The veil and church liturgy

Liturgy
“A prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship.”
“An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion.” wwwdictionary
I play chess. There are rules. Without playing according to the standard tournament rules no one can play chess. They are playing a different game when they play with different rules. I have heard people say, “Well every church in reality has its own liturgy”. When these people say that, I say that they are playing some kind of different game. Not every church has a prescribed form of worship! The word, and the concept, Liturgy necessarily requires a prescription, liturgy is not just “that’s the way we do things”.

There was a strict prescription for worship under the covenant that God made with the descendants of Israel which among other things was written in stone to prove to the people that they could not approach God. It was a form of godliness, which they could use to fend off God’s anger year by year and was not for their benefit in the manner in which they imagined it to be. It was created to make the people unique and preserve them long enough to produce the Messiah. He needed a family tree and a piece of real estate to call ‘home’. And it was created in order to drive them to seek the genuine route into the presence of God! That route was through the veil.

The veil is the body of the Messiah, which means His humanity and His death but mostly His resurrection. Freedom is a state of your own being. It is a state of heart and a decision of our own will. Our mind and emotions are most often fifth column and circumstances are not in the equation, we have all heard that over and over before. We can not get freedom just anywhere; we have to go to the one who holds the bonds. No one can give us freedom; we can not gain it by force or by our own will But we have to take it when it is offered to us. (How can anyone call that degrading the sovereignty of God?) The veil also represented all the liturgy of the Mt Sinai covenant. Everything that the descendants of Israel did in their religious observations led them to – the veil. To repeat, the veil could not forcibly keep them out but if they forced their way in they would not find what they came to get. To those who had eyes to see, the way was always open but it was manifested and demonstrated dramatically when the veil was rent at the time of the resurrection of the Messiah. So where does that leave liturgy? Jesus swept it all away when He died Lk 23:45.

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in past times to our fathers by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,” Heb 1:1,2, who is the real way into the presence of God; “Old things are passed away …”. “If the Son shall make you free you shall be free indeed”! We begin the Christian life by faith, accepting God’s gift of freedom, and each day we live it by faith; did God prescribe a liturgy for the church? NT says, “God is a Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth”! Once a couple is married is there any reason for the wife to keep putting a veil on when she intercources with her husband like as if she were still single?