Preparation of Atonement Atonement will begin Sunday Oct. 5th at Sunset and will end on Monday Oct. 6th at Sunset. assemblyofyahuwah Now lets be prepared Physically and Spiritually for Atonement Study and be ready to be counted worthy to be At-One-with YaHuWaH. The Day of Atonement In Old Testament times a very special ceremony, involving two goats, occurred on the Day of Atonement. One represented Amanuwal, the other Satan. Only YAHUWAH could determine which was which. You need to be sure which you are worshiping -- the real Amanuwal or the counterfeit! Day of Atonement -- AT-ONE-MENT WITH YAHUWAH! You have no doubt heard the claim that there is a great controversy between YAHUWAH and Satan. That Amanuwal and the Devil are in a running battle for mens souls. If this doctrine were true, then Satan indeed is WINNING! More souls are unsaved today than ever before in human history. Satan, according to this view, is made out to be actually STRONGER than Amanuwal! But Satan is NOT stronger than Amanuwal! Amanuwal is returning to RULE THIS EARTH WITH A ROD OF IRON -- to depose Satan and set up the Kingdom of YAHUWAH. When Amanuwal returns He will not leave this world in the hands of the Devil. Why Amanuwal OUSTS Satan! For 6,000 years Satan has invisibly swayed the nations. He has guided human governments, influenced mans civilization, possessed mighty leaders and inspired World Wars. Satan has had his part in causing the misery, hate, suffering, and violent deaths that have plagued mankind since creation. Satan has occupied the POSITION OF THIS WORLDS RULER ever since YAHUWAH gave him that office when he was Lucifer (Hillel). But his days in that office are NUMBERED! YAHUWAH is not in competition with Satan -- there is no great controversy! The question of who will rule this earth has ALREADY BEEN DECIDED! Amanuwal has already OVERCOME the Devil and QUALIFIED to replace him. Amanuwal is COMING AS KING OF Kings AND SOVEREIGN OF Sovereigns to take over the governments of this world and DEPOSE SATAN THE DEVIL! Only when Amanuwal reigns supreme will this world have peace for one thousand years. But what will happen to Satan? The Day of Atonement reveals the answer. But how many have ever heard of this day -- let alone understood its meaning for us today? It reveals Satans fate in YAHUWAHs Master Plan. By studying this Kadosh (Holy) Day you will find astounding answers to these and many other questions. Shaluwm What the Day of Atonement Pictures YAHUWAHs Holy Days constantly remind us how, step by step, YAHUWAH is working out His Master Plan. The first three of these -- Passover, the Days of Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost -- picture the first harvest of souls. The preparation, training and final reaping of the firstfruits -- THOSE FEW NOW being called. The last four show the plan YAHUWAH has for completing salvation for the REST OF THE WORLD. We learned in the last lesson, how Amanuwal will suddenly intervene in this world at His return. He will be swift and firm in punishing the nations. But what about Satan? What happens to him? The fifth annual Sabbath -- the Day of Atonement (or At-one-ment) -- reveals the answer. It pictures Amanuwal deposing Satan the Devil from his present position as world ruler, and removing him to a place completely away and apart from mankind. He will be bound, no longer able to deceive the nations, for one thousand years! (Rev. 20:1, 2.) The Day of Atonement has also a deep PERSONAL meaning for EVERYONE whose eyes have been opened. When Satan and his demons are dethroned and removed from office, they must be replaced by qualified rulers. Satan will be replaced by Amanuwal. His demons by those of us who have surrendered to YAHUWAH and been willing to obey Him. ARE YOU QUALIFYING to rule this world as it ought to be ruled? COULD YOU do a better job than the President, better than the rulers of Russia, of Germany, or Red China? You may THINK YOU could, but COULD YOU really? The fact is we do not NOW have the power, or the ability or capacity. OF HIMSELF no man is great enough to even BEGIN TO COMMENCE to measure up to the standard necessary to bring peace and happiness to the nations. It takes the power of YAHUWAH -- the life of YAHUWAH -- the mind and nature of YAHUWAH. That is possible only through