Shabbat shalom everyone. Please open your Bible. Today we are going to read from the book of Leviticus in Hebrew as it is in anticipation of the feast of Yom HaKippurim, the Day of Atonement. I would like us today to look at the book of Leviticus and this time, beloved brothers and sisters, we are going to look at the feast of what we call Yom HaKippuin, the Day of Atonement. And I would like us to see as we are studying through the chart that is behind me, looking over the seven feasts of the Lord. Leviticus chapter 23 is the chapter that we're going to begin our reading from, especially verses 26 into verse 32.

And we will connect and link with this and other passages from the Scripture, including the Psalms, including the prophets, and including the New Testament, the Brit HaKadasha, specifically in the book of Hebrews. So we are in the Day of Atonement, Yom HaKippurim. And in that verses I would like to read today is Leviticus 23, verse 26. And if you may follow me, I'll appreciate that. Verse 26, Israel is in the wilderness on the way to the promised land. And God graciously provided for our forefathers, the people of Israel, seven feasts in which he desired them to keep those appointments upon the right time and the right season. And now we arrive into Feast number 6, and we read in verse 26, And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Also, the tenth day of the seventh month, there shall be a day of atonement.

In Hebrew, Yom HaKippurim. It shall be an holy convocation unto thee. Ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 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. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people and whatsoever solid be that doeth any work in that same day the same soul will be destroyed will I destroy from among his people ye shall do no manner of work.

It shall be a statute forever throughout your generation in all your dwellings. It shall be unto you a Shabbat of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month at even from even unto even shall ye celebrate your Shabbat. This is in Leviticus chapter 23 verses 26 to 32. Please now turn with me to Isaiah chapter 53. Now we are going to read from the prophet Torah the law Leviticus Nevi'im the prophet Isaiah chapter 53 and there I'm only going to read a few verses and the verses that I'm reading beginning in verse 3 Isaiah 53 and verse 3 and so we read he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows Yet we did esteem him stricken and smitten of God and afflicted But he was wounded for our transgression He was bruised for our iniquities The chastisement of our peace was upon him And with his stripe we are healed All we like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of us all he was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before a shearer is done so he opened not his mouth he was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken. Then please put your finger here and turn with me to the Psalms. And this time I would like you to turn to Psalm 22.

And I'm just going to read a few verses from the book of Psalm in chapter 22 and the first a few verses in Psalm 22. And listen to this Psalm Psalm 22 and verse 1 including the heading which is in the Hebrew text the first verse notice it says here to the chief musician a Psalm of David and so we read the cry of the Messiah who said my God my God why has thou forsaken me why are thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring oh my God i cry in the daytime but thou hearest not and in a night season, and am not silent.

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Now the final verses that I want to read found in the Brit HaChadasha in the book of Hebrews. And I would like you please to turn to Hebrews chapter 9. El Ha-Ivriim, Hebrews chapter 9 and then verses 11 to 15. And there we read in the Brit HaChadasha, in the new covenant, but Messiah, but Christ, but Mashiach, being come a 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 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 for if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifying to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Mashiach of Messiah who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge our conscience from dead works to serve the living God and for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant that by means of death for the redemption of the transgression that were under the first covenant they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance and i'm stopping with the reading here beloved.

Brothers and sisters. I read, notice, from the law, Leviticus 23. From the prophets, Isaiah 53. From the writings, the Psalm, Psalm 22. And from the Brit HaKadasha, Hebrews chapter 9, in the reading for us today. So, where we are, beloved brothers and sisters, we're going to look at the charts please once again. We're going to begin with this chart and I remind you once again it is essential for us to understand the plan and the purpose of God for all humanity but also for the nation of Israel, our own people, the people of Israel and for the body of Christ, the body of Messiah, the assembly. And you notice in the center line here we have all the seven feasts are clearly set before us that God had given in Leviticus chapter 23 to our forefathers, the people of Israel.

Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, Shavuot, wicks, trumpets, atonement, and tabernacles. Seven feasts, in Hebrew we call it Shivaat Moadei Adonai, the seven appointments that God had made with the people of Israel in the lowest part of this chart you will notice how Israel in the history of the Jewish people and still today have are keeping those seven appointed seasons every year in their due seasons and if you remember Passover reminders of Israel have came out of Egypt unleavened bread they have eaten feasting inside the home the unleavened bread the shifts of the first food they provided for the Lord, the two loaves that have been given to God, the Feast of Weeks, and then what we have enjoyed last week together, the Feast of Trumpets.

Today, we are dealing with the Day of Atonement, and in the next week, in the Will of the Lord Ministry, we are going to deal with the Feast of Sukkot, the Feast of Booth. Now, in this chart, we see seven commandments of the Lord of Appointment. And Israel on the yearly cycle is celebrating this. But here in the upper line above, we see the prophetic picture. And it is so beautiful when we have studied the prophetic picture that every one of these feasts speak about the person of the Lord, Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, in relationship to Israel, in relationship to the assembly and in relationship to the world itself.

Well, the feast of Passover spoke of his death. Praise God in the fullness of time. Galatians 4.4, God sent forth his son, the Messiah, and he died on a shameful cross and he paid for the sin of this world. Then we have this communion with saints. The unleavened bread speaks of the fact that believers are to enjoy the presence of God and live a life without leaven. A life that is honoring unto the Lord. Then the resurrection we saw in the first fruits because the Messiah rose from among the dead and became the first fruits of them that slept. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. And then the Holy Spirit of God came some 2,000 years ago in Acts chapter 2 and formed the body of Messiah.

And since that time until today, including today, We find out that the Lord, the Messiah is seated in heaven and here he is waiting the day when he is going to come and restore Israel to himself and take the heavenly company to be with him. Well, you remember we said that there will be a time coming when the shofar will be blown. The heavenly company, that is the assembly, will be raptured to heaven. Then the Jewish people will begin to go back to the land as the Feast of Trumpets represent the restoration of the Jewish people back to the land. And now today there are nearly seven, seven and a half million of our own Jewish people who are yet in the land.

But beloved brothers and sisters, our people Israel are still without salvation, not knowing that the Messiah has come. And that is where, prophetically, the Feast of the Day of Atonement represent the time when Israel will finally recognize that Yeshua is the Messiah, and they will have national, not only national, physical restoration to the land, but national regeneration, where all Israel eventually will acknowledge that Jesus is, that Yeshua is the Messiah. And that's what we are waiting in the soon coming day when the Lord will restore Israel to himself. Now, if you go look at the second chart that we have here that we showed you before, you will notice it make it very clearly.

You have all the verses found in Leviticus chapter 23. You have all the names found. Pesach, Matzot, Katsir, Shavuot, Tuach, Kippurim, Sukkot. All the seven feasts are set before us beautifully, and the timing of the seasons every year, and what it represents, what is the meaning. And those first four feasts have been fulfilled, those three feasts are still awaiting the fulfillment when Israel as a nation will acknowledge the Messiah. So now let's go back to the Bible, and we're going to see this in the Scripture itself. And so notice that we began in the reading of Leviticus chapter 23. And if you remember, dear brothers and sisters, we noticed that in a fall season, in a month of Tishrei, this is the fall season, it is where God commanded Israel to celebrate or to keep the fall feasts of the Lord.

And we read in Leviticus chapter 23, remember from verse 26. And you notice, I just want to go over that just so that you can see this in the Scripture and in your mind that you will understand it. Notice this, beloved brothers and sisters, verse 26, the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, and now notice he gave him a date. The date is the 10th day of the 7th month. That 7th month is really the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar. It's equivalent to the September, October in the calendar in which the rest of the world uses. And the 10th day of the month, 10 days after the Feast of Trumpet, here God gives Israel, notice he tells them, on the 10th day of the 7th month there shall be a day of atonement.

In Hebrew, we call it Yom HaKippurim. You see, God always expected from Israel to offer sacrifices, but there is one day in a year in which God is going to make a national atonement for all the nation of Israel collectively to enable himself to be in the midst of his failing people. Remember that Israel, though were redeemed out of Egypt, yet they were still failing and sinning in their life. So if God was going to maintain his presence in the midst of a sinful people, atonement had to be made. And that's why he chose the tenth day of the month the day he called it the day of atonement and God on that day made atonement for all the nation of Israel now I'm not going to go through the verses of Leviticus chapter 16 but in Leviticus chapter 16 God gave the instruction to Aaron as to how he is to approach the Lord on that day of atonement.

