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The Day of His Covering (The Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur)
In this episode I talk about the 6th appointment on YHWH's holy calendar, the Day of Atonement, or in Hebrew Yom Kippur. This is a foreshadow of the Day of Judgment when we will be "covered" as the Father pours out His wrath onto the world below.
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Hi, my name's Jenny. I'm a wife, a mom, an entrepreneur and, most importantly, a disciple of Yeshua Jesus. I've been a Christian for over a decade, having studied the Bible for at least that long or better. Until about three years ago, I thought I knew Jesus pretty well. Then my world was rocked. I started studying the Bible from its Middle Eastern context and culture, and what I found has completely changed my and my family's lives forever. Join me as I share all that I've learned about our Jewish Messiah and listen to my conversations with other moms on their own journey with Jesus as we discuss the practical ways that we walk out our faith in our everyday lives. This is a conversation for the Christian mom who wants more. This is the Wide Path Dropout Mama podcast. Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 1:On today's episode we are going to be talking about this next upcoming appointed time of the Lord. It is the sixth feast day, or appointed time of Yahweh, and it is the Day of Atonement, otherwise in Hebrew called Yom Kippur, and Yom is just day, so day of, and then Kippur is Hebrew for atonement, and we're going to go into that meaning a little bit later in this episode, but in today's episode I first want to talk about the earthly interpretation of this particular appointed time and the practical way of observing it, the history of how it was observed, back when it was first established, when Yahweh made it a commandment, back in Leviticus 16. And then he reiterated that in Leviticus 23, where all of the Moedim are listed. Moedim is Hebrew for appointed times. And then I want to take you, I want to give you a parallel version of this particular appointed time. I want to paint a picture for you of what it could look like prophetically, of what it can look like in the spiritual, when Jesus comes back and he walks this out and he fulfills this like he fulfilled the first four appointed times of the Lord at his first coming. So this is very exciting.
Speaker 1:I'm finding it hard to sit still as I'm recording this because it's just so exciting. So sit back, get ready, maybe grab a notebook, get a beverage, get your Bible, get comfortable, because we are going to get into some really cool things here and I'm going to hopefully light a little bit of a fire under you to go searching on your own for more of these hidden meanings. I mean, when you look into these things, every single part of the ritual of the Day of Atonement, all of the parts that are involved, down to the Holy of Holies. Every single thing has a deeper meaning and every single physical item used in this process has a spiritual link to it. It is so exciting. So, with that, get ready, and we are about to get into this episode. So, without further ado, let's get into it. Okay, everybody, welcome.
Speaker 1:Welcome to Welcome to today's episode about Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. Today is Wednesday, october the 9th of 2024, and Yom Kippur is in just a few short days. It starts at sundown on Friday. It's on a Sabbath this year, which is really really cool and super prophetic when you start to uncover some of the mysteries behind these appointed times. But that I'll leave that for you to discover.
Speaker 1:But I want to, as I said in the intro, I want to start out with talking about just the establishment of this particular appointed time. Let's take a look at when it was established by the Lord and take a look at the process, and we're going to make some comparisons between this very long, drawn out process, these sacrifices that had to be made, and how it connects to Yeshua, right Like at face value. We already know that this day of atonement that Jesus became that great sacrifice, that made an atonement for all of our sins. But there are so many other minute little details that have connected to it and how that connects to Yeshua, who is our high priest and made atonement for our sins. Looking at Leviticus 16, at the first time that the Lord is telling Aaron and Moses how he wants this particular day to go, he's going to tell them listen, you are going to make a yearly atonement for both the sins of the high priest and the sins of the entire community of Israel, and this is how I want you to do it. So let's go to Leviticus 16 and take a look.
