If we want to know true grief that leads to repentance, let’s read Psalm 51.
Continue readingIn Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he has to chastise the church to expel an immoral brother. In his followup letter, Paul commends them for their repentance. But more specifically, why they repented. Let’s take a look.
Continue readingIn the past three days of examining yourself, maybe you remembered having an unresolved issue with someone else and need to ask for forgiveness. It’s time to take care of that.
Continue readingTagged altar, foreshadow, forgive, forgiveness, gift, reconcile, unresolved
Jesus said not to judge or else we would be judged. Should we judge others? Not unless you judge yourself first.
Continue readingToday’s verse comes from John’s first letter. It’s time to confess our sins.
Continue readingOne of the most popular verses Christians use when speaking about repentance is 2 Chronicles 7:14. I’m not one to take a single verse and hang on it without knowing the context. It could be saying something else and we would be misleading people. Let’s take a look.
Continue readingThe Days of Teshuvah begin tonight at sundown, so we’ll call this post, Day Zero.
Traditionally, Psalm 27 is read each of the forty days. It’s a short 14 verses, so let’s break that down and see how it’s a call to return to God.
Continue readingThe 40 Days of Teshuvah begin on Monday night at sundown. It’s a time of reflection on our lives as believers. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Messiah Yeshua is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” (2 Corinthians 13:5).
Teshuvah is usually described as repentance. It really means to return. You can see in Paul’s words that he isn’t telling us to repent of sins and come to salvation. He’s talking to believers already. Paul is warning us that we should examine ourselves to ensure we haven’t strayed from the ways of the Father. That’s what these forty days of teshuvah are for, to prepare ourselves for His coming. His second coming. Notice that these forty days begin on the first of the sixth month (Elul) and end on the tenth of the seventh month (Tishri), the Day of Atonement. It’s the prophetic time of His return.
Throughout the Scriptures, YHWH and His Prophets continued to call His people to return to His ways. John the Baptist called the people to prepare the way for the Lord. It was a call to return to the ways of YHWH. We prepare the way for the Lord by examining ourselves and aligning with His ways. So, let’s begin.
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
– 2 Timothy 3:16,17
“Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Messiah Yeshua for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but TEST EVERYTHING; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Messiah Yeshua.”
– 1 Thessalonians 5:16-23
Did you know that the Messiah’s sacrifice on the cross was for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement? Hebrews says so.
Hebrews chapters 7 and 8 speak of Yeshua being the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek prophesied about in Psalm 110:4 and why He is a High Preist of a better covenant. Hebrews 9 speaks of the sacrifice made once a year in the Most Holy Place where only the High Priest could enter. The writer of Hebrews is speaking of the Day of Atonement sacrifice. And this is what Yeshua did.
Hebrews 9:11-15 “But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of His own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 15 Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.”
Yeshua offered His sacrifice in the perfect tent that is in heaven. He is the Passover Lamb, but His sacrifice is for the Day of Atonement. Hallelujah!
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Tagged Day of Atonement, Hebrews, High Priest, Melchizedek, New Covenant, sacrifice
“And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 ‘Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD.'”
– Leviticus 23:23-25
