The Day of Atonement and the Law of Forgiveness

2017.09.08

The Day of Atonement and the Law of Forgiveness

By

Dr James A Robertson

I have recently encountered a belief that there is a “Law of Forgiveness” that applies to all mankind and that it is possible to call on this Law of Forgiveness on behalf of all of mankind.

This is a very seductive belief but is regrettably not true.

Today is the Day of Atonement, the most set-apart {sacred / holy} day of Yah’s calendar and the day when it was appointed for the High Priest, having sanctified himself, to enter the inner sanctum of the Temple and sprinkle blood on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant as atonement for sin.

Thereafter the High Priest would lay hands on the unblemished goat that was the offering for sin and chase it into the wilderness.  The High Priest had to be free of sin else he would have died when he approached the Ark of the Covenant – he wore bells on the hem of his garment and had a rope tied around his ankle so that they could pull the corpse out if he was found to have sin in him such that Yah would slay him.  So, one can see that Father Yah takes sin rather seriously!

Yahooshua fulfilled this rite by living a life without sinning even once and then dying a terrible and agonizing death nailed to a stake (length of tree trunk).

The execution site was located directly above a cave in which the Ark of the Covenant had been hidden by YerimaYahu {Jeremiah} the Emissary and Spokesman of Yah {Apostle and Prophet} around five hundred years earlier before Babylon invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple.

As Yahooshua died an Earthquake rent the rocks and opened up a crack from the socket that held the stake down to the stone slab covering the Ark of the Covenant.  When Yahooshua’s side was pierced with the spear water and blood flowed out of his side, down the crack and onto the Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant.  Thus Yahooshua was inducted as High Priest and his sinless blood on the Mercy Seat opened the way for us to request forgiveness in his name BECAUSE he had become the atoning sacrifice for us.

In considering this information it is vital to understand that sin carries a terrible price that we will all pay in full if we die with unrepented sin.

It is also vital to understand that the price of forgiveness for sin is very high – forgiveness is NOT something that can be easily obtained by a simple prayer or request.  Yahooshua paid a terrible price and suffered intensely in order to provide a new way of receiving forgiveness pursuant on the impending destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the corruption of the Priesthood and the fact that believers were scattered all over the Earth and were therefore unable to get to Jerusalem to receive forgiveness.  When one talks of forgiveness never lose sight of the agony that Yahooshua went through and, therefore, never take lightly what is required in order to receive forgiveness.

By extension, do NOT request forgiveness flippantly or without a deep recognition of the evil that you have perpetrated.

The True Law of Forgiveness

Looking at this differently, the Law of Forgiveness can be expressed as follows:

                Recognize your sin

                                Confess your sin

                                                Deep heartfelt repentance of your sin = turning around

                                                                Make restitution (make right) where possible

                                                                                Bring an offering of value

                                                                                                Ask for and receive forgiveness

These are the steps that Yah requires one to take in order to receive forgiveness.

1. Recognize your sin

In order to receive forgiveness one must first recognize one’s sin – that means one has to do the work necessary to learn what sin is and then to recognize that one has transgressed.Essentially the core basis of sin is the Ten Commandments.So one needs to know and understand the Ten Commandments:

1. Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is ONE Mighty One -- thou shall have NO other Mighty One’s before Him – i.e. do NOT worship Yahooshua {Jesus}, etc
2. You shall have NO idols – do NOT worship the Bible, etc
3. You shall NOT take the Name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in vain – not call Him God, or The LORD, not use Yah or words that sound like Yah, as in the German word for yes, not have a Yahoo.com email address, etc.
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it set-apart – no work on Saturday and observe the six major set-apart {holy} sabbaths each year – Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, First Day of Tabernacles, Great Day of Tabernacles – and, by extension do NOT observe Halloween, Christmas or Easter.
5. Honour your father and your mother – do not ship them off to an old age home to die, care for them fully and provide for them as they provided for you and do not fight, argue, curse, etc them.
6. No murder – includes not supporting abortion and not agreeing with abolition of the death penalty.
7. No adultery – sex with a virgin is a covenant act for life, do NOT put her away.  If you have taken the virginity of more than one woman you are responsible for all of them for life.  Divorce under specific circumstances, requires specific prayers.  Sex between men is another form of adultery.
8. No stealing – includes obtaining business under false pretences and through misrepresentation and lying.  Includes Pastors / Priests / religious leaders who purport that their church is the House of God and therefore collect tithes which teaching falsehood.
9. No false witness or lying – includes ALL false doctrines and errors of belief not to mention little white lies and commercial exaggeration.
10. No lusting or coveting, men and women lusting after each other, lusting after possessions, etc.