You remember he could not quickly go into the presence of God. There was a distance. Aaron could only enter into the Holy of Holies once a year on the 10th day of the month of Tishrei. When he came into the presence of God on the 10th day of the month of Tishrei first of all he had to bring a bulak for himself blood had to be shed for him and for his family because after all Aaron is a sinner himself and then after he would to bring two goats for the nation of Israel and he will kill the one goat that will be for the Lord and the second God.

He will send into the wilderness into a faraway place we call it in Hebrew into an unknown place which is representing the removal of the sins of the nation of Israel. And so you can see beloved brothers and sisters that God has set a day whereby He is going to have to make a national atonement for the people of Israel. And so what is Israel to do during that particular day, the 10th day of the month of Tishrei? According to verse 27, Deuteronomy 23, Israel is to afflict their souls. They are to search their souls and to afflict their souls. In Hebrew we call it they would search out their hearts in fact today beloved brothers and sisters the Jewish people are searching out their hearts they recognize that they have failed God in the previous year they recognize that they have sinned against God in the previous year they recognize that they have failed each other in the previous year So at a day of atonement is a day when Israel is to be in preparation for the time to see whether God will forgive and make atonement for the nation.

And therefore, on doing this time, the 10th day of the mouth of Tishrei, instead of having only three prayer meetings during weekly days, they are changing. In other words, they added two more prayer times together, not only Mariv, Sheharit, and Mincha, but they added two more prayer meetings in which they would cry unto God, desiring to receive forgiveness of sins. At that time, Israel will sing what is called the Kol Nidrei. They will ask that God will forgive them any vows that they have made that God will annul them and consider it as null and void. But they will search their hearts. They will search their hearts.

Notice in verse 27, you will afflict your soul. But again, brothers and sisters, you would notice that something that is not existing today was required by God in biblical days. You notice verse 27, at the end, ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. The necessity of blood to be shed, God demanded this from our people of Israel. But of course, today, there is no atonement made because there is no temple in existence. There is no priests that are functioning in the temple. There is no altar that is placed there in the temple. There is no sacrifices that are offered. And therefore, there is no blood that had been shed upon an altar.

But today, that is what the sad thing about it today, because the temple is not in existence the Jewish people replaced the blood atonement with doing good deeds, doing mitzvot keeping, you might say, seeking to give gifts and to help one another and to ask for forgiveness but something beloved brothers and sisters is missing because the blood atonement is not there and so even if they would afflict their souls and they will ask for forgiveness the basis upon which God could forgive sins was always on the basis of the blood that will be shed in fact I want you to see that if you turn back to Leviticus 16 and you will notice the verses that are highlighting the necessity of blood we didn't read all these verses but I want to mention this to you here in our meeting today notice verse 14 of Leviticus 16.

He shall take off the blood of the bullocks and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat. Notice verse 15. Then shall he kill the goat for the sin offering that is for. The people and bring his blood within the veil and do with that blood as he did it with the blood of the bullock. Notice the blood is mentioned again and again. Notice verse 18. And he shall go out unto the altar as it is before the Lord and make an atonement for it. And he shall take again of the blood of the bullocks and of the blood of the goats and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

Again and again the blood is mentioned in Leviticus because the tabernacle was in existence. Blood had to be shed and innocent animals had to be killed in order to make an atonement for the people of Israel. But today, beloved brothers and sisters, there is no blood because there is no sacrifice and because there is no altar because there is no temple because there is no priest to offer upon the altar and therefore, beloved brothers and sisters something is missing today and that which is missing is the blood of the innocent animal who would die on behalf of the people. To make an atonement for the nation of Israel so you can see that in the law if we're going to look one more time at the chart again in the law you can see the priest offering blood upon the mercy seat in the holy of holies and there he make an atonement for the nation of Israel but today Israel is lacking or missing the necessity of the blood that had to be shed upon the altar.

