One of the main highlight of this Holy Feast is that contrary to
all other Holy Feasts and Shabbats, there are no offerings to be
brought to the Temple on this day. On normal Shabbat the priests
are commanded to offer seven times more lambs but not on Yom
Hakippurim. The only one that makes a sacrifice is the High Priest
and He sacrifices first for Himself in order to be fit then to make
the sacrifice for all the People of Israel. He, then enters into
The Holy of Holiest for the first and only time in the year.
And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and
shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. Then
he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar
before Yahveh, with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine,
and bring it inside the veil. And he shall put the incense on the
fire before Yahveh, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy
seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die. He shall take some of
the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy
seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle
some of the blood with his finger seven times. Then he shall kill
the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its
blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood
of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy
seat. So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the
tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of
their uncleanness. There shall be no man in the tabernacle of
meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until
he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his
household, and for all the assembly of Israel. And he shall go out
to the altar that is before Yahveh, and make atonement for it, and
shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of
the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. Then he
shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times,
cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children
of Israel. Leviticus 16:11-19
Of course 2000 years ago Yshua who became Israels High Priest
from the Order of Melchizedek offered His own blood as atonement on
the altar and thus forever has cleansed the sins of those that put
their trust in Him.
Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come
to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for
them. For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher
than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests,
to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the
peoples, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
Hebrews 7:25-27
Yshua with one sacrifice cleansed us from sin and gave us a new
life of holiness and righteousness. However many people do not
understand the Gospel. For us to enter into Eternal Life through
forgiveness of sins; WE MUST ENTER INTO YOM HAKIPPURIM. We must
STOP everything! True salvation occurs when we stop our life as
usual and humble ourselves before The Almighty, acknowledging that
we have broken His commandments and we are in need of salvation. No
salvation can occur unless we are cleansed and forgiven of our
sins. The only way to be cleansed as instituted by the Creator
Himself is by the offering of a perfect, unblemished sacrifice of a
clean animal. (pigs would not be acceptable!) as mentioned in the
Book of Leviticus. So, in order to obtain mercy we must,
STOP business as usual
ACKNOWLEDGE our own sins and transgressions
ASK for forgiveness
RECEIVE the Blood Sacrifice of Yshua as the High Priest and the
sacrificial goat
TURN from our rebellious and sinful ways
ARISE to new life in Him in a forgiven state
OBEY His Commandments
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