someone was to walk into God's presence with sin and crap in their heart and soul, he could die or be thrown to the ground, in a lot of pain, feeling God's mighty Thumos. 

Short Video:  "Holiness." by The Bible Project

 How did I learn about Angels and Spiritual things?  From God, being in God's presence.

The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. (Luke 1:19) 

Gabriel stands in the presence of God.  The High Priest, he crawled into the presence of God.  Standing in the presence of God implies No Sin. I am a man.  Faith is a journey.  Part of that journey is Sanctification, to be made Holy, in God's Holy Spirit, through The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  As a man, could I be clean enough to stand in the presence of God?  A man needs goals.