And we who are believers understood that, that we recognize that in the fullness of time, the Messiah had to come and that Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah is the one that the atonement was typifying and speaking of. So we read Leviticus chapter 23, and now let's turn our pages to the book of Psalms. The book of Psalms, and I would like you please to go to Psalm 22. And here is the atonement that had been predicted by the Hebrew prophets of a day that a Messiah will come and make an atonement for the nation and the nations of the world. And look at this. Psalm 22, we have David predicting the coming of the Messiah.

And you notice, brothers and sisters, that here David is speaking. But David, being a prophet, is speaking about the time where the Messiah will come. And that he, by the name of Yeshua, we know him today, Jesus the Messiah. He will be the one that will make atonement for sin. And notice what we read in that amazing Psalm. Here David is predicting, and you might say, speaking on behalf of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. And look at the cry. He says, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He's crying. And he says, why art thou so far from helping me from the words of my roaring?

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not. And in the night season, and not silent. And then notice verse 3. But thou art holy, thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Just pause with me here for a moment. Because God is holy, and because men by nature, we all, Israel as a nation, All mankind by nature have a nature that needed forgiveness. Sinful nature. Sin had to be dealt with. An innocent person had to die on behalf of all the sins of this world. If you will, as we look at these charts together and we read these verses, we see David is predicting the future day Only when the Lord will make atonement, the Lord will pay for the sin of Israel and the sin of this world when he will die there upon the altar.

Now David didn't know as clear as you and I know it today that it was done on a Roman cross where the Lord Jesus the Messiah died on a Roman cross. We can read it because we live in the other side of this event. But look at the cry of the Messiah here of course the rams and the goats typified him he says my God my God here's the cry of the Messiah Jesus Yeshua the Messiah cried and he said why has thou forsaken me why is it that thou art so far from helping me and we see in a picture here as we can read it in Matthew 27 that we see the cry of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah when he was there lifted up between heaven and earth set in between two malefactors and there God had to deal with him for the sin of this world and he's crying, notice he doesn't say my father, my father here he says my God, my God Because here, here the Messiah is a man crying to God.

And here God is seen as a judge who is going to judge this very holy man. And so he's crying, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? And as the Messiah is predicted here, Yeshua the Messiah is predicted by David as he is lifted up here and he is crying to God because God now had to forsake him on behalf of Israel and behalf of all the nations of the world. He says in verse 2, oh God, he says, oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear us not.

And in the night season, and I'm not silent, and then notice the answer that the Messiah, he's saying here, but thou art holy, thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. God had to judge sin because God is holy. Israel could never dwell in the presence of God and God be in the midst of them unless blood will be shed atonement will be made and here there is a vivid prediction of the one that will come to make an atonement for sin and David looked forward and he's speaking about the coming Messiah who will make once and for all atonement and will remove sin from the presence of God.

And he answered himself to his question, Why you forsake me, God? Why you have not answered my cry? And he answered, I know why. Because you are holy. And you inhabited the praises of Israel. And no one could ever be in your presence unless sin had been dealt with and that's why God ended up to punish the very own son of his because of the sin of the nation of Israel and of course all the nations the sins of all the nations of the world so Leviticus 23 is the text from which we started we went to the Psalms and we read Psalm 22 so let's move forward now and read Isaiah chapter 53 together for a moment here we again we are talking about prophetically in the future day let's look again at that pictures together and here is the time where Israel as a nation will have to repent before God And the Day of Atonement represent the future day when Israel as a nation will acknowledge their sin and turn to the Messiah himself.

So Isaiah is now predicting this just like David had predicted it. David lived earlier than the prophet Yeshayahu, the prophet Isaiah, but both of them Hebrew men, Jewish men, looking forward to the restoration of Israel through the Messiah. And look what Isaiah is saying. Isaiah, 750 years before the Messiah came to die. And from our time, it's 2750 years, almost 2800 years where you and I live in today. And here we read of that which will happen in a soon coming day when Israel will finally acknowledge Yeshua the Messiah and recognize that he is the one who died for them. And notice their language. Notice Isaiah 53. In chapter 53 verse 1 asks the question, who has believed our report?

