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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 transformation. 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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