The Position of the Vail

Ver. 33. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou, mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
These taches connected together the two larger curtains, composed of five smaller ones each, thus forming one Tabernacle. (Chapter 26:3-6.)
The vail was to be hung immediately beneath these taches, dividing the tabernacle into two parts: twenty cubits for the holy place, and ten cubits for the most holy.
Into the first tabernacle, or the holy place, the priests went continually, accomplishing the service of God. Setting forth the ordinary privilege of believers in their priestly service and worship.
But into the second, or most holy place, the high priest alone entered once every year. For while the first tabernacle was yet standing, the Holy Ghost signified that the way into the holiest was not made manifest.
The vail divided unto Israel between the holy and most holy place. But the true light now shineth; the vail has been rent; the glory of God’s grace has shone out; and the believer has boldness to enter in through faith in the blood of Jesus. (Hebrews 10:19-23.) The vail now no longer divides between the holy and the most holy place; but he whom the rent vail typifies rather unites. He is himself the way of access by faith into the very presence of God. Our true place of worship and communion is in the holiest of all. How far is this realized by the majority of Christians?
The heart must be sprinkled from an evil conscience, in order to the enjoyment of this privilege in reality. The body must be washed in pure water; that is, the believer must apprehend his interest in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, which this washing or baptism in water signifies, or access into the holiest is not enjoyed. It is a practical, personal, experimental thing.
Unbelief cannot enter there. Neither can the. believer and unbeliever worship together within the vail. The presence of sin, in the license and love of it, in the holiest of all, is as impossible as the existence of darkness. in the brilliance of the noon-day sunshine.
A firm standing in grace, and separation from evil personally and corporately, are indispensable to entrance, abiding, and worshipping in the holiest of all.