This is verse 1. And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Verse 2 he shall grow up before him as attend the plant as a root out of a dry ground he has no form no comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him in other words when the Messiah Jesus came 2000 years ago Israel did not recognize that he was indeed the one that came to make an atonement notice what they say now in verse 3 and the language of verse 3 is a language of which they will say in the future about something that happened in the past and notice what they say he's despised he's rejected of men he's a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief when he said that and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not.

They're going to look back and they're going to say, look what we have done. We didn't recognize him. We actually despised him and rejected him. And yet he was a man of sorrows. He was the one that was acquainted with grief. And they would look back and they would realize that the Messiah, the one that they didn't accept for so many years was the one that is called in the Bible a man of sorrows. And beloved brothers and sisters listen to this. If there is anything that attract our hearts to the Lord is when we look back at the history of our Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah who was born to the virgin Miriam.

He was sinless, undefiled. He was separate from sinners. He did not have to go to the cross, to the altar to die for the sin of this world. He was a sinless man. But he was willing. He came for this purpose. He came to become that man of sorrow. Sometimes we sing, man of sorrow. What a name for the Son of God who came, ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah, what a Savior. He was that man of sorrow. But Israel is looking back, and Israel is saying, wow, he was rejected of men, he was despised, he was a man of sorrow than we, and we see he was acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him.

He was despised, and we esteemed him not. We didn't recognize that he was that promised Messiah. That's why, brothers and sisters, in the days of which we live in today, in this present day, as we look once again in the present day in which we live in today, our Jewish people are scattered for 2,000 years, are scattered in all the nations of the world, waiting for the day when they will be restored and acknowledged that he was indeed the promised Messiah. And so when you look at the history of Israel, you can see Israel is still scattered, dispersed, and waiting the day of restoration. But until they will start to be gathered back to the land, recognizing, repenting, recognizing, as it were in the day of atonement, during the tribulation period, recognizing that the Messiah was Yeshua himself.

Until then, they are still a scattered nation. A nation that is waiting the restoration back to the Lord and saw this wonderful confession that we have here before us in Isaiah 53. Notice what they said in verse 4 and verse 5. It says, surely he has borne our griefs and he carried our sorrows and we did esteem him stricken in the smitten of God and afflicted you see they will look back into the time when they did not accept the Messiah at his first coming and gonna say listen we were the one who were guilty we were the one who denied the Messiah denied him he actually carried our sorrows and yet we esteemed him as smitten of God and afflicted, but verse 5, he was wounded for our transgression.

He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastement of our peace fell upon him and noticed that beloved brothers and sisters with his stripe, we are healed. What is that stripe? I know in some Bibles it used the word stripes in plural but that's wrong in the Hebrew text is one single stripe that God have laid upon the Lord Yeshua the Messiah at the cross and the healing here is not physical healing but spiritual healing with the cross, with the punishment that he had to pay we were spiritually restored to God. Because of what he have done for us. And so notice verse 6, All we like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all. Here is the truth of substitution. He became a substitute on behalf of the nation of Israel. He became a substitute for you and for me today because we have accepted him. But for Israel, it will be waiting for the day of Israel national regeneration when Israel will accept the Lord Yeshua Messiah as indeed the promise one of Israel. And if you just, in this chapter, it's very important for me to highlight verse 7. He was oppressed and he said, he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.

This verse always speaks to my heart. When the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, prophetically is seen here as the one that was oppressed by men, afflicted by men, but he does not open his mouth. He doesn't retaliate. When they led him to the cross, when they led him from the high priest to Pilate, he did not resist, and he allowed men to take him and ultimately nail him to the shameful Roman cross some 2,000 years ago. And then, of course, in verse 7b, it says, He was brought as the lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearer, So he opened not his mouth. Brothers and sisters, this is really a confession of the people of Israel who will repent at the end of the tribulation period, recognizing that the Messiah is the one of whom they rejected for so many generations and that he was the one that became the substitute, the one who bore their sins in order to make an atonement for the nation of Israel.

So in these verses that we read, the Tanakh, the Torah, Leviticus chapter 23, the Nevi'im, Isaiah chapter 53, and the Ketuvim in Psalm 23. 22. Those are the three divisions of what is known to us today as the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures. Now, quickly, please, turn with me to the book of Hebrews now. And in Hebrews chapter 1, the writer who knew very well the requirement of God for Israel he is now taking the early Hebrew believers Hebrew Christians, Messianic Jews and he reminds them of the work that the Messiah had accomplished that Jesus, that Yeshua the Messiah had accomplished and so in chapter 9 Yeshua the Messiah is seen to have superior sanctuary.

