The Feast of Atonement 7 days + 3

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

In my last post, I discussed the number 8. How it means new beginning, and that the second Sabbath, came about because God ended his own work week with rest on the seventh day, but asked man to start his week there, resting in God's finished work and from that day forward man's new beginning would be on the 8th day, or the second Sabbath. We looked at scripture in Leviticus which gave feast days for celebrating these truths, and which celebrated grace, and blessing and how God was the beginning of their productivity and the end of it, and that the six days in between the two Sabbaths was the number of man, of his work.

In that post I tried to stay strictly on track with the subject of how that new beginning theme began, but I want to day to make an exclaimation mark upon the subject as further proof that I am not reading something into the numbers that isn't there.

God himself established this pattern. As a cycle of hope for a future. And the verse at the top of the page re-interates it. So much so that God repeated the verse and emphasized it through the writer of the book of Revelation.

May I note that we look closely at the chapter and verse for this statement.  I believe that it is no accident that even the registration of the verses, enforces the number system of God. Chapter 1, verse 8.

• The two days that represent the Sabbaths that sandwich mans week.
• The number one represents beginning, the number 8 - new beginning
• The math equation: 1 + 6 + 1 = 8  ~  God -man- God = new beginning
• And expanding it to the words in Revelation,  God is the beggining and the end, and it"s our lives he has sandwiched in between.

And he is present on all the days in between.

Once again, God sets down his Holy sequence. Begin with him and end with him, and count on him on all the days in between. Start in his rest, end in his rest, and labor completely bracketed by his finished work. Every time we reach a seven, a day when something is complete, we always have a new beginning..
and it is a cycle of rest in him, and in his finished work. His day of rest is our day of new beginnings.

I am so blessed by this message.  God built this message into the very creation. 
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But I want this post to recognize a second set of numbers as well.

TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST

In the feasts of the atonement there are two separate days celebrated.
On the surface they seem redundant. God gave one feast that was represented by the 7th month and 10th day and one was the 7th month and 15th day,(which I discussed last post).  Both are called the feasts of redemption. Also they are described in conjuction with atonement.

In the first one, the Israelites were to have a solemn feast, not a celebrating feast. It was a time for seeking God for the forgiveness of sins or consideration of God's work in their lives. This feast was 7 days plus 3 days. Seven represented taking a complete or whole week to take part in the feast, but the extra 3 days were to represent God. The triune God. 

The Day of Atonement

²⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁷ “Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. ²⁸ And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. ²⁹ For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. ³⁰ And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. ³¹ You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³² It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.” Bible Gateway.

(Notice the Sabbath again begins in the evening, even as Jesus died before the soldiers came to break their legs because it was about to be the Sabbath. Just as in our last post, we saw the foreshadowing.)

In this feast, we find the foreshadowing of the Crucifixion. But because of the 3 days following the week of affliction, there is given an expected time to follow this Sabbath even,t before the end of the affliction of their souls would be complete.It is clear that we are being told it would be a very sad time.
 Christ rebuked the Scribes and Pharasees because they didn't see him when they read the verses. He was saying, if we search the scriputures we will find him there. >

John 5:39

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

 

Some saints were said to be more willing to test the things they were being taught by searching the scriptures. Something the Thessalonicans failed to do. The disciples taught that Jesus fulfilled the scriptures and was the final sacrifice, the completion of the years of foreshadowing.

 

 Acts 17:11

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

 

One of the places they were looking was at the numbers and what they had been taught their whole lives those numbers stood for. Why keeping the feasts was on certain dates, and were observed for a certain number of days or weeks. They knew there was a significance.

Why the 10th day of the seventh month? The 10th day was 7 days (God's completed work) plus 3 days, which may be obvious that they indicate 3 unusual days.  The number of 3 is significant for a couple of reasons. 3 represents the trinity of God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Even the Israelites understood that God had 3 forms of revealing himself to them. When the old scriputures say: the angel of the Lord, they knew this being was from God, but they couldn't understand who he was. Even in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve knew him. This was Jesus.  Many knew the interaction with the Spirit of God, and he was present often with representations of being in the fire, wind or water.  Not the figure or image of a man, but totally unseen except for the element that showed his power and presence. But they also knew God as a disciplinarian and guide, a loving attribute who provided. Jesus called Him specifically, the Heavenly Father.  One God, but a triune being.

 

The 3 days represent the trinity. But they also forshadow that upon completion of his work, and beginning with the day of rest, God the Son would be resurrected on the 3rd day. 

 

I am blessed to be able to observe the first day of that 3 days today. And on Easter Morning I Will rejoice in the 3rd day.

 

Thank you Dear Jesus for Dying for me and for the promise of ages that you would bring new life to all mankind in only 3 days! AMEN