Lev.23:26-32 The Day Of Atonement Nine days after the feast of Trumpets came the Day of Atonement. We first learned of this day in Leviticus 16. Historically, it was a day in which the Jews had to humble themselves, confessing their sins against God. The tabernacle (and later the temple) also had to have atonement made for it - the sanctuary, the tent of meeting, and the altar. This was a solemn day of confession, a day when they were to afflict their souls (Lev 16:29, 31; 23:27, 32; Num 29:7 all KJV). Prophetically, the day of Atonement points to the climax of the Great Tribulation period, when the Jews are facing complete annihilation against the nations of the world led by the antichrist. At that time, the remnant of Israel will finally realize that Jesus Christ was their Messiah, and that their ancestors killed Him instead of receiving Him. Jesus said in Matthew 23, Matt. 23:37-39 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! For I say to you, from now on you shall not see Me until you say, BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! When they confess their sin of rejecting Jesus Christ and say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, then Jesus will come with many thousands of His holy ones - His angels and His church (Jude 14-15; Zech 14:5; Matt 25:31; 2Thes 1:7; 1Thes 3:13). Zechariah writes of that time, Zech. 12:8-10 In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David {will be} like God, like the angel of the LORD before them. And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born. Zech. 13:6 And one will say to him, What are these wounds between your arms? Then he will say, {Those} with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. When Israel has their true Day of Atonement, the Lord will saved them. As Paul said, Rom. 11:26 and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB. I believe that just like the first 4 feasts were fulfilled on the day they were celebrated that this will happen on the 10th day of Tishrei.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:01:25 +0000