A Feast Without Food
How can there be a feast without food?
The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) announced His Feasts of Truth in the wilderness (Leviticus 23:4). However, everyone is to fast on the sixth feast, Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) (Leviticus 23:27-29). So, Yom Kippur is a feast without food. How can this be?
This apparent paradox is resolved when you look under the covers, instead of looking only at the surface.
First, a little history about the word "feast".
Festival originally meant "a holy day". The word "feast" came from the word "festival" and originally had the same meaning. A holy day was usually celebrated with the community gathering to eat special foods associated with the holy day. So, the word "feast" came to mean people eating food together to celebrate a holy day. Overtime, the word "feast" came to mean people eating together to celebrate any event.
So, when Hebrew was first translated into English, the English readers understood that the Father of Truth was announcing His Holy Days in the wilderness.
The Hebrew words make this plainer. There are two Hebrew words usually translated as "Feasts" in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law). The paradox disappears when you translate these words with their more literal meanings in modern English.
One word is "chag" and it means a feast. It is the word used of the three times a year when the men of Israel are to gather before the Father of Truth for a feast in Deuteronomy 16:16. This word is always used of celebrations where people gather together to eat.
The other word is "moed" and it means an appointment. It is the word used of when Israel is to set aside certain days of the year as holy to meet with the Father of Truth in Leviticus 23:4. This word means "a holy day", when used in the context of meeting with the Father of Truth.
The words "holy day" have been contracted together to form the word "holiday" in modern English. So, Yom Kippur is not a feast without food. It is a holiday without food.
What is fasting on Yom Kippur about?
The commandment for observing Yom Kippur is to afflict your soul, whether you are a Jew or a Ger (a Gentile living among the Jews as part of the Jewish people) (Leviticus 16:29-31).
The Rabbis teach that people are forbidden to do five things on Yom Kippur in order to afflict their souls: eat food, engage in sex, wash their bodies, anoint their bodies with anything, and wear leather shoes.
For this reason, the traditional greeting in the days leading up to Yom Kippur is "Tzom Kal", which means "have an easy fast".
The Rabbis teach that afflicting the soul is just part of the atonement process of Yom Kippur. People also need to do three other things as well to make things right between the Father of Truth and themselves: pray, repent, and perform Tzedakah.
Although Tzedakah commonly translated as charity, that is not really accurate. It literally means "righteousness". There is no idea in Rabbinic thinking of doing something good for someone in need to show them love. (Charity literally means "love".) Instead, you do something good for someone in need to show that you are righteous. You give to the less fortunate to show that you are obeying the commandment of the Law of Truth to do so. You are doing justice to those less fortunate when you do something good for them.
For many Jews, Tzedakah begins with the Kapparot ceremony in the evening that begins Yom Kippur, where a chicken is waived over peoples heads. The waived chicken is then killed, and the meat is given to someone who is poor. (Sometimes money is waived instead, and it is given to someone who is poor.) This shedding of blood, or money substitute, is thought to help atone for the sins of the giver.
In similar manner, there are elaborate synagogue services, where people publicly participate in prayers (Kol Nidrei, Ma'ariv, Mussaf, Mincha, Ne'ila) from the Mahzor (prayer book), T'shuva (Repentance), and Vidui (corporate confession of sins).
In the Kol Nidrei, all personal oaths and pledges made until the Yom Kippur service of the following year by the participants, are declared null and void.
The Avodah (Remembering the Temple service) completes atonement according to the Rabbis. This is a long series of public prayers (Mussaf), studies of the rituals of the High Priest, recitations of these rituals, and people lying prostrate. The whole idea is that people are participating in the Yom Kippur Temple service, by doing these thing in remembrance of the service, as if they were actually there. People lay prostrate at various times during the Avodah, because people did this when the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) was being manifested at the Temple on Yom Kippur. So, the Rabbis teach that the sins of the people are atoned for, as if they were actually there, when the High Priest performed the rituals of Yom Kippur in the Temple.
The Rabbis teach that during Vidui, all people are declared cleansed of their sins, because they made public confession of them as a group in the Ashemnu and Al Cheyt confessions.
