The following is something we've studied recently, but we MUST study it again.
I want to try something a little different here for a moment so please bear with me--
We are talking about the Services on the Day of Atonement.
Washed clean, the holy linen garments were place reverently upon the High Priest. As the fine linen touch his flesh the reality of the task he was to perform hit home and he closed his eyes. This was the most solemn of days, a day he knew all of Israel had anticipated.
The arrival of the Day of Atonement came with every single person afflicting their souls. Such deep soul affliction had them pondering every sin they'd committed throughout the entire year. Every time they'd taken a sacrifice to the temple and laid their hands upon it to transfer the record of their sin to that animal so the animal could die, it's blood spilled, its life forfeit, was recalled. How could they not remember such events. The bleating of the lamb who would soon bleat no more, the cooing of a dove that would never utter another sound. You didn't forget the coppery smell wafting up as the fresh blood was let from the sacrificial animal as it's struggling ceased, its heart beat its last beat. Your sin caused that life to be taken, your sin that you couldn't help but commit, the sin of the weakness of being made of flesh, stopped the life of another. Soul affliction was necessary, recognizing the guilt, the part you played in the whole of this ordeal. The helplessness we possess to rid ourselves of sin, the necessity of having to have another die for us, another cleanse us, all so we could be at one with our God again, so that sin would not separate us forever from Him. These were the thoughts of the entire people and as the chosen people of God were lost deep in their soul affliction, their fasting, their complete halt of every single work of their own, the High Priest began the work of prescribed rituals.
This was the only day of the entire year the High Priest and the High Priest alone was allowed to pull back the veil and enter the Most Holy of Places. As he moved towards the veil his heart beat wildly, his thoughts totally upon His God. This veil separated one apartment of the sanctuary from another. This veil kept most holy the place beyond the veil, the place where the mercy seat was placed, where God Himself would meet with we man.
Exo 25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Exo 25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Exo 25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exo 25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exo 25:20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Exo 25:21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exo 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
---1989 Special 3 -- Light From the Throne -- Part 3 (WWN)
In beginning the study of the services of the Day of Atonement, we need first to outline in detail what was done under the shadowy services of the type.
The instruction found in Leviticus 16 followed closely after the death of Aaron's two sons who "offered strange- fire before the Lord." "(Lev. 10:1; 16:1)
Even Aaron, the High Priest, was not to come "at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark." (16:2)
(You will observe that in the KJV the word, "place," is in italics, being supplied. In the Hebrew, the word is kodesh, the same word as used in Psalm 77:13 - "Thy way, 0 God, is in the sanctuary (kodesh). The LXX uses the Greek word, to hagion, the same as is used in Hebrews 9:1, and translated "sanctuary." However, in Leviticus 16, it is clearly defined as to its application the second apartment or most holy place of the sanctuary.)
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More on this tomorrow…. As we slowly follow the High Priest step by step through the Day of Atonement… all by the GRACE of GOD.
All in HIS LOVE!
I want to try something a little different here for a moment so please bear with me--
We are talking about the Services on the Day of Atonement.
Washed clean, the holy linen garments were place reverently upon the High Priest. As the fine linen touch his flesh the reality of the task he was to perform hit home and he closed his eyes. This was the most solemn of days, a day he knew all of Israel had anticipated.
The arrival of the Day of Atonement came with every single person afflicting their souls. Such deep soul affliction had them pondering every sin they'd committed throughout the entire year. Every time they'd taken a sacrifice to the temple and laid their hands upon it to transfer the record of their sin to that animal so the animal could die, it's blood spilled, its life forfeit, was recalled. How could they not remember such events. The bleating of the lamb who would soon bleat no more, the cooing of a dove that would never utter another sound. You didn't forget the coppery smell wafting up as the fresh blood was let from the sacrificial animal as it's struggling ceased, its heart beat its last beat. Your sin caused that life to be taken, your sin that you couldn't help but commit, the sin of the weakness of being made of flesh, stopped the life of another. Soul affliction was necessary, recognizing the guilt, the part you played in the whole of this ordeal. The helplessness we possess to rid ourselves of sin, the necessity of having to have another die for us, another cleanse us, all so we could be at one with our God again, so that sin would not separate us forever from Him. These were the thoughts of the entire people and as the chosen people of God were lost deep in their soul affliction, their fasting, their complete halt of every single work of their own, the High Priest began the work of prescribed rituals.
This was the only day of the entire year the High Priest and the High Priest alone was allowed to pull back the veil and enter the Most Holy of Places. As he moved towards the veil his heart beat wildly, his thoughts totally upon His God. This veil separated one apartment of the sanctuary from another. This veil kept most holy the place beyond the veil, the place where the mercy seat was placed, where God Himself would meet with we man.
Exo 25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Exo 25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Exo 25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exo 25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exo 25:20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Exo 25:21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exo 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
---1989 Special 3 -- Light From the Throne -- Part 3 (WWN)
In beginning the study of the services of the Day of Atonement, we need first to outline in detail what was done under the shadowy services of the type.
The instruction found in Leviticus 16 followed closely after the death of Aaron's two sons who "offered strange- fire before the Lord." "(Lev. 10:1; 16:1)
Even Aaron, the High Priest, was not to come "at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark." (16:2)
(You will observe that in the KJV the word, "place," is in italics, being supplied. In the Hebrew, the word is kodesh, the same word as used in Psalm 77:13 - "Thy way, 0 God, is in the sanctuary (kodesh). The LXX uses the Greek word, to hagion, the same as is used in Hebrews 9:1, and translated "sanctuary." However, in Leviticus 16, it is clearly defined as to its application the second apartment or most holy place of the sanctuary.)
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More on this tomorrow…. As we slowly follow the High Priest step by step through the Day of Atonement… all by the GRACE of GOD.
All in HIS LOVE!
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