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The Messiah in Yom Kippur

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!

What about the Day of Atonement?

The Day of Atonement is upon us. Also known as Yom Kippur, it begins at sundown on Tuesday, October 4th, and ends on Wednesday, October 5th.

Everyone knows that Yeshua (Jesus) was crucified on Passover as our Passover lamb. John the Baptizer called Him the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. The interesting thing is that the Passover Lamb doesn’t take away sin. It’s a substitutionary sacrifice. In the Exodus account, the blood of the lamb was put on the doorposts so that the death angel would pass over the house instead of killing anyone inside. But not everyone was in danger of dying. It was only the firstborns that would be taken by the death angel. The lamb was slain so that the firstborns would not be. No atonement of sin took place on Passover. The whole family of Israel (they were not a nation yet) was spared any mourning of death because the lambs were substitutes for them.

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