LULA POSTS:
Once Christ died and the Temple was rent from top to bottom, there was no more Hebraic Judaism
SO DAIHO POSTS:
Jesus death had absolutely nothing to do with Judaism. The Temple was not "rent" (a Christian myth), and Judaism continues to this day.
LULA POSTS: #287
Again, check history...it supports Sacred Scripture. At the moment of Christ's death there was a darkening of the sun all over the earth from the 6th to the 9th hour, (something like an eclipse maybe) and then, the veil of the Temple was split in the middle.
NIGHTSHADES POSTS
the veil of the Temple was split in the middle.
Who saw this event?
KFC POSTS:
The Jewish Priests did. Remember it was Passover and much work was being done in the temple during this time. I believe many of these priests that were there came to the faith according to what Luke wrote in the beginning of Acts.
SODIAHO POSTS:
As to the renting of the Temple veil, there is no evidence outside of people who had a vested interest in creating a Christian religion.
NIGHTSHADES POSTS: [quote]
The rending of the veil is a symbolic statement and fits exactly to what Sodaiho is telling you in his above statement. The veil is what seperates us from "seeing" the truth of all things. What prevents us from "seeing" is our self importance. And when I say "seeing" I mean just that. We as humans see very little of what there is to see. Animals see more than we do. Much of what exists is invisible, literally invisible to us, but once the "veil is rent" because of our putting self aside we are able to see the real truth of all things. We will see that all things are the same, that the illusion of seperation between all things is just that, "Illusion". That as Sohaido stated before "a tea cup is not really a tea cup, we simply see it as being a tea cup".
The "veil" is quite literally "illusion".[/quote]
2Paralipomenon 3, (what the Hebrews call Dibre Haijamim),(or 2Chronicles 3 in Protestant Bibles) describes in detail the plan, the ornaments, the cheribums, the veil or curtain, and the pillars of the Temple.
The Temple veil was certainly no illusion or myth to the ancient Israelites. It was a very real thing and had a significant meaning in their sacred worship of ALmighty God.
Only the priests were allowed to enter into the Holy and the High Priests into the Holy of Holies. It was the veil which shut off the Holy of Holies and through which the High Priest dared pass only once a year. As God was present in the pillar of cloud, resting on the Ark, so the Tabernacle was God's dwelling in the midst of His people.
During the time that the sun was darkened, "And behold the veil of the Temple was rent in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent; and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose." St.Matt.27
"Now the centurian and they that were with him watching Jesus, (the soldiers who formed the death watch under the cross) having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, and glorified God, saying: 'Indeed, this was a just Man!Indeed, this was the Son of God!' And all the multitude of them that were come together to that sight, and saw the things that were done, returned striking their breasts." St.Luke 23.
As this was going on at Calvary, imagine the terrifying scene going on in the Holy City. The Temple veil was being rent in two...the veil which screened the Holy of Holies from the eyes of the people clearly proclaimed the end of the Old Mosaic Covenant,its rites and ceremonies, and even of the Holy of Holies itself!!!!
This was truly the beginning of the "Abomination of Desolation" in the Temple foretold by Daniel, and of the religious poverty and famine of the former people of God, "without King, and without Prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar." Osee 3:4.
KFC POSTS:
The veil was split from top to bottom meaning it came from on high.
"The curtain separating the Holy of Holies from the rest of the Temple (Ex 26:33, 38:18, Heb 9:3) was torn trom top to the bottom showing that Dod did it not man. It signified tht the new and living way was now open nto the presence of God.
Yes, God told them precisely what and how to build the Temple and everything about it, including the worship, the total came from God..to the Israelites. Now, at Christ's death, the Old Law was perfectly fulfilled.
This was God's way of marking the New Covenant of the Christ whom had been rejected and cricified. Heavenly and divine realities are replacing what were mere types and foreshadowings. According to Zach. 12:10, 13:6, the opening of Jesus' side and heart is for us an unmistakeable opening of the fountains of His merits, graces, purifying and life giving unto our sanctification and religious perfection.