Here’s the “Day of Atonement” Paragraph from Leviticus chapter 23, King James Version of course …
“26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.” As you can see, verses 26 through 32.
This Holy Day is so important that a single chapter is given to it, earlier in Leviticus. Yes, Leviticus 16 covers this epochal Day in detail!
Last month (October, 2019) I wrote and posted here on the Website over a dozen Lessons centering on Leviticus chapter 16, from October 14th through October 28th … all of which are archived for easy access. Plenty of information (not the best, I admit, but thorough) about the Day of Atonement.
Yet still today I’d like to give what I believe is the typical significance of this most “Holy Day.”
With its occurring in the seventh month of the Jewish year, in the Fall or Autumn, late in the harvest cycle … I see it portraying something mammoth yet to come … for the Nation of Israel. (By then the harvest is “over,” and the sheaves have all been “brought in!”)
And with it (the Day of Atonement) scheduled annually “after” the Sounding of the “Trumpets” … after Israel has been miraculously gathered (regathered) into her Land … JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD IS COMING AGAIN TO THIS EARTH!
And when He does, interrupting and bringing to a conclusion the Battle of Armageddon … ISRAEL WILL LITERALLY EXPERIENCE HER “DAY OF ATONEMENT!”
I mean … Israel will be saved, born again!
The Day of Atonement, with all that bloodshed (reads those Lessons) … speaking of forgiveness!
Sin removed!
Sin washed away!
Sin atoned, covered forever!
Paul wrote it, under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit … “And SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the DELIVERER (JESUS), and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them, when I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.” Romans 11:26-27, God Himself speaking!
Then follows (with a redeemed Israel now truly worshipping God and His Son, having been convicted by the Holy Spirit … follows the Feast of Tabernacles … literal joy and victory for all eternity!
Tabernacles, as we shall see tomorrow … a symbol of the Millennium, with Jerusalem as the center of the whole earth!
Amen!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
Zechariah 12:10 … “And I (the Lord) will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”
They will look upon Jesus as He returns from Heaven, riding that white horse of Revelation 19 … Jesus coming back to rescue them from the clutches of the anti-Christ (Armageddon) … and “see” (realize, comprehend, believe) Him Whom they have pierced (on the Cross two thousand years ago) … and fall under conviction (“mourn”) … and be saved!
Isaiah 66:8 … “Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth IN ONE DAY? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.”
In one day, the true Day of Atonement!
Hallelujah!
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