Why Did Jesus Have to Die? The Day of Atonement Explained

Jewish Jesus. I'm going to talk a little bit more about where we are. But I'm going to talk today. You're going to hear a teaching on Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement. And Dustin, before we get into some of the topography here, and you're going to help us understand some of the things that we're looking at in a bit more detail than I do in my teaching. I just wanted to share with our viewers a little bit about what it was like for me as a Jewish person, growing up in a Jewish home, going to synagogue on The Day of Atonement every year, and what that felt like. So the first thing is it just was the sense of community, all the Jewish people, Dustin, all my friends that I went to school with, everyone was at synagogue, and it was just a time of year where you really felt that strong sense of identity as a Jew. Yeah, so help us understand. Wow, it is windy. It's really windy. Help us understand, Rabbi, you're a kid. What ages are you going to synagogue and experience in this with, and why is the community so big in the U.S. where you were at? Yeah, you know, the interesting thing was in Hebrew school, they didn't really give us a strong Bible foundation. Like they didn't talk about the blood that I remember at Yom Kippur. We went through all the Hebrew liturgy, and we went through the prayer book. It was very solemn, but there was no solid Bible teaching about the importance of a blood sacrifice which is crucial to the Torah, because Jewish people don't have a blood sacrifice anymore. They don't sacrifice the animals, they don't believe in Jesus, so all they do is focus on the liturgy and the prayers in the synagogue. Yeah, you're right. You said something really interesting there, you know, you didn't get the Bible teaching.

We as Christians, we get Bible teaching, but around these feasts what you had was community. The Jewish, they have community, but the church, we don't really have great community yet around the feasts. Wow, I like that. Being here in Israel, we just saw the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, and saw lots of community and people celebrating, they were blowing the shofar with you. Two guys came into the restaurant with you, and you and them, they blew the shofar together to announce God's new year. That was awesome. But that doesn't happen in the U.S. and the church in the U.S. and the church isn't connected that way. You were just saying to me yesterday, he said, "Rabbi, think what would happen if every congregation was celebrating these feasts?" Just like in Israel, I was so blessed to be participating in what's going on here right now with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, because everybody is in tune with this here, like Dustin just shared, you know, people coming into the restaurant, Hasidic Orthodox Jews blowing the shofars, and yeah, that community that all the people that live in the land, they feel that community, they feel connected because they're all participating in the same thing. It's so powerful. I just think about our church, the church, and if we could capture that, especially in America, like we celebrate Christmas, and we celebrate Easter, but if we could understand tabernacles, the day of atonement, which you have a powerful teaching coming up on, and we could really experience something amazing from the Lord. Oh, it really would, but I'm in 100% agreement with that, I think it'd be so cool. Dustin, tell us a little bit about the southern steps we see over here as we see into the background. Yeah, absolutely. Well, here we are, Temple Mount right here. This is where the Temple would have stood, where you see the Dome of the Rock, which is now a Muslim mosque, and it would have been the temple that Jesus, you know, taught

at, stood at, and, you know, walked around, and then right below it down here is the southern steps, you can actually see the ruins down below. They're actually the old entrance to the temple. So if you would have been here in Jesus' time and you were entering the temple, that's where you would have entered. And I love this verse in the Bible Rabbi that says, "The way that you enter, you have to exit out another side." So they would exit, they would come in, if they came in from the south, they had to exit in the north. And I like that because what I feel like God is saying is, is that you can't go in the way you came out. And so when you encounter God, you come in, if you come in from the south down here, you encounter God, you have to exit on the north, you have to walk all the way back around to get to back to where you're going, but you're changed. I like that a lot. Yeah, when we encounter God, God changes us. That's powerful. That is so beautiful. And then we have right up here, if you look up, there's a blue building up here, Mount Zion. And so when David brought the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem, he would have brought it right up here to Mount Zion, right where that blue building is, and that's where they would have had the tabernacle before they built the temple. And what's really neat about that is we read all these Psalms about ascending the hill Hey man, don't remind you of that song. Come let us go up. It's taken right out of the scriptures. Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. Go up to the house, to the house of Jacob. Well, I love singing. Somebody said to me one time, "Rabbi, you're no singer." But I love singing and I love what you just said. It just inspired me, Dustin. We go up to the house of the Lord. And when we come to Israel as Jews, when we return here, it's said that we make Ali'ah. No matter what part of the world we come from, we're going up. We're coming from Russia, from the Mediterranean area, from Poland, wherever it is. India, no matter where we come to Israel from, we're making Ali'ah, we're going up, because this is the highest place on the planet.

