Yom Kippur is a day of atonement.
Lev 23:27 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.
Let us read verse 28 too:
Lev 23:28 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.
As well as we see an aim of Yom Kippur is ''to make an atonement for
you before the LORD your God''.
A physical fast has close connection with a spiritual fast.
Isaiah 58:6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and
that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring
the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isaiah 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the
glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Call attention to these words: ''the glory of the LORD shall be thy
rereward''. It is fast which G-d loves!
Annually in Yom Kippur a high priest entered into the Holy of Holies in order to make an atonement for all the congregation of Israel.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches
upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen
mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his
flesh in water, and so put them on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of
the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the
other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him
for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented
alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a
scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the
bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: (Lev. 16:3-11)
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar
before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it
within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud
of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die
not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his
finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. (Lev. 16:12-14)
There wasn't the Ark of the Covenant in the Second Temple. There was Even
ha-Shetiyah (the cornerstone) in Kadosh Kadoshim.
In Talmud we read:
"When the ark had been taken away, there was a stone from the time of the
first prophets, "Shethia" [foundation] it was called, three-finger
high above the ground. Thereupon he placed [the censer]. He (kohen ha-gadol)
took the blood from the one who stirred it, went to the place whither he had
gone, and stopped where he had stopped [in the Holy of Holies], and sprinkled
from his position once upward and seven times downward [Lev. xvi. 14], without
being intent on sprinkling it either upward or downward, but holding the palm
open, either turned outward or toward himself [meaning doubtful]."
(Mishnah Yoma 5 http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t03/yom10.htm)
Even ha-Shetiyah was prototype of Messiah
Yeshua.
42 Yeshua (Jesus) saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The
stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner:
this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? (Matt. 21:42)
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be
disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head
of the corner, (1 Peter 2:7)
Lev 16:17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation
when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy [place], until he come out,
and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the
congregation of Israel.
Lev 16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate
to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, [even] the holy garments:
Lev 16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he
shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the
altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people
of the congregation.
Lev 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did
as the LORD commanded Moses.
“… there is a place in the Rabbinic writings called Yoma. (Yoma 39:B) Our Rabbi's taught that the last 40 years before the destruction of the Temple, the following happened; On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, they would hang a scarlet cord, which they would somehow, I suppose, associate with Isaiah 1:18, they would hang a scarlet cord before the Holy of Holies when the high priest went in, on the Day of Atonement to make the sacrifice. Now the prophet Daniel chapter 9, as we'll see, said the Messiah had to come and die before the second temple would be destroyed. Jesus and the Olivet discourse (Luke 21, Matthew 24 etc.), was simply echoing what Daniel had said; the Messiah would come and die before the second temple would be destroyed. And the Rabbis taught during the last forty years before the destruction of the temple, which happened circa 70 AD, the scarlet thread did not become white, nor did the western lamp in the temple shine. And the doors of the Holy of Holies would fling themselves open of their own accord. For the forty years before the destruction the of temple, the scarlet thread never turned white but remained red. What they believed was, that if the people's sins were forgiven, the scarlet cord would turn white. If the people's sins were not forgiven on the Day of Atonement, it would not turn white, but remain scarlet.” (http://www.letusreason.org/Juda3.htm)
"Forty years before the destruction of the Temple (30 C.E.)
The lot did not come up in the right hand,
nor did the crimson stripe become white, nor did the westernmost light burn;
and the doors of the Holy Place of the Temple opened of their own accord, until
Rabbi Yochanon ben Zakkai rebuked them. He said to the Temple:
'O Temple, Temple, why do you alarm yourself? I know full well that you are
destined to be destroyed, for Zechariah ben Iddo has already prophesied
concerning you 'Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour the cedars'
(Zech. 11:1).' (Talmud Bavli, Yoma 39b http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:k6hpL2Z8a80J:www.yeshuatyisrael.com/Powerpoint/Tisha%2520B%27Av.ppt+YOMA+39B&cd=15&hl=ru&ct=clnk)
Yeshua Messiah - ''a High Priest of the good things'' -
entered once into the Holy of Holies and ''having obtained eternal
redemption [for us].''
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good
things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for
us].
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that
by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under
the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the
sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with
his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing
his reproach.
Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now
dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, |
What was this fast?
It was Yom Kippur.
9 "The fast,
or day of atonement, was kept on the tenth of Tisri… " (Wesley's Notes http://www.bible-center.ru/comments/wesley_eng/ac/27)