From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 12 of 26 · Exodus 26 · Matthew 27

The curtain that tore

A curtain no one walks through. Then it tears — from the top.

The text
The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. You shall hang the curtain under the clasps.

The word

פָּרֹכֶת

curtain, the last wall, the veil of the Holy Place (paroket)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01The last wall

    Exodus 26:33

    Hang the curtain. It separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy. Behind it sits the ark. The presence is not public.

  2. 02One man, one day

    Leviticus 16:2

    Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses behind the curtain, or he will die. Blood, and a day, and a name.

  3. 03From top to bottom

    Matthew 27:51

    Jesus cries out, and yields His spirit. The curtain of the temple is torn in two from top to bottom. Earth shakes. Rocks split. The tear starts above.

  4. 04A new and living way

    Hebrews 10:19

    We have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, through the curtain — that is, His body.

The way in

One man, one day a year, with blood, or he dies

Then the wall

Tears from top to bottom. A new and living way.

Read it this way

In the tent, then in the temple, a thick curtain hangs as the last wall. The Hebrew is paroket (פָּרֹכֶת). Behind it is the lid of the ark — the place of God’s presence. One man, the high priest, walks through it one day a year, with blood, or he dies.

At the hour Jesus dies, that curtain tears from top to bottom. It does not tear from the crowd pushing. It tears from above. Hebrews says the new and living way in is through the curtain — that is, His body. The Law already had the wall. The cross took it down.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

Matthew 27:51Hebrews 10:19

Some sayThe torn curtain is a nice Good Friday image. It does not mean anything in the Law.

The way in was never a mood. It was a body, torn. The Law already had the wall. The cross took it down.

Open Exodus 26

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.