The Good Of The Father (From Behind The Veil) #1957

 

Now Jesus, again crying with a loud voice, lets out the spirit.  And lo! the curtain of the temple is rent in two from above to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and rocks are rent

Matthews Account 27: 50-51, Concordant New Testament 

The death of Jesus on the cross was a dramatic event in our relationship with God.  Many things were happening as He drew His final breath.  Including the quaking of the earth {Matthews Account 27:51}.  The dead were raised {Matthews Account 27:52}.  Yet perhaps the most significant event aside from His own death was what happened in the temple of Jerusalem.  For we're told that in the moment that Jesus died, the curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom.  Why does this natter?  Well, take a look at why the curtain was placed in the Jewish temple in the first place.  The reason for this is that the Jewish leaders long held the narrative that God cannot be approached by sinners.  The only men who were allowed to enter behind that veil in the temple was the high priest.  Once each year, on the day of atonement (Yom Kippur), the high priest entered the Holy of Holies beyond the veil to offer up sacrifices for the sins of the people.  This was the only time man entered the sanctuary behind the veil.  Again, why is this important to us?  Because with the death of His Son on the cross, God has declared that not only has the sin debt been paid, but that the Father is once again among His children without the hinderance of the veil.  The tearing of the temple veil has more than symbolic value.  For we are now free to commune with Him, which has been the Fathers intent all along.  For centuries, the Jewish religious leaders proclaimed that sinful man could never enter into the presence of God, who dwelled behind the veil in the Holy of Holies.  In an instant, God upended that narrative.  God did not step out from behind the veil, He has always been with us.  It is only the traditions of men that tell us otherwise.  

And I hear another voice out of heaven, saying, "Come out of her, My people, lest you should be joint participants in her sins, and lest you should be getting of her calamities 

The Unveiling of Christ Jesus 18: 4, Concordant New Testament 

It is my belief that the veil, having been torn in the temple upon the death of Jesus, continues to be spoken to by the mainstream church of today.  For it is the church which continues to speak to the centuries old separation theology that our sins have separated us from God.  Sound familiar?  This was the same teaching proclaimed by the Jewish religious leaders for thousands of years.  That man is sinful and that he can never approach God behind the veil of the Holy of Holies.  The author J Preston Eby takes this one step further when he references what he sees as Gods call to His children to "Come out of her," meaning the traditional church.  We already known how God feels about that line of thinking.  For if it was His intention to prevent man from communing with Him, the veil and tradition would have remained intact.  But those in the church have gone further than that, they have resurrected the veil of separation between God and His children.  Despite the death of Jesus and the paying of our sin debt, those in the church continue to preach that sin is still the issue which separates us from God.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  For instead of being separated from God, Jesus has spoken that our life in IN HIM {Johns Account 14:20}.  This is the truth which we discover in the Father.  God has always been a part of us.  It is man who needs to step out from behind that veil of religious tradition into relationship the Father.  

~Scott~