Mark 15: 1-47

(Mark 15: 1-47) And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it.  And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled. Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them. But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?  For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.  But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.  And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?  And they cried out again, Crucify him.  Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him. And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.  And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Prætorium; and they call together the whole band.  And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,  And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.  And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.  And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.  And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.  And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.  And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.  And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.  And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.  And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,  Save thyself, and come down from the cross.  Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.  Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.  And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?  And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.  And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.  And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.  And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.  There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;  (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.  And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,  Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.  And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.  And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.  And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.  And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

 

The high priest, elders, and Judas Iscariot were making a deal to sell Jesus for 30 silver. However, Judas Iscariot returned the money. "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to that."
Judas Iscariot again took the money, threw it into the sanctuary, and went back and hung himself.

Therefore, even today, the Bible shows that those who sell Jesus unrighteously will eventually die. It is Satan who sells Jesus. All those who do not dwell in Jesus' words are like Satan. Jesus gave freedom from the law because he was trying to keep people back in the law.

 The word "price of injustice" is a shepherd who accepts money from believers, and God foreshadows Judas Iscariot for the sins they will receive. They say that paying tithes or offerings before God is an example of serving God. When Jesus comes, the word we give to God is not to say money, but to give risen spirit as a born again.

Legal people think that something must be given to God.
The church says: When it comes to "believers of Jesus paying tithes or offerings," the church says it wasn't forced, it was done by believers. They put the blame on the believers. Church operating budgets are needed, but they are telling tithes on the basis of the law.

If we look at the Bible and see only the wrong actions of Judas Iscariot, this is a history study of what happened between God and the people of Israel. What must be realized through Judas Iscariot is that the high priests and elders unjustly bought the innocent blood at a price, and blame it on Judas Iscariot. Likewise, today the church puts believers in danger that they should pay tithes to God on the basis of the law. He says that the church has never been forced.

You should know that this is what the Bible says to Judas Iscariot, and to those shepherds and saints who believe in God today. The members of the church went into Jesus Christ and were born again and said they were out of the law, but they are returning to the law in the end. Who is responsible for it? They should know that, like Judas Iscariot, that responsibility is to blame the believers.

Judas Is not trying to use the silver 30 elsewhere. He realizes the mistake and throws the money back into the sanctuary and comes out. Because the high priests and elders were always the ones who had been given the offering, Judas Iscariot threw the silver 30 back into the sanctuary. What we need to realize from this statement is that God does not want the material of the world. God wants the dead spirit to come back to life. Judas Iscariot has chosen to die on his own.

The root cause of all this is money. Money is what makes a person proud and brings arrogance and disobedience. Therefore, the truth of God is not accepted by such people. Therefore, today some churches will say that the church building is called a temple, so that it may be done by law.

『 the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 』 The priest gave the silver 30 that Judas Iscariot threw and said, "This is the price of blood." It means that it has nothing to do with them. The money that caused Judas Iscariot to shed Jesus on the cross and died means the price of blood. In other words, the priests are looking at the same as the 30 silver and Jesus. Silver 30 means woman. Today it is a church without the word of truth. Saying they believe in Jesus, they are churches that are still in the law. Those who do not realize this are blind men. In John 9:41

 『Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. 』 In Isaiah 1:12, 『When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 』.God is speaking for those who think it is faith in God to go back and forth through a church built of buildings, .

After Judas Iscariot brought the silver 30 back to the sanctuary and left, the priests and elders gathered to discuss this money. However, the high priest or elders said that it was not right to put the silver 30 in the temple (that is, the vault in the sanctuary). The reason is that they think Jesus is heresy to the priests. They were thinking that it was not right to put the silver 30 in the holy place of God, because the sanctuary is a holy place for offering rituals to God. They were blind people who did not know Jesus.

If so, they say that they would buy a potter's field with this money and make it a traveler's cemetery. Why? In Isaiah 64: 8, 『But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 』The potter is God. It is said that God made man by hand.

