03/01/2009AET-031 and 0321 Antichrist and the End Times AET-031 and 032: The Second Coming and Yom Kippur.

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Antichrist and the End Times

AET-031 and 032: The Second Coming and Yom Kippur

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Revelation Chapter 4• 1. After these things I saw, and look, a door

was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard as a trumpet talking to me said: "Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things."

• 2. Immediately I was in the Spirit, and look, there was a throne standing in heaven, and someone was sitting upon the throne.

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The Holy Festival's of Israel• THE HOLY FESTIVALS OF ISRAEL • MOEDIM HA'ELOHIM (G-D'S APPOINTED DAYS)• Recall from our studies of Passover and the

Tabernacle that "Festival" or "Feast," in Hebrew, is hag or mo’ed, a "Set time" or "Appointed time." 

• An appointed festival or feast is a "Holy convocation" or "Sacred assembly," meaning in Hebrew mikrah, a "Rehearsal" or a "Recital." 

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The Holy Festival's of Israel• THE HOLY FESTIVALS OF ISRAEL • Therefore, for Jews and non-Jews alike, all

of the festivals and feasts appointed by God as rehearsals are for one purpose; to reveal the Messiah (Col. 2:16,17) and the completion of God’s Plan.

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The Feasts of Israel

• The Torah details seven feasts which take place during the Hebrew calendar year:

• Three feasts are in the spring, in the month of Nisan: Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and the Feast of First Fruits. Fifty days later there is a fourth feast, Shavout, or the Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost.

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The Feasts of Israel

• There are three remaining feasts in the fall, in the month of Tishri:

• the Feast of Trumpets; • the Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement); • and the Feast of Tabernacles. • (There are two Calendars of the Hebrew

year: the civil year starts in the fall on the First of Tishri and the religious calendar starts in the spring in the month of Nisan.)

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The Holy Festival's of Israel• THE FORMER RAIN: SPRING FEASTS

(Usually in the months of April-June)

• Yeshua fulfilled the Spring feasts – Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits, with His death and resurrection.

• God sent the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) to indwell the hearts of believers on Shavuot (Pentecost), the last of the spring feasts.

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The Holy Festival's of Israel• The Spring Feasts show us the Messiah in

His Priestly role as High Priest of Almighty God - making the True Sacrifice.

• And the Fall Feasts reveal Messiah when He comes in His royal political role as the conquering King of Jerusalem, or Prince of Shalom/Peace.

• And after the Judgment He will establish His Millennial Kingdom upon earth for a thousand years as the King of kings.

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The Holy Festival's of Israel• All the Spring Feasts were fulfilled at Christ's

first coming, and on the exact day of the feast. 

• All the Fall Feasts picture the second advent, and the Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts, picturing the rapture.

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• Everything in the Torah (or the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses) has a prophetic as well as historical significance and merits our careful attention.

• Jesus indicated this in Matthew 5:17:

• Think not that I am come to destroy the Torah, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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Yom Kippur• Eschatologically, Yom Kippur represents the

national restoration of Israel at the end of the Great Tribulation period, but it also is a reminder of the terrible cost of sin in our lives.

• Sin is so offensive and the debt is so great that it took nothing less than the sacrifice of the Messiah Himself in order to secure our reconciliation with God.

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• Just as Rosh Hashanah reveals the coming time of Judgment and the rapture of the Church of Christ (kehillat Mashiach), Yom Kippur prophetically pictures the Day of the LORD or the Day of Judgment in the last days [Acharit HaYamim].

• After the judgment of the nations during the Great Tribulation, national Israel will be fully restored to the LORD and their sins will be purged (see Matthew 24).

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• "On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement..." -- Leviticus 23:27,

• Jewish eschatology teaches that the Day of Atonement is the day in which the people of Israel are to be judged by God and the sins of the nation of Israel are atoned.

• The Day of Atonement is also referred to as Yom HaPeduth, "the Day of Redemption" and Yom haDin, "the Day of Judgment".

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• The people of Israel were instructed in Leviticus 23:32 to confess their sins to God for twenty-four hours prior to the Day of Atonement.

• On this day, God would either grant or deny atonement for the coming year.

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• YOM KIPPUR is the holiest day of the Jewish year, and provides prophetic insight into the Second Coming of Messiah (Mashiach), the restoration of national Israel, and the final judgment of the world.

• It is also a day that reveals the High-Priestly work of the Mashiach Yeshua as our High Priest (Kohen Gadol) after the order of Malki- Tzedek (Hebrews 5:10, 6:20).

