Reason Number 6 that the tabernacle is not studied is that with the rent veil, Jesus has entered into the ‘Holiest of Holiest’ as our ‘forerunner’ … Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath, that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil, where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us... (Heb. 6:17-20). If He is the forerunner, then aren’t we to follow?
Do we have any right to follow? I don’t think so. The high priest was directed to stay out of the Holiest of Holiest that he die not (Lev. 16:2), except for one day a year. Many of things happened on that Day of Atonement but there was one thing required of the high priest when he entered the Holiest of Holiest on the that day that he die not. …And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat which is upon the testimony, that he die not. Lev. 16:13
So, in order to live, (or, die not) the high priest had to stay out of the Holiest of Holiest all year except for the Day of Atonement, and on that day he must put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat. The life of the high priest was dependent on these.
Jesus died so He could enter.
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