However those chapters make no mention of the veil being rent, nor why?
Why is it necessary that it be mentioned there?
It does make mention of what the veil represents.
Hebrews 10:
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us,
through the veil, that is, His flesh.
John 3:
5 Jesus answered,
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you,
You must be born again.
He has made the acceptable sacrifice for sin and
for uncleanness. Flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God. 1Corinthians 15:50
We now can DRAW NEAR, coming before the
throne without first offering any animal sacrifice.
Hebrews 9:
8 the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest
while the first tabernacle was still standing.
9 It
was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect
in regard to the conscience.
Not just a removal of sin, but of guilt.
John 13:
7 Jesus answered and said to him,
“What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”
What do we know now, that was not known then?
What understanding do you have of this washing
that night?
8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him,
“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
John 13:
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet,
but also
my hands and
my head!”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed
needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.
John 15:
3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you.
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.
What must we do to enter the holy of holies?
John 13:
14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Matthew 5:
23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
The washing of the feet is symbolic of forgiving one
another, even as the High Priest gained forgiveness
on the day of Atonement by washing the Lord's feet.
Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
1 Peter 3:
21 There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.
The veil represents not only the flesh, but the carnal
minded nature that "veils the eyes" such that those
who are "in the flesh" cannot see Christ in the Word.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The holy of holies represents the secret place
of the heart of man.
This is the conclusion of the matter.
2 Corinthians 3:
14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the
veil is taken away in Christ.
15 But even to this day, when Moses is read,
a veil lies on their heart.
16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there
is liberty.
18 But
we all, with unveiled faces, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who
has shone in our hearts to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 9:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
23 Therefore
it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands,
which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