• The biblical name for the day of Atonement is Yom Kippurim, meaning "The day of covering, canceling, pardon, reconciling."

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• Remember from our study of the tabernacle, Yom Kippur was the only time when the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies and call upon the Name of YHVH to offer blood sacrifice for the sins of the people by sprinkling the blood of the Lamb on the mercy seat.

• This "Life for a life" principle is the foundation of the sacrificial system and marked the great day of intercession made by the High Priest on behalf of Israel

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• In Rabbinic Judaism, Yom Kippur marks the climax of the ten day period of repentance called the Days of Awe or yamim nora’im.

• In the Hebrew calendar, Erev Yom Kippur begins at nightfall on Tishri 9 and continues 25 hours through the next day until nightfall.

• It is a day marked by complete fasting, prayer, and additional synagogue services.

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• According to the Jewish sages, it was on Tishri 10 that Moses came down from Sinai bearing the second set of tablets, after God had forgiven Israel for worshipping the Golden Calf.

• This explains why Orthodox Jews begin the season of Teshuvah beginning with Elul 1 and continue through to Tishri 10 -- for the 40 days that Moses was upon the mountain receiving the second set of tablets.

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• Here we also find the first mention of the Book of Life (see Rosh HaShanah), when Moses asked to be stricken from "The Book you have written" if God would not make an atonement for his people (Exodus 32:32-3).

• The willingness of Moses to be "Stricken from the book" on the people's behalf is a powerful image of the mediating role of Yeshua ha-Mashiach (Hebrews 9:15).

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• Every year on Tishri 10 the Kohen Gadol [High Priest] would perform a special ceremony to purge defilement from the tabernacle (mishkan) or temple (Bet Ha-Mikdash) as well as from the people of Israel (see Leviticus 16 for the details).

• In particular, in addition to the regular daily offerings, he would bring a bull and two goats as a special offering, and the bull would be sacrificed to purge the mishkan/temple from the defilements caused by misdeeds of the priests and their households (Leviticus 16:6).

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• He would sprinkle the blood of the bull inside the veil of the Holy of Holies upon the kapporet ("Mercy Seat").

• Then he would draw lots and select one of the two goats to be a sin offering on behalf of the people.

• This goat was designated L’Adonai - "To the LORD").

• He would likewise enter the Holy of Holies to sprinkle the blood of the goat upon the kapporet - the Mercy seat, between the cherubim.

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• David exclaimed, "I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings..." (Psalm 57:1b).  Another psalmist concurred:  ["God] will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge..." (91:4ab). 

• These wings refer to the wings of God’s cherubim, images of whom stood atop the atonement cover of the ancient ark of the covenant (Exo. 25:19; Heb. 9:5a). 

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• "Their wings spread upward, overshadowing the [atonement] cover with them" (Exo. 25:20). 

• God told Moses, "Here, above the [atonement] cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony, I will meet with you..." (25:22). 

• With our faith in the Messiah’s blood atonement, we are overshadowed by God’s "Wings" (of His cherubim) and may take protective refuge under these wings, where He will commune with us until He returns again, in person, to reign.

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• One day, on a Yom Kippur appointed in the future, Yeshua haMashiach (Jesus, the Christ) will return to earth again physically (Isa. 63:1-6; Zech. 14:3-5; Rev. 19:11-16, bringing with Him real, lasting peace. 

• When He comes again, redemption then will be complete for those who have believed in and accepted His atonement for and removal of their sins by His death and resurrection. 

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• He will "Sprinkle" many nations (Isa. 52:15), as well as the house of Israel (Ezek. 36:25), thereby cleansing them, just as the high priest in Israel sprinkled blood on the atonement cover to cleanse the people of their sins and as the Levites were sprinkled with water to make them ceremonially clean (Num. 8:6,7a). 

• On that future Yom Kippur the world will come "Face to face" with God, in the physical, glorified form of the Lord Jesus..

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• 3) Finally, the High Priest would lay both hands upon the head of the second goat (designated "For Azazel") while confessing all of the transgressions of the people.

• This goat was then driven away into the wilderness, carrying on it "All their iniquities unto a land not inhabited" (Leviticus 16:22).

• According to the Talmud, a scarlet cord was tied around the neck of the scapegoat that was reported to have turned white as the goat was led away from city.

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• While the High Priest performed these functions, the people would fast in eager anticipation of the outcome of the rituals.

• After completing his tasks, the garments of the High Priest were covered with blood (Leviticus 6:27).

• Only after this did the LORD accept the sacrifice. (according to one midrash, as the High Priest hung out his garments, a miracle took place and his garments turned from bloodstained crimson to white; see Isaiah 1:18).