Does the Book of Truth (The Bible) teach that fasting on Yom Kippur, and all of these other Yom Kippur traditions, really atone for sin?
In the Book of Truth (The Bible) afflicting the soul is only associated with people not eating and not engaging in sex with their spouse. People afflict their souls when they fast (Isaiah 58:3). When they fast, then they also refrain from engaging in sex with their spouse (1 Corinthians 7:2-5).
More than that, the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) explicitly says that the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) are to wash and anoint their bodies when they fast (Matthew 6:16-18).
The Book of Truth says nothing about not wearing leather shoes. (The Rabbis allow shoes made of other materials to be worn.)
No one is made righteous by public acts of Tzedakah. The Man of Truth said, that people should give to the less fortunate in secret, instead doing it publicly in order to show how righteous they are (Matthew 6:1-4). No one is brought closer to the Father of Truth by giving to take of people in need, unless they do it out of charity (1 Corinthians 13:3). This is the entire point of this commandment of the Law of Truth (1 Timothy 1:5-8). The Children of Truth are to show love to other people, so other people can understand the love that the Father of Truth has for them (1 John 3:16-18).
There are no sacrifices for sins involving chickens in the Law of Truth. It is the blood of a bull and a goat that are offered up by the High Priest in the Temple to cleanse people of sin on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:27-30).
There is no giving money to the poor to atone for sins in the Law of Truth. The only money that could help atone for sin was the half-shekel contribution of each grown man to help pay for the expenses of the Yom Kippur service in the Temple (Exodus 30:12-16).
It is not praying in unison from a prayer book in a synagogue service that makes a person right with the Father of Truth. People must turn from their wicked ways, and seek His face to walk in His ways, if they want Him to hear their prayers (2 Chronicles 7:14). He does not hear the prayers of those, who do not do what He says is right (Proverbs 15:29). He only hears the prayers of those, who do what He says is right (1 Peter 3:10-12).
The Man of Truth said, that people should not be standing in the synagogue to be seen by other people, when they are praying (Matthew 6:5). They are not use vain repetitions from prayer books, like idol worshipers do (Matthew 6:7). They are not to put on a pretense with long prayers in public meetings, while oppressing other people the rest of the time (Matthew 23:14).
The Man of Truth said, that people need to be alone with the Father of Truth when they pray (Matthew 6:6). This is how he prayed (Matthew 14:23).
The heartfelt prayers of those, who do what the Father of Truth says is right, get answered in powerful ways (James 5:16). Eliyahu (Elijah aka Elias) got powerful results, because he did what the Father of Truth said was right, and made heart felt prayers when he was alone with the Father of Truth (James 5:17-18).
There is no nullifying oaths and pledges for the next year on Yom Kippur in the Law of Truth. It commands that whatever vow proceeds out of the mouth of a person, that they are to perform it (Numbers 30:1-2). Only the vow of a woman could nullified by a man who had authority over her, like her father or husband, if they did so on the day they learned of it (Numbers 30:3-8). However, an unmarried woman, who did not live under the roof of her father, could not have her vow nullified by anyone (Numbers 30:9).
A righteous person does forbear to do what they promised, even if their promise proves to be hurtful to them (Psalm 15:2-4). If people make an oath to the Father of Truth, then they had better do what they promised (Ecclesiastes 5:4-6).
In like manner, the Man of Truth said to not make oaths where people swear by anything, but to simply keep their promises at all times (Matthew 5:33-37). He said that they had better keep their promises, no matter what they swore upon, because they made an oath to the Father of Truth (Matthew 23:16-21). A person simply needs to do what they promised, without making an oath (James 5:12).
There is no atonement for sins by rehearsing the atonement rituals in the Temple on Yom Kippur. The High Priest must place the blood of the sin offering on Yom Kippur, for atonement to be accomplished (Exodus 30:10). The High Priest must perform these rituals, in order for them to cleanse people of sin (Leviticus 16:30). The life is in the blood, and blood is required for atonement (Leviticus 17:11). There is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22).
