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getting ready for the morning and read this in a commentary:

"...they laboriously climbed the wearisome staircase of futile ordinances and dead works only to discover at the top of the stairs, as they came to the close of each year of concentrated effort, and went to the sanctuary on the great Day of Atonement, that the door to the chamber of God at the head of that stairs was closed and barred against their entry. The could, in fact, get no nearer to God than the curtains of the outer court of the tabernacle. Now, suddenly, the outer curtain has been removed, the court is thrown wide open to the worshipers, the inner veil is swept aside, and Christ, God's own Son, bids them boldly, without fear or trepidation, to draw near, enter the very court of God's presence..."

hallelujah