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no veil, is offered to all. No longer need sinful, sorrowing humanity
await the coming of the high priest.
Type had met antitype in the death of God’s Son. The Lamb of
God had been offered as a sacrifice. It was as if a voice had said to
the worshipers, “There is now an end to all sacrifices and offerings”
(
The Youth’s Instructor, June 21, 1900
).
A NewWay Opened to Fallen Man
—When Christ on the cross
cried out, “It is finished,” the veil of the temple was rent in twain.
This veil was significant to the Jewish nation. It was of most costly
material, of purple and gold, and was of great length and breadth.
At the moment when Christ breathed His last, there were witnesses
in the temple who beheld the strong, heavy material rent by unseen
hands from top to bottom. This act signified to the heavenly universe,
and to a world corrupted by sin, that a new and living way had been
opened to the fallen race, that all sacrificial offerings terminated in
the one great offering of the Son of God. He who had hitherto dwelt
in the temple made with hands, had gone forth never again to grace
it with His presence (
The Signs of the Times, December 8, 1898
).
52, 53 (see
EGW comment on Matthew 28:2-4
). Resurrec-
tion Known to Priests and Rulers
—The captives brought up from
the graves at the time of the resurrection of Jesus were His trophies
as a conquering Prince. Thus He attested His victory over death and
the grave; thus He gave a pledge and an earnest of the resurrection
of all the righteous dead. Those who were called from their graves
went into the city, and appeared unto many in their resurrected forms,
and testified that Jesus had indeed risen from the dead, and that they
had risen with Him....
It was well known to the priests and rulers that certain persons
who were dead had risen at the resurrection of Jesus. Authentic
reports were brought to them of different ones who had seen and
conversed with these resurrected ones, and heard their testimony
that Jesus, the Prince of life, whom the priests and rulers had slain,
was risen from the dead (
The Spirit of Prophecy 3:223
).
54 (
Mark
[1110]
15:39
;
Luke 23:47
; see
EGW comment on verses 45, 46
;
1:1-3,
14
). The Sermon in Action
—[
Matthew 27:54
quoted.] ... What so
enlightened and convinced these men that they could not refrain from
confessing their faith in Jesus? It was the sermon that was given
in every action of Christ and in His silence under cruel abuse. At