Bob Barney discusses God’s special Sabbath called The Day of Atonement. This is known as Yom Kippur which is a FAST that actually lasts for 24 hours. This fast is to take place over the course of a two-day period. You will learn everything you need to know about this meaningful Holy Day and why you should honor and follow it in the future.
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Tonight, on September 24th, will be the beginning of what Christians and people that are Jewish would call The Day of Atonement, also known as Yom Kippur in the Hebrew.
I wanted to explain a little bit about the Day of Atonement as it relates to Christians and what you should be doing to honor this Holy Day. Should you fast? What is the Day of Atonement?
That’s what this show is going to be about today. It’d be an abbreviated show, it’s not going to be the full 30 minutes, I don’t believe, but sometimes I ramble on, so if I do, just forgive me. But the first mention we know about the Day of Atonement, you will find in the Old Testament; I’m going to read from Leviticus 16 so you can understand the Old Testament significance of the Day of Atonement. Once we go over this scripture, we can then discuss the New Testament. As I read through the chapter 16 of Leviticus, I’m going to explain to you that everything that happened in the Old Testament…every single holiday…was really pointing forward to the day of Christianity and Christ.
This is a significant point because Christ is the God of the Old Testament.
He is the Lord, the Yahweh, the I Am Who I Am of the Old Testament!
(1:27) Every single holiday and every single event of every holiday, points to the life of Jesus Christ on this earth foreshadowing when He would die for all the sins of the world. This foreshadowing occurs in the springtime, especially with Passover and Pentecost, as well as with the formation of the New Testament Church under Christ on Pentecost. Then we move to the fall holidays, which are what would be considered harvest holiday. Unfortunately, people think it’s just a holiday bringing in the sheaths and bringing in the produce of the land at the end of the year and this is incorrect. That is the physical part of it which we see in the Old Testament however there’s a spiritual meaning. This Holy Day’s significance has all to do with Christ as God and Savior, and of His return. It symbolizes and expresses His millennium that is coming and the eventual joining with God the Father. This will be at the time of a new heaven and a new earth which will be here, right where we are.
(2:23) In Leviticus 16, it says, now the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of his two sons or the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the Lord and died, and the Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron your brother not to come just at any time into the holy place. Now the holy place is where there was a temple, there was a first of a tabernacle, which we’re going to go with the temple just so you understand, the outer building of the temple, the inside, if you walked in the front of the temple, there was a big room, and then there was a curtain into a smaller room, and in that curtain of the smaller room is where the Ten Commandments and the Ark of the Covenant was covered by that curtain, and none of the priests who could enter into the actual outer room of the temple, the first room that you would walk into, could ever see the Ark. They can never go into that inner room. Only the high priest could go one time of year, and that was on the Day of Atonement. No other time of the year could he go in to that holy of holies, and that’s what it’s called, and be in the presence of God, because God sat on top. His spirit was on top of the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark or the Box that held the Ten Commandments, Aaron’s rod that budded in some manna and so once, only once a year, so most people could never see this, and we’re going to get into that with the New Testament here.
(2:39) Tell Aaron not to come in at just any time into the holy place inside the veil before the mercy seat. The mercy seat is the seat where Christ is at the very top of the box, the Ark that Christ would actually sit on. Lest he die, for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat, thus Aaron shall come into the holy place with blood of a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, and he shall put his holy linen tunic on and his linen trousers on his body, and he shall gird himself with a linen sash or put a sash around him like a belt. Therefore he shall wash his body with water and put on his clothe, and he shall take away from the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering and one as a ram burnt offering, and Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering which is for himself. This is a very important thing because the Apostle Paul goes into this quite well in explaining the difference of the original high priest doing this and Christ, our high priest today, not needing to do some of this stuff.
