PART #3: INSIDE THE TEMPLE OF GOD
As explained in the article you just read, God has a thread of analogies that run through the entire Bible; The tabernacle in the wilderness, the temple of Solomon, the Garden of Eden, the throne room of heaven, the new Jerusalem and the heart of man is all a single symbol; they all follow the same pattern. The kingdom of God described in revelation also fits this same exact pattern.
What that means is that having, say, a river of life in the middle of the garden symbolizes a certain thing; and you'll find a symbol that fits the identical position in the ark of the covenant (the ten commandments), the throne of God in Revelation, and the spirit of God in the heart of man.
Similarly as I explained in that article, the tree of life represents the body of Christ, just as the Manna deposited in the Ark represents the body of Christ; just as we find the body of Christ in us and Jesus sitting in the throne room of heaven and in the new Jerusalem.
So every explanation about the temple must explain not only the temple itself, but all five symbols. If it fits them all, it must be right. This makes finding the full answer much easier, because you have five different sources of facts; when God says something about the temple in heaven, you know there is an analogous thing in your heart; so you can look at scriptures about your heart to explain the temple in heaven.
You can also read the description of the garden of Eden, for you know that the same symbols were illustrated there; and you can read about Solomon’s temple and/or the tabernacle. Now that you understand that all of these symbols are teaching us about each other, you can fill in the missing gaps in any one story and come up with a better complete picture than anyone has ever had before.
THE VEIL
The veil – or vail, in the King James – is well understood by most, but I'll hit it briefly anyway just to be thorough. Paul (2 Corinthians 3:12-16) illustrates a parallel about the vail Moses put over his face which caused blindness to the people, so that they couldn't look at and clearly understand Moses.
2 Corinthians 3:13 (BBE) And we, [Paul and company] are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:
They were not supposed to understand the conclusion that Moses' law would lead to; not supposed to understand that the things they were presently doing were to be done away in Christ. This veil protected them from that knowledge.
To put it another way, this veil over Moses' face kept the people of Israel from looking PAST Moses and seeing God – which, had it happened, would have meant their immediate death. So in this sense, this veil is the same as the one in the temple.
I needn't even quote the scripture that talks about how the veil was torn in two when Jesus died, for everyone knows that. This veil represented a barrier between us and the Father which Jesus' death removed.
Hebrews 10:19-20 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Some completely misunderstand this verse and say “so the veil represents Jesus' flesh!” – but that isn't what it says at all as you can see. It says we enter the holiest by a new WAY, which He paved for us through the veil, WITH his flesh – it's not saying the veil represents His flesh, it's saying that the WAY through the veil was paved BY his flesh.
The curtain doesn't represent his flesh. It represents a barrier between us and God. A barrier that is taken away in Christ, just as the veil over Moses' face was taken away in Christ. That's why it split when He died.