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prescribed time.

Leviticus 20:18
If there is a man who lies with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness,
he has laid bare her flow, and she has exposed the flow of her blood; thus both of
them shall be cut off from among their people.

A woman’s flow of menstrual blood had to have ceased for seven days before a man
could enter into union with her. Seven days was the time of her purification.

Leviticus 15:19
“When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall
continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days.”

The Temple and the Tabernacle also had to be ritually purified before the priests could
perform service therein. Are not these things intended to be a profound parable of one
another? We observe that there were specific laws pertaining to the purification of a woman
before a man could “go in to her” even as there are laws governing the purification of the
Tabernacle and the vessels used before the Priests could “go in” and perform their priestly
duties.
Yahweh has covered the entire Tabernacle and Temple with holiness. They are sacred,
and to be kept pure and undefiled from the pollution of the world. In the same way, Yahweh
determined that the body of the woman should be holy. It was to be guarded diligently to
maintain purity. Regarding both the Tabernacle of Yahweh, and a man’s wife, there was to
be no “intercourse” with the world. In a marriage union, the Husband is the High Priest and
the Wife is the Tabernacle. NO ONE CAN ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES EXCEPT THE
HIGH PRIEST.
Before passing on to other matters, I want to share further of the parable
demonstrated in the body of the virgin bride. In the design of God, the virgin bride has kept
her hymen intact until her wedding night. At that time her husband, High Priest, is to enter
in even as Christ entered that Tabernacle in the heavens at His crucifixion.

Hebrews 9:11-12
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered
through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His
own blood, He entered the holy place once for all...

At the crucifixion of Christ, as He yielded up His Spirit, we read that the veil of the
Temple in Jerusalem was torn in two.

Mark 15:38
Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.