And in chapter 10, Jesus the Messiah had provided a superior sacrifice than what the people of Israel have offered in the past. And I'm just going to highlight a few verses in Hebrews chapter 9. Now look at this. There are three times that the word eternal is mentioned here in these verses three times that the word eternal mentioned in these verses to remind you that when Israel our people of old kept the day of atonement their sins were. Forgiven were pardoned were covered but it was not eternal it was temporary waiting the time that the Messiah will come and will remove their sins forever once and for all that's why atonement simply means covering it doesn't mean removal but look what happened when the Messiah came when Jesus the Messiah came notice what we read here in the earlier verses of Hebrews chapter 9 It says in verse 9, it says, All that which was given was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them, namely on Israel, until the time of reformation or a time of setting things right.

So all the sacrifices that our forefathers had to offer on the altar were temporary, and they're offered temporary until the Messiah will come and will set things right in a new order, the order of his finished work in the Brit HaChadasha. So now verse 11, but Christ, but the Messiah, being come a high priest of good things to come, Notice, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is to say, not of this building. In other words, when the Messiah became as a high priest like Aaron, Aaron was offering sacrifices, specifically the day of atonement, in a building made with hands. The tabernacle, the tent of meeting, all those, you might say, all the structure was made with hands.

But the Messiah became a high priest like Aaron was a high priest. But the Messiah became a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect tabernacle which is not made with hand, that is to say, not of this creation, not of this building. And notice, secondly, he's saying, the writer to the Hebrew believers, He says, Neither by the blood of goats and of calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Oh, brothers and sisters, I wish we'll grasp that. When Aaron offered the blood of bulls and goats, when he offered in the Day of Atonement, in the Holy of Holies, placing it upon the ark there, the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, didn't take blood of bulls.

He didn't take blood of goats, but he himself offered his very own blood. When he himself paid when he died there on that shameful tree. It was his very own life that was taken away, and his very own blood that was shed there on that tree, on that cross. And now notice what he says in verse 12. He didn't need to repeat that every year. He didn't need to come on the tenth day of the month of Tishrei, Once in the next year, on the tenth day of the month of Tishrei again, and on the next year, on the tenth day of the month of Tishrei again.

No, He offered His precious blood once and for all. Never to be repeated. God had been satisfied with the work of the Messiah, and that's why He obtained for the believer, notice that, eternal redemption. To me, this verse is so important because eternal redemption means that if a person is truly a child of God, he is eternally redeemed. He is not one day redeemed and the next day get lost and the following day is saved and the following day is lost. No, a believer in the Lord Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah, is eternally redeemed because the Lord hath provided eternal redemption. Some verses that come to my mind, John 3.16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish, but not as dead, but have everlasting life.

Eternal redemption provided by the Messiah who provided his own blood and shed this there on the cross. He is offered once and for all never to repeat it again. Secondly, notice verse 13 now. If the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, the writer says to the Hebrews, Notice he continues and he says in verse 14, How much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through, notice this time again the word eternal is mentioned, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Not only did the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, provided eternal redemption, but the ministry or the work that he had accomplished, it was done through the eternal Holy Spirit of God. And that's why we read, How much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Now, you notice what the writer is trying to explain to those Hebrews because he's writing to Jewish people. And these Hebrews of the first century were in danger of saying, wait a minute, the temple is still there and the Messiah has come and has died, But because the sacrifices are being offered there, and yes, I believe in the Messiah, in Yeshua the Messiah, I might go back also to offer the sacrifices because after all, my family, my people are still continuing in the offering of the sacrifices.

So the writer to those Hebrew believers said to them, no, no, brethren. Don't lose sight of the greater value in the work of the Lord Jesus the Messiah. You don't need anymore to go back to the temple to offer sacrifices because there is no longer value in those sacrifices because the Messiah has come. And therefore he is saying to them, How much more shall the blood of the Messiah, the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself, notice that, without spot to God to purge your conscience from dead work. You see, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus is so precious, there is no spot in Him.

