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There has been some controversy in recent months regarding full body scanners. As part of an effort to increase security at airports, courthouses, and other secure installations, people are now being required to step into a large machine that takes revealing scans, prompting many to decry this as an invasion of privacy.
While these full body scanners are being used for security reasons, there was once an area so off-limits that anyone entering it would be put to death -- the Holy of Holies. This was not a security matter, but rather a holiness one. That area was so sacred, so... well... holy, that only the high priest could enter it, and then only once a year. But after the death of Jesus, the veil that separated the Holy of Holies was torn in two from top to bottom. Now, without any full body scans necessary, we have access into this sacred place "by the new and living way that [Jesus] opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh" (v. 20).
While these full body scanners are being used for security reasons, there was once an area so off-limits that anyone entering it would be put to death -- the Holy of Holies. This was not a security matter, but rather a holiness one. That area was so sacred, so... well... holy, that only the high priest could enter it, and then only once a year. But after the death of Jesus, the veil that separated the Holy of Holies was torn in two from top to bottom. Now, without any full body scans necessary, we have access into this sacred place "by the new and living way that [Jesus] opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh" (v. 20).
