MAN'S RELATION TO THE SPIRIT-WORLD

“Man in his physical and spiritual makeup was made for two worlds, the physical and spiritual world. Writing to the Thessalonians Paul says,

“I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I Thessalonians 5:23.  Writing in the Hebrew says ___ the  word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even the dividing asunder of Soul and Spirit and Joints and Marrow (body) and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12. 

From these references we see that man is a Trinity, and is composed of Body, Soul, and Spirit. Man was made in the “Image of God” and God is a Trinity.

The Tabernacle and its Courtyard is a type of “Threefold Nature of Man.” The Courtyard represents his Body, the Holy Place his Soul, and the Most Holy Place his Spirit, and as there could be no communication between the Courtyard and the Most Holy Place, only through the Holy Place, so there can be no communication between a man's Body and Spirit only through his Soul. After the completion of the Tabernacle it remained empty  of the Presence of God until the Spirit of God descended and took up his Abode in the Most Holy Place. So a man may be complete as the body, soul, and spirit, but his spiritual nature will remain unregenerate until the Holy Spirit enters and takes possession of the spirit compartment of his nature. This happens when the “NEW BIRTH'' takes place. (John 3:16; 10:9-10; 17:3; Rom. 3:23; 6:23; 10:9-10, 13-14; II Cor. 5:17, 21).

Larkin, Clarence. 1920. Rightly Dividing The Word. Sunnyside.