Prayer: Father, You still speak through Your Word. What You declare to Moses for the Hebrew children is an everlasting ongoing statute. What You declare, is eternal. Amen.
Reading: Leviticus 16 key: vs. 33-34
33 He is to make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, for the Tent of Meeting, for the altar, for the kohanim, and for all the people of the assembly.
34 “This will be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for Bnei-Yisrael once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as Adonai commanded Moses.
Attention: I have to admit, as a Greek New Testament follower of Yeshua, I have not paid much attention to some of the prescribed feasts or holy days for Bnei’ Yisrael. “Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is considered the most important holiday in the Jewish faith. Falling in the month of Tishrei (September or October in the Gregorian calendar), it marks the culmination of the 10 Days of Awe, a period of introspection and repentance that follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.” (For the rest of the History article, please click here: Yom Kippur: Significance, Facts & Traditions – HISTORY
It is clear from the scriptures, that the holy day was instituted and prescribed by Adonai for the Hebrew nation. The purpose was for introspection by each person and making atonement for their sins. Yom Kippur was prescribed by Adonai to be an annual observance by “both the native born and the outsider dwelling among you (vs. 29b).”
The prescription by Adonai was for the people to “afflict” themselves during this holy day. Affliction carried with it the deep sorrow or troubling over their sin of disobedience. The priest was to take a bull and a goat. From the blood of both animals the priest was to “dab it around on the horns of the altar. He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of Bnei-Yisrael (vs. 18b-19).”
He was then to take the horns of the live goat in both hands and confess the sins of Bnei-Yisrael “and all their transgressions, all their sins. He shall place them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness (vs. 21-20a).” The goat became known as the “scape goat.”
Yeshua became our sacrifice, our scape goat, taking on Himself the sins of the world. When we observe and participate in the Lord’s Supper or Communion, the time of reflection is for introspection. When we understand the gravity of what Yeshua accomplished on the cross, I feel great remorse and sorrow for the sins I have committed and which He took to the cross for me.
Action: I choose to make Communion a time of introspection, confession and rejoicing for the atoning work of Yeshua on Calvary.
Yield: I give my life to the One who gave His life for me.
Engage: I live for Christ! I live with the Holy Spirit.
Relationship: I am one with Christ as His Spirit lives in me.
Prayer: Father, I am so thankful that Yeshua paid the price for my sin. He did for me what I could not do for myself. I am forever thankful. Amen.
Memory Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:21
21 He made the One who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Music Video: Robin Mark—All I Once Held Dear https://youtu.be/oxpPIa-BskY
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”