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Around the world the Jewish people are celebrating Yom Kippur; however, for all Christian believers...
Every Day is 'Yom Kippur'
Leviticus 23:27-28 "Also the tenth day of
this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy
convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made
by fire to the LORD. And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is
the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God."
(NKJ).
Just a brief comment this week, as we are in the midst of the
Fall Biblical Feast season. Last week the Jewish world celebrated what
the Bible calls the Feast of Trumpets, which we believe is a prophetic picture
of the day that Yeshua (Jesus) returns at the last blast of the Shofar.
This Friday is the Holiest day of the year for the Jewish people - Yom
Kippur or the Day of Atonement. Here in Israel the entire
country, apart from emergency services, hospital staff, and necessary military
personel, will come to a standstill from Friday afternoon to sunset on
Saturday. Synagogues in Israel and around the world will be packed with
Jewish people seeking to have their sins atoned for and their transgressions
blotted out of the book.
There are 7 Biblical Feasts, beginning at Passover
in Spring and ending with Succot or the Feast of Tabernacles at
the end of the summer. The first 3 Feasts have been fulfilled by Yeshua
and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Shavuot or Pentecost
2000 years ago. The final 3 Feasts are yet to be fulfilled
in the natural. I say that as Yeshua has already fulfilled them,
spiritually speaking. The people who have truly been in the New
Covenant over the last 2000 years have been raised up to live in the
Kingdom, and have received full atonement through the Blood of
Yeshua, and He has been 'tabernacling' with His people.
The point I really want to focus on in this comment is that as
the Jewish people seek to have their sins forgiven and cleansed, they have no
Temple or Altar and no blood. Leviticus 17:11 tells us 'For
the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the
altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes
atonement for the soul.' and Hebrews 9:22 declares that without
the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.
It is clear from these two verses that only in the New Covenant
is there forgiveness, atonement and salvation, and that all other
religions are simply that - futile, bloodless religions.
Not only do the people who are in a covenant relationship
with the God of Israel, sealed by the blood of His Son Yeshua, have
access to that precious, cleansing blood of the Lamb, we can avail
ourselves of it every day, as many times in a day as necessary. Hebrews
9:13-15 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer,
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much
more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God? (NJK). For the people of the New Covenant, not
just one day a year is Yom Kippur, but every day is Yom
Kippur. This Yom Kippur let us fast and pray for the Jewish
people to have a supernatural revelation of who the true Messiah is, and let us
rejoice that we have 365 Yom Kippurs every year.
Shabbat Shalom
David Silver
Messianic Evangelist