Then, why did the high priest or elders buy the field of God with 30 silver? High priests and elders are false shepherds. God's field is God's people. It means that the high priest or elders bought God's people. Physically, they bought a field of soil, but spiritually they bought God's people with this money. They spiritually drive the Saints to death. It means that it begins with the Holy Spirit and ends with the body.

It is said that the high priest or elders gave 30 silver and bought the field of God to be the graveyard of the stranger. They will be like wolves trying to kill those who are spiritually born again. Even today, false shepherds deceive the saints and return them to the law.

The apostle Paul says that he bought the church by the blood shed by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Since God gives life, we come to this world as a traveler, then we are born as God's life and call the names of God and Jesus to go to our homeland, Heaven, and become one with God in Christ. However, there is a place for the traveler to go through, which is the church. The church is not a building, but a Holy Spirit dwelling in the regenerated.

So the Saints gather in the building to praise God and listen to the Word of Life. The church is where the Saints gather. It is because the power of God is given where the saints gather. The building without the saints is not a church. The Saints gather to hear the word of God's life and go to heaven, the home of eternal life, and as the apostle Paul points out, the false shepherds are telling the wrong word. That is why the Saints may not be able to go to Heaven, which is their hometown.
Then why did the church become a traveler's cemetery? To be born again is to be born again. In Romans 6: 3-6

『 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 』

To be born again, we must be united with the death of Jesus. The church is also a place where the old man becomes the grave of the dead and receives the glory of resurrection. However, we must come to this world as a traveler and be born again in the Word of Truth in the church and go to our hometown of Heaven, our original home of God. However, it is said that many churches today do not have the Word of God's truth, so the traveler is not born again, and eventually only serves as the traveler's cemetery. The reason is that our old people don't die, they are false shepherds who say, "If people believe in Jesus, they will be saved." They become the grave because they believe that they can be saved by praying for forgiveness and repenting of their sins every day, even though they believe that they have been born again by the Holy Spirit.

『And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.  And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.  And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.  And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 』 (Zechariah 11: 10-13) God abolished the covenant, "by cutting the stick of grace (new covenant: Christ) in order to destroy the covenant (law) established with Israel," and the audience (the poor sheep) heard and was delighted, A value of 30 was given.

『The field is called the field of blood』 The meaning of this word does not mean the field in the land of Israel. The field means the people of God who are in the truth that we believe in today, and when we say the field of blood, it means the eternal life, the life of God. Therefore, the field of blood means the person who believes in the eternal life, the life of God, in the word of truth by realizing the word of parable today. The blood  that Jesus shed on the cross will become the blood field in the church today, and the people of God should be saved from sin through the word of truth to be reborn from death to life. So, to be born again, there is no other way than to be united with the death of Jesus. The field of blood that people bought and sold Jesus should not be a church that can't pay for blood and become the graveyard of a traveler.

Nothing is known about Pilate other than that recorded in the Bible. Pilate was an indecisive person compared to his power. He knew he could hear the voice of his conscience, but he wasn't the one who could do it. Pilate was very friendly at first. He tried to make Jesus innocent.

He sent Jesus to Herod Antiba, but offered to beat him and let him go. He also tried to release Jesus according to the custom of releasing a prisoner for the holidays. However, Pilate was overwhelmed by the crowd. Pilate was afraid of the riot. When a riot occurred, he could not help taking responsibility for this.

Pilate handed Jesus over to the cross to satisfy the crowds through public apprenticeship. Pilate lost his conscience to maintain his present position. When he asked the crowds suing Jesus, "I will crucify your king," the chief priests shouted, "There is no king except Caesar." In these words, it was concerned that if he freed Jesus, he was framed to admit a king other than Caesar. If Pilate does so, he will be dismissed as governor and will be tried as a traitor to Caesar, the Roman emperor. Pilate hurriedly said, "Jesus was given to them to be crucified."

When Jesus stood in front of Pilate, the first question from Pilate was "Are you the King of the Jews?" This was "the most essential thing the Jews accused Jesus of Pilate." The accusations of the high priests who brought Jesus to Pilate and accused him: “We saw this man, deceiving our people, and forbidding Caesar to pay taxes, is called Christ the King.