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• Jesus as Kohen HaGadol of the New Covenant

• Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. (Hebrews 3:1-2)

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Yom Kippur• The Importance of a Blood Sacrifice • In Leviticus 17:11 it is written: "For the life of the

flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to atone (l’kapeir) for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement (y’khapheir) by the life."

• One of the roles of Mashiach Yeshua (Jesus Christ) is that of Kohen HaGadol (High Priest) who offered true kapparah [atonement] for our sins by offering His own blood in the Holy of Holies made without hands.

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• Hebrews 9:22: "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission."

• Yeshua offered His own body up to be the perfect Sacrifice for sins.

• By His shed blood we are given complete atonement before Adonai.

• The Levitical system of animal sacrifices, including the elaborate Yom Kippur ritual, was meant to foreshadow the true and abiding Sacrifice of Yeshua as the means of our reconciliation with God.

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• The Old Covenant(B’rit Yeshanah) provides a shadow of the substance revealed in the New Covenant (B’rit Chadashah).

• If the old covenant had been sufficient to provide a permanent solution to the problem of our sin, there never would have been need for a new covenant to supercede it (Hebrews 8:7).

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• Under the old covenant, sacrifices merely "Covered" sins, but under the new covenant, these sins are taken entirely away (Hebrews 7:27, 9:12, 9:25-28).

• There is no more need for continual sacrifices, since Yeshua provided the once-and-for-all sacrifice for all of our sins (Hebrews 9:11-14; 9:24-28; 10:11-20).

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• Indeed, Yeshua ha-Mashiach is the "Propitiation" or "Expiation" for our sins.

• The Greek word used in Romans 3:25, 1 John 2:2, and 1 John 4:10 ("Hilasterion") is the same word used in the LXX for the kapporet [cover of the ark of the covenant] in the Holy of Holies which was sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice on Yom Kippur.

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• Hebrews 9:24-ff "For Messiah has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

• Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world…"

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• "But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself...

• So Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." (Hebrews 9:24-ff)

• "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." (Hebrews 10:14)

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• In three separate passages in the Torah, the Jewish people are told "The tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri) is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a sacred occasion for you: you shall afflict your souls." (Leviticus 16:29-34, Leviticus 23: 26-32, Numbers 29:7-11).

• This is the only Holiday of the year where fasting is commanded by God.

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• It is enlightening to note the sequence of this holiday in relation to the time of preparation (Elul) and the activities surrounding Rosh HaShanah leading up to Yom Kippur.

• First God commands that we repent, or return to Him in earnestness of heart, and then He provides the means for reconciliation or atonement with Him.

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• Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, the Day of Atonement cannot be properly observed by the rabbis.

• Without a proper place of sacrifice, there cannot be a sacrifice.

• Without a sacrifice there cannot be atonement. • The first century rabbis made some substitutions

that are supposed to provide for atonement, therefore the modern observance is very different than the ancient observance.

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• Modern-day Observances of Yom Kippur • Though originally focused on the Kohen Gadol

[High Priest], since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, Rabbinic tradition states that each individual Jew is supposed to focus on his personal avodah, or service to the LORD.

• Most Yom Kippur prayers, therefore, revolve around the central theme of personal repentance and return.

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• According to Halakhah, we must abstain from five forms of pleasures:

• 1. Eating and drinking • 2. Washing and bathing • 3. Applying lotions or perfume • 4. Wearing leather shoes (a sign of luxury) • 5. Marital relations • Any form of melakha [work] is prohibited.

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• In fact, Yom Kippur is called Shabbat Shabbaton, a Sabbath of Sabbaths.

• According to the Jewish sages, performing any form of work (other than work required to save a life) is punishable by premature death.

• This solidified in the minds of the Hebrews that the work was to be entirely God's responsibility, and not their own.

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• By giving up the sensual pleasures of life and refraining from melakha, we are said to live for 25 hours as if we are dead.

• Many men wear kittels - white burial robes - and white raiment, to remind them of their fate as mortals before God.

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• The Meal before Yom Kippur • On Erev Yom Kippur, a special meal (seudah ha-

mafseket) is usually prepared - the last meal before the Fast and eaten after the afternoon confessional service before sundown.

• (The usual explanation for having confession before Yom Kippur is that in case you choke to death on a chicken bone, you will have at least asked for forgiveness before you died!)

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• The Kapparot Ceremony • An old custom, called kapparot [atonements] is

sometimes performed as a sort of "Scapegoat" ceremony. This custom was said to symbolically transfer a person’s sins to a rooster or hen.

