 Without question, without question, guys, that this is one of the more important topics. Actually, I take it back, this is the most important topic that we do not spend a lot of time covering. We cover aspects of it. We cover the result of it, but we don't cover the foundation of it. That's the issue of salvation. And really, where does salvation come about? Why does Jesus have to be nailed to the cross? Why does he have to have shed blood? Could Jesus have just been drowned? Could he have been hung? Could he have been bludgeoned? Could he have been suffocated to death? Would that have been enough? Well, the answer to all those questions is obviously, or should be obvious, a no. Jesus's death was required, but the manner also was required. In other words, the shedding of blood was without question necessary. So I want to get into something that we don't pay attention to, we don't talk about a lot, mainly because the bulk of it is in the Old Testament. And for whatever reason, most of us, a lot of us tend to avoid the Old Testament. It's time consuming, it's tedious, it's laborious, all these different things, but it's necessary. Again, Paul states that these former writings, these older scriptures were given so that we can know and we can have this hope. So it's very important. So I want to go ahead and jump into this now. Just so we can recall, if we can remember, there's this issue with sin. Well, what's the issue? The issue with sin is that it has separated us from God. Everybody would agree. Because of this, God has decided, one, he's a righteous God. He's righteous, he's just, meaning that he's not going to just let sin just, you know what? No worries, no problems. I'll go ahead and let that slide. No, sin is an offense to God. And so he must do something about it. And the good news is, he does do something about it. Not only does, is it a problem for him and the reason why he does something about it is because he's a loving God. So, and I said before, the two greatest things about God, God has these characteristics. He is, he has what we call communicable attributes and incommunicable attributes. The communicable attributes are attributes that he communicates with us, that he shares with us, such as love. We love just like God does. Now, not the same way. Obviously, he's more so than us. He has also these incommunicable attributes that we do not have that he does not share with us. For example, he is omnipresent. We are not. He's omniscient. We are not. So those are the incommunicable attributes, but two of his dominant attributes, that even we have the ability to take part in, obviously not to the degree and to the tune that he does, is that he's righteous and that he's loving. And it's his love that accomplishes a satisfaction for his righteousness. His righteousness demands that there be a payment for sin. Because man is sin, there is this barrier of separation erected between us and man, but God has always wanted to reconcile us. And he's had that in mind, even in the very beginning. As a matter of fact, if we go to Genesis, we'll see that in the course of time, we let this kind of go into the radar. We don't talk a lot about it. But when Cain killed Abel, why did he kill Abel? What was it over? It was over an offering and the unsatisfactory way that Cain brought an offering that God was not necessarily pleased with. And so God says, if you do the right thing, then guess what? Then you will be blessed. You'll be out and so forth. But if you don't, then sin lies at your door. So there was a right way and a wrong way. Cain obviously did it by the wrong way. So God has always tried to be where he's reconciling us to him. Now, he has stated though that ultimately the sacrifice, the punishment for sin is blood. Now, let me just stop there for a second before we get into our scriptures. God is the offended party. God is the one who says, because you've sinned and you sinned against him, not against me or your brother or anyone else, but because we've sinned against him, then he determines what reconciliation will be like. In other words, like, yes, and I've used the example before. Let's say if I'm going to use Tyra, Tyra steals my, if she steals my watch, she can come to me and say, I'm sorry for stealing your watch. It doesn't matter if she's still wearing the watch. So my thing is, wait a second, Tyra, you don't mean it because one, you're wearing the watch that you stole from me. So Tyra says, I want, I want us to be friends again. I don't want this to be an issue. So she asked, well, what to do? And I say, this is what it's going to take for us to be reconciled. I'm using this term for a reason, reconcile. This is going to, and this is also how a toman is going to be made. I determine how a toman will be made. She doesn't get to, she can't say, well, I'll tell you what, here's your watch back. It's got some scratches and dents on it. But hey, let bygones be bygones. That's not how that works. She can't tell me what it's going to take to satisfy me because I'm the one that was offended. I tell her. And so what I do is I say, Tyra, you've got to give me back my watch. I don't want to see you wearing my watch again. That's the, that's the issue. Oh, by the way, yeah, that watch was a little, a little swatch. Some of you guys remember swatches? It's a little swatch. I want my swatch back and I want a Rolex on top of that. And I want an apology. But wait a minute. I'm just giving your watch back. How about I buy you another swatch? No, I want this and this and this. You can't tell me what it's going to take to make me feel whole. So she does so. Now I want you to all follow this. Tell me if you all, tell me if you disagree thus far or if you disagree at any point. She gives me my swatch back. She buys me the Rolex and she profusely apologizes. All is forgiven at that point or going further. Can I ever go to Tyra and say, you owe you did me wrong. You stole my watch. No. Why? Because she atoned and we were reconciled. I don't hold that over her head. In other words, she is justified, which means to be declared right and treated as such treated that way. Why do I bring that up? Well, that's exactly what God does with us. So let's go to we're going to go into the book, obviously, and we're going to look at Exodus. Why? Because when we talk about the atonement and this reconciliation, by the way, the atonement, there's three elements of the atonement. The first part, there's a covering. There's a canceling. And then the third part, which is it, which is brought by the first two, this reconciliation, the covering of the sin, the canceling of the debt brings about a reconciliation. God wants to be reconciled with his people. Now he mentions that he mentions that in Genesis 3 15, though we don't quite get a full understanding of what he means, what he's saying. So we see that as we go throughout the scriptures is what we call progressive revelation. In that he's going to make clear or what he meant and give us more to go off of. Now mankind has sinned. And now we catch up to where Israel has been brought out of bondage from Egypt. They were still just because they just because they were in bondage doesn't mean they didn't send they were still full of sin as well. Now, God is going to make a covenant. Now, keep in mind, though, God has already made another covenant. He made a couple of other covenants before that. Obviously, we know about the Noahic covenant where he's not going to destroy the world again, at least with water. Then he makes this covenant called the Abrahamic covenant, this covenant with Abraham, where he's decided that he is going to redeem man. And through him, through