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Yom Kippur

the Day of Atonement

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The Blood of Christ

By

Stephen Yulish

 

During the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29-34), the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies in the Temple to sprinkle sacrificial blood on the Mercy Seat of the Ark to cleanse the sins of the people of Israel (Leviticus 16:20-22).

A crimson cloth was placed on the outside of the Holy of Holies which would turn white when the process worked (Isaiah 1:18) and it always did. It always did until forty years before the destruction of the Temple, when according to the Jews own Talmud (Rabbinic commentary), Yoma 39 a&b and Rosh Hashanah 31b, this crimson cloth stopped turning white.

Also, the lot that the High Priest picked for the goat to be sacrificed to the Lord ceased coming up in his right hand and began coming up in his left hand which was the hand which always was for the scapegoat (Leviticus 16:7-10) which had all the sins placed on it and led out of town.

Also, according to the rabbis own commentary (Talmud) the western light in the Temple would not keep burning as before and the doors of the Temple would no longer open by themselves!

What happened forty years before the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD? Jesus the Christ died for our sins once and for all around 30 AD. He became the scarlet thread of salvation. By His blood, our sins are washed away and we are white as snow. The Temple and its blood sacrifices of goats and bulls (Leviticus 17:11) were no longer needed to cleanse us of our sins (Hebrews 9:11-15).Jesus is all we need. He is our High Priest who made atonement for our sins once and for all in a holy place not built by human hands (Hebrews 9:24-26).

Praise His Holy Name,

Stephen Yulish

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