And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. (Matthew 27:50-53)

The Veil Of The Temple

Constructing the Tabernacle of the Lord was an exact process. The Lord gave Moses a pattern to build the Tabernacle and all the instruments, articles, designs, and forms. Tables were to be measured precisely. Gold ornaments adorned many pieces of the Tabernacle. Garments worn by the High Priest, the priests, and the Levites were exact. God told Moses to set up the Tabernacle according to the pattern shown on the mountain. Inside the Tabernacle, there was a special curtain of finely woven linen. It was decorated with blue, purple, scarlet thread and skillfully embroidered cherubim. The veil was to be hung on gold hooks attached to four posts of acacia wood overlayed with gold, set in four silver bases. God instructed Moses to hang the inner curtain from clasps and put the Ark of the Covenant in the room behind it. This curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Many years later, when Solomon built the Temple of the Lord, he also followed the pattern given to him by the Lord. Across the entrance of the Most Holy Place, he hung a curtain made of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and embroidered with figures of cherubim. After the people returned from seventy years in Babylon, the temple was rebuilt under the direction of Zerubbabel. In the eighteenth year of King Herod, the temple was rebuilt, and another veil was placed between the Holy Place and the Most Holy. This was a thick and gorgeously wrought veil some sixty feet high and thirty feet wide. When the veil rents apart, the priest who offered incense at the evening sacrifice about this same hour would have seen it rip and heard the incredible tearing noise.

The tearing of the veil was not man-made. God tore the curtain from top to bottom, showing His great power, declaring salvation had come to the earth through Jesus Christ. There is no other Savior whereby men can be saved. The Law of Moses would no longer save the Jew and the law of faith the Gentile. Jesus Christ became the veil, bringing all men to the Father. There was only one path to the Most Holy of Holies, where the Lord dwelt among the Cherubim. When Jesus died, the path to the Father for the Jews and Gentiles was only through the Son of God. Through the blood of Jesus Christ, all men can enter what was once forbidden.

In the religious world, there are many ways men seek eternal life in the Father. There are vast rooms built by men declaring salvation in Jesus Christ. They are decorated nicely with the trappings of religion filled with the dogmas of human wisdom. These rooms abound to accommodate the whims of the people to serve God in their own fashion. Millions of people fill these rooms, worshiping God and praising Jesus Christ. Sadly, they fail to understand the only place of salvation is behind the veil of Jesus Christ. There is only one place where eternal life is granted, and it’s through the veil. They have different names for the rooms built by men teaching doctrines not found in the Bible. Many are convinced if they accept Jesus as their personal Savior, they have gone behind the veil. Some religious groups encourage people to be good, and they will be saved. When the truth of the gospel is taught, showing the pathway through the veil, people will scoff and call the act a work and deny it.

There is only one way to the Father, and it is through the veil of Jesus Christ. Without obedience to the gospel of Christ, there will be no hope. The rooms are filled with those deceived into believing they are serving Christ when all they do is serve themselves. God constructed the Tabernacle and the Temple according to a pattern. The early church was built upon the pattern given by the Holy Spirit, including design, organization, and message of salvation. Denying the New Testament teachings denies the veil, Jesus Christ. Peter preached the message of the veil when he told the multitude, “Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Welcome to the veil. Enter to find eternal life.