There is spot in us. There were spots in humanity because all have sinned. But there was no spot in this man by the name of Yeshua the Messiah. Here, he's using the title, Christ, Christos, Messiah, in Hebrew, Mashiach, the anointed one that God has sent to provide redemption for mankind. So, Hebrews 9.12, he provided eternal redemption. Hebrews 9.14, he had done so through the eternal Holy Spirit of God, but now notice verse 15. And I think verse 15 is very precious as we conclude at the meeting today for this cause. He is a mediator, notice, of the new covenant. In Hebrew we call it Brit Hadashah. Brit Hadashah, Jeremiah 31, verse 31, Jeremiah was promised by God to the people of Israel that God will make with the people of Israel a Brit Hadashah, a new covenant.

Not like the covenant which he made with them in Mount Sinai, that is the Mosaic covenant which our people failed to keep, broke it. But now God made Brit Hadashah a new covenant on the basis of the finished work of the Anointed One, the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgression that were under the first covenant, this is the Mosaic Covenant, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Notice he is the third time That the Hebrew writer, writing to his own Jewish brethren and reminding them of the eternal hope that they have. They now have eternal redemption.

The Messiah provided this eternal redemption through the eternal Holy Spirit. And now they will receive an eternal inheritance. Now what does that mean, eternal inheritance? Every believer in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, has eternal inheritance. Whatever we have and possess here in this world, we will end leaving it behind. All things are going to remain here, will be corrupted, and eventually will not last too long because we only live here for a short time. But if we belong to the Lord, if we have accepted Yeshua the Messiah, God provides for us eternal inheritance. That means that when we pass out of this scene, like many who used to sit here with us have gone out of this scene, but you see they have been absent from the body and they are now present with the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah.

And forever and ever and ever, throughout eternity, they will enjoy the inheritance that he, spiritual inheritance that he will provide for his own people who only have trusted in him. And so this is tremendous to recognize, especially today as we look at the Day of Atonement. Brothers and sisters, let me conclude with that. The Messiah died some 2,000 years ago fulfilling the feast of Passover. He's also lived a perfect life and he fulfilled the feast of unleavened bread when there was no leaven, no sin in his life. His people are called to live a life that is honoring to him. He rose from among the dead at the firstfruits and he was, you remember that no one could keep him in the grave.

God had raised him for our justification. On the third day and then he sent the Holy Spirit of God to come from heaven and he united the body of Christ the body of Messiah together which you and I are proof to a Jew and Gentile alike united together represented in the two loaves here united together in the body of Messiah soon and very soon we live here for that a long time long period of time of the church age which soon will come to an end. When the church is going to be taken to heaven, then God will begin to restore the people of Israel as he had promised back to the promised land.

As I mentioned earlier, there are over 7 million of our own Jewish people who have immigrated back to the land. And Israel today is a nation awaiting the day of restoration. But there is the day coming, the day of atonement, when Israel will need to repent. Israel as a nation will need to recognize that the Messiah is none else but the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. And the day of atonement represents Israel's national regeneration. When they will cry, Isaiah 53, all we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned each one to his own way, But the Lord laid upon him, namely upon Yeshua, the Messiah, the iniquity of us all.

And what a day that will be. We read in the prophet Zechariah, They shall look upon me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn. And Israel will ultimately, Jeremiah, Zechariah 12, verse 10, will recognize that Yeshua is the Messiah. They will repent. They will accept the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the King of the Jews, and then He will bring them into the, and that's what we're going to talk about next week, into the Messianic kingdom, the thousand years reign of the Messiah, when Israel as a nation will be blessed by God. And God going to give them every promise that He had given to the people of Israel as a nation.

He will bless them and make them to be a true light to the nations of the world. And we're going to deal with it, Lord willing, in the next Shabbat meeting when we're going to be together. I think we have enjoyed today to be occupied with Yom HaKippurim, the Day of Atonement, which our Lord Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah, had fulfilled when He died for us on the tree. So may the Lord bless us and help us to grasp the biblical truth that we have in the Word of God and help us to grow spiritually, individually, and together. Can we say Amen to that?