Isaiah, Christ, and the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur (week of Oct. 3, third to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this shortcast Kerry discusses how our Isaiah reading coincides with the celebration of Yom Kippur. He shows briefly how Isaiah 58, a traditional reading for the Day of Atonement), fits into the Day of Atonement. He spends more time on Isaiah 61 and the verses Christ read in the synagogue at Nazareth, and how Isaiah and Christ were drawing on the imagery of the Jubilee Year and the Day of Atonement, and what that has to do with us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. This is the podcast where your host has lost his voice, but also it's the podcast where we explore elements of the scriptures that have made them become real to us |
| 0:20.9 | because we want to draw more power out of the scriptures. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm your host, Carrie Mealstein, and I hope you'll bear with me as I am a bit hoarse today. |
| 0:29.7 | I've put off doing this for three days, hoping my voice would come back. |
| 0:33.1 | And it has come back a little bit, but not completely. |
| 0:36.3 | So you're just going to have to bear with me through this. |
| 0:38.8 | I apologize. |
| 0:39.9 | This is a special edition where we're going to talk about a number of things that have to do with Yom Kippur. |
| 0:47.0 | So Yom Kippur is from sundown on Tuesday, October 4th to sundown on Wednesday, October 5th. |
| 0:57.3 | So if you want to listen to this on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, that would be completely |
| 1:02.7 | appropriate, but you can listen to this whenever you want. |
| 1:05.8 | And we're going to touch on two Isaiah passages that touch on Yom Kippur. So one of the traditional readings |
| 1:14.8 | for Yom Kippur that many people will read on the morning of Yom Kippur, and let's just say what |
| 1:19.9 | Yom Kippur is. Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is Atonement, or to cover. It's the |
| 1:27.0 | highest and holiest day in all of the Jewish |
| 1:31.2 | festivals that the Lord gave them. It is the one day of the year where the high priest could go into |
| 1:36.7 | the Holy of Holy, symbolically representing all of Israel being reunited with the presence of God, |
| 1:43.4 | or being able to regain that presence, |
| 1:45.2 | something that's very meaningful to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as |
| 1:49.2 | well. On this day, there was a goat that was sacrificed, and the blood of the sacrifice |
| 1:56.8 | was also put on the altar and on the priest, the high priest, and so on. But the high priest also then did that and put his hands on the head of another goat and transferred symbolically all of Israel's sins to that other goat. And then the goat was driven out to the wilderness. It's called the scapegoat, symbolically carrying all of Israel's sins with it, |
| 2:20.1 | and thus make it Israel sinless and able to come into the presence of God. There's some |
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