Introduction: Here is the next Jewish Fall Feast after the Feast of Trumpets. This TIMEOUT is found in Leviticus 23 where the nation of Israel was instructed by the Lord to celebrate these seven Jewish feasts. This one we are studying is taking place today. But what is it? How does it relate to us as CHRISTians today?

1. Leviticus 16 – This special day of the year is called the “Day of Atonement.” Only the high priest could enter into the Holiest of Holies with the blood of a “slain goat.” He would sprinkle it upon the altar (mercy seat) to atone for the people’s sins once a year. But it must be repeated. Meanwhile, another goat – the scapegoat – would be led out into the wilderness after the priest would confess the sins of the people on his head. All of this illustrated the finished works of Jesus Christ.

2. Hebrews (Heb 10:11-14)

“But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Jesus Christ is our sacrificial goat! However, He paid for our sins – redemption – once and for all when He tasted death for every man by being crucified, buried, but risen again. Therefore, we have eternal life as well as abundant life through His redeeming blood.