Rending The Veils

                      Opening The Book of Isaiah
The veil of darkness must be rent before the veil of light can be rent…

Isaiah 60:2
כי הנה החשך יכסה ארץ וערפל לאמים ועליך יזרח יהוה וכבודו עליך יראה

2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.


Through the good news of Israel and Her Messiah it is revealed that neither the darkness nor the light need blind us. The darkness is human impenetrable darkness toward God. The light is the infinite light of God toward Israel, which comes to all the world.

As in: Genesis 38:14ff
14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

The blinding veil of the darkness of the sale of Yoseph came and manifested in a physical form as a dark veil to cover Tamar's face.  This was because it already covered Yehuda's heart.  Only when it was torn open through Yehuda's repentance was the veil of light that covered the mercy of God toward Israel in the concealment of Yoseph in Egypt also, in due course, torn open.  And this is the explanation of the mystery of the tearing open of the veil of the Temple at the death of Mashiach.  The veil of Moshe is a veil of light upon Israel and the veil of Tamar is a veil of darkness upon the nations and when both of these veils are torn open Mashiach, who is concealed behind them, will be revealed unto all.