Shalom,
Today is Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement. May The LORD Bless you and your family this day and forever.
Our Teaching will be about, Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement.
AND THE TITLE OF OUR TEACHING IS, GOD NEVER CALLS FOR A FAST ON YOM KIPPUR, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.
The foundation of this Teaching will come from The Words that GOD Speaks in Torah, The Law of Moses, in Leviticus 23.26-32.
And with that said, let’s read Leviticus 23.26-32.
Verse 26 And The LORD Spoke to Moses, saying,
Verse 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh Month is The Day of Atonement. There shall be a Holy Gathering to you. And you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to The LORD.
Verse 28 And you shall do no work on that very same Day, for it is The Day of Atonement to make Atonement for you before The LORD Your GOD.
Verse 29 For whatever person shall not be afflicted on that same Day, he shall be cut off from his People.
Verse 30 And whatever person does any work on that same Day, the same person will I destroy from among his People.
Verse 31 You shall do no manner of work. It shall be a Statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Verse 32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls. At the ninth Day of the month at evening, from evening to evening shall you celebrate your Sabbath.
So let’s study these Verses Line upon Line.
Verse 26 And The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Verse 27 Also on the tenth Day of this seventh month is The Day of Atonement. There shall be a Holy Gathering to you.
The Holy Gathering, as you well know, is a Service devoted to The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY to Honor His Day of Atonement.
And you shall “afflict your souls”
Judaism takes these words, “AFFLICT YOUR SOULS” to mean, practice self denial, and fast. And that is wrong.
The Hebrew Word for AFFLICT, as in Afflict your souls, is AH’NAH meaning, to Humble Yourself, Submit Yourself.
AFFLICT YOUR SOULS DOES NOT MEAN TO FAST.
AFFLICT YOUR SOULS MEANS TO HUMBLE YOURSELF, AND SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.
AFFLICT YOUR SOULS NEVER MEANS TO FAST.
AFFLICT YOUR SOULS NEVER MEANS TO FAST ON YOM KIPPUR.
GOD NEVER COMMANDS ANYBODY TO FAST ON YOM KIPPUR.
NO WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES GOD EVER COMMAND ANYONE TO FAST.
BUT GOD THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE COMMANDS EVERYONE, JEWISH PEOPLE AND NON JEWISH PEOPLE TO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.
OBEDIENCE TO GOD IS THE CENTRAL MOST IMPORTANT TEACHING IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE.
DEUTERONOMY 8.3, DEUTERONOMY 28, PSALM 119
WE JEWISH PEOPLE, LIKE ALL PEOPLE, GET OURSELVES IN TROUBLE WITH GOD BECAUSE WE DISOBEY GOD BY DISOBEYING HIS SPOKEN WORD IN THE BIBLE. THERE IS NO OTHER REASON FOR OUR TROUBLES OTHER THAN DISOBEYING THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE.
JOSHUA 1.7-9
FASTING WILL GET YOU NO WHERE WITH GOD ON YOM KIPPUR. BUT OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE WILL BE TO YOU FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SALVATION, IN THE EYES OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.
Verse 28 And you shall do no work on that same Day, for it is The Day of Atonement to make Atonement for you before The LORD Your GOD.
Judaism follows well This Commandment of GOD to do no work on Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement.
BUT BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF JEWISH PEOPLE REJECT THEIR GOD AND MESSIAH YESHUA WHOM THE WORLD KNOWS BETTER AS JESUS, WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE YOUR ATONEMENT, TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS, JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA HAVE NO ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SINS.
FOR TORAH SAYS, IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL. LEVITICUS 17.11
WHILE THERE IS NO TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, GOD FORBIDS THE ANIMAL SACRIFICE THAT MADE ATONEMENT FOR THE PEOPLE IN TABERNACLE AND TEMPLE TIMES. LEVITICUS 17.8-9
SO JUDAISM HAS MADE THEIR OWN RULES FOR ATONEMENT. AND THAT IS CHUTZPAH GOING AGAINST GOD’S RULE THAT IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT.
ATONEMENT, THEY SAY, CAN BE MADE IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. THROUGH PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FOR A WRONG COMMITTED, THROUGH SUFFERING, OR THROUGH THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN RITUALS. ALL ACCOMPANIED BY REPENTANCE.
NEVER WILL THAT BRING YOU ATONEMENT, BUT BY THE BLOOD, MESSIAH’S BLOOD. LEVITICUS 17.11
MESSIAH YESHUA CAME 2,000 YEARS AGO FOR THE PREEMINENT PURPOSE OF GIVING HIS LIFE, AND SHEDDING HIS BLOOD, FOR THE ATONEMENT OF HIS JEWISH PEOPLE, AND THE GENTILES. BUT ATONEMENT MUST BE FOLLOWED BY LIVING A HOLY LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, OR THERE IS NO ATONEMENT.
DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4
TANAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT, TEACHES MESSIAH YESHUA THROUGHOUT, CALLING HIM, GOD, MY LORD, YOUR GOD, MAHSHIAKH, WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE, MY SERVANT, THE ARM OF THE LORD, MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT, HIS ANOINTED, RULER IN ISRAEL. AND ELOHIM IS WRITTEN OVER 3,000 TIMES THROUGHOUT TNAKH.
GENESIS 1.1, PSALM 2.2, PSALM 45.8, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 45.7, PSALM 110.1, ISAIAH 52.13, ISAIAH 53.1,11,, MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE MICAH 5.2, DANIEL 9.25-26
ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 IS NOT ABOUT ISRAEL OR THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS SO MANY TEACHERS INCORRECTLY TEACH. BUT ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 IS ABOUT THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS HASHEM, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, WHO MADE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA TO BE YOUR ATONEMENT.
ISAIAH 53.10, THE WORDS THAT GOD PROPHESIED TO THE PROPHET 700 YEARS BEFORE MESSIAH’S DEATH FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, READS, IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM, THAT IS, TO KILL HIM. HE HAS PUT HIM TO GRIEF WHEN YOU SHALL MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN.
MESSIAH YESHUA IS YOUR ATONEMENT WHILE THERE IS NO TEMPLE AND SACRIFICE IN JERUSALEM. AS YOU KNOW, THERE IS NO TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM TODAY.
GOD MADE HIMSELF A HUMAN BEING TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR US. YOU KNOW THAT GOD CAN NOT DIE. THEREFORE MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, MADE HIMSELF A HUMAN BEING WHEN HE DIED, BUT RAISED AS THE MIGHTY GOD OF JACOB.
PSALM 22.2, IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 22.1.
LEVITICUS 23.29 For whatever person will not be afflicted, that is, whatever person Will Not Obey GOD by Disobeying His Spoken Word in The Bible on that same day, he shall be cut off from his People, GOD says.
Look, when you reject Messiah Yeshua, you reject HASHEM, The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
AND REJECTING THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ALSO WRONG. THE NEW TESTAMENT IS A JEWISH BOOK WRITTEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE. ALL WHO WROTE THE NEW TESTAMENT LOVED GOD THE MESSIAH, AND LOVED THEIR JEWISH PEOPLE.
I KNOW THERE ARE SOME TONES OF ANTI SEMITISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. BUT THAT ANTI SEMITISM COMES FROM THE CHRISTIAN TRANSLATORS, NOT THE ORIGINAL JEWISH WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
AND YES, MESSIAH YESHUA FOUND FAULT WITH THE PHARISEES BECAUSE THEY TAUGHT DOCTRINE NOT OF GOD, BUT OF MAN.
YOU KNOW WELL THAT JUDAISM HAS CHANGED, OR ADDED, OR SUBTRACTED FROM GOD’S SPOKEN WORD THAT GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL NOT ADD TO THE WORD WHICH I COMMAND, NEITHER SHALL YOU DIMINISH ANYTHING FROM IT, THAT YOU SHALL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD YOUR GOD WHICH I COMMAND YOU. DEUTERONOMY 4.2
JUDAISM HAS MADE CHANGES TO THE WORD GOD SPEAKS, SUCH AS;
FASTING ON YOM KIPPUR RATHER THAN TEACHING OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS. DEUTERONOMY 8.3
ADDING ONE DAY TO EVERY FESTIVAL OF GOD WRITTEN IN LEVITICUS 23 EXCEPT THE WEEKLY SHABBAT AND YOM KIPPUR.
CHANGING THE NAMES OF THE MONTHS. GOD CALLS THE MONTHS THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, MONTHS, ETC. JUDAISM CHANGED THE MONTHS TO BABYLONIAN NAMES.
ROSH HASHANAH, THE NEW YEAR, IS NOT A COMMANDED FESTIVAL OF GOD THAT FALLS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH. GOD’S COMMANDED FESTIVAL FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH IS YOM TERUAH, THE BLOWING OF SHOFARS. LEVITICUS 23.23-25
THE FIRST MONTH IS THE PASSOVER MONTH. EXODUS 12.2, 11
NOT EATING DAIRY AND MEAT TOGETHER IS NOT A COMMANDMENT OF GOD. GOD, AND THE TWO ANGELS WITH GOD, ATE BUTTER AND MILK, AND THE CALF. AND THEY DIDN’T WAIT SIX HOURS TO EAT IT.
