God’s Image • Torn Curtain Study
The curtain’s tearing belongs within an account that continues beyond Jesus’ death. Matthew describes opened tombs and holy ones appearing after his resurrection. Other passages bring resurrection, life, and receiving the Spirit into our examination.
Who is raised, who receives, and what happens first?
He Has Torn—and He Will Heal
Hosea begins with a call to return to YHWH (יהוה), who has torn and will heal, who has struck and will bind up.
The next verse states:
“After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.”
— Hosea 6:2, ASV
Notice us. The passage speaks collectively of revival and being raised to live before Him. Verse 3 continues with knowing Jehovah, the certainty of morning, and rain watering the earth. Read Hosea 6:1–3.
Tearing is therefore not the only action in this passage. Healing and life follow within the call to return.
After His Resurrection
Matthew 27:52–53 describes holy ones being raised and coming out of their tombs after Jesus’ resurrection, entering the holy city and appearing to many. Read Matthew 27:50–53.
Placed beside Hosea, this gives us a comparison involving more than one person being raised. We must preserve Matthew’s timing rather than compress every action into the moment the curtain tears.
Jesus Must First Go
Jesus tells his disciples that his departure is necessary for the Advocate to come to them. He then describes the Spirit of truth guiding them, speaking what he hears, and disclosing what belongs to Jesus. Read John 16:5–15.
The passage preserves a relationship between departure, sending, receiving, and instruction.
Jesus also speaks of their sorrow becoming joy, comparing it with a woman’s sorrow in labor giving way to joy when a child is born. That comparison remains within the same discussion. Read John 16:20–22.
The Outpouring and Its Recipients
At Pentecost, those gathered are filled with the Holy Spirit. Peter explains what the crowd witnesses by connecting Jesus’ resurrection and exaltation with his receiving the promised Spirit from the Father and pouring it out. Read Acts 2:1–4, 32–33.
The Father, Jesus, the gift, and those receiving remain distinguishable.
Peter subsequently addresses repentance, baptism, and receiving the Spirit. Those who receive his word are baptized. The account does not describe every observer as automatically receiving the same gift. Read Acts 2:37–41.
This connects with our Born Again Study: we must examine receiving life from God, rather than assume it from physical presence alone.
An Event and Participation in It
Our developing comparison follows revival, resurrection, and receiving the Spirit. It also asks how an earlier event may foreshadow a fuller completion without erasing what has already occurred.
For the torn curtain, the distinction remains essential: an event occurring does not, by itself, establish identical participation for everyone.
Threads to Follow
The witnesses raised: Examine Revelation 11:11–12, preserving its stated three and a half days.
Those sealed and the great crowd: Follow Revelation 7’s descriptions without assuming that the order of the visions settles every question of timing.
The garment left whole: Return to John 19:23–24 and the casting of lots.
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