The word "deceived the people" means "what Jesus taught the people through the word of truth." Regarding "the way of life taught by Jesus," they said that Jesus had deceived the people. And it is a lie that the high priest said, "Jesus banned Caesar paying taxes." Jesus said to the Pharisees, "Provide Caesar's things to Caesar and God's things to God."

The fact that Jesus said that he was the self-proclaimed King Christ was evidence found in "The Final Interrogation of Caiaphas during the Sanhedrin Conference Trial in Caiaphas that morning." Although they obviously knew that the expression of Jesus' king was meant only as the Messiah, the reason they sued Jesus was "to make Pilate recognize that this Jesus was the mastermind of a riot plot against Caesar."

Pilate questioned Jesus, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Pilate was a real ruler who ruled Judah under the command of the Roman emperor Caesar, so no one could challenge anyone who challenged his king. Therefore, his interest was whether Jesus was the king of the Jews who challenged Caesar's kingship. Jesus said to Pilate, "You are right." This is what Jesus said, "I am the King of the Jews, according to the accusation of the crowd." Jesus' words of King of the Jews did not mean kingship in the present world nor did he express his political ambitions. He declared his position as the Messiah. The Messiah is clearly listed as the King of the Jews and refers to the eternal King who will succeed David.

Pilate learned from these words of Jesus that he was never a real king to rebel against Caesar. Pilate would have been convicted immediately without even a willingness to forgive if Jesus' power was so powerful that he was considered to be the king of the Jews by rebelling against Caesar. But the figure of Jesus in the eyes of Pilate was so frail and shabby. Not only was there no sympathizer, but there was no sign of rebellion. And Pilate was well aware of "this was a religious matter from the beginning," and they knew that the matter they were suing was also a religious one. Pilate knew that this was due to the Jewish anger over Jesus.

The most bizarre thing for Pilate was "the fact that the man who stood as the defendant was still silently speaking for whatever reason, despite the many adverse accusations." Pilate wondered about this and asked, "Can't you hear how much they testify against you?" But Jesus said no answer. Jesus did not answer their charges. Jesus was not released innocent at this trial, but rather because they had to be condemned to death.

In response, Isaiah 53: 7 says:“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”

Jesus did not need to claim his innocence. Although he was innocent, he is now standing there, rejuvenating sin on our behalf. Jesus did not want to be judged worthy. Bible (Isaiah 53: 5) said that“he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. ”

 The Jews knew Jesus as their Christ and greatly welcomed the entrance to Jerusalem. However, Jesus was against their expectations. The Christ that the Jews awaited and desired was "not the defendant who was tried before Pilate, but their king to save Israel." When the Jews disagreeed, their expectations for Jesus turned into betrayal. In this situation, if Pilate did not listen to their counsel, he did not know what would happen later.

 The priests had already decided to withdraw the Jews from among the Jews. The crowd quickly became one. “Jesus must be crucified.” A shout was heard here and there. Pilate took the water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; Pilate released the robber Barabbas to us, scourged Jesus instead of Barabbas, and nailed Jesus to the cross.

Pilate ruled about Jesus. The death sentence for the crucifixion was made. The death row was punished by whipping before execution. The Roman soldier's whip had a short handle, a few lines of leather strap, and a sharp piece of sculpture attached to the front, so when hit with this whip, the spine would reveal, and sometimes the flesh was buried. And the condemned prisoner must rejuvenate his crucifixion frame and climb up to the sentence. After the Roman soldiers struck Jesus with a cruel whip, Jesus had to carry the crucifixion of the cross and climb the hill of Golgotha.