Abraham, his descendants, all of the nations of the world shall be blessed. Not everybody in the world, but the various nations, all of the families of Mishpaka, they're going to be blessed. Now, let's move forward, though, we've got a different covenant. The Abrahamic covenant was what we called an unconditional covenant, meaning it was not dependent upon anyone doing anything. The covenant is not going to be nullified because someone doesn't do their job. No, this is God. It's a unilateral covenant. It's unconditional. God is the one who's making a covenant and he's the one who's in charge of keeping the terms of this unconditional Abrahamic covenant, which is why normally the tradition is that you would cut the pieces of the animal where the shed blood is and both parties would signify the ratification of this covenant by both walking through. But in this case, we see that God puts Abraham asleep and he walks through the middle of the pieces. I won't cover that, but you go back to Genesis 12, Genesis 15, Genesis 18, and you'll see this. And it says on this day that he makes his covenant with Abraham. He puts Abraham asleep and he walks through. Now, let's fast forward. We're an exodus. They're coming out and God is getting ready to make a covenant, not with all of mankind, but a covenant with Israel and Israel only. This is what we call the old covenant or the mosaic covenant. However, this covenant is what we call a conditional covenant. The previous covenant was an unconditional. This is conditional, meaning I give an offer, you accept. There's terms to it. If you do this, then I'll do that. Let's go to Exodus chapter 19. Let's start verse seven. This is after Moses has spoken with God. And in verse seven he says, So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him. All the people answered together and said, All that the Lord God has spoken, we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord. So here we've got Moses bringing the offer to the elders of Israel. They say, yep, we agree. Take it back. It's almost like here the assigned shape were good. You need to understand something though. God is not a fool. God is not dumb. God is not even. God knows exactly what's going to happen. They are going to walk away. They're going to be disobedient, but God is a loving God. God is a God who is going to make sure that he shows himself out to be God. He's also going to make it evident and abundantly clear that we are not faithful. In the best of circumstances, in the best of conditions, man was in the garden. And what did he do? He sinned. Yeah, but Satan was there, but Satan didn't do anything to them. He didn't make them do anything. He spoke to them and steal. Even remember, the only people in the history of mankind to see the fullness of God without having to go to heaven. The only two, Adam and Eve, they were able to be in the... Why? Because they hadn't sinned. And so here comes Satan. So if they can fall, if they can succumb to sin in the garden, what are we going to do? With years and years of built up sin and tolerance to sin in us, that and even more so. So he makes the offering. Now I want to point out, I didn't bring it up, but let me go ahead and type this in. I didn't bring this up. I want to... Did I bring? Yeah, I didn't type it in. Let me go ahead and type this in real quick. Something that God says about them and this cover. Now, I spoke before, I showed you guys before and I forgot, y'all forgive me, but I was supposed to give you all a New Testament timeline. I'll get to it. I'll get to it. But let me give you the Old Testament timeline. I'm not going to print it out, make it available. So what you guys will have to do is take your phone or what have you, do a screenshot and then print it out or just save it on your phone or your computer. But this is the timeline of the Bible. Let's go over this real briefly. Now, I've got the black one and I also have the white one. Now, I don't know which one you want. You all tell me. Would you all, real quickly, you all want to see the white one or the black one? I don't know which one shows up better for you guys to watch, just the white one or the black one, but I will let you guys tell me if you want to see... Because we're going to look at this for a second. We're going to go over this. We're going to look at either the white one or the black one, which everyone is best for you. So, y'all tell me, y'all take five seconds and hear it and tell me so I can put this up. We are live. White, black, and it would be 50-50 so far. White, black, white is better. Okay, black, black, black is coming in. There's white, black, white, white. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go back and forth. How about that? Let's start off just so the woke crowd doesn't get upset with us. Let's start off with the black first. How about that? That way no one can accuse me of being, but you know what they will accuse me of being biased. They'll accuse me of choosing black. I'll go with the black though. So, I want you to pay attention to something. Look at this. Notice, somebody said them. I don't see color. Amen. I want you to notice something though. On your screen, you have a chronological timeline. You have the dates of when these books were written, and then you have the chronological books. At the very top of these books, the chronological books you have. Let's put it back on the screen again. You have Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1st and 2nd, Samuel, 1st, 2nd, King, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Those are the chronological books. Beneath those books, let's shift to white. Beneath those books you have in the complimentary books, you have Joe. Why is Job a complimentary book? Because we're not sure exactly which was written first, Genesis or Joe. But around the same time, that book is used as a kind of complimentary guide to Genesis. They don't really speak about the same thing, but we see some of the same aspects, some of the same characteristic traits of God in Genesis. But then you'll notice though that underneath Exodus, which is where we're going to camp out today, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Wait a minute. Am I pausing? Okay, I just saw something. Leviticus and Deuteronomy are complimentary books to Exodus. If you notice, you'll also see underneath, you'll see underneath Judges, you see Ruth. Underneath 1st, 2nd, Samuel, 1st, 2nd, King, you see 1st and 2nd Chronicles. Also, be sure we won't cover the date, but feast your eyes on the prophets, the prophetic books. This is why I said before, we do not break them up into major and minor prophets. Don't do that anymore. All right, from now on, if you take a Bible study class or anything like that, if you're there in Bible study in church, tell the preacher, tell the pastor, tell the teacher, say, Corey Miner said we're not talking about major and minor prophets. We're just talking about who the prophets are when they were prophesying and who they're prophesying to. So let's go back to it. Look at the prophets again. You have the northern, southern exile and restoration. What does that mean? That means you've got two prophets that were prophesying to the northern kingdom. You've got Joel, Micah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Bacchuk, and Jeremiah who were prophesying to the southern kingdom. Are you with me? So this should be helpful. Let's go back to the white now. You've got the prophets that are prophesied during the exile, which are the books of Lamentation, Ezekiel, and Daniel. As we go forward, you're going to pay specific attention to Ezekiel and Daniel. Also, Jeremiah, very, very