Speaker 1:Now. I'm not going to read the whole thing because truly, the entire chapter and it's a long chapter is dedicated to this entire process, but I am going to outline this process that Aaron had to go through to make atonement for the community of Israel, and then that began this yearly appointed time that they had to keep every single year, and I'm going to show that to you at the end of this chapter. I'm going to read you verses 29 through 34. So you can understand that this was a permanent commandment that the Lord gave to them that they were going to have to do every single year to make an atonement for the whole community of Israel. But basically this process is that Aaron, who was appointed the high priest, had to bathe himself first. Then he had to put on these holy, set apart garments that were just for this this duty right and then he had to take some burnt offerings and then there was one for himself. He had to go in there and make atonement for the sins of himself and his household, and then he had to make another offering that was going to be for the sins of the whole community of Israel. And they had these two goats. That one was called the scapegoat that's where we get that phrase from the scapegoat and then the other one was going to be actually sacrificed. The scapegoat was going to be sent off into the wilderness after Aaron laid his hands and confessed all the sins of the community. And there's a lot more detail to that too, but again, that's something I'll let you discover on your own and go look into on your own.
Speaker 1:But he is to do this. So basically, he's going and he has to make atonement for first himself in his own household, and then he's making atonement for the whole community of Israel, and I want to read to you the verses 29 through 34 to show you what the Lord says about this lasting ordinance. So Leviticus 16, chapter I'm sorry, chapter 16, verse 29, it says this is to be a lasting ordinance for you. On the 10th day of the seventh month, you must deny yourselves and not do any work. Seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work, whether native, born or an alien living among you, because on this day, atonement will be made for you to cleanse you. Then, before Yahweh, you will be clean from all your sins. It is a Sabbath of rest and you must deny yourselves. It is a lasting ordinance. The priest, who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest, is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments and make atonement for the most holy place, for the tent of meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the community. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you. Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites, and it was done as Yahweh commanded Moses. Okay, so that is how this day of atonement was established. That is how this day of atonement was established.
Speaker 1:Now I want to get into connecting this to Jesus and what he did, but before we get there, I want to just go over to Leviticus 23. That is where all of the appointed times of Yahweh are listed. That is where Yahweh tells us hey, listen, I want you to be observing these as a lasting ordinance. You will be doing these things forever, right? And we know that Jesus came not to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them. Right? He says that not a jot or tittle will pass away until heaven and earth passes away. And so Jesus came to show us how to walk all of these, how to walk all of the commandments out perfectly. And he himself observed all of these feast days. He, all of these feast days, were about him, right, and by taking a look at. I want to just show you something, because I want to clear something up.
Speaker 1:A lot of people say you know, all of these laws are completely done away with. We don't have to do any of those things anymore. Those are all Jewish things. They don't apply to us. Well, jewish, jewish Jesus was Jewish, right, jesus is Jewish. Jesus is the word made flesh. And so let's just take, we're going to go down just a quick rabbit trail, just really fast, so so we can begin to understand that all of these things are in fact relevant to our lives as Christians today, if we understand that this day, this day of atonement, is all about the atonement for our sins. Back in ancient Israel, they had to make sacrifices, right, and this particular day of atonement was, you know, making a sacrifice for the atonement of the entire community of Israel. Well, today we observe this feast day because that's what the Bible tells us to do. But it also represents that day when Jesus is going to come back and the Lord is going to, his wrath is going to be poured out, he is going to make judgment on the earth and he's also going to judge us for our sins, right, but we know that Jesus made atonement for those sins.
Speaker 1:But what is sin? Have you ever really taken a minute to think about what that is? What is sin? Well, sin. The Bible tells us what sin is. Let's take a look at 1 John 3, verse 4. It says it says Everyone who sins is breaking God's law for all. Sin is lawlessness. So sin? That tells us right there that sin is breaking God's law. It's breaking those instructions that the Lord gave us within the commandments, not just the 10, but all of the commandments found in the first five books of the Bible, right.
Speaker 1:And then let's take a look at what Jesus says about these commandments in Matthew 5, 19. It says when you really think about it that way, it really puts a different perspective on these commandments, right, and on all these feast days and all of these, all of the commandments that the Lord gave us right, and on all these feast days and all of these, all of the commandments that the Lord gave us right. If you look at even the food laws, the dietary laws, all of these things were given for our good, because the Lord knows everything and he knows that there are reasons why, you know, pigs are labeled unclean because they have parasites, right? I mean, there's there's so many different reasons why he has established his commandments, and they're all for our good. But we know that Jesus did not come to do away with these things.
