Leviticus chapter 16
Today we are walking in: Twin Goats For Two Brides
Exodus 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, H3722 to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
atonement
Today we look to the word H3722 kaphar -- to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation, cover over with pitch
The Torah testifies.........……
Exodus 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement H3722 for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exodus 30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement H3722 upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement H3722 upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus 1:4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement H3722 for him.
Leviticus 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement H3722 with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
The prophets proclaim..................
2 Samuel 21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, H3722 that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
Nehemiah 10:33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement H3722 for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our Yah.
The writings bear witness............
1 Chronicles 6:49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement H3722 for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of Yah had commanded.
2 Chronicles 29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement H3722 for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
Twin Goats for Two Brides
We see the same pattern again following the Feast of Trumpets in the fall where there are “ten days of tarrying” for the bride leading up to Yom Kippur.
In 27 A.D., Just before his 30th birthday Yahusha’s baptism (mikvah) took place on the 1st of Elul in the 6th Hebrew month. At this time he began to fulfill the role of the “twin goats” leading up to Yom Kippur.
His mikvah was a fulfillment of the “sacrificial goat” and the legal moment of his death, because mikvah is a symbol of death (Romans 6:3-4). Immediately following his mikvah, he was sent into the wilderness to fast and pray for Yisra’el as the “scapegoat.” Messiah fulfilled the pattern of the twin goats on Yom Kippur and then he also fulfilled the role of the Kohen Gadowl (High Priest) that year when he read Isaiah 61:1-2 in the synagogue (Luke 4:19) and he declared “The acceptable year of The Most High Yah.”
John the Baptist was the Levitical High Priest that year who acted as the one who would “kill the goat” symbolically (Leviticus 16:15). It is for this very reason that he cried out when he saw Yahusha coming to be baptized, as he declared “Behold, the Lamb of The Most High Yah who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29-36).
Immediately following his mikvah, he was sent to the wilderness by the Ruach Hackodesh as the “scape-goat” or in Hebrew “Azazel.”
The definition of a “scapegoat” is “The innocent party who takes the blame for the guilty party.” During his days of fasting in the wilderness, Yahusha remained there for “forty days” and he prayed for Yisra’el to repent and come back to Torah.
When he emerged from the wilderness, he went into the temple as the new High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5 & 7) and then he read Isaiah 61:1-2 in the synagogue as he declared that he was the “anointed one”----the Hamachiach and he also declared “The acceptable year of The Most High Yah” (Luke 4:19).
This was Yom Kippur language, as the High Priest was the only one who could declare that Yisra’el was either accepted or not accepted each year on Yom Kippur.
If the sacrifice of the goat was accepted, the red ribbon would miraculously turn white (Isaiah 1:18) and this was a sign that the nation was forgiven that year. But if the red ribbon did not turn white, then their sins remained and they were not accepted. During the final “ten days” of his fast leading up to Yom Kippur, I suspect that this is when he was tempted of the devil and he overcame these temptations on behalf of his future bride who would have to “suffer tribulation for ten days.”
Parallels Between Moses & Messiah’s Ministry for Yisra’el
Moses made “sacrifices” for the people, and then he sprinkled them before he ascended the second time up to Mount Sinai on the 1st day of the 6th Hebrew month of Elul. He remained there for forty days leading up to Yom Kippur (Exodus 34:4-28). Our Messiah was also sent into the wilderness on the 1st of Elul immediately following this mikvah.
On the 40th day of Moses being on Mount Sinai, he received the second set of Ten Commandments for Yisra’el which was their “renewed marriage covenant.” This was after they had violated the first covenant with the molten calf in Exodus 32. Yisra’el had taken “wedding vows” just before Moses went up to Mount Sinai the first time around and they agreed to “obey” the covenant. In the next verse in Exodus 24:8, Moses then sprinkled the nation of Yisra’el with the blood of animals as atonement.
Then in Exodus 24:12, Moses went up to receive the “two tables of testimony” or the “written marriage covenant” called a “ketuwbah” in Hebrew. In Exodus 24:15, when Moses went up to receive the written marriage covenant for Yisra’el, the cloud “covered” the mountain for “six days” and on the “seventh day” Moses descended down the mountain to present to Yisra’el with the written marriage covenant in stone. This was Yom Kippur typology because the mountain was “covered” by a cloud. There was a seven-day wedding ceremony during the last of these forty days while Moses was in the mountain receiving the marriage covenant.