conversion. Through conversion every single individual, great or small, can have YAHUWAH’s own power and nature added to him by receiving the Ruwach Ha’Kadosh! Thats the message of the good news. Most human beings cannot grasp this marvelous truth. They are unwilling to humble themselves under the mighty hand of YAHUWAH and wait to be exalted in His due time. Humility through Fasting The Day of Atonement is perhaps the most unusual Holy Day. For it is the one day on which YAHUWAH has commanded us to fast! WHAT, exactly, is FASTING? What is its purpose? The purpose of fasting is to humble oneself -- to help us to see ourselves as we are! And to see YAHUWAH as He is! Fasting on the Day of Atonement means denying yourself food and water for 24 hours -- from sunset to sunset. Fasting is NOT penance NOT A HUNGER STRIKE to force your own will on YAHUWAH. Mahatma Gandhi fasted that way. A Believer is to fast in order to humble his or her own fleshly mind with its carnal will and to draw closer to YAHUWAH. To ACKNOWLEDGE his or her own NOTHINGNESS and ask for YAHUWAHS strength. AMANUWAL RECEIVED the strength to resist the Devils strongest temptation by fasting 40 days and nights! Spiritually, He was at His strongest at the end of 40 days, because He was COMPLETELY humble before YAHUWAH. YAHUWAH, of course, doesnt ask or expect us to fast 40 days. He only commands one day of us each year, though we are also told to fast voluntarily at other times. A little hunger on the Day of Atonement serves to prove to every one of us that we, as Job, are just like WORMS (Job 25:6) -- puny, insignificant little creatures down here inwardly WARRING WITH ONE ANOTHER! How absolutely DEPENDENT we are on the food and the water of this earth! Fasting on the Day of Atonement reveals to us how much we still love ourselves. How DIFFICULT it is to give up some of SELF! This day is a TEST to see which we will put FIRST. WILL it be the cry of the body for food or the sincere desire to obey YAHUWAH. The Binding of Satan 1. Will Satan be bound with a symbolic chain and locked up with a key to prevent him from escaping to deceive mankind? Rev. 20:1-2. Where is Satan cast? Verse 3. Compare Rev. 18:2, and Isaiah 13:19-21. 2. Does Rev. 18:2 also show where the rest of the demons will be, and that they will all be removed from the presence of mankind? 3. After YAHUWAH allows the terrible woes of Rev. 9, to be unleashed on men, will they repent and turn to YAHUWAH? Rev. 9:21. Even after the terrible SEVEN LAST PLAGUES -- the wrath of YAHUWAH poured out WITHOUT MIXTURE -- does the greater part of humanity still remain obdurate, stubbornly rebellious? Rev. 16:11, 21. 4. Why wont men repent? Is it because they are deceived? Rev. 12:9. Are the three unclean spirits of Rev. 16:13-14 demons? Is their purpose to deceive the world about Amanuwals Second Coming? Same verse. Is Satan himself behind this scheme? Note the word dragon in verse 13. 5. Did Shaul predict the end of world rule by fallen angels? Heb. 2:5-6. COMMENT: YAHUWAH speaks in His Word, the Holy Bible, of three worlds – 1* the world that then was which perished in the Flood (II Peter 3:6) 2* this present evil world (Gal. 1:4), and 3*. the world to come -- the World Tomorrow (Rev. 20:3; Heb. 2:5). In the World Tomorrow, the Devil and his demons will no longer be in authority over earths nations and religion. 6. Did Shaul also show who will replace the demons as rulers over the world? Rom. 16:20; I Cor. 6:2-3. 7. Does the Bible show that after Satan and his demons are put away, their deception and false way of life will still maintain its hold for a little while on depraved human hearts? Ezek. 38:1-14. Is this after the beginning of Amanuwal’s kingdom on earth? Arent these still-deceived folk a major portion of the human race? COMMENT: Meshech and Tubal are the dominant people of Russia, Gog and Magog include the Mongols and China, Gomer and Togarmah are other Asiatic peoples. 