Get ready now to hear the word of the Lord. Beloved, I'm standing here in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives, the very spot that I'm standing. It is the center of the planet. This is where Yeshua rose to heaven from. This is where He's going to first manifest Himself at His return. But today, I want to talk to you about the most holy, sacred day on God's calendar. We're going to talk about the day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Now, behind me you'll see the Dome of the Rock. You'll see the wall that held up the ancient temple. Behind the trees in the background is the western wall where Jewish people come to pray every single day. We are standing in the most sacred space on the planet. Many years ago, I had an experience one night. And in this vision of the night, I found myself in outer space as if I was an astronaut looking down upon the globe, looking down at planet Earth. And up from the planet was a sphere. And the sphere came right up from the top of the Earth. So I observed this sphere extended up from the top of planet Earth and this sphere went straight up into the heavens. On top of the sphere was Israel. And I felt the weight and the glory of God. We're talking today about Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, and we're doing it from the most sacred spot on the planet. I'm going to share some scriptures with you today. They're going to help you to understand the preciousness of the blood of Jesus. What I'm going to share with you today will help you to understand why Christianity is not just one of many religions. And it's going to help you to understand why the blood of Jesus, of Yeshua, is so very precious and important. We're going to begin today by going back thousands of years in history. We're going to go back now 3,500 years to the shedding of the blood that brought Israel into liberation out of Egypt. 3,500 years ago the Lord spoke to Moses and commanded him to shed the blood of a precious lamb. And then to take the blood of that lamb and to have the Israelites apply it to the doorpost of their homes. So the children of Israel, every family, got their own lamb. Each family put their lamb to death. They gathered the blood of that lamb in a basin. The blood that had to be taken out of that basin and applied to their personal lives. It had to be applied to the doorpost of their home. And then that night when the angel of death, when the angel of judgment passed through the land, every home that was covered in the blood of the lamb was passed over and judgment did not fall. Why do I tell you that about Yom Kippur about the day of atonement? Because the same blood that saved Israel, the blood of the lamb, that is the blood

beloved that was fully manifest through Messiah Yeshua, Yeshua of Nazareth 2,000 years ago when he shed it on the cross. You see, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement is all about the blood. The scripture tells us in the Torah in the book of Leviticus chapter 17 verse 11 that the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I've given it to you on the altar say at the Lord to make it atonement for your soul. For it's the blood. My reason if it's life that makes atonement. The book of Hebrews in the New Testament, the Chun of Israel began to participate in Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, by bringing the blood of a bull and a goat into the holy of holies, that sacred spot in the temple, and poured it on the mercy seat, which was a place over the ark of the covenant, where the Ten Commandments were, the Lord, when he saw the blood, he overlooked their sin, because again, the life of the flesh is in the blood. Your forgiveness, the forgiveness of your sin, is all rooted in a blood sacrifice, a sacrificial atonement. The holy day of Yom Kippur, it was fulfilled when Messiah Yeshua shed his blood for you and me. I want to help you understand this even further. If you and I are to have a relationship with God, then we must have a blood atonement, a personal blood atonement that's covering our life. Even as ancient Israel had to put that blood over their doorpost, we see this theme developed in this way. Moses went up on top of Mount Sinai to receive the word of God for Israel, and he received the law in the covenant. He came down from Mount Sinai, and he read the law to the people. And after reading the law to the people that Moses had received on top of Mount Sinai, after reading it to Israel, Israel responded by saying, "All that the Lord has said, we will do." And so Israel accepted the covenant. And after Israel accepted the covenant, you know what Moses did next? He sprinkled Israel with what? With blood. And then the theme continues when the Lord told Moses to build what we call in Hebrew, a mishkan. In English, we call it a tabernacle. It was the dwelling place of God amongst ancient Israel. The Lord told Moses, "I want you to build me a dwelling place. I want you to build me this mishkan, this tabernacle." And the Lord said to Moses, "I want you to build it exactly according to the pattern that I'm showing you." The Lord told Moses the pattern for the tabernacle, how long it should be, how wide it should be, what it should be made out of, all the different pieces of furniture inside it, that there was only one entrance in. And so when Israel wanted to come and draw near to God, they had to come through the one entrance into the tabernacle that the Lord had outlined in the instructions. And remember, every piece of the tabernacle was orchestrated by God Himself. He gave Israel the blueprint of it. It all means