Speaker 1:Jesus came to pay the price for our breaking God's law, right? He came to pay the penalty for the consequences of us transgressing that law. And let's take a look at some of those scriptures right now. So in Colossians 1.14, it says God's son, jesus, paid the price for our sins and made us free. Yes, god has forgiven us. So Jesus is our high priest. He has made atonement for our sins. He has paid the consequences of our transgressing of God's law.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that was a rabbit trail. I'm sorry to take you on there, but that's where I felt led to go. So let's go back to Leviticus 23, where the Lord again tells us to observe this ordinance, and that it is a lasting ordinance, right, okay? Leviticus 23, verse 26. Yahweh said to Moses the 10th day of the seventh month is the day of atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves and present an offering made by fire, made to Yahweh by fire. Do no work on that day, because it is the day of atonement, when atonement is made for you before Yahweh, your God. Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people. I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day. You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. Wherever you live, it is a Sabbath of rest for you and you must deny yourselves from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following.
Speaker 1:Okay, so again, even though we are commanded to observe these appointed times, in that scripture it says that you will be cut off from your people. Right, you, you? There will be punishment. Well, jesus already paid the price. He, he took the punishment for us not fulfilling that if we chose not to right. But that's just it. We don't have to do it out of duty or out of being scared of the consequences. We get to do it because these are all about him and because it's a joyful celebration. We get to memorialize the things that he has done for us and the things that we are excited to see him do when he comes back.
Speaker 1:And that's the other thing. We don't have to do any of those things, right? We don't have to observe any of these commandments. We don't have to observe any of these feast days we get to. We do it because Jesus said if you love me, you will keep my commandments. We're not doing any of these things because we think that we're being saved by them. We're doing them because we love him so much that we want to do the things that he asked us to do and we want to be like him. You know, when you think about a relationship between a husband and his bride, you want to do the things that your husband does, right, like if you have the same hobbies and if you observe the same holidays and the same things, then it makes you that closer, right? So whenever you think about the commandments and these feast days that way, it's just another opportunity to show your love to your bridegroom and to have that close relationship with him.
Speaker 1:But now let's take a look at how we can practically observe this particular point in time, because, unlike some of the other feast days, they are actual feast days. They are days of celebration. We're called to have a meal, we're called to celebrate, right. This particular day is not at all like that. This is a very somber day of remembrance. It's a day that we are supposed to deny ourselves right. We're supposed to afflict ourselves. We're supposed to, we're supposed to fast and pray. We're supposed to be thinking about our lives and thinking of, we're supposed to be reflecting on our relationship with the Lord. Are we right with Him? Are we in right standing with Him?
Speaker 1:But more importantly, let's see what the Lord has to say about fasting in Isaiah 58, because it's more than just denying ourselves of a meal for a day, more than just denying ourselves of a meal for a day. It's more than just sitting down and just praying somberly all day long just in our Holy of Holies. Right, because we can model after the pattern of this feast day. You know, the high priest went into the Holy of Holies, he made the offering and we can go into our secret place. We can go into our Holy of Holies and we can fast and we can pray, and that is beautiful, that is a wonderful thing to be doing. But let's take a look at what Yahweh says about fasting and about the kind of fast that he wants to see. So in Isaiah 58, really the whole chapter is just a beautiful picture of what he does not want to see and then what he does want to see. But let's take a look at what he wants to see.
Speaker 1:He says in verse 5, is this the kind of fast? I have chosen? Only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to Yahweh? Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen?
Speaker 1:To loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke. Is it not to share your food with the hungry, to provide to the poor wanderer with shelter when you see the naked, to clothe him and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn and your healing will quickly appear. Then your righteousness will go before you and the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard. Then you will call and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help and he will say here I am.
Speaker 1:If you do away with the yoke of oppression with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like the noonday. Yahweh will guide you always. He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fall. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the old age foundations. You will be called repairer of broken walls, restorer of streets with dwellings.
