Even in the Old Testament, man did not have access to God. The tabernacle shut man out. There were three entrances, but there was also three closed gates. No Israelite, except the high priest, ever went there, and he but once a year. A careful study of the tabernacle will reveal the fact that the wonderful person who came to this earth over 1900 years ago actually shut man out from God until He went to the cross and died for the sins of the world. And one of the glorious things of this day in which we live is the fact that we have access, direct and immediate, to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.