Skip Heitzig

The veil [in the Jerusalem Temple] separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies and was enormous, thick, and very tall. There weren’t ladders high enough to get up there and rip it. It was ripped from top to bottom, not bottom to top, implying God tore the veil. God was making the statement, “You who were on the outside, you can come in, you can draw near by faith. I’m giving you access to me by the death of my Son.” The only way the sacrifices could have continued after that day was for the veil to be sewn up again. That’s what religion does. God rips open the veil and says come close; mankind says, Let’s sew it back up. Let’s take the freedom that we have and get rid of the freedom and go back into bondage, into religion, into rites and ceremonies. Man always has the tendency to take the veil that God ripped and sew it back up; putting things in reverse instead of moving forward.