Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, Yahweh, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.
If we want to understand YHVH, Messiah and the scripture we must separate ourselves from the pattern of this world and all man made religion – Ps 2
Psa 2:5
Then He speaks to them in His wrath, And troubles them in His rage, saying,
Psa 2:6
“But I, I have set My Sovereign on Tsiyon, My set-apart mountain.”
Psa 2:7
“I inscribe for a law: יהוה
has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have brought You forth.
Psa 2:8
Ask of Me, and I make the nations Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth
Your possession.
Psa 2:9
Break them with a rod of iron, Dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’
”
Psa 2:10
And now, be wise, O sovereigns; Be instructed, you rulers of the earth.
Psa 2:11
Serve יהוה with fear, And rejoice with
trembling.
Psa 2:12
Kiss the Chosen,b lest He be enraged, And you perish in the way, For soon His
wrath is to be kindled. Blessed are all those taking refuge in Him. Footnote:
bHebrew, Nashqu ḇar. Ḇar - Chosen in Hebrew but Son in Aramaic.
Lev 16:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh after the death of the two sons of Aharon, as they drew near before יהוה, and
died.
So Moshe reminds us through the death of Aharon’s
sons that YHVH’s way of Atonement is the ONLY way that our sin problem can be
resolved. Nothing can be more important for us to grasp from this parashah than
this. Since the beginning, mankind has believed the lie that YHVH’s Way is not
the only way. Adam and Chavah and the multitudes of humanity until this day
have been fooled by the deceiver and many others to believe that they can make
peace with YHVH according to their own religious understanding and customs.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seems right to
a man, But its end is the way of death.
Lev 16:2 And
יהוה said to
Mosheh, “Speak to Aharon your brother not to come in at all times to the
Set-apart Place inside the veil, before the lid of atonement which is on the
ark, lest he die, because I appear in the cloud above the lid of atonement.
The strategic placement of the opening verses in
this chapter reveals the serious nature
of how YHVH can and should be approached and only at one appointed time. This
judgment foreshadows that there is only one way to approach the Set Apartness
of YHVH – through His Son- Yashua Ha Mashiach. The Levitical priesthood teaches
Yisrael to look to Yahshua the everlasting and true hope of Yisrael in this
parashah.
The Torah teaches us very clearly that there is
only one way of atonement and there is only ONE YHVH and that His Set Apartness
can only be approached and satisfied in one way and in one way only. This is
the clear pattern of teaching in the Torah and throughout all the scriptures.
Manmade religion mostly rejects or obscures this ONE WAY.
The repeated
phrase in the Torah portion – “ve lo yamut” “that you not die” serves as
a sober reminder of the consequences for those who reject His Way.
Lev 16:3
“With this Aharon should come into the Set-apart Place: with the blood
of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.
This
pattern is repeated in the millennium with Yahshua at Pesach.
Eze 45:21 “In the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the new moon, you have the Pěsaḥ, a festival of seven
days, unleavened bread is eaten.
Eze 45:22 “And on that day the prince shall
prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin
offering.
Lev 16:4 “He
should put on the set-apart linen long shirt, with linen trousers on his flesh,
and gird himself with a linen girdle, and be dressed with the linen turban –
they are set-apart garments. And he shall bathe his body in water, and shall
put them on.
Lev 16:5
“And from the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl he takes two male
goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.
Lev 16:6
“And Aharon shall bring the bull as a sin offering, which is for
himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
Lev 16:7
“And he shall take the two goats and let them stand before יהוה at the
door of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 16:8
“And Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for יהוה and the
other lot for Azazel.(the goat that carries awa evil)
Lev 16:9
“And Aharon shall bring the goat on which the lot for יהוה fell,
and shall prepare it as a sin offering.
Lev 16:10
“But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell is caused to stand alive
before יהוה, to make
atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness to Azazel.
Lev 16:11
“And Aharon shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slaughter
the bull as the sin offering which is for himself,
Lev 16:12
and shall take a fire holder filled with burning coals of fire from the
altar before יהוה, with
his hands filled with sweet incense beaten fine, and shall bring it inside the
veil.
Lev 16:13
“And he shall put the incense on the fire before יהוה, and the
cloud of incense shall cover the lid of atonement which is on the Witness, lest
he die.
Incense points to the ministry of intercession – Ps
141:2 and Rev 8:3-4
Heb 7:24 but He, because He remains forever,
has an unchangeable priesthood.
Heb 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save
completely those who draw near to Elohim through Him, ever living to make
intercession for them.
Heb 7:26 For it was fitting that we should
have such a High Priest – kind, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from
sinners, and exalted above the heavens,
Heb 7:27 who does not need, as those high
priests, to offer up slaughter offerings day by day, first for His own
sins and then for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He
offered up Himself.