• After verses from Psalms and Job are recited, a live chicken is swung around the head three times, while the following declaration is made: "This fowl shall be in my stead, shall be my atonement, it shall go to death, so that I can attain a good life and peace."

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Yom Kippur• The purpose of the kapparot ceremony was to

serve as a vicarious sacrifice in place of the sacrifices offered in the Temple which could no longer be practiced after the destruction of the Temple.

• At any rate, the chicken was then slaughtered by a Rabbi and given to the poor for their Erev Yom Kippur meal (seudah ha-mafseket).

• Today, many Orthodox Jews observe kapparot by simply giving tzedekah [charity] to the poor ('Tzedekah can avert the evil decree").

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• Some people also observe Erev Yom Kippur by going to the mikveh - the ritual bath - BAPTISM - to purify themselves before the Holy Day.

• John 1:29 The next day John [the Baptist] saw Jesus coming to him and said, Look! There is the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world!

• 35 Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

• 36 And he looked at Jesus as He walked along, and said, Look! There is the Lamb of God!

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• "We will be helped in our comprehension of John’s gospel if we can identify with these first believers and see events through their eyes.

• Observe the pattern of God’s working in the lives of Jesus’ disciples. His earliest followers had been disciples of John the Baptist. As such, they had accompanied him as he baptized and taught along the Jordan Valley.

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• The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. (1:29–30)

• Again the next day … John stood, and two of his disciples; And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! (1:35–36)

• These statements were made some time after the actual baptism of Jesus by John in the Jordan.

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Yom Kippur• Evidence of this is the fact that John speaks of the

event in the past tense and also because the forty days of temptation experienced by Jesus were entered upon immediately following His baptism.

• One can safely conclude that some time had elapsed between the baptism and the disciples’ encounter with Christ. What took place during this interval? John himself explains it. “This is he of whom I said …” We can be very sure that John, who was specifically sent to prepare the way for the Messiah, was instructing his followers in the identification of the Anointed One.

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• Andrew and his companion seem to have turned to Jesus and followed Him in a natural act of transition resulting from this preparation. How, we may ask, had he gone about preparing them? Obviously through acquainting them with the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. The mystical air that dominates the thinking of some in regard to Jesus’ first contacts with His disciples is not substantiated.

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• These men were prepared to hear Him as a result of the credible testimony of the Word of God. Now the test was whether in word and deed Jesus would meet the biblical standard foretold of the Messiah.

• After the Baptist had made his historic announcement of Jesus’ being “the Son of God” (1:34), they “heard him [Jesus] speak” (1:37). After pondering His own words, the declaration would be forthcoming, “We have found the Messiah” (1:41).

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Yom Kippur• Thus, two sides of the revelatory triangle were in

place: the testimony of the Old Testament and the words of Christ. The triangle was completed at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.

• Jesus’ first miracle was a confirmation through interaction. “And his disciples believed on him” (2:11). It was not a case of their suddenly awakening to the fact that they were in the company of a man who was capable of performing supernatural acts, but rather that the Messiah’s act provided a confirmation of the Old Testament and His own claim of messiahship.

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• Their experience provides the pattern to be followed throughout the gospel of John in the presentation of the God-Man to Israel. The feasts, with their attendant ceremonies and symbols, His words in relationship to them, and the miracles are to be seen sequentially as the Son of God is revealed."– McQuaid, E. (1986). The outpouring : Jesus in the feasts

of Israel. Chicago: Moody Press.

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• It is my belief that Jesus was baptized on the 1st of Elul, tested in the Wilderness by Satan in all of the Sins being confessed during the Month of Elul - the 40 days of Elul and the Days of Awe, leading up to Yom Kippur, when John said, as the Scapegoat was being led out into the Wilderness where Jesus had just come from, "This is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!"

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• 38 But Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said to them, What are you looking for? [And what is it you wish?] And they answered Him, Rabbi—which translated is Teacher—where are You staying?

• 39 He said to them, Come and see. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained with Him that day. It was then about the tenth hour (about four o’clock in the afternoon). – The amplified Bible

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• By the second temple period, the High Priest appeared before the people and recited a formula of Confession in their hearing on three separate occasions.

• On this occasion only, these three confessions included the High Priest's saying aloud the sacred Name "YHVH."

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• During each confession, when the High Priest would begin the recitation of the Name, all the people would prostrate themselves and say aloud, "Baruch shem K'vod malchuto l'olam va-ed," "Blessed be the Name of the radiance of the Kingship, forever and ever.")

