In the OT we see a temple holiness....a place, clothing, rites....all EXTERNAL things. Just as the law was a place marker for righteousness, so was the temple a place marker for holiness. But now holiness (true holiness) is entered into by being IN the eternal realm...by putting on Christ.
I do see what you’re saying. But, I also grasp it a little differently, albeit in a vague manner. I feel like we already had this conversation...it’s sort of like this phrase I’ve lately been hearing everywhere - “are we in a simulation?” Like…the temple holiness, the place and rites, the external temple seen with the eyes, in combination with the law, was and is the simulation/copy of the real and eternal thing/things.
And it’s like…a few men in the OT made a leap out of the simulation/temporary and into the real/eternal. (Enoch and Elijah at least?)
Ive labored for some time over the thought of those old saints who said God doesn’t call everyone to the same level of love on earth, because something seems incomplete in it. It seems that you say the same thing when you say if we are meant for more God calls us up. But I’m torn between knowing everything depends on God and what He wants versus knowing that Jesus died for the
whole world and there are
many called who aren’t then
chosen, but they can still be faithful. On the one hand, yes, it’s all according to what God wants. On the other hand, I think there may be some key in Gideon and his men and how those who were too scared/not brave were not chosen and then a further separating based on how they drank water. And it reads as if the only reason why they weren’t all chosen is so that they could not then say they won by their own strength and numbers (which sounds like, to keep everyone humble and dependent on God He only chooses a few) but there were two…behaviors/characteristics of the men that made them not be chosen.
So…I have a a push and pull thing here or…a knot. Like, trying to get the balance between humble and yet brave enough in that humility to press into the kingdom. Akin to…Esther saying, I will go and I might die, but I must go.