important because of when Jeremiah is actually given this prophecy. Then also we have the three prophets who were prophesying to during the restoration, which is Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Now notice at the very bottom, you've got the prophets to the nations. You have Obadiah, Jonah, and Nahum. Think about it. They were prophesying not to Jews, but to non-Jews to get right. Why is that important? Well, because God has always had a plan not just for Israel, but for others. Very important. All right? So now God is going to make a statement about them in the book of Deuteronomy. And again, what is Deuteronomy? Deuteronomy is a complimentary book to Exodus. So during the Exodus, this is why Moses wrote all five of these books. He did. It's not like he, this is a long period of time, but he's writing them all kind of in conjunction. There's a purpose for each of these books. And so in the book of Deuteronomy, look what he says. Go to Deuteronomy chapter 30. Let's start in verse one. So it shall be. And if you notice the title up top, it says restoration promise. Why would there need to be a restoration? Well, because they're going to sin. They're going to sin. So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessings and the curse, which I have set before you. And you call them to mind in all nations where the Lord, your God has banished you. Wait a minute. Why in the world? First of all, where there'd be blessings and curses. I get the blessings, but the curses. And then he says to bring you back. Recall them to mind when I bring you back from the nations where, where the Lord, your God has banished you. Why would God banish anybody? We'll get to that in a second. But God is saying, I'm going to banish you. I'm also going to restore you. The only way that you can restore somebody back is if they've been put away. They're going to be put away because of sin, specifically certain types of sin. But let's go back to it. He says verse two. And you, and you return to the Lord and obey him with all your heart and your souls, according to all that I command you today, you and your sons. So you're going to obey me after I bring you back. So you will do right. Now the problem is they really have no idea how long this is going to be. This isn't, I'm going to banish you for a week for a few months for a year. No, you're going to be banished for a long time. They don't know that when it happens, they won't be alive. As a matter of fact, their children won't be alive. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This is going to be a long time. Let's go back to it. Let's go to verse three. Then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there he will bring you back. Here it is. The Lord your God will bring you into a land which your fathers possessed and you shall possess it and he will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. Okay, I got a question, God. Why are you going to do this? Listen, we literally just made a covenant with you and now you're talking about putting this out? Well, because he already knows I know what you're going to do. Now, we talked about this before. He's given them things to do. We look at the Ten Commandments, but that's not it. There's more than that. And there is this combination of the law that needs to be remembered because this is what the law is for. The point of the law is that you guys are going to mess up. You Jews, you're going to mess up. You're going to keep messing up. And in order for me to even stomach you. In order for me to even stomach, in order for me to even look at you. You know, I'm getting tired of you guys. In order for me to even look at you. You're going to have to do a couple of things. I'm going to give you a way to atone one yearly. And then also in between. The big yearly one is for you individually, but also collectively as a nation. But then also give away for you to have some sort of atonement in the meantime when you, let's say, let's pick a person. Let's say Janae sins against Seaway. Okay. Well, guess what? Janae can go ahead and give an actual offering. Let me put these up as well. We won't cover these, but I want to make sure that you see these guys. You might want to take a screenshot of this as well. These are the different offerings under the law. You've got the burnt offering, grain offering, peace, sin and guilt offering. We want to focus on the sin offering. The sin offering is atonement for personal or national sin, unintentional or weak. It can happen at any time. On bull goat turtle dove pigeon flower. And we see that in Leviticus four Leviticus six and numbers 28. We will not get into it, but I want you guys to see that. Now let me read something out that I wrote up. I want to talk about these mandatory sacrifices. And then we're going to go through the scriptures. I want to open something up for you if you haven't seen this before. So the mandatory sacrifices. There were two mandatory. I'm reading my notes here. Two mandatory sacrifices or offering under the law. Number one, you have the sin offering. This, the purpose of it was to atone for sin. This would cleanse you from any sort of uncleanness from filth from defilement. There were five elements, five possible five types of ways to do so. Or five types of elements. You could use one, a young bull, two, a female, I mean a male goat. Three, some didn't realize this, but you could also use a female goat as well. Four, a Dover pigeon, five or one-tenth of a ifa of fine flower. Now, let me explain those real quick because even in the animals or the things that you could use, this shows how awesome, how really how loving God is. Because everybody didn't have access to, let's say, a young bull. Everybody didn't have a young bull. I don't have a young bull laying around. Well, all right, use a male goat. Well, I don't have a male goat. Well, if you had a goat, you definitely had a female goat. You can use a female goat. You notice the level of what you have kind of goes down. The only one that always had to have the bull would be the priest. But what if you're really poor? If you're doing for poor people, you've got a Dover pigeon. Listen, if you're a good hunter, if you can catch one on the tree, there you go. Or one-tenth of fine flower, a tenth of a ifa of fine flower. Because just because I'm poor and I don't have a goat, male or female, doesn't mean that I don't want a tone for my sin. So now I want you to get the picture. In the meantime of this yearly sacrifice that covers the nation as a whole, but also us individually. And there's something extra that that particular offering does that these don't do. In the meantime, I messed up, didn't mean to, ah, I'm upset. I'm bothered. I can give us an offering. Now I want you guys to think about this for a second. If I have this yearly offering, but then when I mess up, I didn't mean to and I feel bothered by it. And I know there's God is out there. You know God, he does these miracles and folks have died for disobeying him. What then? Well, I can give a sin offering. Fast forward. Keep this in mind. These Jews have lived under this economy for so long. So when we get to the book of Hebrews and they mess up, what is their natural way of thinking? I've got to offer a sin offering. I've got to do something because I'm going to lose my right standing. I'm going to lose my, I won't be atone for. Or how we put it today. I'm going to lose my salvation. I want, I want you guys to get this picture clear. God is a guy that doesn't change. She's going to change the elements that is used. He's going to use better elements, but it's the exact same thing that brings about our