Day of Atonement/Yom Ha-Kippurim - What it Really Means! By Michael Heiss

Good evening, everyone. It's always a pleasure to be with you, especially on the Sabbath Go-To-Meeting. You know, it's hard to believe that in three weeks or so, the fall holy day season is upon us.

Tonight, we're going to look at one of those days, a very special day in a day well. Does anybody remember Rodney Dangerfield? You know, he built a whole career out of one sentence. I don't get no respect. He made millions from that. Well, you know, in some respects, that's a little something like the Day of Atonement, not that it don't get no respect, but really, we don't give it the respect and honor it deserves.

And I'm going to make a bold statement to start with, that unless that Day of Atonement; we're going to use a different name for it. We're going to use the biblical name for it. Unless that day is properly observed and the risen Christ correctly follows through all the events connected, then Revelation Twenty-One and Twenty-Two with the new heavens and the new earth will not occur. The Father will not descend to us, and the statement that Jesus made in John Seventeen about us in them, everybody, all for one, spiritually speaking, in The Kingdom, will not take place. It is that important, and I don't think we fully grasp it. It's a very important day!

To start with, we really ought to qualify its biblical name, Yom Ha Kippurim. Now we Jews slang it. We say Yom Kippur, and that's okay, it's, it's all right, no problem with that. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It's the final day of the ten days of repentance, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur; they are the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement.

The Shofar sounds the call for repentance on the Feast of Trumpets, Rossia Shanna. At the end of those nine days, ending with Yom Kippur, the Shofar sounds again to ensure that we've repented. And that our names are once again inscribed in the book of life for another year, we're good to go now.