When Jesus died, the temple veil was torn. Doesn’t that end temples, priesthood, and everything behind a curtain?
The Bible answers
King James Version
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
NRSVUE
Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
King James Version
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
NRSVUE
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh).
Also restored
Doctrine and Covenants 124:39–41
Ordinances in the Lord’s house were instituted from before the foundation of the world. Restore them, the Lord says, that those things hidden may come to light.
Dead Sea Scrolls and related extra-biblical texts that illuminate the same pattern the Restoration restores.
Heavenly temple in Hebrews and Revelation
Hebrews says the earthly sanctuary was a shadow of a heavenly one. Revelation’s saints still serve in a temple. Early Christians did not read the rent veil as ‘no more holiness.’ They read it as ‘the way is open because of blood.’
That is exactly what an endowment claims: you enter through Christ, clothed, washed, and named — not around Him.
FAIR
FAIR Latter-day Saints
If the rent veil abolished temples, Acts 2–21 is a long mistake, and Ezekiel 40–48 is a dead letter. The veil’s tearing means we do not come by Aaron’s annual blood. We come by Jesus. Latter-day Saint temples preach that sentence in ritual form. A church building with a steeple is also ‘sacred space after Calvary.’ The argument is about whose sacred space counts.
The veil opened. It did not bulldoze the house of the Lord. It showed whose blood gets you in.
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