Everybody open up to Leviticus 23. If you have
your Bibles that is the chapter that has all the appointed times of the Lord, that he gave.
Verse 27. On exactly the tenth day of the month, the seventh month, in the day will be the Day
of Atonement or in Hebrew Yom ... and in this, in the original it doesn't just say Yom Kippur, it
says Yom Kippurim. That's plural. That means it's, there's more than you can, you can even express.
It shall be a holy gathering for you. You will humble your, your souls, present an offering by
fire to the Lord. Neither shall you do any work on the same day. It is, it is the Day of Atonement
to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God. Growing up as a Jewish boy
Yom Kippur was pretty much a mystery. And for many of us who grew up with it, it was
pretty much, it was, we knew it was the central day. But you didn't pretty much, you didn't know
much about it at all. It's a central day but you just didn't know much about it. You knew it
was the day you were supposed to not eat, if you followed that or go to synagogue but
that was pretty much it. Humble yourself, confess sins, that was about it. But in the
Bible Yom Kippur means the day of covering, the day of atoning, the day of the sacrifice.
There's a sacrifice for sin but the idea of a sacrifice was really the farthest thing
from your mind growing up Jewish because nobody talked about a sacrifice. It's the day of
The Sacrifice but for 2000 years there has been no sacrifice. There's been no atonement for the Day
of Atonement. So you've got Yom Kippur. Yom means the day, of the Kippur, the atonement. You had a,
you had a day of atonement. You had a day without atonement. You had a Yom without a Kippur.
The whole point of the day was missing. I remember when I, when I was a, a kid and
we were on vacation with my cousins and my aunt and uncle came. We went to an aquarium.
I think it was around Cape Cod or something. And we're walking all around ... all through
the aquarium but there's nobody there. And we're looking for the doors to open.
There's no sign. I remember my uncle I always remembered to this day what he said.
He said there's something fishy going on here. I still remember it. He's 98 now and he probably
remembers it. Well so with this. The fact of the Day of Atonement with no Atonement. That's a
sign that there's something fishy going on. I'll tell you, you know, something here, here
is, here is the center of the faith of Judaism, and of the Bible. The central day that was given.
And the center of the center is missing. A Day of Atonement. No Atonement. What happened to
the Atonement? The center of the faith is missing. It's not inside the faith. It's got to
be somewhere else. And that's exactly where it is. Because what's missing is the Atonement, and
the Bible says the Atonement is Messiah. That is the mystery of the Hebrew scriptures. Isaiah 53,
the punishment that brought us shalom fell upon him. Sacrifice. He was wounded, he was crushed for
our sins. He dies for us. That's the sacrifice. He made his life a guilt offering. That's the same
word from Leviticus. He is the offering. That's, the mystery is Messiah is going to be the
sacrifice of the central day. Daniel 9. It's a determined to make an end of sin to make atonement
it says. The same word atonement and it's all, but not just one. It's the everlasting,
it's the final atonement. And then it, what's it linked to? Daniel says it's linked to
Messiah coming to Jerusalem and being cut off, killed. Why? Messiah is the Kippur of
Yom Kippur and that's why it's missing. Messiah is the center. Messiah is the center of
Israel, the center of Judah and he's also the center of Judaism. He's the center so he's, so the
atonement is the center and Messiah is the center. Messiah is the atonement. He's the center
of the center. And so it's the stone that the builders rejected has become the
chief corner. He's the central stone. And so for 2000 years the Jewish people have
had no way to have forgiveness. No atonement, according to the Bible. They have no means, no
sacrifice, those who haven't come to Messiah. I remember one Yom Kippur service I was a new
believer with my father. I went to synagogue with him on Yom Kippur and the Rabbi gets up and begins
his Yom Kippur address saying, it starts out, I was driving on the road and I saw a sign that
read, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. I'm thinking, wow this is amazing! It's Yom
Kippur and he's talking about the blood of Jesus. Well that sign was in front of a Church that I
was going to. So I'm in the synagogue and I'm going to the church. I'm in the synagogue and
he says, I'll never forget what he said though. He said, the Jewish people don't need blood to be
cleansed from sin. I'm thinking, really. Have you ever read the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, the law
of Moses? The whole, whole thing is based on the atonement. Without the atonement there's nothing
else. Sacrifice. So I went to the synagogue that had the Yom without the Kippur. The day
without the atonement. And then I went to the church that had the Kippur without the Yom.
It had the atonement but no day. I said, wow this is confusing. But one day it's all going
to be together. We'll have it all together. But the problem in Judaism is the only way God
gave for forgiveness of atonement was atonement, was the sacrifice. For two thousand years there's
been no sacrifice. So if you say you're going to go by the law of Moses, you need a sacrifice.
And if you say you don't need that then you're going against the law of Moses. Or if you say
well that's not needed anymore, then you have to be saying that God made a cosmic change because
only God can change the covenant that he gave. If he changes a covenant or, or, or fulfills it,
we must have a new covenant then. So there's the, the choice is either come up with the blood or
find the new covenant. That's it. Two thousand years the Jewish people were without the Messiah,
without the atonement. And it just so happens that for the same two thousand years one came
two thousand years ago as the Messiah and as the Atonement. And when he came also comes what's
called the New Covenant. So it all comes together. And it was right after he came that
the Temple just happens to disappear. The altar, the sacrifices, everything. Yom Kippur,
the sacrifice disappears right after he comes. And the Rabbis record in their writings
that the sign that it would all disappear was given before it disappeared, right around
the year 30 A.D., which is right around the time that Messiah offered himself up as the final
Atonement. Book of Hebrews. Rabbis. It actually, it actually, they're actually bearing
witness to the Book of Hebrews, what it says. To find out how you can receive
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