/s_1224530109942https://static.secure.website/wscfus/80182/uploads/shade.jpg" objtype="0" border="0" height="198" width="492"
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): God originally designated Yom Kippur as a day in which “you must humble yourselves before Yahweh” (Lev. 23:27, 32). It was a day when all the Hebrews took a long look at their lives over the past year. They were to humble themselves before Yahweh in repentance, and bring two goats: one to transfer their sins onto, and one to sacrifice to Yahweh to atone for their sins.
It was an especially significant day for Israel’s priesthood. On this day only, the High Priest entered the Most Holy Place and stood in the presence of God’s glory. Many animal sacrifices were offered on this day - all done by the High Priest. Besides the daily burnt offerings with their required grain and drink offerings, additional offerings were made, including a bull, a ram and seven lambs for the people, and a ram for the priesthood (Numbers 29:7-11).
When the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies he was wearing a white outfit made of pure linen (Leviticus 16:4). He did not wear the garment with the bells and pomegranates on it, so the common story about a rope being tied around his ankle so one can hear the bells if he dies, is only a myth. If he has done everything God has written in the Torah, and worn the correct clothing, he will not die. (Linen is said to have healing properties, as well as perhaps spiritual significance.)
But what most don’t realize, or know, is that the blood of the main sin offerings was not only sprinkled upon and around the cover of the Ark, it was also put on the horns of the Altar of Incense (Exodus 30:10 & Leviticus 16:13, 18). That means the High Priest had to move the Altar of Incense into the Holy of Holies on this day only. Remember, the Altar of Incense represented the prayers of the people, so this has much significance.
The goat for God, whose blood is shed, symbolized the substitutionary death of the Messiah to come. The goat symbolized the finished work of Yeshua in taking away mankind’s sin, never to be remembered again. Just as the High Priest took the blood of the unblemished goat for God into the Most Holy Place to make atonement for the people each year, Yeshua entered the heavenly Most Holy Place with His own Blood as the once and final payment for all mankind’s sin (Hebrews 9:28 & 1Peter 3:18).
The goat sacrificed had to be spotless, and was for God. The High Priest would symbolically transfer the sins of the congregation and all their transgressions onto the other goat, after atonement had been made by him (Leviticus 16:20). The goat was then released into the desert to wander forever (Leviticus 16:22) -eventually to die in the desert, as a representation of hell. Interestingly, this goat was called Azazel, which in the literal sense means a male goat, but it is also supposedly the name for an evil angel (see the book of Enoch1).
After the atonement was made, the High Priest would come out of the Holy of Holies, remove the linen clothes, immerse himself, and put the colorful garments of the High Priest back on and go out to offer the burnt offerings on the Bronze Altar out in the court of the Tabernacle. He also burned the fat of the sin offering on the Bronze Altar.
Before Yeshua came, Yom Kippur was a long and drawn out ceremony. Today, the Jews have forgotten that blood is the only way to atone for their sins (Leviticus 17:11). Not knowing that Yeshua already took care of this with His sacrifice, they make atonement with ten days of reflection of their lives before Yom Kippur, and they atone for their sin with tzedakah (charity or good deeds).
They also fast on this day, believing that the Hebrew word anah, which is usually translated as afflict oneself, means to fast. This is a day of humility and repentance before Yahweh (the true meaning of anah) - it is not a day of fasting. During the exile in Babylon, many fasts were added to the traditions of man, this day being one of them. These fasts do not exist in Scripture until after the Babylonian exile. Zechariah scolds the Israelites for this in verse 7:5, because these fasts were not for God, but for themselves. He then states in 8:19 that these days they have declared as fasting days will become days of joy. These fasting days were days to remember the bitter and bad things that had happened to them, just as they were being exiled. But God plans to make them days of joy in the future.
Jewish tradition states that Yom Kippur will be a dark day, but this miqra (rehearsal) was first fulfilled two thousand years ago by Yeshua, as this dark day first happened on Pesach that year. When Jesus died on the cross two thousand years ago - He was the Final (permanent) atonement, the day grew dark (from Noon until 3pm), the ground shook, the dead rose from their graves and walked the streets of Jerusalem, and the veil in the Temple was torn in two - representing Yeshua’s flesh being torn (Hebrews 10:20) in order to give everyone entrance into the Most Holy Place (Hebrews 4:16 & 10:19).
