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Even as New Worship teachers utilize
accounts of the glory of the Lord appearing in the Hebrew tabernacle and temple to prove
their point that we need to worship our way into God’s glory, we find them revealing
the second fallacy with regard to their interpretation of Old Testament scriptures. They
talk as if our modern sanctuaries are 21st century manifestations of the tabernacle or
temple and if we worship in our modern sanctuaries in a “prescribed way,” God
will appear to us in the same way that He did with the ancient Hebrews. Yet in pointing to
Old Testament tabernacle worship they are referring to a worship system that no longer
exists. “Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High
Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a
Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is
necessary that this One also have something to offer. For if He were on earth, He would
not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; who
serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he
was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, ‘See that you make all things
according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.’ But now He has obtained a more
excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was
established on better promises.” (Heb 8:1-6 MKJV) As the Book of Hebrews demonstrates,
worship in the tabernacle erected by man has been done away with. It has been replaced
with “a better covenant, which was established on better promises.” Tabernacle
worship only pointed to the true tabernacle that is in heaven where Jesus now serves as
our High Priest. Therefore Jesus declared: “’Do not think that I came to destroy
the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.’” (Matt It should be noted that the Book of
Hebrews was written to contend against the Judaisers who breathed false doctrine in the God’s Law as given to Moses
established a worship system for the ancient Hebrews that was intended to point to Jesus.
With the advent of Christianity we worship according to a new law, the law of the Spirit.
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of
sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God
did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He
condemned sin in the flesh.” (Rom 8:2-3 MKJV) Old Testament accounts of worship in the
tabernacle and the temple as prescribed in the law, therefore, are not literal worship
guides for us. If they were we would still be abstaining from pork, sacrificing cattle on
the Brazen Altar and sending a High Priest into the Holy of Holies once a year to make
atonement for our sins. But all of that was fulfilled by Jesus. “For such a High
Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and
has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to
offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did
once for all when He offered up Himself.” (Heb 7:26-27 MKJV) Therefore, those who
seek to worship as the ancient Hebrews are simply seeking after an extinct covenant that
contains very beneficial symbolism but outdated notions of where God is to be worshipped
and the manner in which His glory is revealed. And Christ has provided a better way. The
New Testament clearly states that we are the temples of God. (I Cor Yet rather than clinging to this important
New Testament doctrine, New Worshippers continue to misuse Old Testament images in order
to seek after New Age mystic experiences. In so doing they will consistently turn to
Moses’ encounter on the As we look into this important event in
history we find Moses on the mountain asking God if he could behold His glory.
“’But He said, ‘You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and
live.’ And the Lord said, ‘Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the
rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the
rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.’” (Ex 33: 20-22 MKJV) The idea here was that Moses could not
look at God and live. But he could get a little inkling of God’s glory by hiding
behind the rock as God passed by. Even this experience of just beholding God’s
“afterglow” was so intense that the Hebrews could not look at the face of Moses
for a long time. Therefore Aaron covered it with a veil. (Ex 34:30-33) As demonstrated in Integrity
Hosanna’s medley “In Your Presence O God/I Worship You/Hallelujah
(Reprise”), the church of today wants in on some of the glory stuff that Moses
witnessed. In that vein the praise song starts with the theme, “Seeking Your face,
touching Your grace in the cleft of the rock, in Your presence, O God.” As the song
progresses it diverges into typical modern worship mantras including, “I love You,
Lord Jesus, I love You Lord. . .I worship You, Jesus, I worship You” while finally
diverging into “Hallelujah” repetitions followed by “Praise the Lord”
incantations. The whole idea here is to enter into the same experience that Moses
witnessed through the very repetitive mantras that have been passed to the Despite this mystic journey into the
supernatural, Paul explained that the glory that shone on the face of Moses after his trek
to the mountain eventually faded away. (II Cor 3:7-13) And though the glory of the Lord as
manifested in the Old Covenant faded on the face of Moses, the glory of the Lord that can
be seen in us will never fade. (II Cor 3). For we have beheld a greater glory that never
fades. And this same glory also transforms us. “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 by the Spirit of the Lord.” (II Cor According to Paul we are not ministers of
the old covenant of the law that Moses received on the mountain, but the new “written
not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets
of flesh, that is, of the heart.” (II Cor 3:3b MKJV). God’s Spirit resides in us
and that is where His glory is manifested to transform us into the likeness of Christ.
(Rom 8:9-14; I Cor Indeed, there is no necessity to seek
after God’s glory through New Age dogmas disguised as outward and surface-level
Hebrew worship practices. As temples of worship, we daily behold God’s glory to
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