GENESIS 18.8
MESSIAH WAS UPSET WITH THE PHARISEES BECAUSE HE SAID, THE PEOPLE HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME. NEVER THE LESS IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.
FOR LAYING ASIDE THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, YOU HOLD THE TRADITION OF MEN AS THE WASHING OF POTS AND CUPS, AND MANY OTHER SUCH THINGS LIKE THAT YOU DO.
AND MESSIAH SAID TO THE PHARISEES, FULL WELL YOU REJECT THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD THAT YOU KEEP YOUR OWN TRADITION. FOR MOSES SAID, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, AND WHOSO CURSES HIS FATHER OR MOTHER LET HIM DIE THE DEATH.
BUT YOU SAY, IF A MAN SHALL SAY TO HIS FATHER OR MOTHER, I HAVE PROMISED CORBAN, THAT IS TO SAY, I HAVE PROMISED A SACRIFICIAL OFFERING TO GOD THAT I COULD HAVE USED TO HELP YOU.
THEREFORE YOU ALLOW PEOPLE NOT TO DO ANYTHING FOR HIS FATHER OR MOTHER. MAKING THE WORD OF GOD OF NO EFFECT THROUGH YOUR TRADITION WHICH YOU HAVE HANDED DOWN, AND MANY SUCH THINGS LIKE THAT YOU DO.
MARK 7.5-13
THE ONLY TEACHING IN THE WORLD TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND GOD IS THE ENTIRE BIBLE, THE TNAKH, THAT IS THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
WITHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHO YOUR MESSIAH IS. AND QUITE FRANKLY YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHO YOUR GOD IS. HE IS MESSIAH YESHUA.
NOR WILL YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND WHY GOD CALLS HIMSELF ELOHIM, “GODS”. YOU KNOW THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. BUT GOD IS THE FATHER, THE SON, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT, OFTEN THE ANGEL OF GOD, AND MUCH MORE. THEREFORE GOD CALLS HIMSELF ELOHIM, GODS. ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD. GENESIS 1.26
AND WITHOUT MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS HASHEM, GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO IS TAUGHT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SINS UNLESS YOU BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND THAT HE, MESSIAH YESHUA, IS YOUR ATONEMENT. THERE IS NO OTHER.
AND WITHOUT READING THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT IS NOT ANTI SEMITIC. SOME OF THE CHRISTIAN TRANSLATORS ARE. SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW? THE NEW TESTAMENT IS NOT CHRISTIAN, NOT AGAINST TORAH, BUT JEWISH AND PRO TORAH. AND WITHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HEAVEN. THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES HEAVEN IN REVELATION CHAPTERS 20-22
AND WITHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU WILL NEVER HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR ATONEMENT THAT GOD REQUIRES OF YOU THAT IS MADE IN YOUR JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WHO SHED HIS BLOOD FOR YOU.
SEE MATTHEW 26.26-28
LEVITICUS 23.30 And whatsoever person does any work on that same day, Yom Kippur is a Shabbat, the same person will I destroy from his People.
LEVITICUS 23.31 You shall do no manner of work. It shall be a Statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
LEVITICUS 23.32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls at the ninth Day of the month at evening, from evening to evening shall you celebrate your Sabbath.
YOM KIPPUR, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, LIKE ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, YOM KIPPUR FOLLOWS GOD’S COMMANDMENTS.
FASTING ON YOM KIPPUR IS NOT A COMMANDMENT OF GOD. OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS A COMMANDMENT OF GOD.
DEUTERONOMY 6.4-10, DEUTERONOMY 10.12-13, DEUTERONOMY 28, ETC, ETC, ETC.
YOU SHOULD ATTEND A SERVICE DURING THE DAY OF ATONEMENT THAT IS DEDICATED TO GOD.
YOU MUST AFFLICT YOUR SOULS. BETTER SAID, YOU MUST HUMBLE YOURSELF TO GOD, NOT BY FASTING, BUT BY BEING SUBMISSIVE TO GOD, OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.
AND LIVING YOUR LIFE FOREVER BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS. FOR THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IS GOOD, AND EASY TO LIVE BY FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION. THAT IS HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND THAT IS LOVING THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.
BY THE WAY, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, HASHEM, IS WRITTEN THOUSANDS OF TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. GOD NEVER CHANGES. AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS A JEWISH BOOK, AND A JEWISH BIBLE THAT TEACHES THE WORD OF HASHEM.
AND OFFERING AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD, TODAY, IS, MAKING ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOUL THROUGH FAITH IN THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, AND LIVING A HOLY LIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO EVERY SPOKEN WORD OF HASHEM, GOD ALMIGHTY IN TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Shalom,
Ira Weinstein
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