Although Yeshua came and died, was buried and then rose from the dead, on the Appointed Seasons of God called Pesach, Matsot and Yom Bikkur respectively, He actually also perfected (made whole or fulfilled) Yom Kippur.
The Feasts of God are His Plan of Salvation, so when Yeshua fulfills the last one, all will be done and complete. The 6000 years will have passed and then the Earth will be restored. All of the Appointed Seasons of God point to Yeshua, but this day especially is what it all meant. Yeshua gave His Own Blood as the final Lamb offering to atone for all mankind’s sin - fulfilling both Pesach and Yom Kippur.
Israel’s prophets warn of a coming day of judgment for the nation: Amos 5:18-20; Zephaniah 1:14-16, and Joel 2:31 all speak of a day in which Yahweh will turn off the heavenly lights, pour out His wrath on the wicked, and bring Israel to repentance and into the Restored Covenant. Much evidence suggests that this dark day will actually happen again on Yom Teruach.
It is really hard to say what Yeshua will do on this day when He returns, because He actually already fulfilled this day on Passover. As far as we can see in Scripture (so far), there really isn’t anything to fulfill on this day anymore. Although some of His fulfillments were a bit different, Jesus did fulfill the other feasts on the very day of the feast, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when He returns (unless it is revealed to us before He comes)!
The literal ancient meaning of kippur is cover the mouth of the person. It is translated as forgiveness or atonement, which comes when, instead of pronouncing judgment, God covers (atones) the mouth of the person.
Yeshua, Who will have already revealed Himself to the Jews on Yom Teruach, will be rejoicing on Yom Kippur. Because the Jewish ten days of reflection and of mourning of what happened to their Messiah will be over and they will end these ten days with joy because they will know that their Messiah has finally come!
Celebrating Yom Kippur
• This Feast is to be observed from the morning of the Tenth, until midnight on the Tenth. (According to Leviticus 23:32, it is the ninth of Etanim (Tishrei) in the evening, until the tenth day of the month in the evening, we are to observe our Yom Kippur Sabbath. This verse has clearly been changed to match the false teachings of the Rabbis in the Talmud.
God never used the word erev, this is a modern word. To Him, the darkness was called night (Genesis 1:5), which is the word lailah. The word for evening is neshef, but can also mean midnight - there is no word in the Strong’s for midnight).
• On this tenth day we are to observe a Sabbath day, it is a Holy Convocation (miqra).
• This day is a day of rest and we are to humble ourselves in repentance to Yeshua.
• Psalm 111 is a good Psalm of redemption to read.
• We are also to give offerings out of fire to Yahweh (Leviticus 23:27). Today this still means an offering. eshah means an offering out of the fire. So what exactly does that mean? This Hebrew word is usually translated as a fire-offering or an offering made by fire, but that is not an accurate translation of this word.
Out of the fire or from the fire is what the Hebrew word eshah truly means. What we have always been taught is that when one comes out of the fire, you come out refined like silver is refined in fire, or He shapes and molds you into the person of God He wants you to be - usually based on Zechariah 13:8-9.
The Hebrew word for refined is tsaraf, which means to purify by fire. This means that an offering out of the fire is ourselves refined or purified by fire - a pure and humble offering of ourselves to God. We should thank and praise Yah whenever we are brought into tribulation (or fire) because we will come out of it refined and polished like silver - a humble and pure offering for God to use. (Trust me, while in the fire you will forget this from time to time!)
• Today, while the Jews still mourn their disconnection from God and fast on this day hoping for an answer from Him, those who know Him as Yeshua (or Jesus), His Messiah, can rejoice on this day. Although this day is not really a fasting day (the real meaning for the word anah is to humble yourself before God in repentance), perhaps we can still fast in answer for prayer for the Jews to know their Messiah Yeshua. This would be a perfect way to offering ourselves to God for His people. Be sure that God wants you to do this though.
• Rejoice in this day! The offerings for sin were no longer accepted by God on this day for the 40 years after Yeshua’s death and resurrection (and the Temple was destroyed right after those 40 years), because He had just offered His Own Blood on the altar on Heaven - atoning for all mankind’s sin forever! The Temple sin sacrifices are no longer needed! Yeshua has redeemed us - forever! (Though all things will remain until Yeshua returns to restore all things (Matthew 17:11 - the miqra; & Revelation 21:1-5).
This would be an excellent day to tell the Jews of the Good News of Yeshua - He is their Messiah! The One Who atoned for their sin forever! The One Who came to redeem His people forever!