It is not confession of sin that cleanses people from sin. In the Law of Truth, when a person confesses of their sin, they had to make an offering to the priest, so they could be atoned from their sin (Leviticus 5:5-13). In like manner, the sins of the nation had to be put on the head of the Azazel (goat of escape aka scapegoat) by the High Priest on Yom Kippur, after confession of these sins was made, so the nation could be cleansed of these sins (Leviticus 16:20-22). If a person trespassed against the Father of Truth and confessed their trespass, then they had repay the person they did wrong to, plus a twenty percent penalty, as well have a ram sacrificed for their trespass (Numbers 5:6-8).
Confession of sins must be personal, complete, and absolute in order for people to be forgiven. They must admit to both their own rebellion and the rebellion of their ancestors to the Father of Truth (Nehemiah 1:6). They must admit the full extent of their sin to the Father of Truth to be forgiven (Psalm 32:5).
Confession of sins of a nation (ethnic group) must be personal, complete, and absolute in order for the nation to be forgiven. The nation must admit, that it has rebelled against the Father of Truth to receive forgiveness (1 Kings 8:33-34). The nation must admit, that it deserves the punishment, which their sins have brought upon them, to receive forgiveness (2 Chronicles 6:24-25). The people in the nation must admit to the rebellion of their nation, as well as their own rebellion, to obtain forgiveness (Daniel 9:20).
People must turn from their sins after confessing them to be forgiven. They must not only confess their sins, but turn from their sins to be forgiven (1 Kings 8:35-36). They must only only confess their sins, but be willing to return to walking in the ways of the Father of Truth to be forgiven (2 Chronicles 6:26-27). Their confession of sins must be accompanied with separating themselves from those, who influence them to sin (Nehemiah 9:2). Confession of sins will not bring forgiveness, unless those sins are forsaken as well (Proverbs 28:13). Confession of sins must be accompanied with the evidence of repentance (Matthew 3:6-8). Baptism in water only brings forgiveness of sins, if it is accompanied by repentance and confession of sins (Mark 1:4-5).
So, it is certain that fasting on Yom Kippur, and observing all of the Rabbinic traditions, do not make atonement for sin. This is came from the Babylonian Talmud. It is just another example of Rabbinic Distort.
So, how were people cleansed of their sin when the High Priest performed the Yom Kippur rituals in the Temple?
Kippur literally means "covering". It comes from the same root word as the Kapporeth that covered the Ark of the Covenant. This common root word means "to cover". (Kippur and the root word are the same word in the original Hebrew alphabet. This can be seen if you ignore the vowel points and cantillation marks for both words. These did not exist in the time when the Law of Truth was given.) So, on Yom Kippur, literally "the day of covering", the High Priest could only make a covering of sins for another year in the Temple.
The High Priest had to first make an offering for his own sins with the bull (Leviticus 16:6). He had to enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of the bull to cover the sins of himself and his house (Leviticus 16:11-14). Then the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of a goat to cover the sins of the people of Israel (Leviticus 16:15). After that, the High Priest had to cover the sins that had polluted the Temple, by the people coming into it with their sins, which they had committed after the previous Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:16-19). Only then was the Azazel led into the wilderness to carry the sins of Israel away from the people (Leviticus 16:20-22). Finally, everyone involved in the covering process had to clean up the mess and themselves (Leviticus 16:24-28).
The High Priest after the order of Aaron was no more sinless than the rest of the people of Israel (Hebrews 5:1-4). The High Priest could not even take away his own sins, so he had to bring in blood every year on Yom Kippur to cover them up as well as the sins of the people (Hebrews 9:7).
The truth is the Father of Truth never needed the blood of bulls and goats to be satisfied, but has always desired repentance to bring salvation (Psalm 50:7-15). If the blood of bulls and goats could have removed sin, and made people perfectly righteous, then there would have not been a need to keep offering them year after year on Yom Kippur (Hebrews 10:1-4). These sacrifices could never take away sins, but only cover them up (Hebrews 10:11).
So, the people were never completely cleanse of their sins by the High Priest performing the Yom Kippur rituals in the Temple.
So, how can people be cleansed of their sin at all, when there is no Temple and no High Priest after the order of Aaron?
These rituals could only provide a temporary covering of the sins of people each year until a better priesthood should arise, that could make people perfectly righteous (Hebrews 9:9-10).
