Characteristics of this Holy Day of Yahweh
- Observed in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month (Once per year)
- No work is to be done
- Yahweh will destroy anyone who works on this day
- All are required to afflict their souls
- Anyone who does not afflict their soul will be cut off
- Priest makes atonement for us to cleanse us from all of our sins
- Atonement is made for the Holy Sanctuary, Tabernacle of meeting and the altar
- Atonement is made for the priests and the people of the congregation
- It is a statute forever
Acts performed for a High Priest to enter the Holy of Holies (Leviticus 16, verse numbers in parenthesis):
- Yahweh dwells there in the form of a cloud (2)
- High Priest forbidden to enter unless: (2)
- He has a Ram for a burnt offering (3)
- He has a bull for a sin offering (3)
- He must wash and wear the holy garments: (4)
- A linen tunic (4)
- Linen trousers (4)
- A linen sash to be girded with (4)
- A linen turban (4)
- 1 ram as a burnt offering and 2 kids of the goats as a sin offering from the congregation to present them before Yahweh at the tabernacle of meeting (5)
Cast lots, one goat for Yahweh, the other is the scapegoat (8) | ||
Goat for Yahweh (8) | Scapegoat (8) | Bull for the High Priest and his house (3,6) |
-Offered as a sin offering for the people -Sprinkle blood on the east side of the mercy seat (15) -Sprinkle blood 7 times before the mercy seat (15) -Makes atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of Israel (16) -No man can be present in the tabernacle of meeting when this is being done. (17) -Sprinkle blood all around on the horns of the altar 7 times (18) | -Presented alive to make atonement on it. (10) -Lay both hands on the head of this live goat and confess the sins of Israel (21) -Goat would bear all the iniquities (22) -Goat is sent away into the wilderness, into an uninhabited land (22) | -Take a censer full of burning coals from the altar and sweet incense beaten fine and go into the holy of holies (12) -Incense creates a cloud to cover the mercy seat, lest he die (13) -Take the blood of the bull, sprinkle with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat and before the mercy seat 7 times (14) -Sprinkle blood all around on the horns of the altar 7 times (18) |
- Remove holy garments and wash body with water in a holy place (23)
- Offer the two rams as a burnt offering, one for the priest and one for the people (24)
- Fat of the sin offering is burnt on the altar (25)
- The blood of the bull and goat from sin offerings are carried outside the camp (27)
- Skins, flesh and offal are burned (27)
The Messiah’s fulfillment of this day (Fulfill does not mean abolish):
Hebrews, Chapter 9:
- First covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary
- High Priest enters the Holy of holies, not without blood but with an offering for himself and the people’s sins in ignorance
- The way into the holy of holies was not yet clear while the first tabernacle was still standing
- These things are symbolic for the present time
- Gifts and sacrifices cannot perfect the conscience
- Ordinances until time of reformation (A word meaning to straighten thoroughly, compare Isaiah 40:4)
- Messiah came as a High priest of the good things to come, with a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not of this creation
- Messiah entered that tabernacle with His own blood, entering the holy of holies
- Once for all
- Having obtained eternal redemption
- Blood of bulls & goats sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh, the blood of Messiah through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim will cleanse the conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim.
- For this reason He is the mediator of the new covenant
- By means of death
- For the redemption of transgressions under the first covenant
- So that those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance
- Without shedding of blood there is no remission
- Both covenants involve the shedding of blood
- The copies of what is in the heavens, the tabernacle, required purification by the blood of bull and goats. But what is in the heavens required a better sacrifice than this, Yahushua!
- Messiah appears in the presence of Elohim for us
- Messiah is offered once, not often
- As it is appointed unto man to die once, then the judgment
- He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself
- For the sins of many
- To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation
HalleluYah!!!!!!