In the future, during the “Ten Days of Awe” between The Feast of Trumpets & the Day of Atonement, there will also be a “seven-day” wedding for the bride of Messiah. When Moses came down the mountain and found Yisra’el whoring with the molten calf, he then went back up the mountain to “make atonement” for their sins (Exodus 32:30). He acted as the High Priest on Yom Kippur who made atonement for the entire nation. After this, in Exodus 30:10-16, The Most High Yah established an ordinance that Aaron and his sons would “make atonement” for the nation of Yisra’el once per year on Yom Kippur.
We then see that Moses acted as the “scape-goat” who was willing to have his name blotted out of the book of life so that the people would live.
Exodus 32:
32 Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.
33 And The Most High Yah said unto Moses (Moses), Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
To this very day, the Hebrewpeople have a saying during the “Ten Days of Awe” as they declare to one another “May your name not be blotted out of the book of life” or “May your name be written in the book of life.” This is precisely why our Messiah said to the Congregation at Sardis, that because their works were not found to be perfect, that they were in danger of having their names blotted out:
Revelation3:
2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before The Most High Yah.
3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
4 You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
5 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Moses offered to have his name blotted out instead of the nation of Yisra’el as he was foreshadowing the role of the “scapegoat” who was the innocent party willing to take the blame for the guilty. Nevertheless, the people had to pay for their own sins because they sinned willfully after they had already received the sprinkling of the blood at the marriage ceremony.
On that day 3,000 men fell (Exodus 32: 28). In Hebrews 10 & Leviticus 4:13-14, we read that atonement is only made for those who sin out of ignorance. But for those who sin willfully, they will have their names blotted out:
Hebrews 10:
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’s Torah (law) died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer (worse) punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden underfoot the Son of The Most High Yah, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says The Most High Yah. And again, The Most High Yah shall judge his people.
In Revelation 19:2, that when our Messiah returns on the day of “vengeance” he will punish all those who rejected his blood sacrifice and he will also “avenge” the blood of this set-apart ones (his saints).
In Exodus 33:6 the Yisraelites “stripped off their ornaments” of pagan idolatry at Mount Horeb. The name “Sinai” literally means “Babylonian moon god,” but the name “Horeb” literally means “to kill and destroy.”
This is why in Galatians 4:24, the Apostle Paul likened the first covenant on Mount Sinai to “bondage” because the people placed themselves back under bondage with the golden calf after they had already taken marriage vows with the Most High. Then at Mount Horeb, they stripped off their idolatry and this is where they chose to “die to the old sinful nature.” Hence, Mount Horeb represents freedom and repentance where they chose to renew their covenant with The Most High Yah again.
In Exodus 33:11, Moses communed with The Most High Yah “face-to-face” on behalf of the people of Yisra’el and this is once again “Yom Kippur” language, for to this day the Hebrewpeople nick-named the Day of Atonement “face to face!”
In Exodus 34:10, when Moses returned to present a second set of Ten Commandments, instead of the stone tablets being broken, they were deposited into an ark made of incorruptible wood which never decays. And what is this a picture of? It is a picture of the bride receiving the “Torah” written in her heart and mind as a sign of the “Renewed Covenant” (Jeremiah 31:31-33, Hebrews 8:10, 10:16).
In the same way that these commandments of stone were deposited into an ark made of wood that is “incorruptible,” so the very same commandments were deposited into a brand new nature on the Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost) in the 2nd chapter of Acts as 3,000 were saved on that day when they were “born-again of incorruptible seed!” (1st Peter 1:23).
In Exodus 34:28, when Moses returned after being in the mountain a second time for yet another “forty days and forty nights” and he received a “new” set of stone tablets as this prefigured the New Covenant in Messiah. Our Messiah also remained here after his resurrection for “forty days” teaching his disciples the Torah (Law of Moses)!
When Moses presented the second set of stone tablets to Yisra’el, and he deposited them into the Ark of the Covenant made of incorruptible wood and this was in the following year fifty days after “First Fruits,” on Pentecost or Shavuot.