There was another High Priest, before Aaron was born as a descendant of Abraham (Abram), named Melchizedek (Melchi-Tzedak aka Melchisedec) (Genesis 14:18-20). The entire Levitical priesthood, where Aaron was High Priest, was in the loins of Abraham, when Melchizedek was High Priest (Hebrews 7:9-10).
The Father of Truth promised to raise up another High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:2-4). He promised this, because a High Priest after the order of Aaron from the tribe of Levi, could never make any one perfectly righteous (Hebrews 7:11).
The Man of Truth is that High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5:5-10). This High Priest after the order of Melchizedek came from the tribe of Judah (Yahudah) (Hebrews 7:13-17). The Man of Truth was made a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek with an oath, unlike the priests after the order of Aaron (Hebrews 7:20-22). The Man of Truth remains a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek forever, unlike the High Priests after the order of Aaron, who only served until death (Hebrews 7:23-25). Since the Man of Truth is sinless, he did not need to offer up animals as a sacrifice for his own sins year after year, like the High Priests after the order of Aaron, but as a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, he was able to make a one time offering to cleanse other people of their sins completely, by offering himself up as a sacrifice (Hebrews 7:26-28).
The Man of Truth as a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, has entered into the Holy of Holies beyond the veil (Hebrews 6:19-20). He went into the Holies of Holies of the Temple in Heaven, that the Temple on Earth was patterned after (Hebrews 8:1-5). The High Priest after the order of Aaron, only went into the copy Temple on Earth (Hebrews 9:1-7).
The Man of Truth did not enter into the Holy of Holies in Heaven with the blood of bulls and goats, but with his own blood (Hebrews 9:11-12). This blood was able to cleanse people of their sins completely (Hebrews 9:13-14). The Man of Truth only had to enter the Holy of Holies in Heaven one time, because his sacrifice is able to take away the sins of people completely (Hebrews 9:24-26). This sacrifice was able to make people perfectly righteous (Hebrews 10:12-14).
Since the Man of Truth, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, has made atonement to make people perfectly righteous, as foreshadowed by the Yom Kippur rituals performed in the Temple, by the High Priest after the order of Aaron, then fasting on Yom Kippur as never been about atoning for sin.
So, what is fasting on Yom Kippur about?
Fasting is about mourning a disaster (2 Samuel 1:12). It is about mourning a disaster that sinning against the Father of Truth has brought about (Nehemiah 1:3-7). It is about mourning a disaster that is about to happen (Esther 4:3-8).
Fasting is about mourning out of sorrow for sin and repenting (Joel 2:12-13). Fasting and mourning are useless without repentance (Zechariah 7:5-10).
Fasting is about the Children of Truth mourning, that the Man of Truth is not with them on Earth today (Matthew 9:14-15).
This fasting is about the mourning of Israel on the day, when the Father of Truth brings his judgment to completion at the end of the Tribulation (Amos 8:8-10). It is about the mourning of Israel in repentance, when they see the Man of Truth, whom they pierced, coming to save them from certain annihilation (Zechariah 12:9-11). It is about the nations of the Earth mourning, when the Man of Truth comes to destroy those, who seek to destroy Israel (Matthew 24:29-30).
The Father of Truth has raised the Man of Truth from the dead, so that all people can be certain that this day of judgement is coming (Acts 17:31).
The Man of Truth, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, is returning to complete the judgement of the Tribulation, and to complete the salvation of the Children of Truth (Hebrews 9:27-28).
The Grapes of Wrath will soon be trampled. This world will submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender at the end of the Tribulation. So, the Children of Truth say, "Bring it on!".
The Children of Truth eat the Breakfast of Champions on Yom Kippur, because it is the fastest way to victory!
It is only the blood of the Man of Truth, that can cleanse people of sin, and make them perfectly righteous (1 John 1:5-7). It is only by confessing our sins to the Man of Truth, that we can be cleansed of all unrighteousness (1 John 1:8-10).
So, make the Man of Truth your king, because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). So come into the House of Truth, have your sins taken away, and this will be your day of atonement (1 John 3:1-5).
Come into the House of Truth!
