Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

called the temple . There was the outer court, the inner court, and the holy of holies. The outer court area would be the imagery of the body; the inner court area, the soul; and the holy of holies, the human spirit. The entire compound was God’s house, but the divine presence of God dwelt in the holiest place, the chamber where the ark of the covenant rested. In the law of God this area was so sensitive that when a Judean king entered the inner court (the holy place) and offered incense on the golden altar, he was smitten with leprosy (2 Chron. 26:16–21). The common Israelite was permitted in the outer court to offer sacrifices on the brass altar. However, the common Israelite was forbidden to enter the inner court or holy place, as these were reserved for the Levites (called priests). The Levites were then forbidden to enter the holy of holies except on one day out of each year—the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. This imagery is important for the believer to comprehend. In the Old Testament we read where Satan stood at the right side of the altar resisting Joshua the high priest (Zech. 3:1–2). Satan was not and never would be permitted in the holy of holies where God came to commune with the priest. He was expelled from the heavenly temple because of his sin of defilement (Luke 10:18). God will not dwell in the same room with Satan! When a person enters the redemptive covenant with Christ, his or her spirit becomes cleansed by the blood of Christ, and this cleansing forms a protective hedge in the same manner