In Deuteronomy 4:10-12 we read that the people of Yisra’el gathered to “hear” the words of The Most High Yah as he spoke out of the “midst of the fire.” This was the self-same day of the Feast of Shavuot or Pentecost when the Ruach Hackodesh came upon the disciples as “tongues of fire” and they all “heard” the voice of The Most High Yah each man in his own tongue (Acts 2:11). That is when the Torah was then “deposited” into their new incorruptible nature!
The first covenant that Moses presented to Yisra’el was during the forty days following Pentecost, but the second covenant was presented during the forty days leading up to Yom Kippur. When our Messiah fasted during those very same “forty days” it was to “reverse the curse” of the broken covenant at Mount Sinai! But he also fasted for the future sins of the House of Judah who would later on reject his blood sacrifice for “forty years” leading up to 70 A.D. when the Romans came and laid siege to Jerusalem.
Like Ezekiel, our Messiah fasted “one day for each year” for the sins of Yisra’el & Judah (Ezekiel 4:6). Both Moses and our Messiah Yahusha interceded for Yisra’el during the “forty days” leading up to Yom Kippur. Moses had come “face-to- face” with the The Most High Yah himself and his face shown so brightly that he had to place a “veil” over his face to cover it (Exodus 34:33-35). Once again this is Yom Kippur language! Similarly, the “veil” in the temple “parted” on Passover the moment that Messiah died on the tree paving the way for the Renewed Covenant.
The second time around, Moses returned from Mount Sinai on the 40th day which was on Yom Kippur, but he did not deposit these commandments into the ark until the following spring which was on the 50th day after First Fruits when he presented a “Renewed Covenant” to Yisra’el, just as our Messiah presented to Yisra’el a “Renewed Covenant” on the 50th day following his First Fruits resurrection!
Under the Mosaic Covenant, Yisra’el was cursed with the first covenant because of the golden calf. However, they were then redeemed with a Renewed Covenant during Yom Kippur when Moses made atonement for them.
In the last days, the House of Judah will be redeemed again on Yom Kippur when they finally accept the blood covenant of Messiah. And thus we can see that with the ministry of Moses was on Yom Kippur when he “reversed the curse” with the golden calf for Yisra’el as a foreshadowing of our Messiah when he would later on fast in the wilderness during those very same or forty days for their forty years of unbelief in the wilderness. The four Spring Feasts represent Messiah’s first coming and his redemption for the Lost Sheep of the House of Yisra’el (Ten Northern Tribes of Ephrayim). The three Fall Feasts at his second coming will be bring together “the first and the last” born of Yisra’el as one bride.
And thus we see that following the three Spring Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, & First Fruits there were “ten days” where the disciples had to “tarry” to receive the promised Renewed Covenant on Pentecost. Also following the Feast of Trumpets, there is another period of “ten days” where the bride typified in Rachel will have to “tarry” and prepare herself to receive the promise of the Renewed Covenant as well.
Both Moses & Messiah communed with the Father for “forty days” and then they both “made atonement” for Yisra’el’s sins on Yom Kippur. Both Moses & Messiah “interceded” for Yisra’el for forty days leading up to Yom Kippur. Yahusha remained here after his resurrection for “forty days” as he taught his disciples the Torah. Fifty days following the “First Fruits” (resurrection day), both Moses & Messiah made a “deposit” of the renewed marriage covenant (Torah) into a vessel made of that which is “incorruptible.”
What pattern can we observe here? There are “ten days” in the spring between the ascension of Yahusha back to the Father and the day of Pentecost when the Torah was written on the bride’s heart. In the fall there are “ten days” following the bride’s ascension to the Father on Yom Teruw’ah leading up to Yom Kippur when the bride will have her heart restored to the “Living Torah” the Messiah himself!
The number “forty” represents “testing” and “judgment” in scripture, but the number “ten” represents “the gentile nations.” The number “fifty” represents “The Year of Jubilee” which means freedom and redemption for the bride (Leviticus 25:9-24).
And thus, we can see that within seven feasts annually, Yahusha will gather from the four corners of earth and the four winds of heaven, his elect out of ten nations from seven continents and they will be narrowed down to seven women or seven congregations. These seven congregations, will then be narrowed down to ten virgins. These will then be divided up into two groups (five wise & five foolish), until finally they will become “two brides,” that end up becoming only one bride on Yom Kippur!