It is a pretty comprehensive list.It IS possible to live life without committing any of these sins but it takes commitment and resolve and, WHEN you slip, there IS the covenant of Yahooshua that affords you a way to recover.But remember this is NOT to be taken lightly.

2. Confess your sin

Once you recognize that you HAVE sinned, get on your knees and confess your sin to Father – He knows all about it, what he is interested in is YOUR heart attitude.

3. Deep heartfelt repentance of your sin = turning around

Repentance is NOT a flippant, “oh, sorry God”, it is heartfelt recognition of one’s error, crying out to Father, literally crying if appropriate, and committing NOT TO DO IT AGAIN – repentance speaks of turning around and walking in the opposite direction.Repentance is way beyond sorry!

4. Make restitution (make right) where possible

I learned this the hard way.During my younger years I had helped myself to some small items from the University Laboratory where I was studying.Shortly after I came back to serving Father and as I was learning about these things I had a dream in which I saw a disaffected former employee coming to steal from me.When I prayed about it Father told me He could not protect me because I had stolen items in my possession.He told me to return them so I had to make an arrangement to publicly return the stolen items.

It is NOT good enough to just say “sorry” to Father, you need to make right wherever you can.In some cases this could involve you repaying MULTIPLES of the damage you caused.

5. Bring an offering of value

As we saw with the High Priest and the Mercy Seat and the Goat without spot or blemish, it was necessary to slaughter a high value animal as an offering to Yah for forgiveness of sin.Following the death of Yahooshua and the initiation of his covenant, it becomes possible to pray in the name of Yahooshua and have Yahooshua be the offering of value.But this does NOT obviate the need for us to bring an offering where it is possible.

6. Ask for and receive forgiveness

Finally, you are in a position to ASK for forgiveness and then, by faith, receive forgiveness.But we aware that just asking does NOT guarantee that you will be granted forgiveness.As mentioned above your heart attitude needs to be right in order to receive forgiveness.

I suggest for your consideration that if you have been doing anything less than the above with regard to your sin you may find yourself before the Judgement Seat after your death and being sentenced to a term of terror and torment in Hell to pay the price for the sin that you did NOT properly deal with during your life.  AND, you may find yourself sentenced to further suffering for taking Yahooshua’s sacrifice lightly and disrespectfully.

In general this would involve rehearsing the covenant {taking communion} and remembering the sacrifice of Yahooshua and asking Father Yah for forgiveness in the name of  Yahooshua.  This entails:

1. Take a piece of bread, I prefer unleavened bread or a wheat biscuit if I can get it, and pray “Father, I come to you in the name of Yahooshua and I recall that on the night that Yahooshua was betrayed he took the bread and broke it and gave it to those that followed him and said ‘This is my body given for you, do this as oft as ye shall eat it in remembrance of me’  Father, I ask that as I partake of this bread I partake of ALL that it represents to you, help me to walk in the fullness of the Covenant”.

Eat the bread.

2. Take a cup or glass of Grape Juice or Wine and pray  “Father, I come to you in the name of Yahooshua and I recall that on the night that Yahooshua was betrayed he took the cup and gave it to those who followed him and said ‘this is my blood of the New Covenant, do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me’  Father I ask that you will forgive me … (name the sin) or… I ask that you will forgive me all that I have done that I ought NOT to have done and all that I have not done that I ought to have done and bring to my remembrance ALL sin that I have yet to repent of.  Help me to understand this Covenant and to walk in the fullness of this Covenant”.

Note that the general form used above regarding “all that I have done, etc” is only applicable if you have undertaken a serious program of dealing with your sin.See http://end-time-issueministries.org/Home/7ComponentsinGrowingClosetoYah.aspx.html for an in-depth discussion of dealing with sin and cleaning up your life. You should rehearse the Covenant on a regular basis and a regularly ask Yah to show you your sin and how to deal with it.

Conclusion

I hope that this helps you to get on the right footing with Yah.  I cannot stress enough, UNLESS you deal with your sin fully in this life you WILL pay the price in the life to come.

And, it is NOT in your power to seek forgiveness on behalf of anyone else, Yahooshua asked for forgiveness of those who were responsible for his death because he was the victim of their sin.  This is NOT possible under other circumstances.  And it is certainly NOT in your power to seek forgiveness for ALL mankind, in fact, you are probably sinning in asking Yah for forgiveness for people who are content in their sin and have no intention of changing.  At the very least you will upset Yah at your flippant attitude to sin.

May Yah, The Almighty Creator, bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you His peace.

May Yah judge me severely and correct me harshly and show me the level of my present deception and how to correct it with regard to everything that I write and publish.

Warm regards and blessings,

James Robertson

Emissary and Spokesman of Yah

30 September 2017

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