Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom—Matthew 27:50-51
The veil wasn't just your typical bed sheet. It was massive. Let me try to put it in perspective. I recently needed to clean out my Wife's parents house. After house sales and multiple garbage pickups there was still almost 1ton of stuff that needed to be moved. A large U-haul full. It took me a 1/2 day to load, over an hour to dump. The best was 10 80 pound bags of concrete. By comparison the veil weighed over 300 tons. It was huge, 60 ft high, 30 feet wide, 4 inches thick. 300 priests were needed to carry it. Legend has it that horses pulling on each end couldn't tear it. Only a miracle, a deliberate act of God could have done to the veil what happened to it over 2000 years ago in Jerusalem.
So what does this mean for me and you? Let's not forget the duties of the high priest. He previously was only able to pass through the curtain, with much fear, once a year to offer atonement for the sins of the people. The very instant Jesus dies, not only is the sacrifice accepted but the curtain is destroyed. Not a slight tear, or a corner removed, but God tears it apart. An impossible repair. God wants to make it perfectly clear that we can approach Him. Not looking from afar, not approaching shaking and trembling with fear, not irreverently, but with boldness. For sinful people like you and me, to approach a Holy God, and live to talk about it, is truly a miracle. There is no natural explanation.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which be hath consecrated for us, through the, veil, that is to say, his flesh—Hebrews 10:19-20.
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