(5:09) And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering which he has for himself and make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the bull as a sin offering which is for himself. Then he shall say take the censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord with his hands full of sweet incense, and he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord. Then he shall kill the goat, that’s the second thing of the sin offering which is for the people, bring the blood inside the veil, and do with the blood as he did with the bull’s blood, and sprinkle it on top of the mercy seat or on top of the ark. So he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanliness of the children of Israel, and when he has made an end of the atoning for the holy place, the tabernacle of the meeting, and the altar, he shall bring a live goat. Aaron shall lay both hands on this goat and confess all their sins over it, and their transgressions concerning all of their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and then they shall send that goat away into the wilderness. It is called the scapegoat, and to this day we have a term called the scapegoat. And that is the Old Testament, a very brief version of the Old Testament Day of Atonement, which was to do away with the people’s sin. The high priest himself was a human being full of sin, and so he himself had to wash, and he himself had to purify himself of his own sin with the blood of a bull. And then he could take the blood of another bull, or a goat, or a lamb, and he could then offer atonement for the people who sinned.
There is this other goat being talked about that they would place their hands on its head, and they would pronounce all the sins of Israel on the head of that goat, but that goat would not be sacrificed. He would be sent into the wilderness as a form of what is called a scapegoat.
(7:07) What does it mean by a scapegoat, and who does that goat symbolize?
Many people have this wrong, in my humble opinion, because many people think the scapegoat is Christ. The scapegoat, in my opinion, is not Christ. The scapegoat is the devil. The devil is being blamed for all of our sins. Yes, the devil brought sin into the world. The devil is the one that rebelled against God first, and he convinced Adam and Eve to do the same thing. Yes, the devil is the father and the author of lies however we know with a good understanding of the Bible that God also knows that many of the sins that we come up with, that we come up with out of our own minds, and we do not need Satan to help us come up with some of the sins we do. But God needs to find someone to blame for those sins if He’s going to justify us through blood, and the blood which ultimately justifies us is the blood of Jesus Christ.
(8:10) So, who is God going to blame for the sins that really should be blamed on us? He blames it on the word, which we know what it means, a scapegoat. Someone who’s blamed for someone else’s sin is called a scapegoat in modern literature, and there’s a reason for that, because Satan the devil has also become our scapegoat. We have him to blame for sin entering the world. He’s the god of this world according to the Bible, and he is the author of confusion. He is the author of sin. He is the author of lawlessness. But many of the sins of mankind, yours and mine included, are from our own minds, from our own bodies, from our own being. God the father is deciding to blame all sin on the scapegoat, which is Satan the devil. And so, Satan gets blamed for some of the things that Satan did not evidently do.
(9:20) I know this is a controversial reading, and many people, I know a lot of people believe that the scapegoat is another form of a symbol of Jesus Christ, but I think when you study this, and you take out, and you read all the verses, and you understand the word scapegoat, you can understand very well that that goat that they laid their hands on and conferred their sins over to the head of that scapegoat, and then go out into the wilderness. The wilderness represents sin, the dark, the devil’s world. They let this thing go out into the wilderness, and they do not kill it. Christ gets killed. Remember that. Christ is killed on a stake as our Passover. His blood, therefore, atones for any sin of anyone who asks for it. So, this scapegoat does not get killed like Satan is not being killed. Eventually, Satan will be destroyed. But for the time being, through this whole scenario, all the way through the millennium, Satan stays alive. Satan takes upon himself, and not through his own doing, he takes all of our sins, even the ones that he is not responsible for, and that’s really what the scapegoat means. This is very important to realize.
(10:39) One of the questions that people ask me is, does the New Testament church need to follow the Old Testament holidays? Well, we already know that Passover was followed. Easter was not followed for some 300 years after the death of Christ. Just do your own research; everybody followed Passover. If we just read in Acts, and I believe it’s Acts 27, verse 9. Let me go to that. Acts 27, verse 9, and this is what it says. And I’m going to read it in the King James Version, or the New King James Version, and I’m going to show you what all the modern versions, including the Plain Truths Bible, renders it as.
