If we want to know true grief that leads to repentance, let’s read Psalm 51.
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 readingDid 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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This Torah Portion is filled with some well-known stories. It begins with Abraham negotiating with God to spare Sodom for the sake of the righteous. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed anyway, and Lot and his daughters escape to the mountains. This portion also contains the story of the second time Abraham tells Sarah to say she is his sister and the birth of Isaac. Hagar and Ishmael are sent away from Abraham’s house and the portion ends with the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. That’s a lot crammed in five chapters.
Most of these stories are so recognizable that there is no need to summarize them here. Let’s just jump into each section.