Psalm 32:5
“When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, “I will confess my offenses to Adonai”; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)”
Selah
“If we claim not to have sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he [Adonai] is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing” (1 John 1:8-9).
Feast of Trumpets – Yom Teruah
Yeshua used the same phrase when he told his disciples about the timing of His return: “No one knows the day or the hour except my Father in heaven” (Matthew 24:36). As a Jewish man, Yeshua understood ‘no one knows the day or the hour’ to be an idiom for Yom Teruah like we understand the Fourth of July as Independence Day. While living in the flesh as the son of man, he could not know the year for the prophetic fulfillment of Feast of Trumpets, but he did know on what ‘appointed time’ it would occur. Paul did too.
Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur
Another offering on the Day of Atonement involved two goats. After casting lots, one goat was sacrificed to God and its blood sprinkled on the Altar cleansing it from all of Israel’s sins. The other goat, called the scapegoat, had a different destiny. The priest would lay his hands on the head of the goat as he confessed the sins of Israel. This goat would not be sacrificed, but set free in the wilderness to take the sins of Israel far away. The sacrificed goat’s blood made atonement for their national sins; the scapegoat took their sins far away into the wilderness where it died.
Yom Kippur Confession of Sins – Kedushah
The following confession of sins is from the Kedushah, Ashamnoo, Al Chet in the Sidur or Jewish Prayer book. This ‘confession of sins’ is read ten times in the synagogue on Yom Kippur. At the end, there is a statement that the Jewish people have no King except yod-hey-vav-hey to forgive and pardon their sins, and they seek Him for their atonement. On the Day of Atonement the Jewish people are faced with the reality that they have no Temple, no priesthood, and no altar of sacrifice, no atonement, no salvation (yeshua). On the Day of Atonement, we who believe in Yeshua, should be fasting and praying for the nation of Israel and their corporate salvation and final redemption through the High Priest of Adonai, Yeshua.
Dennis Wayne Dendler
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