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Yom
Hakippurim
Special Edition
The
Day of Atonement
1-2
October 2006
Shabbat shalom dearly beloved:
“If you turn away your foot from the
Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a
delight, The holy day of Yahveh honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your
own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words, Then you
shall delight yourself in Yahveh; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills
of the earth, And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of
Yahveh has spoken.” Isaiah
58:13,14
Yom Hakippurim, The Day of Atonement is
the holiest day in The Hebrew calendar. It is called a “Shabbat of Shabbats”.
Shabbat is the day of rest when we stop from all normal activities and
fellowship with YAH (God) and with each other. Every Shabbat we are required to
“Stop (or cease) from our own works and to enter into rest. We are also
commanded to have a “Holy Convocation” that means a special gathering of
believers to worship Yahveh. In Hebrew the word Shabbat means “to sit, to dwell
or to go on strike” in other words to STOP “business as usual”.
And Yahveh spoke to Moses, saying: “Also
the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a
holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering
made by fire to Yahveh. And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the
Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahveh your God. For any
person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his
people. And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will
destroy from among his people. You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a
statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be
to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth
day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your
sabbath.” Leviticus 23:26-32
 As
we read the above scriptures about Yom Hakippurim, The Day of Atonement we
notice that this is a STATUTE FOREVER so no man has the rights to cancel it.
This day will continue being a Shabbat of Shabbats throughout our generations.
We can clearly see that the emphasis is on halting, ceasing, stopping and
afflicting. When we read in Hebrew about afflicting it always means FASTING. In
this case the whole nation is called to prayer and fasting for an entire day
beginning from the sunset of the 9th of Tishrei (the seventh month in
the Biblical calendar) to sunset on the 10th of Tishrei. Just like we
are required to STOP all activities besides prayer and worship, we are required
to STOP eating and drinking. In other words all of our being is summoned into
The Presence of Yahveh! It is so serious not to stop everything that the Word
tells us that such person that does not heed to this commandment will be “cut
off” or excommunicated from the People of Israel and with it from the Covenant
Promises. So, Yom Hakippurim is a day to do a 24 hour prayer/worship watch unto
The King of Kings. In Israel the whole country stops and there are no cars on
the roads. The children go out on the streets with their skates and bicycles
because there is no danger of being run over. All shops are closed and most of
the people fast and spend most of the day in the synagogues in prayer and
worship.
One of the main highlight of this Holy
Feast is that contrary to all other Holy Feasts and Shabbats, there are no
offerings to be brought to the Temple on this day. On normal Shabbat the priests
are commanded to offer seven times more lambs but not on Yom Hakippurim. The
only one that makes a sacrifice is the High Priest and He sacrifices first for
Himself in order to be fit then to make the sacrifice for all the People of
Israel. He, then enters into The Holy of Holiest for the first and only time in
the year.
“And Aaron shall bring the bull of the
sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his
house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. Then he
shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before Yahveh,
with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil.
And he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahveh, that the cloud of
incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die. He shall
take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy
seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the
blood with his finger seven times. “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin
offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that
blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat
and before the mercy seat. So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place,
because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of
meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. There shall
be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the
Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his
household, and for all the assembly of Israel. And he shall go out to the altar
that is before Yahveh, and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the
blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of
the altar all around. Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his
finger seven times, cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the
children of Israel.
Leviticus 16:11-19
Of course 2000 years ago Y’shua who
became Israel’s High Priest from the Order of Melchizedek offered His own blood
as atonement on the altar and thus forever has cleansed the sins of those that
put their trust in Him.
 Therefore
He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through
Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For such a High Priest
was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and
has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high
priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the
people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
Hebrews 7:25-27
Y’shua with one sacrifice cleansed us
from sin and gave us a new life of holiness and righteousness. However many
people do not understand the Gospel. For us to enter into Eternal Life through
forgiveness of sins; WE MUST ENTER INTO YOM HAKIPPURIM. We must STOP everything!
True salvation occurs when we stop our life as usual and humble ourselves before
The Almighty, acknowledging that we have broken His commandments and we are in
need of salvation. No salvation can occur unless we are cleansed and forgiven of
our sins. The only way to be cleansed as instituted by the Creator Himself is by
the offering of a perfect, unblemished sacrifice of a clean animal. (pigs would
not be acceptable!) as mentioned in the Book of Leviticus. So, in order to
obtain mercy we must,
STOP
business as usual
ACKNOWLEDGE
our own sins and transgressions
ASK
for forgiveness
RECEIVE
the Blood Sacrifice of Y’shua as the
High Priest and the “sacrificial goat”
TURN
from our rebellious and sinful ways
ARISE
to new life in Him in a forgiven state
OBEY
His Commandments
 For
if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of
another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who
has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to
the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful,
and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and
spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents
of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things
are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Seeing then
that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Y’shua the
Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest
who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we
are,
yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:8-16
Y’shua fulfilled the role of the TWO
GOATS
Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two
goats: one lot for Yahveh and the other lot for the scapegoat.
Leviticus 16:8
Y’shua gave His blood and He became “THE
ATONING GOAT” but He also took our sins upon Him and all the curse and the
judgment that we deserved and He became “THE SCAPEGOAT”.
Aaron shall lay both his hands on the
head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on
the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of
a suitable man. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an
uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:21, 22
Just as the Prophet Isaiah also says,
But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5
In Hebrew the words “Chastisement for
our peace” means “the discipline and punishment so that we can be made whole was
put on Him”. Just like the Yom Hakippurim scapegoat
 And
every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that
time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has
perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also
witnesses to us; for after He had said before, “This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, says Yahveh: I will put My laws into their
hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and
their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
Hebrews 10:11-17
The outcome of taking our sins away and
fulfilling the role of “The Scapegoat” was so that His Commandments will be
written in our hearts and we would walk as obedient sons and daughters to Our
Father in Heaven. The outcome and results of the true Gospel “made in Zion” and
of true new birth and salvation is a RADICAL LIFESTYLE OF OBEDIENCE as a
response to Y’shua becoming our High Priest as well as our Blood Sacrifice. A
“supposed salvation” that does not lead to a radical lifestyle of obedience is
not rooted in the true Gospel. Y’shua has SAVED US TO THE UTTERMOST. He has paid
the highest price-His own Body and Blood in order to eradicate sin and death
from our lives and RESTORE US to His image and likeness!
STOP EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW! HAVE YOU BEEN
SAVED TO THE UTTERMOST FROM SIN OR HAVE YOU RECEIVED A “PARTIAL SALVATION” AND
YOU WALK ONLY A PARTIAL WALK? THAT IS NOT THE TRUE GOSPEL!
STOP EVERYTHING TIME IS LATE AND RECEIVE
THE TRUE GOSPEL AND THE TRUE JEWISH MESSIAH THAT PAID THE PRICE TO SAVE YOU FROM
SIN TO THE UTTERMOST.
THERE IS NO ADVANCING WITHOUT STOPPING
May this Day of Atonement be one in
which you ENTER INTO HIS REST COMPLETELY by stopping your own agendas and plans
and by surrendering all the way to the ONE that has paid all the price for your
radical transform ation.
We strongly suggest that you separate Sunday sunset to Monday sunset for a day
of TOTAL fasting, prayer and seeking that you may be able to ADVANCE into all
His blessing and all His glory.
We love and care for you
Your friends in Israel
Bishop Dominiquae and Rabbi Baruch Bierman
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