salvation under the old versus the new. It's the atonement. It's the atonement, baby. That's it. You know what? I should coin that phrase. It's the atonement, baby. That's what it is. All right. Now there's also, we won't go into this, but there's also a trespass offering which was used exclusively. There's got to be around. Okay. I won't, I won't really go into that too far, but there is another type of offering where there's a rabbit blood. So these are the, except for the, the, the flower. There's a lot of blood in there. Yeah. Ebony night. It's the atonement, baby. Now let's go to the day of atonement. I'm going to read pretty quickly because I want to get to the, to the, I want to paint the whole picture. All right. So on the day of atonement, let me move this out of the way. All right. On the day of atonement, and I wrote this is a little bit, let me make this. All right. Leviticus 1629. Now I won't, I'll let you guys go back and look at it on your own, but remember what has to happen. The high priest has to atone for himself. He has to make a tone for himself because he, who is he to be in right? Who is he to be before the Lord? The high priest is going to be our mediator. Get this picture guys. I promise you everything I say on this particular broadcast is news worthy. It's Bible worthy. It is all of that worthy. Write it down. You can disagree, disagree about this and go search it. The high priest is going to be the mediator between the people and God. He stands as the go between. He's making atonement on their behalf to God. He's offering up to them. I want you to remember that. Okay. We're going to get a better high priest. We're going to get rid of this one and get a better one. So he's got to make a tone for himself though, because he's not in right standing. He's not good enough to go before the Lord, but God is going to grant him that if he has been atoned for as well. Also, he's got to tone for the place. He's got to make atonement for the place that he's going to make atonement at. Listen, this place is so horrible. This place is so rotten. I want this place cleaned out too. I'm just using words right now. But this place, this needs to be atoned for as well. So he's got to make atonement for the place, atonement for the altar, all of that stuff. God is not playing when he says I don't. If you think sin is not an issue, he's going through an awful lot of different hoops and this and that would have you just to let you know how important it is. You have to do all these things before you can even begin to think to have your sins atoned for. Sin is a big problem if you don't think so. You have thoroughly missed the boat. You have not read the Bible. If you think that God just gives a wink and a nod, that's okay. Let me just... No, God has an issue with sin. Thankfully, in an awesome fashion, his love has brought about a remedy. So we move to chapter 16, verse 29 of Leviticus. And let's look at what he's saying. Hey, renewed minds ministry, Pastor Trey, how you doing, brother? He says, this shall be a permanent statute for you. In the seventh month on the 10th day of the month, that by the way, guys, is the month of Tishri, that is usually around October, November. The Jewish calendar is different than our Greco-Roman calendar, all right? He says, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native or the alien, who sojourns among you. Now, remember this. What it means to afflict your soul, because this is going to be a Sabbath of them, what must they do? No working and no eating. There is a penitent attitude, or if you would, a repentant attitude as they go before. Not repentant in the sense that I got to fix all my works. By the way, we'll see this come up again in the New Testament. This repentant type attitude where I afflict my soul, I'm sorry for my sins. That's what it really means to be repentant. Folks miss this all the time. It doesn't mean that I am going to stop my sin. I want to stop my sin. Why do I want to stop my sin? Because I'm sorry about my sin. When people say we don't repent of sin, they have no clue what they're talking about. We don't necessarily repent or stop doing the sin. We'll keep doing sin. That's just who we are. But hopefully we'll do less and less and less. But the repentant part is the attitude towards the sin. God, again, if I hadn't said it again, I'll say it now, which I did. God hates sin. He didn't want you to like it. He wants you to hate it as well. He wants it to bother you as much as it bothers him. No, it won't. But it does. And it should bother you. Are you with me? You afflict your souls by having this attitude, by not working and not eating. There's this fast that's going on. Absolutely right, Katrina Williams. Godly sorrow. You're bothered by it. What's the problem, though? We've got to keep remembering about these people. The problem is they're sorrowful for the moment. They want to do right for the moment. They believe and trust for the moment. But give me a few more hours. Give me a few more days, a few more weeks. I'm about to cut loose. So that part needs to be understood. The condition of man hadn't changed. Man's nature and desires do not change. It's God who is remedying those things. So let's go back into it. He says, On this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you. You will be clean from all your sins before the Lord. Did you hear that? So when someone says, How were the people in the Old Testament saved? That right there. Let's read it again. Verse 30, For it is on this day that atonement, covering, cancelling, and reconciliation shall be made for you to do what? To cleanse you. To cleanse you. Mahar, which means to cleanse, to purify. Are you really clean? No. But look how he says it. Look how he says it. You will be clean from all your sins before the Lord. This word, Lapini, which is before the Lord in his eyes before him, you are clean to him. You are clean even though you're rotten stinking and so forth. But to him, you are clean. Why? Because he has desired, he has designed that blood will be the payment. I gave the analogy of Tyra, stealing my watch. And then I decide I want this, this, and this in return. So what does God say in return? Or what has he desired that payment will be? Repetuation. That's the word you need to look for. Repetuation in order for us to be justified. Blood. Blood. Now, the good news is, it doesn't have to be your blood. Matter of fact, the really, really good news is, your blood couldn't do it anyway. Your blood is not worthy enough, or the type of blood that God has asked for to be sacrificed. Now, if we're going to use human blood, it can't be yours because your, how bad is your blood? How tainted are you when even the blood of bulls and goats is much more preferred by God than yours? I don't want your blood. You ain't got enough of it. Your blood stinks. Your blood is tainted. Do you know what your blood has done? We want to talk about the white man, the black man, the Asian man, his payment. You want to know who has, whoever's had blood in them. That's the person that's done the worst. Well, that's all of us. If you got blood and skin, it's you, and it's your blood. It's a corrupted seed, as the Bible says. And so, he says, you're going to humble yourselves, verse 31. It is to be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you that you may humble your souls. It is a permanent statute. This statue right here is the Greek word, Greek word, the Hebrew word, along. This is a permanent statute. May I ask you guys a question? I'll ask you guys a question, because I think you guys will get this. What does the word permanent mean? Because I think that's