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Why Christians should still celebrate Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16)
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Bury the blood: Respect lifeProgressivism of today is regressivism from yesteryear (Leviticus 18)Memorial of the Lamb of God (Leviticus 16)4 reasons why Christians should care about Yom Kippur1. Yeshua said the words of God wouldn’t be abolished2. Yeshua rebuffed the Adversary with the trustworthiness of God’s words3. Yom Kippur is a memorial to the saving work of the Messiah4. Yom Kippur is a memorial of the new covenantOur iniquity is removed. Now what?
In the Torah reading מות Acharei Mot (“after the deaths,” Leviticus 16–18), God explicitly says that the worship and behavior of the people of Israel is to be elevated from that of the nations. One way to elevate worship was to centralize all offerings in the Tabernacle to be sacrificed by the priests. People were to no longer presume to offer animals to God themselves.
“Used from the third millennium B.C. through the Biblical period, the house shrines are thought to have originated in the Jordan River valley—mostly in Transjordan.” (BiblicalArchaeology.org)
One thing you see in pagan religions is the proliferation of not only temples in every town and city but also home shrines, where people would pray to and even sacrifice to their gods on their own.
The pagan gods were so immoral that many pagan cultures eventually gave up on their gods because their gods behaved even worse than most people act. There was nothing to esteem in honoring the pagan false gods.
Bury the blood: Respect life
God also tells the people of Israel in Leviticus 17 to remember that He is their life source. Before the Fall, our first parents ate a vegan diet (Gen. 1:29). Only after the Flood, were the people permitted to consume animal products (Gen. 9:2–7).
The rules about dealing with the blood of slaughtered animals, covering their blood with dirt, is similar to what you are supposed to do when a person’s life ends. The blood of a murdered human is also to be buried.
We came from Eden, and we will return to Eden. But we are not in Eden now. Many have tried to recreate Eden, and that effort is derisively called “utopia,” which means “not a place.” It’s the unobtainable land, because Eden is not obtainable this side of the Messianic Era.
Now, people have tried to make Eden on Earth and have failed, because of the sin nature — spiritual inertia — which leans toward sloth, malice and wickedness. All these things that will fight against it.
That’s because if you want to create utopia but your neighbor doesn’t want to create utopia, what happens?
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By Hallel FellowshipIn this study
Bury the blood: Respect lifeProgressivism of today is regressivism from yesteryear (Leviticus 18)Memorial of the Lamb of God (Leviticus 16)4 reasons why Christians should care about Yom Kippur1. Yeshua said the words of God wouldn’t be abolished2. Yeshua rebuffed the Adversary with the trustworthiness of God’s words3. Yom Kippur is a memorial to the saving work of the Messiah4. Yom Kippur is a memorial of the new covenantOur iniquity is removed. Now what?
In the Torah reading מות Acharei Mot (“after the deaths,” Leviticus 16–18), God explicitly says that the worship and behavior of the people of Israel is to be elevated from that of the nations. One way to elevate worship was to centralize all offerings in the Tabernacle to be sacrificed by the priests. People were to no longer presume to offer animals to God themselves.
“Used from the third millennium B.C. through the Biblical period, the house shrines are thought to have originated in the Jordan River valley—mostly in Transjordan.” (BiblicalArchaeology.org)
One thing you see in pagan religions is the proliferation of not only temples in every town and city but also home shrines, where people would pray to and even sacrifice to their gods on their own.
The pagan gods were so immoral that many pagan cultures eventually gave up on their gods because their gods behaved even worse than most people act. There was nothing to esteem in honoring the pagan false gods.
Bury the blood: Respect life
God also tells the people of Israel in Leviticus 17 to remember that He is their life source. Before the Fall, our first parents ate a vegan diet (Gen. 1:29). Only after the Flood, were the people permitted to consume animal products (Gen. 9:2–7).
The rules about dealing with the blood of slaughtered animals, covering their blood with dirt, is similar to what you are supposed to do when a person’s life ends. The blood of a murdered human is also to be buried.
We came from Eden, and we will return to Eden. But we are not in Eden now. Many have tried to recreate Eden, and that effort is derisively called “utopia,” which means “not a place.” It’s the unobtainable land, because Eden is not obtainable this side of the Messianic Era.
Now, people have tried to make Eden on Earth and have failed, because of the sin nature — spiritual inertia — which leans toward sloth, malice and wickedness. All these things that will fight against it.
That’s because if you want to create utopia but your neighbor doesn’t want to create utopia, what happens?