Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Mark 15

My son has three big windows in his bedroom. During the day, when the curtains are pulled back, light streams into his room. We have to cover them with 2″ wooden blinds as well as thick room-darkening blinds so that he can sleep past sunrise.

The Most Holy Place in the temple was separated by a 40 foot long curtain which was miraculously torn from top to bottom at the moment of the death of Jesus Christ.

And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

Mark 15:37-38 ESV

The book of Hebrews explains more about the significance of this event.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Hebrews 9:11-15 ESV

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith…

Hebrews 10:19-22a ESV

Are you refusing to come into the light and be saved, wanting to keep the curtains closed, though they’ve been torn?

Do you want to keep sleeping, though the Savior is calling, “Arise, my love, arise’?

Listen, friend, the time has come to wake up, to step into the light, to put off the deeds of darkness and be clothed in the light of Christ. Come to Jesus today!

Heavenly Father, Thank You for sending Your Only Begotten Son to make a way back to You, to be my Mediator and Redeemer and Savior. Please, Father, draw all men to Yourself. Take the blinders from their eyes. Open their ears. Soften their hearts. For the glory of Your Name in all the earth. Amen.