important. It is very important to understand what the word permanent means. So you guys in the chat, just tell me in case, just let me know that you're thinking cats, you've been doing some thunkin'. What does the word permanent mean? I put it there, it says that it is a permanent statute. What does permanent mean? Permanent means forever, or permanent means permanent. It ain't going to stop. We're like, it ain't no stopping us. Never changing. Permanent forever and ever and ever and ever. Permanent. This is a permanent statute. Why is that important? Because what he's doing now is what he's going to do and continue that to be the reason how we are atoned for it. Is anybody, let me know while I'm drinking my prison ordained coffee, is anyone catching this? This is what he is going to do forever. This is how atonement is to be made forever. But not just Israel, or as he says, not just even the sojourners, the aliens, for everybody. Forever and ever. I said I'm drinking my coffee. Let me go ahead and drink it now. That's it. That's it. Just like eternal, it's permanent. Exactly right. Again, God didn't change it. God didn't change it. He's going to change. We're going to see the elements. We're going to see what he means by that. It will remain. It will remain. He says, I don't know why I just moved that. 32. So the priest who was anointed and ordained to serve as priests in his father's place shall make atonement. He shall thus put on the linen garments, the holy garments, and make atonement for his holy sanctuary. Remember I said he's got to make atonement for the sanctuary and so forth. And he shall make atonement for the ten of meeting and for the altar. Everything's got to be atoned for. Isn't that something? Everything has to be atoned for. He says he shall also make atonement for the priest and for all the people of the assembly. Did you guys just hear that part? Very important. I've got a conversation with a young man who has talked about a particular aspect of Calvinism. I love my Calvinist brothers. And if it weren't for these two things that I disagree with, I might call myself a Calvinist. But this issue here, is the same thing he's saying that I am would make an atonement for the entire body, for the assembly. The issue is everybody in the assembly will not have their sins atoned for. Though he's making atonement, he's making propitiation. That means he's paying it for you. He's making the payment available. It's there. For who? All the people of the assembly. All of the body. It's there. Two things. One, you have to show up. Two, you had to have afflicted your soul. In this penitent fashion, no work, no eating. And then let the priest and God take care of everything else. And then you on the profession of your faith, you will have your sins atoned for. Verse 34 Now, you shall have this as a there it is again, as a permanent statue, to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once every year. And just as the Lord had commanded Moses did. Now here's the issue. Here's where it gets kind of tricky a little bit. You're absolutely right. 6.89 This is a shadow of Christ. And so notice how he's doing this. He's not changing anything. He's not changing anything. Dutch says, but Calvinists believe that as far as it's concerned, that the issue of limited atonement, limited atonement was not something that the Jews understood or thought about in regards to the atonement. Atonement was made for everybody, but it didn't affect everybody. Are you with me? And so in this regard, if we're doing the exact same thing, then if Jesus is carrying out the exact same thing, well, then he could not only be saying or being paying or atoning for just the people, he's making atonement for everyone, but only certain ones will be atoned for. He's making the atonement for everyone, but everybody won't be atoned. You understand? That is the difference. You understand? Some people might not see the difference, but it's a difference. I'm making atonement for you, but everybody won't be atoned for. So it's possible I can make atonement for you, but you won't be atoned for. Are you with me? So that's where that comes from. But notice what he says though. To make atonement for the sons of Israel. For all their sins. Here it is for all their sins. For all their sins. Me call, which is from all or for all. Excuse me. Ha, come on. Come a time. I'm sorry, I'm saying wrong. Ha, come a time, which is their sins. So which of their sins are being atoned for? All of their sins. Every last one of their sins. By the way, what about the sins the day after the day of atonement? All of their sins. Even the day after, the week after, the month after. And should guilt overcome you because you know what you did or maybe you didn't know. Because they would also give offerings, sin offerings for the sins that I did not know. I'm pretty sure I did something and I feel bad. Now I think about it, I probably shouldn't have yelled at my friend. At the time, I didn't think I was sinning but now I realize it was wrong. So let me also give an offering for that as well. Now, and this is to be done once a year. And remember guys, this is a permanent offering. However, we got a problem guys. Israel is hard headed. Israel is hard headed. I hope it's not, I hope it's just you. I hope it's just you. I'm not sure. But Israel is hard headed. I hear you, I see you 1689 Baptist. I hope it's just you. But Israel is hard headed. Israel is horrible just like us. Israel is not trustworthy. They sin. God has, I won't go over all of things, but Israel is told to one not having idols. As a matter of fact, they start intermarrying with other people. They start intermarrying with pagans and what happened? They start adopting their culture, their customs and their gods. Israel doesn't keep all the tenants of the law. One in particular is that they are to give one adhere to the Sabbath for themselves, but also, and by the way the Sabbath is a rest for you to observe all the guidance of you. It's just you focusing on God. God, you're so awesome, you're so wonderful. You're so wonderful. Wish we could do that every day, by the way. But they're to give the land a Sabbath. God has three of the elements of Genesis 12. I won't get into it, but there's three of the elements of Genesis 12 in this unconditional covenant with Abraham. There are three elements. There's a land element to it. There is a people element and there's a kingdom element. We won't deal with the kingdom and the people element. We're actually dealing with people element right now, but the land element portion of it is that he gives them this land for them and they have to be they've got to be a benefit to the land. And so the land is going to be bountiful and blessing to them. And in the seventh year, the land is to be at rest. They don't do that. They're greedy. And so what do they do? What do they do? They will not give the land a rest. They violate that aspect of the atonement. Was was sin atonement just for that one year coming up or the prior year? When they, okay, when they, when the, when the sin atonement was done, it depends on which one you're talking about. The personal sin offering, that was just kind of for the moment. I've messed up in my affiliate. I'm offering this Lord. If you, if you're speaking about the main one, the Leviticus 1629, that portion, the day of atonement, that covered for the whole year. It was for national Israel and for individuals as well. What did it do? It kept Israel, it was for protection for Israel as well. However, Israel kept messing up. God tells them to give the land a Sabbath and they don't. They violate this Sabbath. Every seven years give the land a Sabbath. How many seven years Sabbath did they violate? We covered this yesterday or previously. They have violated this statute 70 times. 