something. So when an Israelite came to meet with God, because that's where God dwelt, He dwelt over the tabernacle, you could actually see His manifest presence as a glory cloud by day and a fire by night. And so what happened was when an Israelite came to meet with God, they entered into that one door which represents Yeshua. And when they entered in, there was an altar there, the brazen altar. And what the Israelite did was they brought a sacrifice with them. And they gave their sacrifice to the priest. The priest would then bind the sacrifice on the altar inside the tabernacle. This was the first place that the worshipper saw. The worshipper brought a sacrifice, gave it to the priest. The priest bound the sacrifice onto the altar by the four horns. And then listen to what happened next. The worshipper would lay his hands on top of the sacrifice and literally press himself into the offering, thereby transferring a sin into the animal. Then the priest would put the animal to death because of that blood sacrifice. Now that worshipper was free to connect with God, but not until that innocent sacrifice, that innocent animal, absorbed the sin of the worshipper, the Israelite, and died in that worshipper's place. Yeshua, my friend, died in your place. Yom Kippur, the Devatoment, it's the celebration and the exaltation of the fact that King Jesus of Nazareth took your sin and my sin in his own body on the tree, just as that worshipper pressed his sin into the animal. and then the animal was put... then hung on that cross with the nail through his hands, the nail through his feet, with the blood coming down his side as the spear was pressed in. And through that blood atonement, you and I have now been forgiven once and for all and forever. You see, the sacrifices in the Hebrew Bible that took place on the day of atonement, they gave Israel covering for a year, but they had to keep on making the sacrifices year after year, every year they had to put the animals to death. But Jesus Yeshua shed his blood once and for all, no longer will a sacrifice ever be required again. Yeshua is your sacrifice. He is your atonement. And through him, you've been granted forgiveness for your sin once now and forever. Now let me share something before I close. Many of you don't understand this. When God forgives somebody, it's not just that he says, okay, I forgive them. I forgive them. It's not just that God is a good guy and forgives everybody. No, there's another part that we need to understand that God can forgive because his requirement for justice against sin has been met because Yeshua died in the place of the sinner. See, the Bible teaches that the soul that sins, it shall die. Sin separates humanity from God.

This is why as soon as Adam and Eve ate from the tree, immediately they were separated from God. Their covering was lost. In order for a person to be restored into fellowship, their sin has to be atone for. When you think about someone that's committed the most vicious, heinous, defiled sins that you could even imagine, God doesn't just say, okay, it's all right, I forgive them. No, God just doesn't say it's okay. Don't worry about it. No, God can forgive because his justice has been met because Jesus died in the place of that sinner, shed his blood. Therefore, God can forgive that sinner only because of Yeshua, because Yeshua died in their place. He that knew no sin, Yeshua of Nazareth, became sin on our behalf that we could now become the righteousness of God. So for you that believe in Yeshua, I want you to put your hand over your heart right now and just say this, say, Jesus, Yeshua, I realize that you were put to death because of my sin, that it wasn't the Romans that crucified you. It wasn't even the Pharisees that crucified you, but you gave up your own life. It was my sin that crucified you. Beloved, you and I were the ones that are responsible for putting to Jesus to death. It's because of our sin that that sphere was thrust into his side and they died on that cross, but he did it willingly because he loves you, because the Father sent him to send his blood, to send his son, to shed his blood, to bring you to himself. So we just say right now, Yeshua, thank you for coming to earth and going on to that cross, shedding your blood for me. And I receive your love. I receive the Father's love. I receive your forgiveness. Deliver me from condemnation and accusation that the devil is constantly trying to torment me with and help me to know Yeshua that because of you, my sins are forgiven and I'm going to heaven. I want you just to put your hand over your heart with me once again and say this, my sins, Jesus, are forgiven and I'm going to heaven because of you. And now you're watching this, some of you, and you've never made a commitment to follow Jesus. But God is touching you right now. This is your opportunity to invite him into your life, to become your master, to become your Lord. And all you have, receive him because you feel the weight of what I'm saying, it's the Holy Spirit that's letting you know that the words that I'm speaking are true, just open up your heart to him right now and say this if you've never done before. Say, "Father God, oh I thank you for loving me, I feel it. I feel your love and it's touching me, and I receive you Jesus. I receive your love in my heart. I receive forgiveness. I receive your blood, and I ask you to come and live inside me,

forgiving me of all my sin, and by your grace I make you now my Lord and Master, and I confess you Jesus as my Lord." Now if you just said that pro, I want you to click the Find Jesus link. You'll find it attached to the description in this video. We want to help you, we want to get you some information. And to those of you that are already in love with Jesus, I want you to know today your sins are forgiven, and because of him, you and I, we're going to have him. In the book of Numbers 6, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over his people. And the Lord said, "When you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. Receive the impartation of the Lord's blessings." Rekha. Yai yawe, bonavilecha. The hoone, ekha. He saw yawe, bonavilecha. They are same. Lekha. Shalom. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up by his countenance, and the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shanong. You