The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) announced His Feasts of Truth in the wilderness (Leviticus 23:4). However, everyone is to fast on the sixth feast, Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) (Leviticus 23:27-29). So, Yom Kippur is a feast without food. How can this be?
This apparent paradox is resolved when you look under the covers, instead of looking only at the surface.
First, a little history about the word "feast".
Festival originally meant "a holy day". The word "feast" came from the word "festival" and originally had the same meaning. A holy day was usually celebrated with the community gathering to eat special foods associated with the holy day. So, the word "feast" came to mean people eating food together to celebrate a holy day. Overtime, the word "feast" came to mean people eating together to celebrate any event.
So, when Hebrew was first translated into English, the English readers understood that the Father of Truth was announcing His Holy Days in the wilderness.
The Hebrew words make this plainer. There are two Hebrew words usually translated as "Feasts" in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law). The paradox disappears when you translate these words with their more literal meanings in modern English.
One word is "chag" and it means a feast. It is the word used of the three times a year when the men of Israel are to gather before the Father of Truth for a feast in Deuteronomy 16:16. This word is always used of celebrations where people gather together to eat.
The other word is "moed" and it means an appointment. It is the word used of when Israel is to set aside certain days of the year as holy to meet with the Father of Truth in Leviticus 23:4. This word means "a holy day", when used in the context of meeting with the Father of Truth.
The words "holy day" have been contracted together to form the word "holiday" in modern English. So, Yom Kippur is not a feast without food. It is a holiday without food.
What is fasting on Yom Kippur about?
The commandment for observing Yom Kippur is to afflict your soul, whether you are a Jew or a Ger (a Gentile living among the Jews as part of the Jewish people) (Leviticus 16:29-31).
The Rabbis teach that people are forbidden to do five things on Yom Kippur in order to afflict their souls: eat food, engage in sex, wash their bodies, anoint their bodies with anything, and wear leather shoes.
For this reason, the traditional greeting in the days leading up to Yom Kippur is "Tzom Kal", which means "have an easy fast".
The Rabbis teach that afflicting the soul is just part of the atonement process of Yom Kippur. People also need to do three other things as well to make things right between the Father of Truth and themselves: pray, repent, and perform Tzedakah.
Although Tzedakah commonly translated as charity, that is not really accurate. It literally means "righteousness". There is no idea in Rabbinic thinking of doing something good for someone in need to show them love. (Charity literally means "love".) Instead, you do something good for someone in need to show that you are righteous. You give to the less fortunate to show that you are obeying the commandment of the Law of Truth to do so. You are doing justice to those less fortunate when you do something good for them.
For many Jews, Tzedakah begins with the Kapparot ceremony in the evening that begins Yom Kippur, where a chicken is waived over peoples heads. The waived chicken is then killed, and the meat is given to someone who is poor. (Sometimes money is waived instead, and it is given to someone who is poor.) This shedding of blood, or money substitute, is thought to help atone for the sins of the giver.
In similar manner, there are elaborate synagogue services, where people publicly participate in prayers (Kol Nidrei, Ma'ariv, Mussaf, Mincha, Ne'ila) from the Mahzor (prayer book), T'shuva (Repentance), and Vidui (corporate confession of sins).
In the Kol Nidrei, all personal oaths and pledges made until the Yom Kippur service of the following year by the participants, are declared null and void.
The Avodah (Remembering the Temple service) completes atonement according to the Rabbis. This is a long series of public prayers (Mussaf), studies of the rituals of the High Priest, recitations of these rituals, and people lying prostrate. The whole idea is that people are participating in the Yom Kippur Temple service, by doing these thing in remembrance of the service, as if they were actually there. People lay prostrate at various times during the Avodah, because people did this when the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) was being manifested at the Temple on Yom Kippur. So, the Rabbis teach that the sins of the people are atoned for, as if they were actually there, when the High Priest performed the rituals of Yom Kippur in the Temple.
The Rabbis teach that during Vidui, all people are declared cleansed of their sins, because they made public confession of them as a group in the Ashemnu and Al Cheyt confessions.
Does the Book of Truth (The Bible) teach that fasting on Yom Kippur, and all of these other Yom Kippur traditions, really atone for sin?
