In Yahweh’s timetable we’re in the month of Tishrei and looking towards observing Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, imminently. It’s impossible to even contemplate honouring this holy day without our thoughts turning towards Yahshua, in whom it was so gloriously fulfilled. A steady look at Leviticus 16, which outlines Yahweh’s instructions for Atonement, helps us to understand more clearly the extent of Yahshua’s sacrifice. The Jewish people learned from childhood that “According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9:22). Yahweh was instilling this into His people because of the plans He had made to redeem humanity back to Himself after Adam and Eve sold themselves into slavery to sin. Yahweh sent His Son to the earth not to live, but to die! ‘Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness’!
Yahshua “did not come to earth to make reconciliation by the holiness of His life, or by the earnestness of His teaching, but by His death,” writes Charles Spurgeon. However, under Yahweh’s law, for a death to be an acceptable sacrifice the offering had to be perfect. Although Yahshua came to die, He had to do some living here, so that His perfection in all things would be demonstrated. His death purchased, for all who believe, a permanent right of entry into the Presence of Yahweh. Yahshua “entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:12).
Under the Old Covenant, Israel was continually offering personal sacrifices for sin, as well as the annual, national offering made by the High Priest on Yom Kippur. Yahshua’s sacrifice was a ‘once for all time’ sacrifice so “that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance – now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant” (Hebrews 9:15).
As we honour Yahweh’s holy day (a permanent commandment, see Leviticus 23:31) let’s offer grateful thanks to the One who paid our ransom, and purchased our eternal salvation.
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Solomon followed Astarte (the goddess of the Sidonians) and Milcom (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites). So Solomon did what Yahweh considered evil. He did not wholeheartedly follow Yahweh as his father David had done.
1 Kings 11:5-6, Names of God Bible
We need to spend quality time daily with [Yahweh] in prayer, not just going through the motions and presenting your wish list to [Yahweh] and asking Him to give you a lot of stuff. When we pray we need to ask [Yahweh] to speak to our hearts through His word and through the Holy Spirit who lives in our hearts.
Jason Hill
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