…And we will see how that applies when we get to Leviticus 23. Notice he didn’t say that this fasting is because you must offer this sacrifice. We’re going to see in Leviticus 23 it was not a command just for the priesthood to fast. Had it been only a priesthood command for the priesthood to fast, for the high priest to fast, then we could probably say that it could probably be true that we shouldn’t fast on Atonement. But we will see in Leviticus 23, in just a minute, that this afflicting was not just for the priests. We’ll see that.

Now, “…be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:…” Every living soul was required to fast. The ceremony at the temple was in addition to the fasting. “…For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD” (vs. 29-30). There it is right there. Cleanse you from your sins. You might want to put in there Psalm 51. “Create in me a clean heart, oh God. Wash me with hyssop.” And this was David’s repentance for what he did with Bathsheba.

Verse 31, “It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: and he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.” So all the people, all the priests, whether they be born in the land or whether they be strangers and sojourners, they are all required to fast. And then the priest was to make atonement. “And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.” (vs. 31- 34).

Question: if this is so, why then did they have sacrifices morning and evening? Why then, did they have sacrifices on the other holy days? Why did they have sacrifices for other sins? Why couldn’t they just do this on this one day? Because we have to take care of our own individual responsibilities, that’s why. And God also wanted them to know, through all the other sacrifices, that their sacrifices merely look forward to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Now, let’s go to Leviticus 23. And while we’re turning there let’s ask this question. Do we find every command concerning everything we are to do, located in one place only in the Bible? The answer, no. The Bible tells us we are to have line upon line, here a little, there a little. We are to rightly divide the word of God and put it all together. Now Leviticus 23 is a very important chapter. And let’s notice beginning right in verse 1, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel,…” Notice He didn’t say, to the priests. The children of Israel - all the congregation. “…Say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD,…” The feasts of the LORD are not keyed to just sacrifices alone. The feasts of the LORD are whether there are sacrifices or not, and as we just went through that the sacrifice of Christ covers all of the animal sacrifices listed in the Old Testament anyway. That part is true. So then he talks about here, “…ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings” (Lev. 23:1-3). We all agree to that. No problem with that. And we know also that this fourth commandment, as we find in the Ten Commandments, this fourth commandment is reiterated here in Leviticus 23. But God wants us to know more about the Sabbath. He wants us to know about His feasts, right? Yes. So that’s why they are categorized as additions to the Sabbath commandment as sabbaths, holy convocations to be kept in their season, the same as the weekly Sabbath.

Now verse 4. “These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover” (vs. 4-5). What is missing in verse 5? What is missing in verse 5 is very obvious. The detailed instructions on what to do with the sacrifice of the lamb, right? Does that mean you don’t sacrifice a lamb because it’s not there? No. It’s just found someplace else, that’s all.

Let’s go on. “On the fifteenth day…” And of course it says the fourteenth, there’s no way around it - it’s the fourteenth. And if you haven’t gone through our detailed study on the “Passover the 14^th /15^th, Which?”, write in for it and we’ll send it to you. It is the fourteenth as the day begins.

Verse 6, “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.” What is missing? The instructions found other places in the Bible to put leaven out of your homes, right? Yes. Does that mean that we don’t put leaven out of our homes because it’s not found here? No. And, let’s ask the question: why do we put leaven out of our homes in the New Testament anyway? Because if you do away with fasting on Atonement you must also do away with unleavened bread during the Days of Unleavened Bread. Why do we put out unleavened bread in our homes during the Days of Unleavened Bread? We put it out because God said so. Now that’s so simple you could fall off a log, ok? And because that commandment does not apply to the priesthood only, but out of everyone of your homes, correct? So we do it. And we know in 1 Corinthians 5 that, yes, we’re unleavened with Christ but we’re also to put out the unleaven of the bread too, because it’s symbolic of sin. Is it a ritual sacrifice? No. Do we still have sin? Yes. Does a little leaven, leaven the whole lump? Yes. So therefore we put leaven out of our homes, correct? Yes. And we also eat unleavened bread too, don’t we? Yes. But all of the instructions are not contained here in these verses, correct? Correct. So you can’t say because it’s not in this one place that now we do away with it. That’s the whole point I want to make in every one of these things.

