The Rent Veil

When the temple veil was torn in two from top to bottom at the moment of Christ’s death, heaven itself declared that the barrier between a holy God and sinful man had been forever removed.

In this profound and Scripture-saturated meditation, the great Scottish preacher and hymn writer Horatius Bonar unfolds the deep meaning of that rent veil. Drawing richly from the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Old Testament tabernacle, he shows that the true veil was the flesh of the Son of God. Through the broken body and shed blood of Jesus, the way into the Holiest is now open. What once hid God from man and man from God has become the “new and living way” by which every believer may draw near with boldness.

Bonar traces the story from the unbroken fellowship of Eden, through the long centuries of separation, to the finished work of the Cross. He then turns to the glorious consequences for the people of God: we are called to be worshippers, living temples, a royal priesthood, and kings who reign with Christ.