When Pilate's death sentence was confirmed, Jesus was harassed by many. The soldiers of the viceroy who brought Jesus into Pilate's courtyard were like the main characters of a carnival who was lost in reason and frenzied. Jesus, who was brought into the courtyard, was faced with unspeakable harassment by the humiliating crowd. First, they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

 The scarlet robe is the clothes worn by the kings. They were dressing Jesus as king. It was not designed as a king, but as a harassment. It is as if people admit the Lord with their mouths but deny it with their actions. In Titus 1:16 『They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.』

 A person who denies God by act means a person who does not obey, who abandons all good things and lives according to his physical passions. They say that they serve Jesus as their king, but they are nothing more than harassing them as kings like the soldiers of the governor.

The people who serve Christ as kings are crucified with Christ, obeying the King's words and pleasing him. Many of the people who followed the Lord followed him to see miracles of the Lord. He wanted to make him king. For material benefit, those who follow Jesus forsake Jesus again because of the material. Jesus told the crowd 『Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.』

When they realized that they could not get bread from Jesus, they retreated. The governor's soldiers put Jesus on a crown of thorns. This crown is what the kings wear with dignity and authority in their heads. Jesus, the Christ of suffering, put a thorn on his head. But he will come back to the earth in a truly amazing way. When he comes back, he will wear a crown on his head. 『And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.』 (Revelation 19:11)

 On the day of Jesus 'return, those who put a crown of thorns on Jesus' head will look at the Lord like this and beat his heart. The governor's soldiers held reeds in his hands to dress him as a more plausible king. This reed symbolizes the hall in the hands of the king. And they knelt and harassed before Jesus, who had been decorated like this. “Make peace, King of the Jews,” then spit on the face, take the reed back and strike the king's head with it.

Two robbers appeared by the cross of Jesus. The two robbers are the figures of sinners who represent humanity. Romans 5:12 says that all human beings are sinners without exception. In the case of the two robbers, it is to say that the price of sin is death. If these two robbers signify the sins of mankind, it shows that there can never be a righteousness in us. These two robbers tell of the fact that mankind was divided into two ways by Jesus Christ.

We don't know about these two robbers, who was standing on the left or the right. However, the Bible says that the robber who was saved was on the right, and the robber who was destroyed was on the left. The robber on the left shows those who are condemned by the law and will be judged by God. The law does not condemn those in Christ, but those who are not in Christ will be judged by the law.

The robber on the right at first condemned and criticized Jesus, but he repented and was saved. We are like robbers who will be condemned forever, but we can repent and be saved from God when we are crucified with Jesus. All mankind must look at these three crosses on the Golgotha Hills and choose the way of death or the way of life as to which way they will go. However, you have to choose a narrow road.

The two robbers sinned. And it was the same as being sentenced to death by crucifixion. The same was true of their first accusation of Jesus on the cross. However, these two robbers split their way at the last moment of fate. The robber on the left did not repent of being a sinner. This robbery continued until the slander and ridicule against Jesus died. "Are you not the Christ? Save you and us."
The robber on the left was given a good chance to believe in Jesus Christ, but he refused himself and took the path of destruction. There are so many people in this world who are going on the path of death by refusing themselves to believe in Jesus like this robber.

The robber on the right repented that he was a sinner, and turned to Christ for his life. This robber was the same as the robber on the left and was a mocker of Jesus, but after a while he heard the word of salvation from Jesus.
He said to the robber on the left, “Are you not afraid of God even after you have been condemned? "We are being rewarded for what we have done." He looked at his sin and repented.

The robber on the right became afraid of God. Repentance begins with a fear of God. And you must realize why you are in this world, repent like the prodigal son's parable, and return to the kingdom of God. The right robber said, "Jesus, think of me when you come into your country." Jesus said to him, "Today you will be with me in paradise." Faith does not need a long time.

Jesus was crucified on the cross of Golgotha ​​Hill and the pain was getting worse. However, in the midst of such suffering, Jesus looked at the groups that had harmed him and offered his father a prayer of mercy. Suddenly the world became dark. People were so surprised that they didn't know what to do. But when the time came when the darkness would end, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It was the cry of the Lord's suffering, forsaken by God. Has there been a cry of sorrowful pain since the history of mankind? This cry of pain is still echoing all over the world.
People must hear the cry of the Lord's suffering coming from the cross, repent, and return to the Lord. Repentance is a life of self-denial. It is to be crucified with Jesus.

