The Fall

How then can mankind be righteous with God?  Or how can anyone who is born of woman be pure?  If even the moon has no brightness and the stars are not pure in His sight,  Job 25:4-5 NASB Righteous – Perhaps Moses was delusional.  Or maybe just egotistical.  He certainly seems to have been affected by some mental mistake when he…

Yom Kippur

On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the Lord.  You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf…

Yom Kippur

Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat. Leviticus 16:15 NASB For the…

Playing the Game

“Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?” Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire, and drive hard all your workers. Isaiah 58:3 NASB Find your desire – This evening we begin Yom Kippur. Fasting is appropriate on the day…

Yom Kippur

Do You Trust Him? Yom Kippur.  On this day I have a chance to review my relationship with the Lord, to look deeply into the commitment I have made.  What I find upsets me.  What I find is riddled with compromise and conditions.  I am not a man of clean hands and a pure heart. …