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April 19, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." — Matthew 27:51 · KJV

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 taught us here. The old law of ordinances was put away, and, like a worn-out garment, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all were 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 hidden since the foundation of the world are made manifest in Him. The annual ceremony of atonement was thus abolished. The atoning blood that was once every year sprinkled within the veil was now offered once for all by the great High Priest, and therefore the place of the symbolic rite was broken up. No blood of bullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within the veil with His own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is the privilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laid open, through which we may merely peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reaches from the top to the bottom. We may come with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace. Shall we err if we say that the opening of the Holy of Holies in this marvelous manner, by our Lord's expiring cry, was a type of the opening of the gates of paradise to all the saints by virtue of the Passion? Our bleeding Lord holds the key of heaven; He opens, and no man shuts. Let us enter in with Him into the heavenly places, and sit with Him there, till our common enemies are made His footstool.