Today, Jews around the world, but especially in Israel, are observing the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, as we see laid in out Leviticus 16 in your King James Bibles. On the Day of Atonement, a goat known as the 'scapegoat', would be released into the wilderness to 'bear the sin' of the Jewish people. This laying of the sins of the people on an animal is a wonderful type of the sins of the whole world laid upon Jesus Christ.
"And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." Leviticus 16:21,22 (KJB)
"Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach." Hebrews 13:12,13 (KJB)
On this episode of Rightly Dividing, we are looking at the biblical Day of Atonement, and making all the logical and scriptural conclusions that lead us all the way to Jesus on the cross. We will also look at the prophetical implications of the Day of Atonement that might be present after the cross, 2,000 years in the future at the end of the Church Age. The fact that the entire nation of Israel is, right at this moment, on coronavirus lockdown is something of a prophetical nature all by itself. |
