BRIAN GRAY

“I said, "Lord, right now, not on the basis of any qualification, I do enter into the holiest place of all by the blood of Jesus and the veil rent by His flesh. Amen.”
― Arthur Katz, Apostolic Service: Priestliness - The Anatomy of True Ministry

“There is a requirement to minister before God before one ministers to men, and if we lack the sense of the sacredness of God, which is to be found only in the holy place by those who have the posture of the priest, that is to say, prostrated as a dead man before Him, then there is going to be something brittle, something lacking, something untempered and something plastic in the correct thing that we bring.”
― Arthur Katz, Apostolic Service: Priestliness - The Anatomy of True Ministry

“salvation is from the Jews” (Jn 4:22). It is so critical for Christians to recognize the fact that the imagery of betrothal and marriage, the language of husband and wife, does not begin in the New Testament. It began with the Exodus”
― Joel Richardson, Sinai to Zion: The Untold Story of the Triumphant Return of Jesus

“In the second part the mystery is seen as the union of Christ and the church rather than Jews and Gentiles (5:32), but the last mention of it refers to Paul making known God’s work of uniting believing Jews and Gentiles into one body (6:19).”
― Harold W. Hoehner, Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary