Post by nicfos on Aug 26, 2004 14:53:09 GMT -5
Return O Israel to the Lord your God for your sins have crushed you. Hosea 14:1
If my people which are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Set aside a 40-day period between September 24 and November 2, 2004, for corporate fasting, prayer, repentance and seeking the face of God. To “stand in the gap” for our communities, Various churches and prayer groups will begin with all-night prayer on Friday September 24, which is also the eve of Yom Kippur.
Saturday September 25th The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (Leviticus 23:26-32; Numbers 29:7-11)
This day is considered the holiest day in the Jewish year. In the days of the Temple, there was an elaborate ritual involving two goats, one to be slain and one to be led off into the wilderness (scape-goat), symbolically bearing away the people’s sins. The blood of the slain goat was borne by the high priest into the Holy of Holies. There this blood was sprinkled before the mercy seat of God. This was the only day of the year that the inner portion of the Temple could be entered and only by the high priest. At this time, he came "face to face" with God. On this day God grants or denies atonement for the coming year.
For this reason Yom Kippur would forever be known as Yom HaPeduth (Day of Redemption). As each year there was a temporal atonement and redemption, the Scriptures speak of a prophetic Day that Messiah will have returned and redemption will have been completed. (Isa. 59:20,21; Zech. 14:1-15; Rev. 19:11-16).
"But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins of the people had committed in ignorance…when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here…He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption (Hebrews 9:7,11,12).
The appointment communicated by this festival is the literal, physical second coming of the Messiah to the earth. Yeshua will re-establish His throne in Jerusalem and all those who by faith in Christ have been gathered to Him will also reign with the Messiah for the remainder of the thousand years (Revelation 20:4).
If my people which are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Set aside a 40-day period between September 24 and November 2, 2004, for corporate fasting, prayer, repentance and seeking the face of God. To “stand in the gap” for our communities, Various churches and prayer groups will begin with all-night prayer on Friday September 24, which is also the eve of Yom Kippur.
Saturday September 25th The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (Leviticus 23:26-32; Numbers 29:7-11)
This day is considered the holiest day in the Jewish year. In the days of the Temple, there was an elaborate ritual involving two goats, one to be slain and one to be led off into the wilderness (scape-goat), symbolically bearing away the people’s sins. The blood of the slain goat was borne by the high priest into the Holy of Holies. There this blood was sprinkled before the mercy seat of God. This was the only day of the year that the inner portion of the Temple could be entered and only by the high priest. At this time, he came "face to face" with God. On this day God grants or denies atonement for the coming year.
For this reason Yom Kippur would forever be known as Yom HaPeduth (Day of Redemption). As each year there was a temporal atonement and redemption, the Scriptures speak of a prophetic Day that Messiah will have returned and redemption will have been completed. (Isa. 59:20,21; Zech. 14:1-15; Rev. 19:11-16).
"But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins of the people had committed in ignorance…when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here…He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption (Hebrews 9:7,11,12).
The appointment communicated by this festival is the literal, physical second coming of the Messiah to the earth. Yeshua will re-establish His throne in Jerusalem and all those who by faith in Christ have been gathered to Him will also reign with the Messiah for the remainder of the thousand years (Revelation 20:4).