70 times have they violated this 70 year statute, the Sabbath of the land. 70 times. Does God have a sense of humor? Well, they're about to find out. They are about to find out. How do we know? Because they are getting ready to come through the exile. Let's go back to this on here. Daniel look over here in the, in the corner, in the bottom left, right hand corner where we see the prophetic books we see during the exile, Daniel is one of those prophets during the exile. We also see Ezekiel who we're going to talk about in just a second, but we see Daniel. He is prophesying during the exile. So what happens? Daniel is, Lord, okay, I know this exile is about up, this 70 years is about up. So let me know. I'm praying on behalf of my people. And so what does the angel say? He says in chapter 9 verse 24, he says 70 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city. So yeah, Daniel, you about to come back, but 70 weeks have been prophesied. And he doesn't mean 70 weeks like we mean 7 days no 77, which is 77 year periods. And he breaks those 70, those 70 77s up. We won't go into that, but he breaks them up. And this is from the building of the wall. Okay, now look what he says. What's going to happen as a result of these 77s to finish the transgression to make an end to sin, to make atonement for the iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy city. What's he going to do? Bring about permanent salvation to Israel. Get rid of this issue of sin that's before the Lord. We'll have to keep doing this, this yearly thing. And what does he say in bringing, to bring in everlasting righteousness? When is that going to happen? It starts at the very end of the 69th or at the 69th 70. At the 69th 7. At the cross. We count out and we go 483 years into the future of when it's supposed to start. It takes us to the cross. And what happens, here comes the Holy Spirit and what begins to happen. What begins to happen is we see Israel begin to get a heart change. Now, I want you guys to understand this. Do I want to cover this now? No, no, let me move this over. I don't want to cover that right now. I want to cover it right now. Now, Ezekiel brings this up as well. Let's go to the passage that folks just aren't getting or or they think, well that didn't apply to us. I bring this passage up a lot for good reason. Ezekiel 36 27. He says, I will put my spirit within you and cause them to walk in my statutes and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. Now, couple things. One, he really means that. He really means that he's going to put his spirit in Israel. Let's say Israel right now in Israel and cause them to walk in their statutes because they have not done so. Remember, he's talking to Israel who has been in exile. They're coming back to 70 years almost up getting closer and closer and closer but there's still this issue with sin. The issue with sin is, and we see it in earlier parts of Ezekiel, people bring up Ezekiel 18 but he covers Ezekiel 18 about when a righteous man does unrighteousness. Okay, yeah. How do they get to be righteous in the first place? By their sin offerings in the day of atonement. That's how. Now though, now he says what's going to happen in the future, which is what Daniel said, which is what Jeremiah said, which is what Hosea said, that I am going to do a work in you. Put my spirit in you. Remember, remember Deuteronomy 30. He even says in Deuteronomy 30 that he is going to circumcise their heart. Let's go to verse 6, Deuteronomy 30 verse 6. He says, moreover the Lord God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your souls that you may live. Does he, does God do that to Israel? Is Israel's heart circumcised between Deuteronomy 30 and Malachi? No, it's not. But he is going to, so if he says he's going to we've got to figure out when, when does he circumcise their heart at or after the cross when the Holy Spirit comes. They get this regenerated heart, their heart becomes circumcised. What are they doing back then? The best they can, holding on, which is why they have to, because they keep messing up, which is why they have to keep having these sin offerings in the day of atonement, these ritualistic things so they can be in right standing before the Lord. We don't have that. Why? Because now we've got something different. We've got a circumcised heart that keeps us. Are you with me? Now, recording, Ezekiel and the rest of these are written to and for specifically Israel. You're absolutely right. It is for Israel. So what about us? Let's go to what Jesus says. Jesus says, Jesus, it's not like Jesus ignorant of all this stuff. I mean, he was there. So what does Jesus say? Jesus says when Nicodemus comes, he says, truly, truly I say to you unless one is born again, he cannot see the Spirit. I mean, see the kingdom of God. Jesus is harkening back to Ezekiel. Jesus uses the same two elements water and spirit. You must be born of water and spirit. What does he say? Ezekiel 34 through 27, 28 that I'm going to wash your hearts, sprinkle clean water on your hearts and put my spirit in those same two elements. You have to be born of that. He says, so it is of everyone who is born of God, born of the Spirit. So the question is, well, wait a second. He's talking to Nicodemus. By the way, he gets on Nicodemus for not knowing. He says, Nicodemus, you a teacher of Israel. You're supposed to know this, Nicodemus. By golly. And I'm pretty sure Jesus didn't say by golly, but this is me in the south. By golly, Nicodemus, you're supposed to know this. That gummit. This is the southern version. You're supposed to know this, Nicodemus. Why don't you know this? It's literally written in the books, Nicodemus. Dog on it, Nicodemus. Could you imagine getting a tongue lashing from Jesus if you're Nicodemus? How small do you feel? But still, he's speaking to Nicodemus. Jesus is a Jew. Nicodemus is a Jew. And he's speaking about Israel. So, Corey, everything that you said only applies to Israel. Uh-huh, except for one thing. Jesus has already made a statement about what he says about Israel and Nicodemus. In John 1, y'all know the famous passage, in the beginning where the word with God and the word was God. All right. But there's something else that we don't focus on in John towards the bottom. He says, verse 11, he came to his own and those who were his own did not receive him. Who's his own? Israel? I hope you guys are. Again, when I say this stuff, it's supposed to come together. If you guys have watched the A team, some of you have watched it back in a day. You had Hannibal. You had Face. You had B.A. You had Murdoch. And Hannibal would always say, I love it when a plan comes together. Do you know this is what's happening here? This is loving when God's plan comes together. He says he came to his own. Who's his own? He said, but they didn't receive him. But look what he says. The many is them. Whoever. Whoever. Here it is. But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believed in his name. Including those who believed in his name. Who were born. Look what he says now. This is the important part. This is how we know this is for us as well as Israel. Now, they weren't getting it because remember, the Jews thought it's just for them. Salvation is not for just the Jews. It's for the Jews first. Then the Gentile chronologically speaking and happens that way. Murdoch, yeah, you're right, Dutch. Murdoch was the last. Murdoch was office rocker, but he was something else anyway. Hold another story. But he says, who