• One last thing: we can never know everything God wants us to know, but we should always strive to know more of His Word. This is a good day to study all the verses about Yom Kippur in your Bible, and perhaps Yeshua will reveal something to you that you didn't know before!
************************************************
Something to ponder:
Whenever we read of the offerings to God, the notion of animal offerings seems bizarre and primitive. But imagine yourself in history, back almost six thousand years ago to when Adam and Eve first sinned. God gave them the Way to live (including instructions on how to atone for their sin).
They had actually experienced walking in the garden with God, so they knew what they had lost. The devastation of the realization of what they had done, was probably almost more than they could bear. So God showed them that the the blood of an unblemished lamb (or kid) must be brought to Him in order to reconnect them to Him (Genesis 3:21 - we are not given any detail here, but God would never have killed an animal for no reason, as He is very specific about innocent blood being spilled, according to Genesis 4:11 & Leviticus 17:3-5), because their very lives were in that blood. Adam and Eve, of all people, understood that blood is tied to creation, thus Life.
Note: Before the Tabernacle existed, atonement was done in the Israelites’ doorways (gates) (Deuteronomy 12:13-15, 12:21 & 16:5) - which doubled as their altar to God.
So do you think they thought this ritual was primitive, or that they would not do it? No, they wanted that reconnection to their Father more than anything in the world! They willingly performed this Commandment, that was later designated only to be done in the Tabernacle wherever God would plant it, (before that, wherever His Name was planted) and then in the Temple in Jerusalem - and then finally in the offering of the Blood of Jesus, poured out on His Own altar - once for all mankind - permanently (Exodus 20:24-25) (Romans 6:10, Hebrews 10:10 & 1Peter 3:18).
There was a tangible recognition of God’s glory back in Adam and Eve’s lives when this simple task that God asked of them was performed. When God’s miraculous Heavenly fire descended to consume their offerings, they felt His presence, and His glory surrounding them again! They never doubted the Power of this service!
*************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Since Yeshua fulfilled this day, as well as Pesach, perhaps we can have a Pesach meal on this day, rather than fasting - it is a day of joy after all!
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): God originally designated Yom Kippur as a day in which “you must humble yourselves before Yahweh” (Lev. 23:27, 32). It was a day when all the Hebrews took a long look at their lives over the past year. They were to humble themselves before Yahweh in repentance, and bring two goats: one to transfer their sins onto, and one to sacrifice to Yahweh to atone for their sins.
It was an especially significant day for Israel’s priesthood. On this day only, the High Priest entered the Most Holy Place and stood in the presence of God’s glory. Many animal sacrifices were offered on this day - all done by the High Priest. Besides the daily burnt offerings with their required grain and drink offerings, additional offerings were made, including a bull, a ram and seven lambs for the people, and a ram for the priesthood (Numbers 29:7-11).
When the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies he was wearing a white outfit made of pure linen (Leviticus 16:4). He did not wear the garment with the bells and pomegranates on it, so the common story about a rope being tied around his ankle so one can hear the bells if he dies, is only a myth. If he has done everything God has written in the Torah, and worn the correct clothing, he will not die. (Linen is said to have healing properties, as well as perhaps spiritual significance.)
But what most don’t realize, or know, is that the blood of the main sin offerings was not only sprinkled upon and around the cover of the Ark, it was also put on the horns of the Altar of Incense (Exodus 30:10 & Leviticus 16:13, 18). That means the High Priest had to move the Altar of Incense into the Holy of Holies on this day only. Remember, the Altar of Incense represented the prayers of the people, so this has much significance.
The goat for God, whose blood is shed, symbolized the substitutionary death of the Messiah to come. The goat symbolized the finished work of Yeshua in taking away mankind’s sin, never to be remembered again. Just as the High Priest took the blood of the unblemished goat for God into the Most Holy Place to make atonement for the people each year, Yeshua entered the heavenly Most Holy Place with His own Blood as the once and final payment for all mankind’s sin (Hebrews 9:28 & 1Peter 3:18).
The goat sacrificed had to be spotless, and was for God. The High Priest would symbolically transfer the sins of the congregation and all their transgressions onto the other goat, after atonement had been made by him (Leviticus 16:20). The goat was then released into the desert to wander forever (Leviticus 16:22) -eventually to die in the desert, as a representation of hell. Interestingly, this goat was called Azazel, which in the literal sense means a male goat, but it is also supposedly the name for an evil angel (see the book of Enoch1).