(11:19) Now, when much time had been spent, and the sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was already over. And in the notes, it says the fast notes, Day of Atonement, because The Day of Atonement is when you fast. Everybody realizes when, in the Old Testament, it says to deny yourself. It’s to deny yourself of anything good, food, sex, sex amongst your partner, your spouse, you know, the one that God put with you. All of these things you’re to abstain from, because you are denying yourself in honor of what Christ did for you. Should you have a good meal when Christ is dying on the cross for you? Should you have pleasure with your wife or husband when Christ was actually dying for you? In remembrance of Christ, we follow The Day of Atonement, no longer worrying about the blood of bulls and the scapegoat going out into the wilderness. We’re worried about the idea that Christ died for us and is our hope, not only for salvation through his blood, but his resurrection from the dead now gives us the hope of eternal life or resurrection from the dead into immortal life. When we go to 1 Corinthians 15, the resurrection chapter, you know, Paul makes it clear that we must take our mortal bodies, and it must somehow be converted into an immortal body. Right now, we’re mortal. We’re not born again. We’re not born again until we become a spirit upon the resurrection of the dead.
(13:00) When does that happen according to the Bible? Well, 1 Corinthians 15 gives you the answer. So does Revelation, by the way…but 1 Corinthians 15 gives you the plain answer, and the plain answer is that you do not come back to life again until after or at the time that Christ returns after the last trumpet blast. Last week, we had the Feast of Trumpets, and we talked about that. So, the day of atonement now is still a holiday. It’s a solemn holiday. It’s not a joyful time like we’re going to have in five days with the Feast of Tabernacles.
Even though it is a time that is very somber at the same time, it is a day that we are to remember what Christ did for us…and that our sins are now forgiven because of Christ’s sacrifice. We no longer need bulls and goats and sin offerings like they did in the Old Testament, which never could only cover the sin. It could never atone for the sin until Christ came along.
Now, one of the points that I want to make plain, and this is something that is going to cause some controversy, especially with many of the people in a Christian church. It is clear, and if you read Ezekiel, when you read anything about the Millennium, it is clear that the Old Testament holidays are not only coming back, but they’re going to be mandated to follow!
As a matter of fact, there is a passage, and I’ll go into that during the Feast of Tabernacles, that says that in the Millennium, like, for example, Egypt refuses to attend the Feast of Tabernacles and God punishes them. Everyone in the world is going to be forced to follow the Feast of Tabernacles. Well, I got news for you. Ezekiel makes it clear, and this should be plain and clear, and so do other prophets, that when Christ returns, so returns does all of the laws of Moses!
(14:58) There will be sacrifices in the physical temple when people are still alive during the Millennium, the people that were not Christians that became spirit. They are people that came through the Great Tribulation. God is their King, Christ is their God, sitting in Jerusalem in the holy place, and there will be physical Levites killing animals, goats and bulls and sheep, and atoning for people’s sins in remembrance of Christ, and not in remembrance of Mosaic law, but it’s still going to be there. Why? Because all along the Ten Commandments, all of this was meant for our day, not for their day. It was for their day in the sense that it was a look forward into the future of our day, and we should realize that, and in the day of the Millennium, everything to do with all of the holy days point to Jesus Christ. That’s all it does. It does not point to Moses or Aaron or to sacrificing of bulls, which will happen again.
I’ve gone into that before, but the next thing I want to talk about is Christ in the New Testament being talked about by the Apostle Paul, talking about why Christ is our high priest, and we talk about the Day of Atonement. We see this in Hebrews chapter 2, and it talks about Christ being put in charge of what we are today, and not the angels, and the salvation of Christ is what we are really thinking about. Jesus is greater than Moses.