Now we could do the same thing with every one of these. In Leviticus 23 is the only place where it talks about the detailed instructions on waving the wave sheaf. Does that mean in the other instructions where it says, “You shall keep the feast of weeks…”, does that mean that you should not now do the wave sheaf, because it’s not there in the other places? No. And we know this wave sheaf was also a type of Christ and fulfilled His ascension into heaven. You go through each one of these are holy convocations. They do not stand or fall by a sacrifice to be given or not given on that day. Just like the Sabbath. The Sabbath does not stand or fall because of the Sabbath sacrifice. Sacrifices were given on all days, and so forth.

Now let’s come all the way down to verse 26. We’ll cover about the Day of Atonement right here. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement;…” And we’ll get the reasons why we should keep it, and why we should fast on those days. “…It shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls [that means fast], …offer an offering made by fire…ye shall do no [servile] work…it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God” (vs. 26-28). We have to be at-one with God. What does true atonement mean? As we covered, when you will be like God, resurrected. Then you will be totally at-one with Him. And also another part of it has to be, is that the goat for Azazel must be removed. And that is key, because we will see in the New Testament, in just a little bit, that that is Satan the devil who is removed. That pictures Satan the devil. And that’s the reason why we fast, because number one because God says to fast, and because Satan has not yet been removed, and we’ll see that when Jesus fought Satan, He did what? He fasted. So it says right here, “…whatsoever soul it be that shall not be…” It didn’t say whatsoever priest. It didn’t say whatsoever prince. It said whatsoever soul, as we saw before, is also the stranger that sojourns with you. “…That shall not be afflicted [or fast] in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people” (vs. 29).

That’s right. The comment was made that this should be enough to make you tremble before God. I would say so. I would say so. Who is going to go to God and say, “God, I believe that You should change Your law, because I have an idea.” Then who is God?

Alright, let’s go on. Notice, “And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people” (vs. 30). Now that’s really a strong commandment, isn’t it? That is very strong, which means then that God is putting emphasis on this, correct? Yes. Part of the argument is this - is that the sacrifice of Christ, since He was sacrificed on Passover, fulfills Atonement. No, it doesn’t fulfill Atonement, because Atonement has not been fulfilled. It does fulfill Passover, which we looked back to the death of Christ, but the Passover is also for our sins, which can be repented of, and it’s a blood sacrifice - His death. That’s why the sacrifice of Christ covers all of the sacrifices. But now we’re talking about the one that was not sacrificed (the goat for Azazel), and why we should fast today. Ok, the command here is very clear. No work, and you must fast. Very dire warning.

Now notice, “Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.” Not at the temple. Not keyed to the sacrifice. But keyed to the day, and keyed to the keeping of the day. “It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath” (vs. 31-32).

Now before we go to the New Testament… No, let’s go there. Let’s go to the New Testament, then we’ll come back here. The New Testament all the way through, and you might do this as a Bible study, but we covered that with the “Satan’s Ten Most Believable Lies”. In the New Testament, Satan is revealed for what he is, isn’t he? Not so much in the Old Testament. But in the New Testament he’s really revealed for what he is. And we saw the scriptures where it is that he has sinned from the beginning. Now, we know… Let’s go to Luke 4 for just a minute here. We’ll stop by there. We know that fasting and resisting Satan go hand in hand, by the portrayal of what Jesus did here in Luke 4 when He confronted Satan the Devil. Very important for us to keep in mind. And while we’re turning there let’s ask the question: is Satan still around today? Answer: yes. This is part of the meaning of the fulfillment of the Day of Atonement of the live goat for Azazel to make an atonement for us. And that is what Christ did in fighting Satan.

Let’s notice Luke 4:1, “And Jesus being full of the Holy [Spirit] Ghost returned from Jordan [that is after He was baptized], and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days He did eat nothing: and when they were ended He afterward hungered” (Luke 4:1-2). Jesus fasted in confronting the devil. Very important for us to understand. Now granted, this was not done on the Day of Atonement at this particular place. Granted, that is true, but the principle applies.

Now we have read how many scriptures concerning Satan when we went through the series? Let’s cover just two others that we may not have covered entirely. Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 15:20. This becomes very important to see the purpose of Christ. The purpose of Jesus sacrifice was not to atone for the sins of Satan. The purpose of Jesus sacrifice was not to atone for the unpardonable sins. There’s no atoning for those.

