What The 21 Mnemonic 3:16 "Three Sixteens" Of The New Testament Tell Us ~ Part Five: Second Corinthians

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Part Five: 2 Corinthians 3:16
“(When Moses is read there is a veil over the heart)
but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. (But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.)”
 
When Jesus’ Body was torn by His torturers and bled upon the Cross until speared in His heart and emptied of blood and water it was what was required to take away the veil over man’s heart from seeing and hearing the Lord in having Communion with Him. In effect when Jesus said, “It is finished” and the veil or curtain between man and the presence of God in the temple was torn in half from top to bottom, Jesus created access to His presence through His Body and Blood, ie., Communion.
 
We no longer meet Him in the tent before the Ark of the Covenant, but at His Table. That is where we find His presence today. When we do, the veil of this world is removed, torn from top to bottom like the curtain that divided God’s presence from the rest of the world when Jesus cried out, “It is finished!” The blessing and breaking of the Bread is torn from the loaf, like His Flesh when tortured. We feed on the Holy Flesh of The Lamb of God and He becomes to us the Bread of Life.  He also revives us each time we sip the New Life in the wine of His Blood. His blood mixes with ours and speaks.  From the chalice of the New Covenant we drink in all the blessings of heaven.
 
In the Bread our eyes are opened and in the Wine our ears hear His Voice. That encounter revives our power to become first hand witnesses of His death, resurrection and ascension in His presence and is confirmed to us individually, personally and intimately.
 
The veil of the Law, the veil of flesh, the veil of this world and the veil of darkness blind us before we opened the doorway to Jesus. When Jesus came in He sat down with us to dine and we sat down to dine with Him. Jesus takes the bread, blesses it, breaks it and gives it back to us. When he does, our eyes are opened and we recognize Him. 
 
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death. So the New Covenant remembrance of Communion is the action of the Holy Spirit to create new eternal memories through the revelation of Jesus and the manifestation of His glory. The veil of judgement on sin and death is pulled back to reveal the glory of Jesus full of grace and truth. In His glory we are transformed from glory to glory.
 
The veil of the flesh is seeing the temporal with our natural eyes, blind to goodness and grace. The natural eyesight feeds on the object of its passions. But Communion closes the natural eyes to open the eyes of our spirit so that we can see the Lord and feed on that which is eternal. The Kingdom of God is realized through spiritual revelation. Only the Lord can open our eyes to see the reality of His domain.
 
The veil of this world hides us from the presence of God through cunning lies and deceptions to feed our selfishness and arrogance. In Communion we encounter the truth that is solid rock. Truth in the Greek literally translates as “Reality”. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. As our Good Shepherd He leads us to His reality. He leads us to His Table. We encounter His presence. When we do the fog of this world, the veil that blinded us to the reality of Jesus, is burned away by the fire and heat of his light and life. The fire of Jesus is His glory. In His glory we are purged of that which is toxic and transformed to become the person He always intended us to be.
 
Finally the veil of darkness and evil is removed by the power of the Cross and the Blood of Christ’s redemption. The Word of the Cross and Gospel of redemption are the power of God to salvation. The Bread of his Flesh reveals His eternal bright and glorious light and the darkest darkness flees. The Wine of His Blood that we drink pours into our hearts shattering every chain of bondage, dispelling every demon spirit to flood into us like living water that overflows with God’s goodness and mercy washing away every vestige of evil from our lives.