Ultimately applied to Christ, we read, “They will hang on Him all the glory…” (Isa 22:24).
How was the remarkable veil suspended as the divider between where priests, Israel’s representative men, could go, and the dwelling place of God’s Shekinah glory? “You shall hang it upon the four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, upon four sockets of silver…The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy” (Ex 26:32-33). Now the door into the Holy Place had five pillars with hooks (v 37), but the veil had only four. Let me remind you that the first great revelation of the Lord is based on the Pentateuch, what the Jews sometimes call Hamishah Humshei, or the Five Fifths, the books written by Moses. What was their purpose? “The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith” (Gal 3:24). Thus the Law, like the door, did give access to the lampstand’s light and the food of fellowship, but before the Messiah came, “the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest” (Heb 9:8). God then provided for us four more pillars of truth in the Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Law declared: “By the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established” (Deut 19:15). So Matthew, Mark, and Luke provide three independent witnesses in their historical biographies of the Lord Jesus. John, providing a unique, extra corroboration, declares, “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name” (Jn 20:31). Just as the Old Testament revelation of the Lord hangs on the five books of Moses, so the New hangs on the four Gospels, and by these we see “the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (Jn 1:17, KJV).