 Jesus was crucified at the third hour. This is today's time at 9 am. And after three hours, darkness came to the world at six o'clock (pointing to 12:00). And this darkness lasted three hours. At 9 o'clock the darkness disappeared (around 3 o'clock) and then the Lord died. This darkness indicates God's wrath. God was furiously angry at his son. This wrath of God is God's judgment of justice against sinners.

God anointed the sinners' sins on Jesus on the cross of Golgotha. He was now suffering this wrath, not as the Son of God, but as the representative of the sins of all rejuvenated mankind instead of the sins of all sinners. God did this to save sinners by pouring this judgment of wrath on his Son. God saves those who sinners repent and die on the cross with Jesus.

At the time when the darkness continued from 6:00 to 9:00, Jesus cried out loud.“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ” God has forsaken his son. So why did God forsake his Son, who suffered on the cross? It was because he saw the Son on the cross as a sinner, not as a son. Jesus was the wrath of God on the cross as a sinner. Thus, we were judged with Jesus in Christ. It is love for those who repent and return that God has been able to forsake even his Son.

God does not show love to anyone. Only repents and gives love to those who die with Jesus. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ”

With the death of Jesus, the veil of sanctuary was wiped from top to bottom. "The shrine of the sanctuary is torn" is God's declaration that there is no need for the Old Testament sacrifice. The veil is a partition between the Holy of Holies and the Holy of Holies. But this partition is of great significance to us. The high priest of Israel entered the sanctuary once a year to receive the sins of God's people, and offered sacrifices to God for atonement. At this time, the high priest killed the calf for himself and carried it with the blood, and for the people he killed the goat and entered the place with the blood and atoned. Now, with Jesus' death, the sanctuary badge was torn, and the distinction between the Most Holy and the Most Holy was no longer.

Now the high priest no longer had to enter there, and no need to take the blood of the goats for the sins of the people. The reason is that Christ, as the Lamb of God, became the eternal atoning offering of the people in Christ.

The shredding of the sanctuary badge means that the sanctuary on the earth has been moved to heaven. The Most Holy of Earth is a model of the Most Holy of Heaven. In Hebrews 8: 5-6『 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.  But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 』 The Most Holy Place on Earth was only needed until Jesus came and became the high priest of the Most Holy Place in Heaven.

The high priest on the earth who entered and worked at the Holy of Holies disappeared as Jesus appeared as the high priest who pursued the order of Melchizedek because their high priests were a model of Jesus Christ to come, the model disappears after the reality comes. Jesus himself entered the Most Holy of Heaven as the high priest. This high priest will never change, and the atoning offering that he has brought in also has his blood, so that there is no need to offer anything again as an eternal atonement.

The shredding of the shrine's veil means that the way to Heavenly Father is open. In Hebrews 10:20, “By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; I said. The Lord said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Jesus tore the veil of the Most Holy by tearing His body off the cross and offering it as a peace offering to God, and He Himself became the way to God. There is absolutely no other way to God. It is false to say that there is salvation in other religions. Only Jesus is the true way. To go in the middle of the veil means that you can only go through Jesus who tore the veil.

The shrapnel of the sanctuary has made it possible for anyone, through Jesus Christ, to go before the throne of grace. In Hebrews 4:16, he said, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

Where only the high priest could enter once a year, we were able to enter at any time by the blood of Christ. And it is not the Holy Place of the earth, but the sinner who repents by the power of the Holy Spirit can go to the throne of grace that God himself and the high priest have.

The events that occurred shortly after Jesus' death not only caused the shrine to be shattered, but also had an earthquake that caused the earth to vibrate, bursting rocks, and many of the saints who were sleeping to open the graves. It is surprising that many of the Saints' bodies who had been trying to open the tomb had happened. Jesus is the first fruit of the resurrection, and the next resurrection is one who is born again with water and the Holy Spirit.