Fall Feasts 2022
Your Appointments with GOD
The Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur
sundown October 4 to sundown October 5, 2022
Just nine days after the Feast of Trumpets, GOD (Adonai) calls HIS people to the second Appointed Time of the fall season, the Day of Atonement or in Hebrew Yom Kippur which is roughly translated as “day of covering”. We find this day of fasting in the scriptures in Leviticus 23:27-28. I highly recommend that you take some time to read the entire book of Leviticus.
Leviticus 23:27-28, Complete Jewish Bible.
27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves,(fast) and you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai. 28n You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.
This year, the Appointed Time of the Day of Atonement will begin at sundown on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, and ends in the evening of Wednesday, October 5, 2022. On the Biblical Calendar the date is 10th day of the seventh month of Tishri.
Hopefully, each year as we repeat these biblical dress rehearsals of Appointed Times, we are gaining a greater insight into the patterns of GOD’s will for our lives. As believers we should demonstrate a daily code of behavior that exhibits the perfect will of God in our lives.
A life that is in sync with the moral, sovereign, and individual plan God has for our life. God is a God of patterns, as everything in life is patterned after something. In 1 Timothy 1:16, Yeshua/Jesus is called a pattern for salvation.
1 Timothy 1:16, Amplified Bible: 16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost [of sinners], Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example or pattern for those who would believe in Him for eternal life
Fall Feasts of GOD: Repentance, Remembrance & Reflection
Feast of Trumpets
Day of Atonement
Feast of Tabernacles Sukkot
Appointed Times
Holy Days
Today's Calendar
Biblical Calendar
Day of Atonement
Yom Kippur
October 4, 2022
sundown
October 5, 2022
SCRIPTURE
Leviticus 23:27 28 Adonai said to Moshe, “The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai. You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.
Lev 17:11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for yourselves; for it is the blood that makes atonement because of the life.’
Tishri 9, 5783
sundown
Tishri 10, 5783
This is the day GOD commanded Israel to fast and repent of their sins before HIM.
The death of an innocent animal and the shedding of its blood was required as an annual covering or atonement for sins of Israel.
Today, followers of Yeshua/Jesus, believe this day is another reminder that the innocent blood of Yeshua our Messiah was shed for us as a covering or atonement for our sins. This Day of Atonement is an appointed time to Repent-Teshuvah – return to God if you’ve strayed away.
Yom Kippur in the Ancient Temple
In the times of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, this was the day that the High Priest of Israel would go before God (Adonai) in his Holy Temple and seek forgiveness or “atone” or “cover” all the sins the people of Israel committed during the year. Only the High Priest could go before God, and he was required to bring the blood of innocent animals to pay the price (atone) for the people’s sins. The priest would carry the blood of a bull and goat through the veil and into the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle – the Holy of Holies. The High Priest of the Israelites would pour the blood over the altar – the Ark of the Covenant which is also known as the “Mercy Seat” which is the gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant. This is how the High Priest made atonement for the children of Israel. Blood was the price paid for sins.
Leviticus 17:11, Complete Jewish Bible
11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for yourselves; for it is the blood that makes atonement because of the life.
We can see here a clear pattern established by God; there is a blood price to pay for sin. God required innocent blood which meant something had to die, give up its life blood, to cover for the people’s wrongdoing and disobedience. Israel had to pay this blood price every year because the people could not keep the Law as prescribed by God.
The Day of Atonement is a clear indication of why Israel so desperately needed the Messiah. Yom Kippur provided the necessary backdrop for understanding the extent of the Messiah’s first coming – payment for sin and forgiveness. A once and forevermore payment!
Day of Atonement for Yeshua / Jesus Followers
Yeshua our Messiah continues to provide a “covering for sin” for believers today. The book of Hebrews chapters 9 and 10 tell us that the blood of the bulls and the goats offered up to the LORD in the ancient Temple was a foreshadow of the blood of Yeshua/Jesus. Through the death and shed blood of Yeshua/Jesus, we are forgiven once and for all!
For those of us who accept Yeshua as our Messiah, the Day of Atonement is a day to fast and pray. As a member of the Messianic community, the Day of Atonement is another reminder to Repent-Teshuvah – return to God if you’ve strayed away. Return to God by putting complete trust in HIM and His Redeemer, the Messiah. We continue to observe this holy day because God commanded it forever. And because the world is still a very sinful place; if we stray, we are reminded to repent!
Prophetic Aspect
There is also a prophetic aspect of Day of Atonement that has yet to be fulfilled – the turning of the Jewish people to Messiah Yeshua.
Zechariah 12:9-10, Complete Jewish Bible
9 “When that day comes, I will seek to destroy all nations attacking Yerushalayim; 10 and I will pour out on the house of David and on those living in Yerushalayim a spirit of grace and prayer; and they will look to me, whom they pierced.” They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son; they will be in bitterness on his behalf like the bitterness for a firstborn son.
Revelation 1:7, Complete Jewish Bible
7 Look! He is coming with the clouds! Every eye will see him, including those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the Land will mourn him. Yes! Amen!
The New Testament foretells of this same event in Romans 11:26,
Romans 11:25-27, Complete Jewish Bible25 For, brothers, I want you to understand this truth which God formerly concealed but has now revealed, so that you won’t imagine you know more than you actually do. It is that stoniness, to a degree, has come upon Isra’el, until the Gentile world enters in its fullness; 26 and that it is in this way that all Isra’el will be saved.
As the Tanakh says,
“Out of Tziyon will come the Redeemer; he will turn away ungodliness from Ya‘akov 27 and this will be my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”