Let’s pick it up here in verse 20. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that [sleep] slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming.” Now notice the next part here. “Then cometh the end,…” And when is the real end? When Christ returns? No. You’ve got to go all through the millennium. And then the things that happen at the end of the millennium, and what happens to Satan, as we will see in a little bit. And then, it says, comes the end, “…When He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father…” And God the Father comes down to this earth - Revelation 21 and 22, correct? Yes. “…When He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet” (1 Cor. 15:20-25).

Who is the chief enemy? Who is the chief adversary? Satan the devil. And there can never be a complete at-one-ment with God, in God’s plan, until all of the enemies are put under His feet. And that includes getting rid of Satan. And that’s what the Day of Atonement really pictures, more than just the Passover, to us you see. Because in the Day of Atonement we recognize that in our fasting, one - we are not at-one with God because we are still in the flesh. Number two, we still have to fight and resist Satan the devil, which we cannot do with fleshly things but only the Spirit of God. And number three, that we have not yet attained to the fullness of God’s plan. Now, “For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death” (vs. 25-26).

Now let’s go to Hebrews 2. So while we’re turning there let’s answer the question: have all people died that are going to die? No, they have not all died who are going to die. Now then let’s pick it up here in verse 14. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;…” Is God’s plan going to be complete unless the devil is removed? No. Is God’s atonement for all sin going to be complete without the removal of Satan the devil? No. Is the sacrifice of Christ going to apply to the sins of the devil? No.

Let’s go back to Revelation 20 and see the only scriptural fulfillment of Leviticus 16, in the removal of the goat for Azazel. And this is the only one it fits. It doesn’t fit any of the others. Now, people can make a reasonable case for the others. And I’ve read and studied Edersheim’s, and I’ve read and studied other papers where they say that both goats mean Christ. Not so. Here’s the only meaning for the live goat that it can mean. Right here, Revelation 20:1. This is after Christ returns (Revelation 19) the beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire. Then it says, Revelation 20:1, “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit [or that is, the abyss] and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is [called] the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the [abyss] bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years [were finished] should be fulfilled…” (Rev. 20:1-3).

Now, Satan bears all of his own sins, correct? He is removed. Azazel means, “the one to be removed”. Is anyone going to be living in the abyss? Any human beings, any inhabitants of the earth? No. Satan is going to be there in prison, bound and chained. The angel here is typified in Leviticus 16 by the hand of a fit strong man, who removes Azazel to a place uninhabited and let go. Later they got into the practice of killing the goat. That is not what God said to do. That is incorrect. It was to be let go, just like Satan is put into prison here.

Now the final removal of Satan is after he is let loose for a little season. We won’t go into all of that. But immediately when Satan is removed, what happens? The world is no longer at-one with God, correct? There’s a rebellion. There’s a war. Those people are destroyed. Satan then is what? Cast into a lake of fire. He is removed again. Then we have the whole process of the judgment - the great white throne judgment, and so forth. And then death and hell are cast into the lake of fire and then, then all the enemies are destroyed, correct? Every rule against God has been put down, correct? Yes. And then He delivers the kingdom up to God the Father.

Now, why should we fast on Atonement? One, God says so. Commands, very strongly. Not associated with a sacrifice, but connected with the day. So if you’re going to observe the day you should fast. Number two, the Day of Atonement pictures removing of Satan the devil. Has he been removed? No. That’s why we should continue to fast on the Day of Atonement, and fast otherwise too. Number three, whenever Jesus fought Satan, He fasted especially in that confrontation. So those are three good reasons why we should continue to fast on the Day of Atonement.

Next question: what meaning is there then to the Day of Atonement if you don’t fast? Why should you then even observe it? If the Day of Atonement has been fulfilled by the Passover, why even observe it? There is no reason, correct? There would be no reason simply because the sacrifice of Christ, though He was sacrificed on the Passover, does not fulfill everything in God’s plan. There is a time and place for everything.

Let’s look at another reason why we need to fast on the Day of Atonement. Let’s go to Ephesians 1:13. “In Whom ye also trusted [that is, in Christ], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest [the partial down payment]…” See, we’re not at-one with God yet, even though we have the Holy Spirit. “…Until the redemption of the purchased possession,…” (Eph. 1:13-14). Have we been wholly redeemed? No. Have we been wholly removed from any influence of Satan in the world? No, and that’s what the Day of Atonement pictures and that’s why we fast so that when every enemy has been put down, and Satan removed, and we’re all spirit beings in the family of God, we are all at-one with God.