In the Book of Truth (The Bible) afflicting the soul is only associated with people not eating and not engaging in sex with their spouse. People afflict their souls when they fast (Isaiah 58:3). When they fast, then they also refrain from engaging in sex with their spouse (1 Corinthians 7:2-5).
More than that, the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) explicitly says that the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) are to wash and anoint their bodies when they fast (Matthew 6:16-18).
The Book of Truth says nothing about not wearing leather shoes. (The Rabbis allow shoes made of other materials to be worn.)
No one is made righteous by public acts of Tzedakah. The Man of Truth said, that people should give to the less fortunate in secret, instead doing it publicly in order to show how righteous they are (Matthew 6:1-4). No one is brought closer to the Father of Truth by giving to take of people in need, unless they do it out of charity (1 Corinthians 13:3). This is the entire point of this commandment of the Law of Truth (1 Timothy 1:5-8). The Children of Truth are to show love to other people, so other people can understand the love that the Father of Truth has for them (1 John 3:16-18).
There are no sacrifices for sins involving chickens in the Law of Truth. It is the blood of a bull and a goat that are offered up by the High Priest in the Temple to cleanse people of sin on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:27-30).
There is no giving money to the poor to atone for sins in the Law of Truth. The only money that could help atone for sin was the half-shekel contribution of each grown man to help pay for the expenses of the Yom Kippur service in the Temple (Exodus 30:12-16).
It is not praying in unison from a prayer book in a synagogue service that makes a person right with the Father of Truth. People must turn from their wicked ways, and seek His face to walk in His ways, if they want Him to hear their prayers (2 Chronicles 7:14). He does not hear the prayers of those, who do not do what He says is right (Proverbs 15:29). He only hears the prayers of those, who do what He says is right (1 Peter 3:10-12).
The Man of Truth said, that people should not be standing in the synagogue to be seen by other people, when they are praying (Matthew 6:5). They are not use vain repetitions from prayer books, like idol worshipers do (Matthew 6:7). They are not to put on a pretense with long prayers in public meetings, while oppressing other people the rest of the time (Matthew 23:14).
The Man of Truth said, that people need to be alone with the Father of Truth when they pray (Matthew 6:6). This is how he prayed (Matthew 14:23).
The heartfelt prayers of those, who do what the Father of Truth says is right, get answered in powerful ways (James 5:16). Eliyahu (Elijah aka Elias) got powerful results, because he did what the Father of Truth said was right, and made heart felt prayers when he was alone with the Father of Truth (James 5:17-18).
There is no nullifying oaths and pledges for the next year on Yom Kippur in the Law of Truth. It commands that whatever vow proceeds out of the mouth of a person, that they are to perform it (Numbers 30:1-2). Only the vow of a woman could nullified by a man who had authority over her, like her father or husband, if they did so on the day they learned of it (Numbers 30:3-8). However, an unmarried woman, who did not live under the roof of her father, could not have her vow nullified by anyone (Numbers 30:9).
A righteous person does forbear to do what they promised, even if their promise proves to be hurtful to them (Psalm 15:2-4). If people make an oath to the Father of Truth, then they had better do what they promised (Ecclesiastes 5:4-6).
In like manner, the Man of Truth said to not make oaths where people swear by anything, but to simply keep their promises at all times (Matthew 5:33-37). He said that they had better keep their promises, no matter what they swore upon, because they made an oath to the Father of Truth (Matthew 23:16-21). A person simply needs to do what they promised, without making an oath (James 5:12).
There is no atonement for sins by rehearsing the atonement rituals in the Temple on Yom Kippur. The High Priest must place the blood of the sin offering on Yom Kippur, for atonement to be accomplished (Exodus 30:10). The High Priest must perform these rituals, in order for them to cleanse people of sin (Leviticus 16:30). The life is in the blood, and blood is required for atonement (Leviticus 17:11). There is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22).
