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Several people have written to me questioning my emails regarding the observance of the Day of Atonement and other set-apart {holy} high Sabbaths. One suggested that these have passed away because of “the cross”
This is NOT so, originally the “Day of Atonement” required a number of rituals involving highly set-apart {sanctified} priests and animals
By the time of Yahooshua the priesthood was defiled and the temple sacrifices and offerings meant nothing and there was therefore NO recourse for sincere and committed believers because they were reliant on other human beings in order to keep the terms of the covenant given through Moshe {Moses}
One of the key services that Yahooshua performed was that by living a life without sin he was able to provide a lamb for the offering which he did by being proclaimed by Yah through Yahoochanan {John} and others to be “the Lamb of Yah”
He also received the sins of the people when they laid hands on him and beat him and declared that “his blood be upon us”
He also fulfilled the role of the “scape goat” on the Day of Atonement, driven outside the walls of the city
Thus, today, we are able to commemorate the Day of Atonement by taking a piece of bread and a cup of grape juice or wine and praying along the lines of “Father we come to you and recall that Yahooshua provided a substitute for all the ordinances relating to the Day of Atonement and therefore as we eat this bread and drink this cup we claim the full benefits of the Day of Atonement through the sacrifice made by Yahooshua. In particular we ask you to forgive all our sins that we are not aware of, forgive that which we have done that we ought not to have done and that which we have not done that we ought to have done and, where repentance and correction is required, we ask you to bring this to our remembrance, we ask all this in the name of Yahooshua”
May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.
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