Now, let’s look at just a couple of other things here, we have time for. Comment was made that another reason for fasting is that it pictures that we are not relying on salvation for the physical things such as food, but we are looking to be sustained by the Spirit. So when we are spirit beings, we will be sustained not by physical food, but by spiritual power. And that also has that meaning.

Let’s look at a couple of other things and ask these questions which will lead into some other things. What if you found a place in the Bible which didn’t list Trumpets and Atonement? Does that mean you shouldn’t keep Trumpets or Atonement? Because that’s part of the argument, as we will see. Let’s go throw a little cold water on that right now, because that is illogical even illogical human reasoning let alone unlogical Biblical reasoning. Let’s see some places. Let’s go to Exodus 23:14. “Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before Me empty:)…” (Ex. 23:14-15). So therefore we shouldn’t keep the Passover, right? It doesn’t say the Passover, does it? So therefore, since it isn’t here we could logically say then you shouldn’t keep the Passover because it’s not listed here. Now that’s a foolish statement to even claim that, but I’m just making a point. You’ll understand why in just a minute.

Ok, then it says also, verse 16, “And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field [we know that to be Pentecost]: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.” It says nothing about trumpets or atonement, correct? So therefore you don’t have to keep Passover, or Trumpets, or Atonement. Lo and behold, because we didn’t find them there. Now I’m being fictitious and a little cynical, I realize, but there is a purpose in it. Now you can find the same in Exodus 34. You can find the same thing in Deuteronomy 16. The only place where it tells us to keep all seven of the holy days is Leviticus 23. So you can’t say because at one place it excludes something that is included in another place, that you don’t have to keep it.

Now let’s go to the book of Ezekiel. Another point is made that in Matthew 17 and Luke 19, that Jesus didn’t quote all of the commandments there when the young man said, “What should I do to inherit eternal life?”, in the same way, is not being then that you don’t keep the rest of the commandments because He didn’t list all of them. Yes. Exactly the same thing. True.

Ezekiel 40 on through the rest of it is a prophecy of the reinstitution of the Levitical priesthood. Now there are some people who claim that this is the millennial temple. I only find one place where it refers to anything millennial at all. And why do I say that? Let’s look at that place where it is. Just a minute. And that is in Ezekiel 47 where then the water comes out on the east side of the temple and flow out and becomes a very broad, broad, broad, broad river. Now that’s the only thing I find in here that has to do with the millennium. Everything else I read in here has to do with the setting up of the temple under Ezra and Nehemiah, and Joshua, and Zerubbabel, and Haggai. Because in the millennium, who are going to be the priests? We are. We shall be priests and kings and reign with Him, what? A thousand years. With Christ on the earth is there any need for a Levitical priesthood? No. There will not be a Levitical priesthood. Why? Because the Melchesidec priesthood of Jesus Christ is what? An everlasting priesthood and God is not going to return back to a Levitical priesthood during the millennium. Why should He? There’s no reason to.

Now let’s go to Ezekiel 44. I want to make a point here that’s important. Ezekiel 44:3, let’s read it here. I’m running short of time and I don’t want to go into another sermon so I’ll just review it. It says the gate here toward the east, verse 3, “It is for the prince; the prince,…” I want you to notice that very carefully. It is for the prince. And the prince “…shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.” The prince is not the priest. I want to make that very clear because those who say that we should not keep a fast on Atonement, are saying that the prince is the priest. The prince is the prince, the priest is the priest. And I’ll prove it right here in the context.

Come here down to verse 15. “But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:…” The priests are separate from the prince. The prince has certain duties. I call your mind to the book of Numbers where we went through and saw that beginning on the first day of the first month each prince of one of the tribes would bring an offering. Was that prince a priest? No. The prince is the prince. The priest is the priest.

Now let’s go to Ezekiel 46 and I’ll show you the error in the thinking. And the error is that in Ezekiel 45, not 46. I’m sorry. Beg your pardon. Ezekiel 45:4, “The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD:…” Then it comes down here verse 7, “And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion,…” (Ezek. 45:4, 7). That is the…See there’s a difference between the priest and the prince, correct? Alright.

