On this day atonement will be made for you. (Leviticus 16:30)Chapter sixteen is where we find instructions for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). This was the one day of the year when the High Priest entered the Most Holy Place (Holy of holies), to make atonement for the nation's sins. Yom Kippur, the most important day of the Jewish calendar, is the tenth and final day of ten days of repentance beginning with Rosh Hoshannah.
Ah, this is where the scapegoat is also - I always wondered what happened to those goats after they were let out into the wilderness like that, it's an interesting shadow of the substitutionary aspect of what Christ did for us.
ReplyDeleteKind of a sad commentary that people have to have some of these perversions and abominations spelled out for them - you would like to think they would have simply *known* something was wrong with such actions without it being codified but human nature can so easily become so terribly warped.
Thanks for the note about Yom Kippur, I'm a bit vague on many of the Jewish holy days, though I always find them interesting when studied. - Amy