Heb 7:28 For the Torah appoints as high
priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the
Torah, appoints the Son having been perfected forever.
Lev 16:14
“And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with
his finger on the lid of atonement on the east side, also in front of the lid
of atonement he sprinkles some of the blood with his finger seven times.
Lev 16:15
“And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the
people, and shall bring its blood inside the veil, and shall do with that blood
as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the lid of atonement
and in front of the lid of atonement.
Lev 16:16
“And he shall make atonement for the Set-apart Place, because of the
uncleanness of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and because of their transgressions in
all their sins. And so he does for the Tent of Meeting which is dwelling with
them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Lev 16:17
“And no man should be in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make
atonement in the Set-apart Place, until he comes out. And he shall make
atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of
Yisra’ĕl.
Lev 16:18
“And he shall go out to the altar that is before יהוה, and
make atonement for it. And he 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.
Lev 16:19
“And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven
times, and cleanse it, and set it apart from the uncleanness of the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Lev 16:20
“And when he has finished atoning for the Set-apart Place, and the Tent
of Meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.
Lev 16:21
“Then Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and
shall confess over it all the crookednesses of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and
all their transgressions in all their sins, and shall put them on the head of
the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man –
Heb “iti” a timely or ready man.
Lev 16:22
“And the goat shall bear on itself all their crookednesses, to a land
cut off. Thus he shall send the goat away into the wilderness.
Lev 16:23
“Aharon shall then come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the
linen garments which he put on when he went into the Set-apart Place, and shall
leave them there.
Lev 16:24
“And he shall bathe his body in water in the set-apart place, and shall
put on his garments, and shall come out and prepare his burnt offering and the
burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the
people,
Lev 16:25
and burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Lev 16:26
“And he who sent away the goat to Azazel (one who departs- Prov 20:14
same word used – by extension the goat that carries away evil) washes his
garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward he comes into the
camp.
Lev 16:27
“And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering,
whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, is brought
outside the camp. And they shall burn their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung with fire.
Lev 16:28
“And he who burns them washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in
water, and afterward he comes into the camp.
Lev 16:29
“And this shall be for you a law forever: In the seventh month, on the
tenth day of the month, you afflict your beings, and do no work, the native or
the stranger who sojourns among you.
Lev 16:30
“For on that day he makes atonement for you, to cleanse you, to be clean
from all your sins before יהוה.
Lev 16:31
“It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings – a
law forever.
Lev 16:32
“And the priest, who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his
father’s place, shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the
set-apart garments,
Lev 16:33
and he shall make atonement for the Most Set-apart Place, and make
atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar, and make atonement for the
priests and for all the people of the assembly.
Lev 16:34 “And this shall be for you a law forever, to
make atonement for the children of Yisra’ĕl, for all their sins, once a year.”
And he did as יהוה commanded Mosheh.
The Passover and Day of Atonement are related though different:
Pesach (Passover) is the time of the sacrifice or atonement for personal sin—initial repentance from sins committed before being born again.
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) is the time of the atonement or covering of the individual’s as well as the corporate sins of Yisrael committed in ignorance (Heb. 9:27) during the past year. On-going repentance is needed by Believers and the community of Believers to stay in right-standing (righteousness) before YHVH (1 John 1:9).
Heb 9:22 And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with
blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Heb
9:23 It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should
be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings
than these.
Heb
9:24 For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand –
figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of Elohim on our behalf,
Heb
9:25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters
into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his own.
Heb
9:26 For if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation
of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to
put away sin by the offering of Himself.
Heb
9:27 And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,
Heb 9:28 so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, Isa_53:12 shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those waiting for Him, unto deliverance.
Yom Kippur & the Great & Terrible Day of YHVH
Yom Kippur is the day when:
YHVH’s judgment upon the earth will occur prior to the Second Coming of Yeshua the Messiah culminating in the battle at Megiddo.
The beast and false prophet are thrown into the Lake of Fire
Satan will be judged and cast into the bottomless pit.
It is the time when YHVH will have the last word on man’s 6000 (rebellious and sinful) years on earth.
Rewards and punishments are meted out to humans.
The Babylon the Great system is judged and destroyed.
The earth is cleansed and readied for Messiah to “touch down” upon the Mount of Olives.
The restitution of all things talked about in Acts 3:21 occurs.
All these things must occur before Yahshua the Messiah can bring peace to this earth and establish his world-ruling kingdom. Those who would oppose his sovereign rule must be eliminated. Righteousness will prevail.
2Co 5:21 For He
made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness
of Elohim.
Heb
13:11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the
Set-apart Place by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
Heb
13:12 And so יהושע also suffered outside
the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood.
Heb
13:13 Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His
reproach.
Heb
13:14 For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu
Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn
ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you Yahweh, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you
have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting life within our
midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn)
