1 Kings 19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Other translations use the word zealous rather than jealous and that is perhaps an easier word to understand. Jealousy in today’s society is often met with a scornful look. Then again so is zeal. If you think zealot your first instinct is to think terrorist and given that is what you hear most, who can blame you. Zeal is after all a dedication without selfishness. Zeal only listens to one voice, the cause.

Perhaps the problem is the cause. I have a zeal for the Word of the Lord. No matter how much I tell others this is me and I do not ask them to be like me, they are still uncomfortable. When the truth is spoken there is always the unspoken forsaking. Prophets of old spoke out against the forsaking and for it they were killed.

If you think that is not happening today because there are no more prophets, then I suggest you misunderstand the difference between the office and the gift. Today they shoot some but for the most part they are shouted down and told they are irrelevant, radical and a terrorist. You will not find a media outlet that gives audience to modern day prophets. Number one there is no money in it and number two fear of offending power.

Do you listen to the Word or the forsakers?

Genesis 24:65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

Once again returning to the issue of first use, we look to the Word to discover meaning in the vail. That vail that was torn from top to bottom, the wall of partition that was removed when Christ died, this is the entry point of understanding.

Chapter 24 of Genesis is the great telling of Isaac and Rebekah and how they became wed. If you have not read this story in a while, be blessed to refresh your memory and all the great parallels found in the telling. This parallel is left to the vail.

The vail of covering is a vail of knowing. The bride groom is presented the bride, but the vail of knowing is not removed until the bride is received. Understand this plainly, this occurs before the actual wedding ceremony. The bridegroom has the bride revealed to Him when the Father says this is your bride, take her in hand.

Then the bride is prepared and the groom goes off to build their home.

The vail of the temple was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died on the Cross. The Father has declared, this is your bride, take her in hand. We are the bride, we are being prepared, and Jesus is preparing our home for us.

Anyone looking forward to a wedding feast?