“Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.” — Matthew 27:51
No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power — many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all fulfilled in Him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the glory of God gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a clear revelation of God, for He was “not as Moses, who put a veil over his face.” Life and immortality are now…
brought to light, and things which have been hidden since the foundation ofthe world are manifest in Him. The annual ceremony of atonement wasthus abolished. The atoning blood which was once every year sprinkledwithin the veil, was now offered once for all by the great High Priest, andtherefore the place of the symbolical rite was broken up. No blood ofbullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within the veilwith his own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is theprivilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laidopen through which we may peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reachesfrom the top to the bottom. We may come with boldness to the throne ofthe heavenly grace. Shall we err if we say that the opening of the Holy ofHolies in this marvellous manner by our Lord’s expiring cry was the type ofthe opening of the gates of paradise to all the saints by virtue of thePassion? Our bleeding Lord hath the key of heaven; He openeth and noman shutteth; let us enter in with Him into the heavenly places, and sitwith Him there till our common enemies shall be made His footstool.
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