is his for? Those who were, they're not born, not of blood, not of flesh, nor of the will of man or flesh, nor of the will of man, but of whose will? Of God. Are you with me? So now God steps in and starts working on not just Israel. You guys have shown us thoroughly, you have convinced us all that you are not worthy. Now, we're not either. But just to make it clear, I've walked with you all this time, been specific with you, put you out of land, brought you back, and you guys still mess up. It's like, have you ever, have you ever met, maybe you are, maybe you are with that kid or maybe your brother such was or your siblings or still be just as bad. That's Israel. Oh, by the way, that's us. That's us, not just Israel. But who does this apply to that Jesus is going to elaborate on in Chapter 3? Not just Israel, but whoever, the person that is being born of the Spirit. That's all of us. Oh, by the way, not just the Jews, but the Samaritans, because what does he do in Chapter 4? Go to the Samaritans. This woman tells him that if this well living water is going to spring up in you, not just for them, but also for you guys as well. Now, so now we can understand that it's for all of us. So, what is God going to do? God is going to use all of those elements of the old covenant of the law. Remember Jesus says, I didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law, to complete it, to finish it up, to put a nice, neat little bow on the law. What was the final requirement of the law, the main dictate of the law? That there be atonement. Yeah. The whole point was the sin needed to be dealt with. What does he say in what is this, Daniel 24? He says to finish the transgression, to make the end of sin, and to make atonement for the iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness. Jesus says, here I am. This is what I have come to do. This is what I have come to do, to do just that. And so, he's going to make a payment. Now, he's going to use all of these elements. The first element, we said that remember, first of all, there needs to be a high priest. Where is this at? Do I have it here? The person needs to be a high priest. There are several passages speaking about this high priest. He says, now the main point in what was said, this is Hebrews 8, is this. We have such a high priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man. So not a tent pitched by man, but God's own hands. Are you with me? Jesus is that high priest. What does the high priest do? He mediates. He's a go between from God and man. Now, in this case, in the past, it was a man. Now we've got this special mediator who's not on earth. Who is he? He mediates from God to man and from man to God. Why? Because he's the God man. He's God and he's man. Are you with me? So we've got this better high priest as the Bible says, even says that we've got a high priest that can even identify us. He knows what it's like to be out here on these streets, not like some of you guys on the streets or like some of us were on the streets. No, not on me like that, but in dealing with what we have to deal with. He's had to deal with that. He's had to deal with rejection, people hating on him, people hurting him, people attacking him, things like that being spit on, having his beard pulled, all those things. He can identify with us. Are you with me? So we've got the high priest part taken care of. Not Aaron or his sons or anyone know. Jesus is now the high priest. Well, what's the second element that we need? We need a scapegoat. We need someone to take away the sins of all the people. Well, here comes Jesus again. John 1, 29, he says, the next day he, that's John the Baptist, saw Jesus coming to him and said, behold, the lamb of God. What lamb is this? The lamb that's going to take away the sins, the scapegoat. Remember on the day of atonement, all the sins were professed and confessed on the head of the scapegoat and sent away out of the view or out of the camp, away from the people. So those sins are gone. Who is Jesus? He is the one who, as he says, takes away the sins of the world. This is he on behalf of whom I said comes after me, a man who is a higher rank than I am for he existed before me. Amen. So now we got the high priest taken care of. That's Jesus. We've got the scapegoat or the lamb of God taken care of. That's Jesus. Now we need the blood. We need the propitiation. Let me read a couple of passages. Let's go to Romans 5 9, much more than having now been justified by what? By his blood. Whose blood? Jesus's blood. We shall be saved from the wrath of God through him. Are you with me? His blood is the one that's making atonement, making propitiation. Hebrews 2.17 says, therefore he had to be made like his brethren in all things so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. Why? To make propitiation for the sins of the people. His blood is the propitiation. It's the payment of these sin. Are you with me? Now we know a very famous passage that says in Hebrews 9 23. No, let's start in 22. According to the law, one may almost say all things are cleansed by blood. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. Now here is the beauty of the atonement. This is how you need to recognize salvation as a whole. It's a foundation. It didn't just, you know, I got a bright idea. Let's just have Jesus go to the cross and shed his blood. Let's do that. No. No. That's not how this works. Remember Jesus, the Bible speaks of Jesus in Hebrews 10 5 where it says, let's put on the screen as a matter of fact, let's go to that. He says in 10 he says, therefore when he comes that's Jesus into the world. He says, sacrifice and offerings you have not desired. Which sacrifices, which offering? Who is this guy pretending to be me? Let me ban this guy. I see that pretty cool. You got to have some gumption to pretend to be me. Did I ban him? Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't ban him. Alright. Or did I? Okay, cool. Wow, this guy came pretending to be me. Let me channel. That's pretty cool. That is bold. That's what sin does to you. You need to have, you need to be forgiven. You need to place your faith in Christ, fake Cory Minor. That's what you need to be. Anyway, he says, sacrifice and offerings you have not desired. But wait a second, that's what we've been doing all this time. He's speaking to these Jews. That's what we've been doing. That's their concern. I've messed up. I need to give an offering. By the way, thank you, Brittany. I need to give an offering. I need to I need to give a sacrifice. No, that's really not what God desires. What he did desire for him, he says, but a body you have prepared for me. We covered this part before in Leviticus 17, where he says, I need not the team. Well, I need not the team. Which is as I, I have given and he said, I myself I'm giving me personally, I'm giving the blood on the altar to make sacrifices, to make a tunnel for your souls. How so? You ain't got a, you ain't got no blood. You don't have a body. There it is. Hebrews 10, 5, sacrifice and offerings you have not desired, but a body you prepared for me in burnt, whole burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin. You've taken no pleasure. Then I said, behold, I have come in the scroll of the book it is written of me to do your will. Oh God, what is his will to make what did he, what has he been prophesying to finally do away with sin and bring in this everlasting atonement. And in this regard we said how long is this going to be a statute forever and ever and ever and so what does God do? He makes atonement available for everyone, although everyone will not be atoned for and he gives them the