Colossians 2:13-14 English Standard Version

13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

This is a concept which some reject. “I am not a sinner. I owe no one anything.”

That argument holds no water in the court of heaven. Our record is littered with selfish acts.

Galatians 3:24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

Justification is a bookkeeping term which shows our debts are paid, taking us out of the red and into the back. The ledger does not care who pays the debt, God the Father does.

1 Peter 1:18-21 English Standard Version

18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Exodus 33:11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Exodus 34:35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Being in the presence of God’s glory transforms man’s image.

Not closely the issue of the veil.

2 Corinthians 3:12-14 English Standard Version

¹² Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, ¹³ not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. ¹⁴ But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.

Matthew 27:51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.

No one was allowed behind the veil of the temple except the High Priest to smear the sacrificial blood upon the horns of the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. But the Ark was no longer behind the veil so the veil no longer served the purpose for being in God’s presence.

Hebrews 10:20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

Flesh is no longer an obstacle in seeing God’s glory.