Now it talks about what was to be done on those days. Verse 16 it says, “All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel:…” This is telling him his obligation. Did we see… Why does it say prince here? Because this applies to the temple things after they are returned from Babylon when they had no king. No king. Very important. But before they went into the Babylonian captivity, did the king have certain things he was to do? Yes. Here’s the prince. Here’s his responsibility. Now notice, he’s to do these and to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. Verse 18, “Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: and the priest [not the prince] shall take of the blood of the sin offering,…” (vs. 16-19), and so forth and so on.

Verse 21. Here’s the reason why they say that you should not fast on Atonement. Now this is going to be strange and you won’t follow the logic, but I’ll try and give it to you and hope we don’t run out of time. “…In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering” (vs. 21-22). And it is reasoned that since a lamb is not given, therefore the Passover is fulfilled, and therefore there is no Passover lamb offering given. Because it is reasoned that the prince is the priest. But the prince is not the priest. This is the prince’s obligation. Now I know it may make your head swim for a minute here, but that’s the reasoning that is given. This is the prince’s responsibility. And a prince must always offer a bullock for a sin offering. Everything is confused.

Then he says, “And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD,…”, and so forth. And then it goes down and says in verse 25, “In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering,…” (vs. 23, 25). So it is reasoned this way: since the prince is the priest, and since all they have are the days of unleavened bread, and the feast of tabernacles, therefore in the millennium we won’t keep the Passover because Jesus is here. We won’t keep Atonement because Jesus is here. We won’t keep Pentecost because the firstfruits have already been resurrected. We won’t keep the Day of Atonement because it’s not listed here. Well, just because it’s not listed here doesn’t mean it isn’t going to be kept. This is only telling what the responsibility of the prince was to do on these days. It has nothing to do with eliminating the other days at all, whatsoever under any circumstances, just because they’re not listed here.

Ok, I was reminded I said Atonement twice, and I meant Trumpets. Yes, correct. Now that is totally fallacious reasoning. The other reasoning for not fasting on the Day of Atonement we find in the book of Zechariah. Ok, here we go. Zechariah 8:19, “Thus saith the LORD…The fast of the fourth month [which was their own fast], and the fast of the fifth [month] [which was their own fast], and the fast of the seventh [month] [which was a commanded fast], and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.” So therefore, because these are feasts of joy and gladness, now they will not be fasting on any of these days. Therefore brethren, it is said, I quote, “I recommend you do not fast on the Day of Atonement. It is covered by the sacrifice of Christ.” And since in the millennium, there won’t be a Day of Atonement, there won’t be a Pentecost, there won’t be a Day of Trumpets. And these are going to be feasts of joy, therefore I recommend that you not fast on Atonement. That is what the instruction was given. And that is error. That is wrong. That is contrary to the Bible, and it does not stand up under the truth of the scriptures if you really get into them the way that you ought to.

A comment was made, This is exactly what the Protestants do. They eliminate these things from God’s word. True. A comment was made the promises take away, and the Jews add. Absolutely true.

Now, let’s just summarize it this way: every one of the commands of God, and every one of the holy days of God, and the commands pertaining to them picture part of the plan of God. Fasting on Atonement pictures the part of the plan of God that we’re fighting Satan the devil in this age now. We are not totally at-one with God, and that’s why we fast on that day, even in the New covenant because we are letting God know that we are not depending upon the flesh, but on the Spirit. So God has us fast on that day.          

Now, if it is not clear enough to you, go back and review all of the other three sermons that we did up to this point. But that last bit with the confusing of the prince and priest was really almost just unbelievable when I heard it, because that is so obvious that there’s the difference between the two, and if you say the prince now is the priest, and this is always required to do, then you can make all kinds of phony conclusions based upon that because you have a phony premise to begin with. So we need to rightly put all the Word of God together. Rightly stand fast with the Word of God, because if you think we’ve been assaulted with false teachings, I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet. Ok, just about out of time.

Ok, let’s conclude by just summarizing that the reason we keep the Day of Atonement is because that it shows the removal of Satan the devil, and Satan’s part in our sins, and the sins of the world, and it shows what God is going to do put him away. It also shows that we are never going to be at-one with God, even in the flesh, as long as the enemies of God are still around fighting and warring against us. And just as Jesus fasted to confront Satan, so also we fast on the Day of Atonement, as well as other days, but more particularly the Day of Atonement to show God that we must be at-one with Him, and it’s not going to be anything physical that we are going to do, but spiritual totally relying on God and his removal of Satan the devil.