Day of Atonement, Feasts Israel Outlines

During Biblical Times the Israelites celebrated a number of Feasts on a yearly basis. These are referred to as the Feasts of Israel. Within these feasts are the Passover and Pentecost Feasts, Trumpets, and the Tabernacle's Feast.

This important feast took place but once a year, the High Priest entered into the Holiest of All, within the veil, with the blood of the Lord's goat, the sin offering. Here he sprinkled the blood on the Mercy seat. The blood of the sin offering on the great day. The sanctuary and Israel as a nation experienced blood atonement, thus being reconciled to their God.

Leviticus 23:26-32; 16:1-34

In these two passages we have a detailed description that took place during this great feast and what it represented for the nation of Israel. As mentioned above the great feast was a time of cleansing for all sin and speaks to us about the atoning work of Christ and all that He accomplished on the cross for us as God's Holy nation. The symbolic significances all point to the work of Christ historically and then to His work prophetically in His church.

There are several things we will be looking at in this study as to how the church relates to the actual fulfillment of this great feast, but let us keep in mind the following truths:

1. We have not appropriated any real measure of the atoning work of Christ, meaning, even though Jesus has made complete provision for us, we have not yet experienced the completion of our salvation or the full measure of His atoning work in our lives.

2. The Church must enter into the experimental appropriation of it just as it has with the other Feasts.

3. As there is a historical and an experimental fulfillment with Passover and Pentecost so there must be with this Feast and the Tabernacle's Feast.

4. The Church through the ages has never appropriated the full measure of deliverance from sin, but has appropriated some.

5. The sin and carnality of the Church's history must be taken away from her before she can enter into the fullness of the blessing and power in the Tabernacles Feast.

If we are to enter into the Tabernacles Feast we must have an ear to hear what the trumpets are blowing, and how they are calling the people to affict their souls in preparation for the Great Feast.

1 Peter 1:3-8 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

If the blood of Passover saved Israel from Egypt and the blood of our Passover, Jesus Christ has saved us from the world, what did the blood of atonement do for Israel that has not yet been experienced by the Church. This day took away all sins, of ignorance and otherwise. The blood of Jesus can make us perfect.

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This teaching was developed from sources and teachers such as Kevin Conner, W.W. Offiler and Dick Benjamin, who have influenced me greatly over the years through their writings and teachings.

Day of Atonement & The Perfection in the Church