The Covering

The Covering 

The sin committed

The shame, the guilt, the fear

Hiding away from the Presence of their Eternal Father

A wrath realized

Curses uttered, declared...put into action

The banishment looming

The awakening to Who they came from

One Who sees

One Who knows

One Who loves beyond imagining

One Who covers with the coat of Himself

Skins appear

Taken from a tender, humble innocent one

But before the skin was taken, the blood had to be shed

Skin and blood now the covering 

For a man and woman, the first of their kind

Though banished from the origin garden

Placed out in a world now cast down but never forgotten

Covered by the Creator

The One Who governs their destiny

The One Who covers their sin

The One Who redeems their souls with the life of a Lamb

The Lamb slain before the foundation

An innocent for the guilty

The covering of the Innocent Blood upon the souls of humanity

Then a people, a nation

Called from out of strange places and realms

A people called Peculiar

Raised up to enact Moedim, the appointed seasons

Set apart for and by the One Who sets and calls

A man, a priest assigned

To go into the Presence alone to atone

No one can touch him as he enacts the desire of the King

Not just for one, but for many

For a world gone astray

A flowing garment of white carrying innocent blood

Another animal slain

Imagining the one from so long ago whose blood and skin was made to cover

And the priest goes in

And the priest brings the blood

And the priest in white sprinkles that blood

Covering the seat called Mercy

Where the Presence dwells forever

An act, a sign, a ritual of faith

For it is the day which He has made

Where the heavens and the Earth are one before Him

Innocence covering the guilty

Innocence covering the soul

Innocence converting the shame

That Glory may once again be the covering

The Light of the Presence once again covering the jewels of all Creation

The Presence re-superimposed upon the ones of like-image

A day set apart like none other

To cry out in prayers, in praise, and in worship bathed in white light

And we come to a day when after a Cross was stained

A weeping woman sees a Gardener

Saddened by her great loss

Looking for her Lord

Who then opens the eyes of blindness

But can touch Him not

For the Priest was set for the appointed time and season

To Ascend to the Father

The KING of All

But first the Blood He takes Himself to the seat of Mercy, His own Altar

Called by His Name, appointed forever

For this Lamb has come

And the appointed day stands at hand for all time

The covering for shame, guilt and sin available to all

Just open the gate of your heart that was once closed off 

and separated from the Presence of your Father

And be clothed anew in the garment made just for you

The only covering that is True

The Blood of the Lamb upon you

Now new and restored

What was, and is, and what will be

The Purchased, the Covered, the Forgiven

The Redeemed

10/1/25

Genesis 3... Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Leviticus 16... Lev 16:14-16 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that [is] for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy [place], because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

John 20... John 20:11-17 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulchre, 12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. 14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.

Hebrews 9... Heb 9:11-15 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us]. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.