It is not confession of sin that cleanses people from sin. In the Law of Truth, when a person confesses of their sin, they had to make an offering to the priest, so they could be atoned from their sin (Leviticus 5:5-13). In like manner, the sins of the nation had to be put on the head of the Azazel (goat of escape aka scapegoat) by the High Priest on Yom Kippur, after confession of these sins was made, so the nation could be cleansed of these sins (Leviticus 16:20-22). If a person trespassed against the Father of Truth and confessed their trespass, then they had repay the person they did wrong to, plus a twenty percent penalty, as well have a ram sacrificed for their trespass (Numbers 5:6-8).
Confession of sins must be personal, complete, and absolute in order for people to be forgiven. They must admit to both their own rebellion and the rebellion of their ancestors to the Father of Truth (Nehemiah 1:6). They must admit the full extent of their sin to the Father of Truth to be forgiven (Psalm 32:5).
Confession of sins of a nation (ethnic group) must be personal, complete, and absolute in order for the nation to be forgiven. The nation must admit, that it has rebelled against the Father of Truth to receive forgiveness (1 Kings 8:33-34). The nation must admit, that it deserves the punishment, which their sins have brought upon them, to receive forgiveness (2 Chronicles 6:24-25). The people in the nation must admit to the rebellion of their nation, as well as their own rebellion, to obtain forgiveness (Daniel 9:20).
People must turn from their sins after confessing them to be forgiven. They must not only confess their sins, but turn from their sins to be forgiven (1 Kings 8:35-36). They must only only confess their sins, but be willing to return to walking in the ways of the Father of Truth to be forgiven (2 Chronicles 6:26-27). Their confession of sins must be accompanied with separating themselves from those, who influence them to sin (Nehemiah 9:2). Confession of sins will not bring forgiveness, unless those sins are forsaken as well (Proverbs 28:13). Confession of sins must be accompanied with the evidence of repentance (Matthew 3:6-8). Baptism in water only brings forgiveness of sins, if it is accompanied by repentance and confession of sins (Mark 1:4-5).
So, it is certain that fasting on Yom Kippur, and observing all of the Rabbinic traditions, do not make atonement for sin. This is came from the Babylonian Talmud. It is just another example of Rabbinic Distort.
So, how were people cleansed of their sin when the High Priest performed the Yom Kippur rituals in the Temple?
Kippur literally means "covering". It comes from the same root word as the Kapporeth that covered the Ark of the Covenant. This common root word means "to cover". (Kippur and the root word are the same word in the original Hebrew alphabet. This can be seen if you ignore the vowel points and cantillation marks for both words. These did not exist in the time when the Law of Truth was given.) So, on Yom Kippur, literally "the day of covering", the High Priest could only make a covering of sins for another year in the Temple.
The High Priest had to first make an offering for his own sins with the bull (Leviticus 16:6). He had to enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of the bull to cover the sins of himself and his house (Leviticus 16:11-14). Then the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of a goat to cover the sins of the people of Israel (Leviticus 16:15). After that, the High Priest had to cover the sins that had polluted the Temple, by the people coming into it with their sins, which they had committed after the previous Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:16-19). Only then was the Azazel led into the wilderness to carry the sins of Israel away from the people (Leviticus 16:20-22). Finally, everyone involved in the covering process had to clean up the mess and themselves (Leviticus 16:24-28).
The High Priest after the order of Aaron was no more sinless than the rest of the people of Israel (Hebrews 5:1-4). The High Priest could not even take away his own sins, so he had to bring in blood every year on Yom Kippur to cover them up as well as the sins of the people (Hebrews 9:7).
The truth is the Father of Truth never needed the blood of bulls and goats to be satisfied, but has always desired repentance to bring salvation (Psalm 50:7-15). If the blood of bulls and goats could have removed sin, and made people perfectly righteous, then there would have not been a need to keep offering them year after year on Yom Kippur (Hebrews 10:1-4). These sacrifices could never take away sins, but only cover them up (Hebrews 10:11).
So, the people were never completely cleanse of their sins by the High Priest performing the Yom Kippur rituals in the Temple.
So, how can people be cleansed of their sin at all, when there is no Temple and no High Priest after the order of Aaron?
These rituals could only provide a temporary covering of the sins of people each year until a better priesthood should arise, that could make people perfectly righteous (Hebrews 9:9-10).