ability to come and to place their faith in them in him unlike in the old, they will place their faith, but it would be temporary. It'd be for the moment. We've seen a lot of people in the Old Testament who would say I do and they probably meant it at the time but then a week, two weeks, a year not the same. The difference with us is though that now we've got something different. We've got something different which is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit and people say well no that's not what that meant that the Holy Spirit is not going to cause us the devil is a lie because the Holy Spirit is going to cause us to walk in his teachings in his statutes. Are you with me? Carol is telling someone please stay on topic, please stay on topic very important. When I say this is very important this is important. No greater topic are you going to find than this about salvation. You're just finding out, you're just hearing about what we're covering right now, the history. Like Paul Harvey said now, you know the rest of the story. This is what has happened. It's not as though God decided on a whim the spur of the moment that I am going to come up with something better. No, it's always been in the work. This is why he makes this statement in Genesis 17. But do you know where else he makes this statement? We don't quite see it. Do you know where else God brings this up about dealing with sin, giving a finality to this? When do you all think that God brings up this issue or first broaches the issue of dealing with sin? Question, I'm just asking you guys. When do you think that God that God brings up to us to read the idea of dealing with sin? Please tell me. I want you all to take a guess. Put your smart Christian cap. I'm sorry, your thinking cap's on. And tell me when do you think that God first deals with this issue of fixing sin? Because it's not new to God. It's not like, I wasn't paying attention. Let me go ahead and fix this. This sense of caught me off guard. When do you all think that he decided to deal with sin? When does God does anyone remember the first time God makes an announcement about sin? Remember in the Bible said there are certain passages that you need to write down. Some of you guys like tattoos. Tattoo these tattoos. I've said Genesis 12. I said the passage is 15. And also amen. A couple of you guys got it. Genesis 315. Well, let's see what he says in Genesis 315. He says, this is when he got them all lined up. He says the Lord said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you will go and dust you will eat all the days of your life. Look what he says, and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between the seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the head. Did they have any idea what God was talking about? I'm pretty sure they did. I'm pretty sure they did. I mean, how could they? It's like give us more, Jesus. Oh God, give us more. Have no idea what you're talking about. It's what we call progressive revelation. And so we're going to see that God is going to give further revelation of what he is doing. But he mentions it here. Going to bruise your head with his heel. Paul brings this up because the seed of woman, singular seed, Paul brings this up in Galatians 3 16. So it's always been there. And then Paul talks about the mystery that's been made known that it wasn't always or only just for the Jews. It's always also for the Gentiles. Paul brings up this mystery that we just, we weren't even paying attention to. You said God wasn't doing a new thing for the atonement. Just changing elements is Isaiah 43 9 talking about God doing a new thing, being Jesus eternal. Let's go to it. I think I know which pastor you're talking about, but let's go to it real quick. 43 19. Behold, I will do something new. Now it will spring forth. You will not be aware of it. I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to I'm sorry to give drink to my people. So what's being said here? What's happening? What's he speaking of? What is Isaiah speaking of? By the way, let's remember Isaiah is prophesied to the southern king. Let's just make sure we keep that in mind. So what's he speaking of? One, we've got a divided kingdom at this time. We've got a divided kingdom where there's a north and the south. And so what's happening here is he's speaking of this coming new covenant that he's going to make with Israel and it won't just be with Israel, will it? He's even broaching that and he's going to give him this living water. Do they understand it all? No, they don't. But he says it clear enough that after enough time of reading the scriptures it should be plain. As a matter of fact after Jesus comes it should be evident the Jews can go back and read in the scrolls and see, oh, you know what? Come and think of it. Jesus did actually talk about that. Renard says, so is atonement available for everyone? I agree. But only his sheep have this in atonement for. Isn't that limited? Well, if that's how you want to find limited atonement, that's fine. But the way others define it is that it's only made for a limited amount of people. Atonement is made for everyone just that everyone won't be atonement for. So let's see. So I think guys it is vitally important to get that. That part is there's not a lot in what I said that you can't really come back and debate. No, this is not what atonement mean. No, this is not how the day of atonement happened. No, this is not what this prophecy mean. No, this is not what Jesus meant in John 3 or John 1 or John 4. No, this is not what spring talked about in Hebrews, anywhere in Hebrews. It's going to be kind of difficult. And so what ends up happening is people take this part, this part, this part as though that they're strung together without knowing God has this foundation laid. God has these things are going to kind of come together and we don't have to try to figure this out. So I think if we keep this in mind, he's doing this not just for the Jews, but also the rest of us. Are you with me? So guys I hope this has helped in some way shape form of fashion. I hope it's been beneficial. If you guys have any sort of well, I have some questions or and or disagreements, which is fine. No, no problem. You're more than welcome to disagree. I'll do my best to try to come up with some responses. I can't because there are a ton of comments. So that being the case guys, let me know what you think. If you disagree, hopefully you do agree. I'm starting to get this to W means when I guess it's what that means. I'm getting that. Okay. I have no idea what the Daniel Diet is. Totally answers question. Your understanding of John 316, the word begotten the word I'm sorry the word begotten son means is the word monogonase we us Tom Thales, which is monogonase is monogonase the only the one alone begotten. What that means is it means one of his kind, because gnaze also means of a kind and so the only of his kind then he says who else Tom Thale. I think it's how it's written, which is the son of God. And so that's what that means literally. I hope that helps. See, I did that as they say off the dome. No, I'm kidding. Okay. Thank you, Dutch W equals when you got to keep me up to speed on this stuff. You got to keep me up to speed on this stuff or I will be lost and listen, listen, this is this is how you sum it up. Sheep, sheep, sheep. We are sheepesses. We are sheepesses. We are sheep. All right, guys, I want to thank you so much. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If there's any other questions, let me know if we got to cover this some more. Have no problem doing it because that's what we're here for. Guys, be blessed.