(16:40) Let’s go with chapter 3. So, all of you holy brothers and sisters who are called by God, think about Jesus, who was sent to us and is high priest of our faith. Jesus was faithful to God as Moses was God’s family. Jesus has more honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. Every house built by someone, but the builder of everything of God himself. Moses was faithful in God’s family as a servant, and he told what God would say in the future, but Christ is faithful as God, as son over God’s house. And it goes on to explain in Hebrews, I believe it starts in chapter 4, yes, chapter 4, verse 14. Since we have a great high priest in Jesus, the Son of God, who has gone into heaven, let us hold to the faith that we have, for our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way, the way we are, but he did not ever sin. Let us then feel very sure that we can come before the throne of God, where there is grace, there we can receive the mercy, and the grace, and all the help that we need when we need it. And it goes on in verse 5 to say, every high priest is chosen from among other people.
He is given the work of going before God, but all high priests, he goes on to say that all high priests, like in the line of Aaron, are sinners themselves. And so in the old days of the day of atonement, the high priest himself was as sinful as the people. They could never really fully atone for what sins of theirs, like Christ now can atone for us because He was sinless.
(18:38) We get to chapter 7 of Hebrews, and we remember the shattery character in the Old Testament that Abraham saw, and it was the king of Salem, it was a person, it was called Melchizedek, the king of Salem, who had no birth or death. He is Jesus Christ in one of his forms in the Old Testament. It’s very important when you read this now and understand this. Now, Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest for the most high God. He met Abraham when Abraham was coming back after defeating the kings, and when they met, Melchizedek blessed Abraham, and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything he had brought back from the battle. First, Melchizedek’s name means king of goodness. No one knows who Melchizedek’s father or mother was because he had none. You can see how great this Melchizedek was. Abraham was far greater, was a great father, I’m sorry, and gave him a tenth of everything, which means Melchizedek was superior to Abraham. Now, he goes on to say that Abraham, through his seed, through Jacob’s seed, comes Levi, and the Levites through Levi, so they are lesser than Abraham, yet this Melchizedek was a higher being than Abraham, and therefore a higher being than is any high priest of the Levite line. He goes on in verse 15, and this becomes even more clear when we see that another priest has come like Melchizedek. He is Melchizedek. He was not made a priest by human rules like the Levites were, but through the power of his life, which continues forever. It is said about him, you are a priest forever, a priest like Melchizedek, that’s Psalms 110:4.
(20:28) The old rule now is set aside because it was weak and useless. The law of Moses could not make anything perfect, but now we have better hope has been given to us. It is important that God did this with an oath. The Lord made this promise, Psalm 110 again. The Lord has made this promise and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever. He’s talking to the Messiah, who is Jesus Christ, who is the Yahweh, the I Am of the Old Testament. This means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement for God and his people. When the other priests died, they could not continue as a priest because they had a lifespan. Their sin caused them to die. Christ can never die, so as our high priest, he goes on to say, he is holy, sinless, pure, not influenced by sinners, and immortal. Jesus Christ can never die again. He is not like the other priests who had to offer sacrifices daily for their own sins. The law chooses high priests who are people with weaknesses, but the Word of God in Melchizedek made a high priest that is perfect forever, and that is an important thing to understand, perfect forever. Jesus is the perfect high priest.
(21:47) Chapter 8, here is the point of what we’re trying to say. We have a high priest who sits on the right side of God’s throne in heaven. This is Paul talking, not Bob, Barney. Our high priest serves in the most holy place, the true place of worship that God made, not humans. Every high priest has the work of offerings of gifts and sacrifices to God, so our high priest must also offer something to God. If our high priests were living on earth, he would not be a priest, because there are already priests who follow the law of Moses on earth.The work as they do as priests is only a copy of what’s happening in heaven. That’s important. This whole thing takes place in heaven. This is why God warned Moses when he was ready to build the holy temple, be careful to make everything by the plan that I show you, because he’s making a physical rendition of everything that’s in heaven. There is a tabernacle in heaven, according to the word of God, called the Bible, and he goes on to say, God called this new agreement, the new covenant, so he has made the first agreement go away, which is going to happen when Christ returns, bringing the fullness of the new covenant with him. We are in between covenants right now.We are like the children of Israel wandering in the desert for 40 years. They did not follow circumcision, like we do not have to follow circumcision, though we should. They did not follow the holy days, though we should be following the holy days, but it is not required right now.
