MY GOOD FRIDAY MEDITATION TIME!!

Hi all!! It has been a while but I hope what I am about to share will make us all think more about what this day means for us.
I woke up this morning with the thoughts of the Temple curtain of veil being torn is two when Jesus gave up His spirit. So, here I go a-studying!! (Please exscuse the spelling!!HAHA!!)
Here are my notes as I wrote them in my journal. (yes...I still actually take hand written notes!)

Matthew 27:50-51    THE TEMPLE CURTAIN

When Jesus was on the cross, darkness came over the sky.
Critics say it was due to an eclispse of the sun but that is impossible because the Passover occurred at the time of a full moon.
the darkening of the sky started at the sixth hour -- noontime.
At that very moment, the High Priest Caiaphas, began the procession into the temple to slaughter a pure, spottless Passover lamb.
The darkness lasted until the night hour--3pm.
Thats the moment the High Priest would be making his entrance into the Holy of Holies to offer the blood of the Passover Lamb to cover the sins of the nations.
At that moment, Jesus yelled out "It is finished". His assignment was complete!!
Just then, the veil or curtain that seperated the Holy of Holies from the "outside world" was torn from the top to the bottom.
There were two veils or curtains inside the temple. One at the entrance to the Holy Place and the other at the entrance to the Holy of Holies.
Only the High Priest was allowed to pass through the second one once a year.
The second veil was sixty feet high and thirty feet wide and as thick as a man's hand.
It took 300 hundred priest to move the curtain.
When it ripped apart it must have made a huge sound. And here was Caiaphas standing there and what must have he had thought when he was able to see clearly in the Holy of Holies and the Presence of God was not there!
When Jesus was lifted up onto the Cross, the Cross became the eternal mercy seat on which the blood of the final sacrifice was sprinkled.
It was no longer needed for the High Priest to continually make sacrifices year after year.
++JESUS' BLOOD HAD SETTLED IT FOREVER!!
Eph.2:14, "...has brokendown,destroyed, abolished the hostile dividing wall between us."
++JESUS HIMSELF REPLACED THE TEMPLE--(26:61)
++JESUS BECAME THE HIGH PRIEST!!

Think about this; meditate it as you spend time today and maybe this evening at your church for Good Fiday service.
Jesus paid it all.....once and for ALL!!!


God Bless!!

Paul