Day of Atonement



The day of Atonement is a day that is ordained by the MostHigh. For the Israelites to afflict their souls by not eating or drinking for an entire day. And to humble their hearts by giving prayers and praise unto the Lord. They also had to sacrifice an offering to receive mercy for the year’s sins.

Leviticus 23:26- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
:27- Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
:28- 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.
: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 doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
:31- Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
:32- It shall be unto you a sabbath 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 sabbath.

Only the law of sacrifice was removed

False religions around the world took crafty council  to deceive Israelite congregations. To teach that Christ destroyed God’s laws. Therefore Christ did away with the Day of Atonement. However, the Lord spoke thru the Apostle Paul and instructed Israel concerning what was abolished in the law.

Hebrews 10:1- For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
:2- For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
:3- But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
:4- For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
:5- Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
:6- In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
:7- Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
:8- Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
:9- Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
:10- By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The Apostle Paul explains in those verses that the Levitical laws of sacrifice were done away in Christ. Now concerning the day of Atonement wherein Israel was commanded to both sacrifice and fast what did Christ replace? THE SACRIFICE!


The apostle Paul kept the Day of Atonement in the faith of Christ proving the day itself was not abolished. In a letter Paul wrote to the Israelites in Rome.

Romans 5:8- But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
:9-  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
:10- For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
:11- And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

What the sacrifice of animals could not do in reconciling us unto the Father, Christ did.
Paul understood that which is why he kept the day of the atonement/fasting according to the law.
 

Remember there is mercy in Christ. Anyone who is sick, on medication, or an infants whom is under age you may make a decision to observe. Which no man can judge.