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• Phil 2:9 "Therefore God raised him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name;10 that in honor of the name given Yeshua, every knee will bow — in heaven, on earth and under the earth — 11 and every tongue will acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai — to the glory of God the Father. - Jewish New Testament

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• A final shofar blast (Shofar ha-Gadol or Tekiah Gedolah) is then sounded (this is referred to in Isaiah 27:13 and Matthew 24:31). Worshippers then exclaim, "L’shanah haba’ah b’Yerushalayim!" ("Next year in Jerusalem!")

• At this point, people are generally quite relieved that they have "Made it" through the Days of Awe, and a celebratory mood sets in (traditionally a time of courtship and love follow this holiday). (Remember the Wedding in Cana?)

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• It will be on the ultimate Yom Kippur, at the end of the age, that the Great Shofar (Trumpet) will be blown (Lev. 25:9; Isa. 18:3, 27:13; Zech. 9:14). 

• On this day, the world will come "Face-to-face" with Jesus when He returns bodily to earth, at the blowing of the Seventh Trumpet (Rev. 11:15). 

• At that time, the remnant of Israel finally will receive atonement from their sins (Isa. 27:9,13). 

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• (It should be noted that the shofar blown on Rosh haShanah is called the "Last Trumpet," while the shofar blown at Yom Kippur is referred to as the "Great Trumpet," even though Yom Kippur follows Rosh haShanah.)

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• Jesus and Yom Kippur• Yom Kippur ends the annual Teshuvah

season, and a specific future Yom Kippur will end the Day of the Lord judgments for Israel. 

• On this particular, future Yom haPeduth ('Day of Redemption"), "The Redeemer will come to Zion…" (Isa. 59:20). 

• This will be the ultimate Yom Kippur.

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• Jesus is the world’s Redeemer, saving us from the consequences of sins and trespasses against God and protecting those who trust in Him from the wrath of and eternal separation from God.

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Yom Kippur• To do this, Jesus had to become • 1) our High Priest, • 2) the sacrifice for the atonement of our sins, and • 3) our Scapegoat.

• Jesus, our High Priest• Israel’s high priest had to enter the Most Holy Place

in the temple once a year, on Yom Kippur, to offer atonement sacrifices, as discussed earlier. 

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• Since the high priest himself was not perfect and sinless, he had to atone not only for the sins of others but also for his own sins. 

• Furthermore, he had to do it over and over again, year after year, as one single sacrifice would not suffice.

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• On the other hand, one sacrifice made by Jesus was all that was required for the sin atonement of all people for eternity. 

• God the Father designated Jesus, the perfect "Author" of our salvation (Heb. 2:10c), to be our "High priest" (5:10); and He is our "High priest" forever" (6:20b). 

• Jesus became "...a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God,...that he might make atonement for the sins of the people" (2:17b).

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• He "...entered the Most Holy Place [in heaven] once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption" (9:12b)—that is, the eternal forgiveness of our sins (Col. 1:14), for those who believe in Him (John 3:15).

• For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, to appear for us in God’s presence.

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• Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 

• Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. 

• But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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• Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him (Heb. 9:24-28).

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• Jesus, atonement sacrifice and Redemption• Not only did the Jewish high priest and his activities

clearly point to an atoning, redeeming Messiah (namely, Jesus), so also did the two goats used to atone (pay for) for and remove the sins of the Israelites, point to Him. 

• The two goats represented and completed one sin atonement/removal each year on Yom Kippur.

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• The first goat, which was sacrificed and its blood sprinkled on the atonement cover for the sins of the people by the high priest (Lev. 16:9,15), depicted or foreshadowed Jesus’ death on the cross and shedding of blood. 

• Whereas the earthly high priest entered an earthly copy of the real Most Holy Place, with blood not his own, Jesus actually entered into the true one (located in heaven), offering His own blood (Heb. 9:11,12b,24,25).

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• The second goat, on which all of Israel’s wickedness and rebellion symbolically were laid (Lev. 16:10,21), portrayed Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. 

• While the first goat "Atoned" for Israel’s sins, the second goat "Removed" them by being led off into the desert (16:22). 

• This was the final sin offering made each Yom Kippur, signifying that none other was necessary.

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• Similarly, Jesus Christ, by means of His resurrection to life, permanently removed our sins (and their eternal penalty) from us, thereby redeeming us. 

• For "...as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). 

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• Just as the "Scapegoat’s" sin offering was final for that year, Christ’s sin offering was final forever, since He "...offered for all time one sacrifice for sins..." and then "...sat down at the right hand of God [the Father]" (Heb. 10:12). 

• Jesus was our once-for-all "Scapegoat"; for that we should rejoice and give Him praise!