Jesus coming in the flesh, dying, and resurrecting from the dead ushered in a new age. God made known the mysteries that were previously hidden within the old covenant.

Colossians 1:25-27 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— ²⁶ the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. ²⁷ To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

The mystery is Christ is in you, the hope of glory. This mystery has opened the flood gates of wisdom that were hidden within the old covenant.

The Mystery of Spiritual Warfare

Hebrews 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves.

For this reason, the battle is now not against flesh and blood but rather against principalities and powers. In the old testament, the war was a battle against flesh and blood and the redemptive power of Christ was not in effect the way it is now.

In the old testament, God ordered His people to wipe out the 7 tribes in Cannan. Even the women and children. But now God does not order such commands and saves them through Jesus.

Today, the 7 tribes in Cannan each represent 7 specific principalities (spirits) that are at work through people, not the people themselves. As you look at the Hebrew language you will get a detailed insight into how each principality works. This is a mystery that Jesus has unlocked for New Covenant believers.

The Principalities Behind The 7 Tribes Of Canaan (The Promise Land) Explained

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Hebrews 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason, it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

All of the physical things mentioned in the old covenant (i.e. water, land, mountains, rivers, the temple, sky, birds, etc…) are real and literal but now in the new covenant, these physical things are made as an illustration of the realities we have as individuals in the spirit realm now.

Because Jesus came, died, and was resurrected from the dead, He ushered in a new age and the new covenant in which a temple as a building is no longer needed for us to be cleansed from our sins to worship God. He made it very clear that the temple is our body(s).

There were two curtains that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. Only the High Priest was able to go past the curtains with the shedding of the blood of bulls and goats. These things are only a shadow of things to come in Christ in the New Covenant.

The blood of Jesus though cleanses our conscience so we can enter the Holy Place in the heavenly temple of our bodies. (Humans are in two dimensions, the Spiritual and the physical).

^{Hebrews 9:23-24 23} It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that were only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.

The Kingdom Of God Is Within You Through a Clean Conscience

When you accept and believe that your sins are forgiven Jesus’s blood cleanses your conscience and gives access to heavenly realities you can experience in the temple of your body. You step into a realm of peace and power that gives believers the authority to perform miracles and experience the Love of God in a personal way.

^{Hebrews 9:11-14 11} But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here,^[a] he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. ¹² He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the Most Holy Place once and for all by his own blood, thus obtaining^[b] eternal redemption. ¹³ The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. ¹⁴ How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,^[c] so that we may serve the living God!

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