After the atonement was made, the High Priest would come out of the Holy of Holies, remove the linen clothes, immerse himself, and put the colorful garments of the High Priest back on and go out to offer the burnt offerings on the Bronze Altar out in the court of the Tabernacle. He also burned the fat of the sin offering on the Bronze Altar.
Before Yeshua came, Yom Kippur was a long and drawn out ceremony. Today, the Jews have forgotten that blood is the only way to atone for their sins (Leviticus 17:11). Not knowing that Yeshua already took care of this with His sacrifice, they make atonement with ten days of reflection of their lives before Yom Kippur, and they atone for their sin with tzedakah (charity or good deeds).
They also fast on this day, believing that the Hebrew word anah, which is usually translated as afflict oneself, means to fast. This is a day of humility and repentance before Yahweh (the true meaning of anah) - it is not a day of fasting. During the exile in Babylon, many fasts were added to the traditions of man, this day being one of them. These fasts do not exist in Scripture until after the Babylonian exile. Zechariah scolds the Israelites for this in verse 7:5, because these fasts were not for God, but for themselves. He then states in 8:19 that these days they have declared as fasting days will become days of joy. These fasting days were days to remember the bitter and bad things that had happened to them, just as they were being exiled. But God plans to make them days of joy in the future.
Jewish tradition states that Yom Kippur will be a dark day, but this miqra (rehearsal) was first fulfilled two thousand years ago by Yeshua, as this dark day first happened on Pesach that year. When Jesus died on the cross two thousand years ago - He was the Final (permanent) atonement, the day grew dark (from Noon until 3pm), the ground shook, the dead rose from their graves and walked the streets of Jerusalem, and the veil in the Temple was torn in two - representing Yeshua’s flesh being torn (Hebrews 10:20) in order to give everyone entrance into the Most Holy Place (Hebrews 4:16 & 10:19).
Although Yeshua came and died, was buried and then rose from the dead, on the Appointed Seasons of God called Pesach, Matsot and Yom Bikkur respectively, He actually also perfected (made whole or fulfilled) Yom Kippur.
The Feasts of God are His Plan of Salvation, so when Yeshua fulfills the last one, all will be done and complete. The 6000 years will have passed and then the Earth will be restored. All of the Appointed Seasons of God point to Yeshua, but this day especially is what it all meant. Yeshua gave His Own Blood as the final Lamb offering to atone for all mankind’s sin - fulfilling both Pesach and Yom Kippur.
Israel’s prophets warn of a coming day of judgment for the nation: Amos 5:18-20; Zephaniah 1:14-16, and Joel 2:31 all speak of a day in which Yahweh will turn off the heavenly lights, pour out His wrath on the wicked, and bring Israel to repentance and into the Restored Covenant. Much evidence suggests that this dark day will actually happen again on Yom Teruach.
It is really hard to say what Yeshua will do on this day when He returns, because He actually already fulfilled this day on Passover. As far as we can see in Scripture (so far), there really isn’t anything to fulfill on this day anymore. Although some of His fulfillments were a bit different, Jesus did fulfill the other feasts on the very day of the feast, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when He returns (unless it is revealed to us before He comes)!
The literal ancient meaning of kippur is cover the mouth of the person. It is translated as forgiveness or atonement, which comes when, instead of pronouncing judgment, God covers (atones) the mouth of the person.
Yeshua, Who will have already revealed Himself to the Jews on Yom Teruach, will be rejoicing on Yom Kippur. Because the Jewish ten days of reflection and of mourning of what happened to their Messiah will be over and they will end these ten days with joy because they will know that their Messiah has finally come!
Celebrating Yom Kippur
• This Feast is to be observed from the morning of the Tenth, until midnight on the Tenth. (According to Leviticus 23:32, it is the ninth of Etanim (Tishrei) in the evening, until the tenth day of the month in the evening, we are to observe our Yom Kippur Sabbath. This verse has clearly been changed to match the false teachings of the Rabbis in the Talmud.
God never used the word erev, this is a modern word. To Him, the darkness was called night (Genesis 1:5), which is the word lailah. The word for evening is neshef, but can also mean midnight - there is no word in the Strong’s for midnight).
• On this tenth day we are to observe a Sabbath day, it is a Holy Convocation (miqra).
• This day is a day of rest and we are to humble ourselves in repentance to Yeshua.
• Psalm 111 is a good Psalm of redemption to read.