Matthew 25:32-33 shows us a picture of the nations being divided into “sheep on the right” (wise virgins) and “goats on the left” (foolish virgins). During these final “Ten Days of Awe” the foolish virgins will have one last chance to repent and be filled with the “oil” of the Ruach Hackodesh so that she can be ready to come “face-to- face” with the bridegroom. Both houses of Yisra’el will finally become “one house, one bride, one stick” in the hand of The Most High Yah on the 10th day of the 7th month (Yom Kippur) in the 50th year of Jubilee!
A Chronological Timeline of the Fall Feasts of The Most High Yah in the Final Days
1.) The Abomination of Desolation: Will be seen in the 3rd HebrewTemple (Matthew 24:15) and then there will be 42 months where the Anti-Messiah will begin a false ministry, while concur-rently, the Two Witnesses will prophesy against him globally for 3 ½ years. The Two Witnesses in Revelation 11, are not limited to merely two individuals, but they are also two corporate groups called “The Two Candlesticks & The Two Olive trees.” These two groups are seen as Smyrna & Philadelphia as well as Ephrayim & Judah.
2.) The Ministry of the Two Witnesses: Will last for 1,260-days until Yom Kippur, and then Messiah will return and make both brides “one stick” in his hand. There will be 75 more days leading up to Chanukkah to “rebuild the Tabernacle of David” (Amos 9:11, Acts 15:16). If we add 75 days to 1,260 days, this takes us to the 1,335 days in Daniel 12:11-12 as it says:
“And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”
3.) The Seven-day Wedding of Leah & Jacob: In the same way that Jacob was tricked into marry-ing Leah after seven years of working for Rachel, Messiah will complete a total of 7 years of ministry (3 ½ years during his earthly ministry and the other 3 ½ years through his two witnesses). Then after his seven years are completed, there will be a 7-day literal marriage (one week), which will commence at the “last trumpet” (1st Corinthians 15:52) on the Feast of Trumpets aka Yom Teruw’ah.
This will be the bride typified in Leah & Philadelphia and she will be changed into incorruption (immortality). This is the bride represented as the “five wise virgins” whose oil lamps are filled when the bridegroom comes. To them is provided “an open door” (Revelation 3:7-8). The door is then “shut” and the “five foolish virgins” must then go and “buy oil” during the “Ten Day of Awe” to be ready at the second coming of Messiah.
In a Hebrew Wedding custom, during the first three of those days the bride is given a “three-day notice” that the groom is on the way. She hears the shouts from a “three day’s journey” in the distance and she knows that sometime within those three days, he will be there to catch her away. This could very well be the same period of 3 ½ days where the Two Witnesses will have their dead bodies lying in the streets and then at the sound of the 7th angel (7th trumpet), they are resurrected (Revelation 11:11-15).
This is why this feast is prophetically called “The day that no man knows.” Not only does the bride not know the precise timing of when the bridegroom will arrive (although she knows the approximate timing), but the enemy is not made privy to this timing so that he cannot come and kidnap the bride away. Another reason why Yom Teruw’ah is called “The day that no man knows” is because it cannot be determined by a fixed time on the calendar. It can only be determined by the first sighting of the new moon by the “Two Witnesses.”
Also, in a Hebrew Wedding custom, the bridegroom (not wanting to make known the exact timing of his arrival to the enemy), tells the nosey people who inquire about the wedding date “No man knows the day nor the hour---only my father knows” (Matthew 24:36). This is a Hebrew Idiom for the Feast of Trumpets.
4.) Rachel Left Out of the Wedding Until Yom Kippur: Those “five foolish virgins” who are not ready are caught off guard by “The thief in the night” and they shall not escape (1st Thessalonians 5:2-3). This bride will not see Yahusha as their Messiah until that day when they will “look upon him whom they pierced” (Zechariah 12:10) and this will take place on Yom Kippur when the bride removes the veil and she sees him “face to face.” Messiah said of this group that they would not see him again until they say “Baruch Haba B’Shem The Most High Yah” (Luke 13:35). This phrase in Hebrew is translated: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of The Most High Yah.”