Speaker 1:If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in Yahweh and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance Wow. So he tells us that that is the kind of fasting that he wants to see on this day. Not just going into your secret place fasting and praying, which is wonderful, but he wants us to be the hands and feet of Yeshua. He wants us to go feed the poor, go take care of the needy, go serve others, be kind to your spouse, be kind to your neighbor, go do something that's going to make the Father smile. Go help somebody. That's what the Lord wants to see on this day. Okay, it's hard to segue off of that because that was pretty spectacular, but I did mention and I think I got kind of lost.
Speaker 1:I wanted to take a look at Jesus as our high priest and what it says about him in Hebrews. Hebrews chapter nine, starting in verse one, let's see here. Okay, it says now, the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. Remember, in the beginning of this episode I told you that everything in the temple and everything in the process of this ritual on the day of atonement, all of the articles used, everything is a prophetic picture of something spiritual. So let's continue reading.
Speaker 1:It says a tabernacle was set up in its first room where the lampstand, the table and the consecrated bread. This was called the holy place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the most holy place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered Ark of the Covenant. This Ark contained the gold jar of manna, aaron's staff that had budded and the stone tablets of the Covenant. Above the Ark were the cherubim of the glory overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now. When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry, but only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year and never without blood which he offered for himself and for the sins of the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear.
Speaker 1:And here's where we get to Yeshua. When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the most holy place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean, sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God? And how does he want to be served? He wants to be served by us serving others, just like Jesus served when he was here. There's another pattern that we are to be modeling after, and so, with that, I want us to kind of veer into the other set of teaching that I wanted to talk about in today's episode.
Speaker 1:Now I want to paint for you a bit of a prophetic picture of what I believe this day could look like in the future when Yeshua comes back. Now, keep in mind, this is not something that you know, I don't know if this is really how it's going to go down, but just going through the word over and over and over again each cycle anybody who reads the word on a daily basis and goes through the Bible, everybody who does that knows that each time you go through the word it's like an onion. You get these layers right, these layers of revelation, and they build on top of each other. And I will never forget the day that Exodus 24 stood out to me like I had never seen it before. And I hadn't, I truly had never seen this before. And for whatever reason, the Lord saw fit to reveal it to me this particular day and I just I could not get over it, and I still can't get over it, and it will always be exciting to me when I see it. And I'm not going to go there just yet. But I want to take you to this.
Speaker 1:Back to the idea of the patterns, right, the patterns that were walked out by the Israelites in the wilderness. They walked out the pattern of the feast days before they knew what they were. And then, when Jesus came on the scene, he did the same thing. He walked out the pattern of the feast days, and if you get the two books by Christi Eisner that I always talk about, she will walk you through all of those things in detail. But here's the really cool thing In the Word it says that a matter is established by two or more witnesses. And before I got Christy's books, where she paints this picture so beautifully, I got the same picture in my own heart of this particular occurrence that we're looking for. And when I read her account of this, I just was. I mean, my heart was beating so fast and I was so excited because I had gotten the same kind of revelation.
Speaker 1:And so, before I reveal that to you, I want to take you to the part in the wilderness, in Exodus, where Moses walks out this very first day of atonement, even though he doesn't know it yet. So it starts right after the golden calf calf. Moses had just gone up on the mountain and he had been given the commandments from the Lord, he'd been given the two stone tablets. And he comes down the mountain and he sees the golden calf. And what does he do? Everybody knows he throws the tablets down. And here's a tidbit of information that you may not know, but my dad used to say yeah, moses was so mad, he threw those tablets down and shattered them. Well, that's probably true, but the main reason why he shattered those tablets is because that covenant had been broken. That was what you did. If a covenant was broken. You destroyed that contract, and so that's what you did. If the, if a covenant was broken, you destroyed that, that contract, and so that's what he did.