• We are also to give offerings out of fire to Yahweh (Leviticus 23:27). Today this still means an offering. eshah means an offering out of the fire. So what exactly does that mean? This Hebrew word is usually translated as a fire-offering or an offering made by fire, but that is not an accurate translation of this word.
Out of the fire or from the fire is what the Hebrew word eshah truly means. What we have always been taught is that when one comes out of the fire, you come out refined like silver is refined in fire, or He shapes and molds you into the person of God He wants you to be - usually based on Zechariah 13:8-9.
The Hebrew word for refined is tsaraf, which means to purify by fire. This means that an offering out of the fire is ourselves refined or purified by fire - a pure and humble offering of ourselves to God. We should thank and praise Yah whenever we are brought into tribulation (or fire) because we will come out of it refined and polished like silver - a humble and pure offering for God to use. (Trust me, while in the fire you will forget this from time to time!)
• Today, while the Jews still mourn their disconnection from God and fast on this day hoping for an answer from Him, those who know Him as Yeshua (or Jesus), His Messiah, can rejoice on this day. Although this day is not really a fasting day (the real meaning for the word anah is to humble yourself before God in repentance), perhaps we can still fast in answer for prayer for the Jews to know their Messiah Yeshua. This would be a perfect way to offering ourselves to God for His people. Be sure that God wants you to do this though.
• Rejoice in this day! The offerings for sin were no longer accepted by God on this day for the 40 years after Yeshua’s death and resurrection (and the Temple was destroyed right after those 40 years), because He had just offered His Own Blood on the altar on Heaven - atoning for all mankind’s sin forever! The Temple sin sacrifices are no longer needed! Yeshua has redeemed us - forever! (Though all things will remain until Yeshua returns to restore all things (Matthew 17:11 - the miqra; & Revelation 21:1-5).
This would be an excellent day to tell the Jews of the Good News of Yeshua - He is their Messiah! The One Who atoned for their sin forever! The One Who came to redeem His people forever!
• One last thing: we can never know everything God wants us to know, but we should always strive to know more of His Word. This is a good day to study all the verses about Yom Kippur in your Bible, and perhaps Yeshua will reveal something to you that you didn't know before!
************************************************
Something to ponder:
Whenever we read of the offerings to God, the notion of animal offerings seems bizarre and primitive. But imagine yourself in history, back almost six thousand years ago to when Adam and Eve first sinned. God gave them the Way to live (including instructions on how to atone for their sin).
They had actually experienced walking in the garden with God, so they knew what they had lost. The devastation of the realization of what they had done, was probably almost more than they could bear. So God showed them that the the blood of an unblemished lamb (or kid) must be brought to Him in order to reconnect them to Him (Genesis 3:21 - we are not given any detail here, but God would never have killed an animal for no reason, as He is very specific about innocent blood being spilled, according to Genesis 4:11 & Leviticus 17:3-5), because their very lives were in that blood. Adam and Eve, of all people, understood that blood is tied to creation, thus Life.
Note: Before the Tabernacle existed, atonement was done in the Israelites’ doorways (gates) (Deuteronomy 12:13-15, 12:21 & 16:5) - which doubled as their altar to God.
So do you think they thought this ritual was primitive, or that they would not do it? No, they wanted that reconnection to their Father more than anything in the world! They willingly performed this Commandment, that was later designated only to be done in the Tabernacle wherever God would plant it, (before that, wherever His Name was planted) and then in the Temple in Jerusalem - and then finally in the offering of the Blood of Jesus, poured out on His Own altar - once for all mankind - permanently (Exodus 20:24-25) (Romans 6:10, Hebrews 10:10 & 1Peter 3:18).
There was a tangible recognition of God’s glory back in Adam and Eve’s lives when this simple task that God asked of them was performed. When God’s miraculous Heavenly fire descended to consume their offerings, they felt His presence, and His glory surrounding them again! They never doubted the Power of this service!
*************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Since Yeshua fulfilled this day, as well as Pesach, perhaps we can have a Pesach meal on this day, rather than fasting - it is a day of joy after all!
Last updated July 18, 2018
Torah Way of Life
The Authentic Voice of Hebrew Roots Knowledge
The Authentic Voice of Hebrew Roots Knowledge
formerly Razzberry Press
Bringing both Hebrew and grafted-in Hebrews together into One Body of Messiah
and into one Way of belief through the same knowledge of God
and into one Way of belief through the same knowledge of God
