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The tent was divided into two parts, one twice the length of the other, by a "veil" or curtain. The larger part was entered from without by a curtained doorway, and contained the "Table of Shewbread," the "Altar of Incense," and the "Seven Branched Candlestick. This happens when the "New Birth" takes place. When a man dies his soul and spirit separate from the body, and the body is laid in the grave, but the "spirit" is not "bodiless," it has what Paul calls its "Psychical" or "Soulish" body.
The Angels are "innumerable in number. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Thousands of books are eligible, including current and former best sellers. No Delimiter — Wisdom Flows from the Heart.
This may be illustrated by a peach. A peach is a trinity. It is composed of the "flesh of the peach," the "stone," and the "kernel. It is not a "ghostlike" structure. There are doubtless limitations in its use, or there would be no need for it to recover its physical body at the Resurrection.
That there is such a thing as the "Soulish Body" is brought out in the story of the "Rich Man and Lazarus. The story is not a Parable, but a description by Christ of something that really happened in the other world to his own personal knowledge. It declares that both Lazarus and the "Rich Man" died and were buried. That is, their bodies were left on the earth. What happened to them in the "Underworld" then, is descriptive of what happened to them in their "disembodied state. This is proof that the "Soulish" body is not simply a body, but that in its outward form and appearance it conforms to the earthly body of the owner, otherwise he would not be recognizable in the other world.
Again the "Rich Man" could see, and feel, and thirst, and talk, and remember, proving that he possessed his senses and had not lost his personality. Sleep in the Scriptures always refers to the "body," not to the soul, and the expression, "Asleep in Jesus" refers to the Believer only. The "Threefold Nature of Man" is clearly brought out in the Diagram.
The outer circle stands for the "body" of man, the middle for the "soul," and the inner for the spirit, or what Paul calls the "Carnal" 1 Cor. In the outer circle the "body" is shown as touching the Material world through the five senses of "sight," "smell," "hearing," "taste" and "touch. The "Gates" to the soul are "imagination," "conscience," "memory," "reason" and the "affections.
The "Gate of Conscience" corresponds to the "Gate of Smell," by which the soul detects the presence of good and evil. The "Gate of Memory" corresponds to the "Gate of Hearing," by which the soul recalls what it heard. The "Gate of Reason" corresponds to the "Gate of Taste," permitting the soul to compare facts as the taste compares foods. The "Gate of the Affections" corresponds to the "Gate of Touch," being the hand by which the soul feels the person of the one it loves.
The Spirit receives impressions of outward and material things through the soul and body. We see then why the "natural" man cannot understand spiritual things. He cannot understand them until his spiritual nature has been renewed.
But the spirit of the Natural man is not only darkened, his "Will" stands as a "guard" at the door, and prevents the entrance of the Holy Spirit, and it is not until the "Will" surrenders through the power of the "Sword of the Spirit," the "Word of God," that the Holy Spirit can enter and take up his abode in the "spirit" of man. The battlefield of "Good" and "Evil" is in the "soul" of man.
It is not enough that the Holy Spirit should take up His residence in the "spirit" of a man, He must have access to the "soul" and "body," as shown on the Diagram. Not until then can a man become "Sanctified"; for "Holiness" is conditioned on a "Spirit Filled" spirit, soul and body. A healthy soul and spirit need a healthy body, and if the body is given over to carnality and the lusts of the flesh, even to fasting that weakens it, the soul and spirit suffer, and the whole man becomes spiritually sick.
Let us now trace the life of the soul and spirit after they have left the body. In the story of the "Rich Man and Lazarus," we have a description of the "Underworld. At the bottom of the Gulf is the "Bottomless Pit" or "Abyss. It has a King "Apollyon," but is kept locked by God, who commissions an angel to open it when He so desires. Before the resurrection of Christ the soul and spirit of the righteous dead went to the "Paradise" compartment of the Underworld.
On the day of His Resurrection Christ's soul and spirit returned from the Underworld, but He did not return alone, He brought back with Him all the occupants of the Paradise section and locked it up, and He now has the "Keys of Death and Hades. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry.
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