8. Will YAHUWAH deal severely with them to show them He is Elohim? Ezek. 39:3-7. COMMENT: Today YAHUWAH doesnt seem real to most people. Whether their present religion is Communism, Shamanism or falsely so-called Christianity, YAHUWAH IS GOING TO BE REAL to everyone in that day. Shaluwm A Commanded Assembly 1. Does Leviticus 23 -- the only chapter in all the Bible where all of YAHUWAH’s Festivals are mentioned in one place proclaim a Day of Atonement? Verse 27. Is this a day to be kept holy once each year? Same verse. At what time of the year? 2. Are all who are YAHUWAH’s people COMMANDED TO ASSEMBLE on the Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:27. Does Numbers 29:7 verify this, and set the exact day on which we meet locally? 3. Does YAHUWAH say that we should afflict our souls? Lev. 23:27 and Num. 29:7. What does afflict mean? COMMENT: Afflict is translated from the Hebrew word anah which means to beat down, depress, abase, chasten, humble. YAHUWAH inspired the same original word in Exodus 10:3, saying to Pharaoh, How long wilt thou refuse to HUMBLE thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. See also in Deut. 8:2-3 how YAHUWAH led Israel 40 years in the wilderness to HUMBLE them, allowing them to HUNGER at times. How are we, then, to afflict our souls? Why, the same way that YAHUWAH humbled Israel in the wilderness, letting them get good and hungry! See also Psa. 35:13 and Isa. 58:3. Remember, soul means physical life in a physical body that depends on constant refueling for its maintenance. Here, soul is equivalent to stomach. 4. Does this day differ from all of the other Holy Days in that ABSOLUTELY NO WORK is to be done on it? Num. 29:7; Lev. 23:30 and 16:29. The Spring Holy Days permit no servile work, that is, no ordinary work other than what is necessary for preparing that which every man must eat (Exodus 12:16). COMMENT: Though it is a day of fasting, the Day of Atonement is also a day of rejoicing. It is a spiritual feast of drinking in of YAHUWAH’s Word and looking forward to the time when Satan will be put away. 5. Why is this day to be kept so exact? Lev. 23:28. What does atonement mean? COMMENT: Webster says to atone means to set at one. To join in one to form by uniting. This day symbolizes YAHUWAH and man being set at one literally, if you please, the Day of AT-ONE-MENT. YAHUWAH and the human race can never be fully at one -- in full agreement -- until Satan is banished. 6. Will YAHUWAH allow anyone to remain among His people who refuses to keep the Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:29, 30. Was this day to be done away at Amanuwal’s death? Verse 31. Does this command apply only to racial Jews and Israelites? Lev. 16:29. Notice that it is a statute for the stranger also -- any person of any race who comes among YAHUWAH’s people. COMMENT: If we are YAHUWAH’s, then we all are spiritual Israelites. And that means we MUST keep this Day of Atonement today (Gal. 3:29; John 4:22; Rom. 2:28-29; 11:17-18). 7. At what time of day do we begin fasting for the Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:32. COMMENT: Notice that the last meal we should eat is in the ninth day of the month. But if we were to purposely eat a HEAVY meal immediately before sunset on the ninth of the month, we could defeat the SPIRITUAL INTENT of the command to afflict our souls from even unto even -- because our souls would be full of food and busily digesting it as the Day of Atonement began. In YAHUWAH’s true calendar, every day begins at the previous days sunset (Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31). Shaluwm How Ancient Israel Observed Day of Atonement It seems, has the world forgotten the symbolism of the Day of Atonement. And no wonder! For this day above all others is like a thorn in the flesh to that great Deceiver. Let us examine the 16th chapter of Leviticus which details YAHUWAH’s instructions to the Levitical priesthood concerning the Day of Atonement. 1. Was entrance to the Tabernacle which Israel built as a type of YAHUWAH’s house, permitted to no one but the high priest when he went into the holy place on the Day of Atonement? Lev. 16:17. What was the significance of this very holy place? Verse 2. (Yahuwah dwelt there.) Was it clearly the earthly representation of the very throne room of YAHUWAH? Exodus 25:17- 20. Compare with Jer. 17:12, noting the word sanctuary. Also see Heb. 4:16. COMMENT: The mercy seat in the holy place was the earthly TYPE of the very throne of YAHUWAH in heaven! 2. Was the high priest permitted to enter this typical throne room of YAHUWAH as often as he liked? Lev. 16:2. Was this because YAHUWAH’s very presence was there -- He whose face no man can look on and live? Ex. 33:20. Could YAHUWAH allow His very throne to be profaned? 