5.) The Thief in the Night: While the bride is enjoying a 7-day wedding with the bridegroom in a set-apart place called “the chamber” or “chuppah” (Psalms 19:5, Joel 2:16) the children of wrath who are caught off guard by “The thief in the night” are having bowls of wrath being poured out upon them and they still won’t repent (Daniel 12:10, 1st Thessalonians 5:2, Revelation 16:15). This all happens during the “Ten Days of Awe.” The only ones who are “sealed” during this time are the “elect” from the House of Judah typified in Rachel & Smyrna (Revelation 7:3 & Ezekiel 9:4).
6.) Ten Days of Awe: There are ten days between the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruw’ah) & the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). During these ten days, the first bride typified in Leah has already gone into the marriage with the bridegroom and now the second bride typified in Rachel will have ten days to “afflict herself” by fasting and praying. In Leviticus 23:27, we are commanded to “afflict our souls” or else we shall be “cut off” and disinherited from Yisra’el. The Congregation of Smyrna typified in Rachel will spend these ten days like Esther who anointed herself with oil of myrrh to meet the king.
7.) The Second Coming of Messiah on Yom Kippur: This will be “The Day of Vengeance” when Messiah returns to avenge the blood of the set-apart ones as seen in Revelation 19:2. He is seen coming in the clouds on a white horse with his army. His wife is also clothed in white linen fine and clean. This commences the “Marriage Supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9), and this is when the bride will go into the Feast of Tabernacles and she will drink the 4th Passover cup of wine with Messiah which is the sealing of the covenant (Matthew 26:29). This is when the final cup of wine is partaken of by the bride and the groom in a Hebrew Wedding.
Revelation 19:
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
On this same day of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the High Priest in the temple would mix the blood of the bull (symbolic of Ephrayim & Leah) and the blood of the sacrificial goat (symbolic of Judah & Rachel) and the two bloods are then sprinkled on the mercy seat! The instructions for Yom Kippur are found in Leviticus 16.
This means that both families (Leah & Rachel) who gave birth to Judah & Joseph (Ephrayim) will then become “one family” on this day when the blood of both families are mixed together by the High Priest, Yahusha! This is the reason why there are always “twin goats” on Yom Kippur (one goat for each house of Yisra’el).
On that day, Messiah will separate the obedient sheep from the disobedient goats (Matthew 25:32). The two nations of Yisra’el (Ephrayim & Judah) will no longer be “goats” by nature (disobedient), but the remnant are going to be transformed into obedient sheep who “follow the lamb wherever he goes” (Revelation 14:4).
Yahusha will then take vengeance on her enemies and avenge the blood of the set-apart ones (saints) on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). This is the day of wrath for the wicked (Proverbs 6:34, Isaiah 34:8, 61:2, Revelation 19:2).
8.) The Seven-day Wedding of Rachel & Jacob: In the same way that Rachel was also married to Jacob after the “seven-day” wedding of her older sister Leah, so this other bride typified in Rachel & Smyrna will have to suffer tribulation for “ten days” until the second coming of Messiah on Yom Kippur. After both families become “one stick” in the hand of The Most High Yah (Ezekiel 37:16-17), then five days later on the Feast of Tabernacles aka Sukkot, there will be one big wedding reception, for both brides will then be only one bride!
9.) The Sabbath Millennium & the Eighth Day: On the final day of “The Feast of Tabernacles” or “Sukkot,” we are commanded to dwell in temporary shelters to remind us that this earth that we currently live in is temporary and it is passing away. At the end of these seven days, the final day is called “Ha’Shannah Rabbah” which means “The Last Great Day.”
Another name for this last day of the Feast of Tabernacles is called “Shemini Atzeret” or “The Eighth Day.” In 2nd Keefa (Peter) 3:8 it says that “One day is as a thousand years with The Most High Yah.”
This means that all during the Millennial Reign of Messiah, it will be just like the “seventh day” Sabbath of rest that we enjoy each week because it will take place in the 7,000th year from creation. Our Messiah will “tabernacle” or “dwell” with us for a thousand years of Sabbath rest.
Our calendar week is meant to be a “mini” creation week. In the beginning, The Most High Yah created everything in six days and on the seventh day he rested. Every seventh day when we observe Shabbat, we are observing a “mini” version of the Sabbath Millennium when we shall “rule and reign” with Messiah.