It all will be required when Christ returns.
That’s what is important to know. Everything that you read about Leviticus is coming back during the millennium, and any of these preachers that say the law of God was nailed to a cross somewhere, never to be returned, is wrong.
(23:42) You know, we follow holidays today that are a memorial of what happened. I’ll give you an example. Maybe before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, you might have had a ceremony to commemorate that it’s going to happen at a certain date, but then afterwards, you follow on that same day each year, a memorial for them signing the Declaration. A better example is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, the pilgrims had this great big Feast of Tabernacles-type of a party, because that’s really what they were trying to symbolize and afterwards, we still have Thanksgiving each year. Not because we are still doing the same thing they were doing, but because we are remembering what they were doing. That is why we should be following the fast day, the Day of Atonement. We are to remember what Christ did for us and what He will continue to do for us and all of mankind in the world to come.
This evening, we will start the Day of Atonement. We’re going to have a special program at 7-11 p.m. tonight to go over all of this once again.
It will not be me, though. It’s going to be a video explaining the Christian Day of Atonement. It is very important to watch, and tomorrow, I’ll have another short broadcast in the morning explaining more about the Day of Atonement.
(25:05) I do hope that everyone listening to me realizes two things. We keep saying we’re not a religion…that God is news. Well, God’s Holy Days are news. And number two, I hope that you start reading the Bible for yourself…that you don’t listen to what I have to say. You don’t listen to what some other guy has to say. You start reading the Bible. You might take my challenge or other people’s challenges to start reading things for yourself, but when you start reading the Bible, you will come to a better understanding about what you’re supposed to do to please God. You are supposed to be pleasing God, and if you do, God has not only a reward of salvation for you, but He may also have, but He may have protection for some of you or your families if you stay with God. No doubt, there were martyrs. However, this was and is the reason why we try to please God, not only for our own salvation, but for the salvation and the protection of our loved ones and of the future generations to come.
That’s the good news.
That is the gospel that Christ brought with Him.
It’s not what we’re taught today in most Christian churches, but this is the plain truth of what you’re supposed to do, so I hope everybody has a good fast, if you can have one. It begins this evening at about six o’clock tonight…you will have no food, no water for that time period. Now, I do want to say one thing, and I said this last week, and I’ll say it right now, so I guess I am going to take 30 minutes. I understand I am somebody that has some health problems. I’m a diabetic. I take diabetes medicine, and so God does not expect you to follow the letter of the law if you’re going to die trying to do so. God reads your heart and your heart is more important than your offerings. Your heart is more important than your sacrifice.
God reads your heart.
(27:07) So, if you have to have a sip of water during the next 24 hours, have a sip of water. If you have to take certain medications with that water, take certain medications. If you’re feeling very bad, and you need some sugar, or you need some other nutrition, have something. Have something, a little bit, to get you through it all. It is only 24 hours, and most people can make it for 24 hours, but remember one thing. Take care of your health. Take care of yourself. Let your body tell you if it cannot do something. God will understand and forgive. You have a loving God. You have a God that is truly more in love with you than you are in regard to yourself.
God cares about you, and God does not want you to die trying to follow His Day of Atonement.
This is Bob Barney on the eve of the Day of Atonement, which begins tonight and ends tomorrow on a different day. I explained that last week in the calendar. It begins on the ninth day at evening and ends at the tenth day at evening, but it’s 24 hours of denying yourself, and any way you can deny yourself is a good way to go. God really requires mercy and obedience rather than your sacrifice. We really appreciate you all. God bless you and have a good fast. Goodbye.