In most every subject that we read about,study or talk about, there are a part or so that is very seldom discursed at any length, The word Veil,is one of those words that seems to be one of subjects that is not often talked about,when we think about Jesus and His crufcified,However there is reason for great joy and thanksgiving in the truths of the Veil.

And since we will be discurssing this word it would be good to really know the meaning of the word Veil:

VEIL:
1.A deceptive outward appearance.
2.The material in which something is wrapped.
3.To prevent (something) from being known'
4.To surround and cover completely so as to absure.

The Veil that we will be thinking about is the Veil in the temple which closed the fourth wall of a room of the temple.Behind that Veil was the most Holy Place,Yes this Holy Place was so Holy that only the High Priest and him alone went behind and even then just once a year,and that was to sprinkle blood on the mercy seat for the sins of his people.

No persons but the high priest could go behind the veil and live.And that was just once a year.Yes behind this veil was were the Lord dwelled.Man's sin was so great that God could not permit man to come in to His presents,Thus only the high priest was permitted into that Holy of Holy place, and that was after he had been prepare to do so.

Then God sent Jesus into the world to create a better way for man to come to God cleansed of his sins.Yes God's new plan was that it was better to show God's Holiness by revealing Himself,rather than hiding Him- self behind the Veil.

Matthew 27/22 thur 26
22.Pilate saith unto them,what shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?,They all say unto him, let Him be crucified.
23.And the governor said,why,what evil hath He done? But they cried out the more,saying,Let Him be crucified.
24.When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude,saying,I am innocent of the blood of this person:see to it.
25.Then answered all the people,and said,His blood be on us, and on our children.
26.Then released he barabbas unto them:and when he had scourged Jesus,he delivered Him to be crucified.

Matthew 27/46 thru 54
46.And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,E'-li,E,li.La-ma Sa-bach,-tha-ni?,that is to say,My God,My God,Why hast thou forsaken Me?
47.Some of them that stood there,when they heard that,said, This Man calleth for E-li'-as.
48.And straightway one of them ran,and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar.and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink.
49.The rest said,let be,let us see rather E-li,- as will come to save Him.
50.Jesus,when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51.And behold,the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;and the earth did quake,and the rocks rent;
52.And the graves were opened; and many bodies of saints which slept arose.
53.And came out of the graves after His resurrection and went into the Holy City,and appeared unto many.
54.Now when the centurion,and they that were with him, watching Jesus,saw the earthquake,and those things that were done,they feared greatly,saying,Truly this was the son of God.

At that time which was about 3:00 PM about mid afternoon many things start happening:
1.The veil in the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
2.And the earth did quake.
3.Then the rocks rent.
4.And graves were opened.
5.Many saints which slept arose.
6.And there was darkness for three hours in mid afternoon.

It is very easy to imagine just how much fear really filled the hearts of all that were gathered there when the earth quake rumbled through the country side or the rocks that they were standing on started to split or fall apart,just think about someone who lives in a rock house.

Then I am not quite sure just what I would do or think if the graves started to opening.I hate to think just what I might do or try to do if the saints or anyone else that were dead started to rise. And then when darkness fell upon the whole country side,I am still not so sure of the things I would do or try to do.

Now there is the veil that was rent from the top.that within itself was an act of God Himself,Only God could have rent it from the top down.Of course man would have rent it from the bottom up,And that within itself would be quite a big task.

It has been said that the dimensions were sixty feet long,thirty feet wide,and about four inches thick.and it hung in folds and was so heavy that it took over a hundred priests to move it.Jewish authortities have declare that two pair of oxen hitched to both end of it pulling in opposite directions could not tear it apart.

The renting of the veil happened about three in the in the afternoon. That was the time of the evening sacrifies,and is thought it possible that some of the priests were there and saw it happen.

11 Corinthians 3/9 thru 18
9. For if the ministration of condemnation by glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10.For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect,by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11.For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12.Seeing then that we have such hope,we use great plainness of speech:
13.And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Isael could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14.But their minds were blinded:for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament;which veil is done away in Christ.
15.But even unto this day,when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts.
16.Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord,the veil shall be taken away..
17.Now the Lord is that Spirit:and where the Spirit of the Lord is,There is liberty.
18.But we all,with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,are changed into the same image from glory to glory,even as by the spirit of the Lord.

In verses nine and ten we find that, the first was glorious,(The Veil) But the second was much more glorious,

Now just a few of the things that was changed when the veil was rent or torn.
1.The work of the earthly priest was finished,In that there would be no need for the priest to make the daily,weekly,monthly or yearly sacrifices,
2.The priest would no longer need to enter behind the Veil and make atonment for our sin.When the veil was torn it open the way for all to come,(through Christ)
3.Yes the opening of the Veil was the termination of earthly priest,God has provided another Priest.This great High Priest,who made just one sacrifice for sin both for now and for ever.This within itself declared the work of the earthly priests finished.
4.Then we find that the sacrificial sin offerinng had ended,God had provided a New and better way of mercy for all mankind.
5.Upon the renting of the temple Veil,declared the way to the Holy One now open to all mankind.Yes the earlier way where the priests alone could go into the most Holy Place had come to an end.And under the new,all men can enter through Jesus Christ (The Most High Priest)
6.The message of the Veil,because it tells a powerful truth,It tells us of the Holiness of God,and of a Great New High Priest that has invited all mankind to come,and salvation to all who believe.

Hebrews 5/9
9.And being made perfect,He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him.

Hebrews 8/12
12.For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sin and their iniquities will I remember no more.

John 14/6
6.Jesus saith unto him,I am the way,the truth,and the life:no man cometh unto the Father,but by Me.

YES JESUS CHRIST IS THE NEW GREAT HIGH PRIEST.

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