And then, after the one-thousand years are finished, we will go into the “eighth day” or the “eighth millennium” which parallels to the last day of The Feast of Tabernacles. At the end of the Millennium, this present earth that we know of will pass away. This temporary earth or shelter that we dwell in will be replaced by a “New Heaven & a New Earth” (Revelation 21:1).
At the end of the Millennium on the “Last Great Day” will be the “white throne judgment seat of Messiah” (Revelation 20:11-15).
The righteous will receive rewards as to whether his works were of “wood, hay or stubble” (1st Corinthians 3:12).
Let Us Prepare Ourselves For the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!
The commandment to “Prepare the way of The Most High Yah” was preached by all the prophets of Yisra’el and by (John the Baptist).
This commandment is given for “All Yisra’el” and this includes those who thought that they were merely “Gentiles” but now they have discovered their true identity as “Renewed Covenant Yisra’el.”
The Day of Blowing or Yom Teruw’ah
Leviticus 23:
23 And The Most High Yah spoke unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Yisra’el, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation (rehearsal).
25 You shall do no servile work therein: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto The Most High Yah.
The Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur
Leviticus 23:
26 And The Most High Yah spoke unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation (rehearsal) unto you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto The Most High Yah.
28 And you shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before The Most High Yah your The Most High Yah.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 You shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening unto evening, shall you celebrate your sabbath.
How Does the Bride Prepare?
The “word” of The Most High Yah is the “lamp” that lights the bride’s path to find the bridegroom, and the “word” is also the Torah, called “the book of truth” (Psalms 119:142). Philadelphia was commended for “keeping the word” of his patience. The oil in her lamp is also “the seven spirits” of The Most High Yah (Isaiah 11:2, Revelation 4:5, 5:6) that illuminates the “seven-branch menorah” in the temple. It is the Ruwach (Spirit) of The Most High Yah that illuminates our understanding of his word.
This means that the bride must have both Spirit & Truth, she must have both Wisdom & Revelation. In other words, she must possess the DOUBLE PORTION ANOINTING!
(Psalms) 119:105 Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Is it possible for the elect to lose their salvation?
Revelation 3:5 He that overcomes the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Beloved, there is a condition to being able to remain in the book of life. That condition is that you must “overcome” the world, the flesh and the devil.
And how do we overcome?
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
What is the Word of Our Testimony?
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of The Most High Yah.
Beloved, our testimony is the Torah written in our hearts by the finger of The Most High Yah! The Renewed Marriage Covenant that Messiah sealed with his own blood is written in the heart of the bride, and that marriage contract is the “written Torah” called a “ketuwbah.” According to an Ancient Hebrew Wedding tradition, a bride may not enjoy intimacy with her bridegroom without the written marriage agreement on her at all times---in other words the bride must have the written Torah in her heart!
Those who are engaged to be married to the Lamb, have both the “testimony” (the Torah written in their hearts) and the “Spirit” (the oil) in their lamps to light their path to meet the bridegroom. And they must also wash their garments in the blood of the Lamb. In order for a covenant to be valid, there has to be two or three witnesses.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Yahusha: worship The Most High Yah for the testimony of Yahusha is the spirit of prophecy.
What is interesting is that the word for “testimony” in Hebrew is:
#5715 eduwth: which means “a witness.”
1st John 5:
5 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Yahusha is the Son of The Most High Yah?
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Yahusha Hamachiach; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Ruach Hackodesh: and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
The bride has all three: The Spirit, the Water & the Blood!
What Does the Bride Overcome?
1st John 3:4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Torah (law): for sin is the transgression of the Torah (law).
1st John 3:9 Whosoever is born of The Most High Yah does not commit sin (lawlessness); for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin (disobey Torah), because he is born of The Most High Yah.
The “five wise virgins” have overcome the world and all that is in the world which is “the pride of life, the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh” (1st John 2:16). In other words, the bride has overcome sin and lawlessness.
Now is the time to “repent” and rend your hearts (not merely your garments) which is superficial and outward:
Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto The Most High Yah your The Most High Yah: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil.
Psalm 51:
10 Create in me a clean heart, O The Most High Yah; and renew a right spirit within me.
16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of The Most High Yah are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O The Most High Yah, you will not despise.
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