Well actually, to my understanding, the Jewish People were awaiting their “ Messiah King”...who would rule from the House of King David, at that time.
We can follow Messiah King and His lineage in the Old Testament, wonderfully presented throughout. (which I’ve often wished had not been designated old and new, for they both interrupet each other and rest on the other. Then again the new is the New Covenant so it sorta makes sense. But I love them both equally.)
Interesting you mentioning the curtain torn between the Holy of Holies and the people...both Jews and Gentiles had their places in the courtyard of the temple. Of course only the High Priest could enter the Holy Of Holies (thru the curtain) and that not without the sacrificial animals blood shed first...even for himself... “There is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood.”
When the cutain was torn, (and BTW from ‘top’ to ‘bottom’, which for the gigantic size of it could never have been done by any man), at the time of Christ’s crucifixon, God Himself therefore opened the way for ALL to come into His presence...both Jew and Gentile. The curtain is very symbolic of the wall of sin which sperated us from God.
Oh, the curtain example is not my own, once you read some of the Church Fathers, they do ponder on the meaning of that incident.