The Torn Veil
March 21, 2016
“The Torn Veil”
- The Way It Was: A Temple and Sacrifices
- Separation Between God and Man
“Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.” (Habakkuk 1:13)
“After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” (Genesis 3:24)
“The payment for sin is death.” (Romans 6:23 NCV)
- Sacrifices As Payment for Sin
“He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head.” (Leviticus 16:21)
- Temple Veil – “No Admittance”
““Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman.” (Exodus 26:31)
- Jesus On the Cross
- Tore Down the Veil
“And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.” (Matthew 27:50–51)
- Became the Veil
“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,” (Hebrews 10:19–20)
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” (1 Timothy 2:5)