3. WHEN was the high priest permitted to enter the room behind the veil? Notice the last verse of Leviticus 16, and also verses 29 and 30. See, too, Exodus 30:10. 4. Before entering the Holy of Holies or most holy place, what types did the Aaronic high priest first act out at the door of the Tabernacle? Lev. 16:5-10. Why did he present the two goats before the Sovereign? Was one of the goats to represent Amanuwal? Was the other goat to be rejected? Verse 10. Whom did the rejected goat represent? Verse 8. COMMENT: The English word scapegoat is NOT A CORRECT TRANSLATION of the Hebrew word YAHUWAH inspired. If you have a Bible with marginal renderings, notice that it gives Azazel in the margin, for scapegoat. Who is Azazel? Gesenius and other Hebrew lexicons derive the word from AZAL which means he removed or separated. This is exactly what Satan or Lucifer did when he turned against YAHUWAH and became YAHUWAH’s adversary! Azazel is none other than Satan the Devil! Gesenius says that Azazel is an evil demon. Ancient Jewish literature knew the Devil by this name. It is, for example, spelled Azalzal and Azael in apocryphal literature. The Comprehensive Commentary says, ... (According to) the oldest opinions of the Hebrews and Believers ... Azazel is the name of the Devil, ... the word signified the goat which went away. The modern word scapegoat carries an ENTIRELY WRONG connotation. Originally it was escape goat -- the goat which was let escape which the translators took to be the meaning of Azazel. But today the English word scapegoat signifies one who bears blame or guilt for others. This is definitely not the meaning that YAHUWAH inspired. Azazel -- Satan -- bears his own guilt. Satan is no scapegoat for anothers sins. He is to be punished for his own guilt. To be constantly seeking for a scapegoat -- a way to shift the blame for his own actions -- is mans natural inclination, which Satan incites. All the heathen religions are based on this principle. Satans perversion is: Always blame someone else, never clean up YOURSELF -- where the source of the trouble resides. Satan would like to deceive everyone into believing he is being unjustly used as a scapegoat. Satan claims YAHUWAH isnt fair. This principle is NOT THE SAME as the placing of the sins of a truly converted Believer on Amanuwal to be washed away by His blood. A Believer does not try to shift the blame he FREELY ADMITS HIS OWN GUILT -- something Satan has never done! And Amanuwal freely pays the penalty for the sinner, provided the ex-sinner earnestly REPENTS and zealously seeks to avoid sinning in the future. AMANUWAL IS NO SCAPEGOAT! 5. How was it determined which goat was to be accepted and which was to be rejected? Lev. 16:8. COMMENT: A LOT is a solemn appeal to YAHUWAH to decide a doubtful matter. It is a sacred religious ceremony. It includes a supernatural act of YAHUWAH. That is why lotteries and gambling are of the Devil -- an actual profaning of an ancient holy ceremony appealing to YAHUWAH. See Prov. 16:33. 6. Whom did the other goat typify -- the one which was accepted? Lev 16:8-9. Was this YHWH - - the Elohim -- of the Old Testament, the One who became Amanuwal (I Cor. 10:4)? Then this goat which was sacrificed for a sin offering and whose blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat for an atonement for all Israel represented Amanuwal, didnt it? We will see this more clearly in a moment. COMMENT: Although these goats appeared to be exactly alike to men, one was to typify Amanuwal and the other Azazel-Satan. Men were utterly unqualified to determine which was suitable to represent which. Therefore it was necessary to make a solemn appeal to YAHUWAH to decide the matter. This means that in the antitype -- the REALITY which this symbolic acting out represented -- men today are unable to determine which is Amanuwal and which is Azazel (Satan). It is because Azazel-Satan has done his work of deception so thoroughly that mankind as a whole does not know who is YAHUWAH and who is the Devil! CHRISTIAN-PROFESSING PEOPLE, who think they worship YAHUWAH, ARE ACTUALLY WORSHIPING THE DEVIL! (II Cor. 11:13-15). Shaluwm
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