Speaker 1:When he came down and he saw that the israelites had broken the covenant that they just made with the lord, he shattered those tablets because it had been broken. And so what does he do? He treks right back up that mountain and this is the 40 days, the second set of 40 days that he spends up there on the mountain with Yahweh getting the second set of stone tablets. Is what set? What would be in the future, this 40 days of Teshuva, or the 40 days of repentance leading up to the day of atonement, and so this is where I want to take you and paint this prophetic picture of what this could look like. So in the last episode I talked about the Feast of Trumpets and how that is signaling to us Jesus. Jesus is coming back right to get his bride.
Speaker 1:And let's read this scripture in Exodus 24, and let's see what it says, and we're going to paint this picture of what it could look like when Jesus comes down. Right, it says that the Lord will descend on the clouds clouds and we will meet him up in the air. Right. So we are kind of like in that space. We're not in heaven, but we're not on earth, but we're right there in the middle. We're in that cloud with the Lord.
Speaker 1:So with that picture in mind, let's read Exodus 24, verse 15. It says when Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it and the glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain and on the seventh day, yahweh called to Moses from within the cloud. Seventh day, yahweh called to Moses from within the cloud. To the Israelites, the glory of Yahweh looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. Then Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain and he stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. Okay, so that particular scripture was written before the first set of 40 days, but I just wanted to clarify that the second set of 40 days was what would model the 40 days of Teshuvah leading up to the Day of Atonement. Because when he come back after, because he went up there to make atonement for the whole community of Israel for breaking that first made covenant by the golden calf.
Speaker 1:But take a look at that picture of Moses entering that cloud, and it says that Moses went up on the mountain and the cloud covered it. Let's take a look at the word atonement. Atonement in Hebrew means kippur. Right, we went over that. But if you go on the blueletterbiblecom and you look at that word kippur, you can take a look at the root word, and the root word is kafal, kafal. And when you look up the meaning of that, that means to cover, or to cover with pitch, and so let me just paint this picture to you.
Speaker 1:So in 1 Thessalonians 4, verses 13 through 18, we see that the Lord comes down, he descends in the clouds and we will be lifted up to meet him in the air. And then look at this picture of Moses going into this cloud and being covered right, being covered for days, and think about that picture of the Lord coming at the Feast of Trumpets and he descends on the cloud. We meet him up there. We go into that cloud covering that bridal chamber that's built onto the Father's house, right where we will be covered, where we will be kippur, right we will be covered while the Lord pours his wrath out on the world below. It says that the Israelites saw the glory of the Lord and it looked like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain from where they stood below. And so think about this, think about the Lord coming and getting his bride. He brings us up into that bridal chamber where he's protecting us as this wrath is being poured on the earth.
Speaker 1:And what do you think it might look like from the people that are still left on the earth as God's wrath is being poured out on it? God's wrath is being poured out on it. It may look like a consuming fire, but inside of it we are with Jesus in that bridal chamber, consummating our marriage, and we're waiting for that time that we get to celebrate our wedding supper at the Feast of Tabernacles. So that is the prophetic picture that I have had in my heart of what this day could possibly look like and, again, I don't know if that's how it's going to go down, but I thought it was pretty cool and pretty beautiful and I just want to encourage you to go and seek this out on your own If this calls out to you, if this feels exciting to you. I would love for you to just pray and ask the Lord, like I would love to have a revelation like this Show me what you want me to know about what this day could look like prophetically, and I would love to hear some of the revelations that the Lord gives you about what this holy day might look like in the future.
Speaker 1:But that is going to wrap up today's episode. I really hope that you enjoyed it. I really bared some vulnerable things on this episode and I felt led to do it by the Holy Spirit and I just pray that it blesses you and I pray that you would be inspired to observe this day for yourself. You know, maybe just go into your own holy place and pray to the Lord and do good like, go around like Yeshua and do good for others. That's what makes the Lord smile, and that's the kind of fasting that he is asking us for, and so that's going to do it for today's episode. I pray that Yahweh blesses you and keeps you in His perfect peace. Blesses you and keeps you in his perfect peace. And we'll see you next time on the Wide Path Dropout podcast, where the next episode will be all about the Feast of Tabernacles, sukkot, the time that we are all waiting for the wedding supper with our bridegroom, yeshua. Okay, I can't wait to see you next time. God bless you.