There was another High Priest, before Aaron was born as a descendant of Abraham (Abram), named Melchizedek (Melchi-Tzedak aka Melchisedec) (Genesis 14:18-20). The entire Levitical priesthood, where Aaron was High Priest, was in the loins of Abraham, when Melchizedek was High Priest (Hebrews 7:9-10).
The Father of Truth promised to raise up another High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:2-4). He promised this, because a High Priest after the order of Aaron from the tribe of Levi, could never make any one perfectly righteous (Hebrews 7:11).
The Man of Truth is that High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5:5-10). This High Priest after the order of Melchizedek came from the tribe of Judah (Yahudah) (Hebrews 7:13-17). The Man of Truth was made a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek with an oath, unlike the priests after the order of Aaron (Hebrews 7:20-22). The Man of Truth remains a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek forever, unlike the High Priests after the order of Aaron, who only served until death (Hebrews 7:23-25). Since the Man of Truth is sinless, he did not need to offer up animals as a sacrifice for his own sins year after year, like the High Priests after the order of Aaron, but as a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, he was able to make a one time offering to cleanse other people of their sins completely, by offering himself up as a sacrifice (Hebrews 7:26-28).
The Man of Truth as a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, has entered into the Holy of Holies beyond the veil (Hebrews 6:19-20). He went into the Holies of Holies of the Temple in Heaven, that the Temple on Earth was patterned after (Hebrews 8:1-5). The High Priest after the order of Aaron, only went into the copy Temple on Earth (Hebrews 9:1-7).
The Man of Truth did not enter into the Holy of Holies in Heaven with the blood of bulls and goats, but with his own blood (Hebrews 9:11-12). This blood was able to cleanse people of their sins completely (Hebrews 9:13-14). The Man of Truth only had to enter the Holy of Holies in Heaven one time, because his sacrifice is able to take away the sins of people completely (Hebrews 9:24-26). This sacrifice was able to make people perfectly righteous (Hebrews 10:12-14).
Since the Man of Truth, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, has made atonement to make people perfectly righteous, as foreshadowed by the Yom Kippur rituals performed in the Temple, by the High Priest after the order of Aaron, then fasting on Yom Kippur as never been about atoning for sin.
So, what is fasting on Yom Kippur about?
Fasting is about mourning a disaster (2 Samuel 1:12). It is about mourning a disaster that sinning against the Father of Truth has brought about (Nehemiah 1:3-7). It is about mourning a disaster that is about to happen (Esther 4:3-8).
Fasting is about mourning out of sorrow for sin and repenting (Joel 2:12-13). Fasting and mourning are useless without repentance (Zechariah 7:5-10).
Fasting is about the Children of Truth mourning, that the Man of Truth is not with them on Earth today (Matthew 9:14-15).
This fasting is about the mourning of Israel on the day, when the Father of Truth brings his judgment to completion at the end of the Tribulation (Amos 8:8-10). It is about the mourning of Israel in repentance, when they see the Man of Truth, whom they pierced, coming to save them from certain annihilation (Zechariah 12:9-11). It is about the nations of the Earth mourning, when the Man of Truth comes to destroy those, who seek to destroy Israel (Matthew 24:29-30).
The Father of Truth has raised the Man of Truth from the dead, so that all people can be certain that this day of judgement is coming (Acts 17:31).
The Man of Truth, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, is returning to complete the judgement of the Tribulation, and to complete the salvation of the Children of Truth (Hebrews 9:27-28).
The Grapes of Wrath will soon be trampled. This world will submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender at the end of the Tribulation. So, the Children of Truth say, "Bring it on!".
The Children of Truth eat the Breakfast of Champions on Yom Kippur, because it is the fastest way to victory!
It is only the blood of the Man of Truth, that can cleanse people of sin, and make them perfectly righteous (1 John 1:5-7). It is only by confessing our sins to the Man of Truth, that we can be cleansed of all unrighteousness (1 John 1:8-10).
So, make the Man of Truth your king, because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). So come into the House of Truth, have your sins taken away, and this will be your day of atonement (1 John 3:1-5).
Come into the House of Truth!
Labels: Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur
posted by The House Of Truth @ September 20, 2018
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