When Your Passover Doesn’t Lead To The Day Of Atonement

“And though all the men of your nation knew the incidents in the life of Jonah, and though Christ said amongst you that He would give the sign of Jonah, exhorting you to repent of your wicked deeds at least after He rose again from the dead, and to mourn before God as did the Ninevites, in order that your nation and city might not be taken and destroyed, as they have been destroyed; yet you not only have not repented, after you learned that He rose from the dead, but, as I said before2 you have sent chosen and ordained men throughout all the world to proclaim that a godless and lawless heresy had sprung from one Jesus, a Galilæan deceiver, whom we crucified, but his disciples stole him by night from the tomb, where he was laid when unfastened from the cross, and now deceive men by asserting that he has risen from the dead and ascended to heaven. Moreover, you accuse Him of having taught those godless, lawless, and unholy doctrines which you mention to the condemnation of those who confess Him to be Christ, and a Teacher from and Son of God. Besides this, even when your city is captured, and your land ravaged, you do not repent, but dare to utter imprecations on Him and all who believe in Him. Yet we do not hate you or those who, by your means, have conceived such prejudices against us; but we pray that even now all of you may repent and obtain mercy from God, the compassionate and long-suffering Father of all.1

2 2 Chap. xvii.

1 Justin Martyr. (1885). Dialogue of Justin with Trypho, a Jew. In A. Roberts, J. Donaldson, & A. C. Coxe (Eds.), The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (Vol. 1, p. 253). Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company.

Leviticus 23:4 (NKJV)

4 ‘These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.

The feast days of the Hebrew calendar are given as ‘temporary’ holy days as a symbolic eschatological and literal fulfillment. These days have their fulfillment and hinge upon the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth who was historically crucified as King of the Jews. The “ceasing” of these days (Hos.2:11) have their hinge upon His prophecy (Matt.24:2), but have their “continuation” in their actuality through His resurrection and ascension to the seat of power on the right hand of the Most High (Matt.26:65).

Having been crucified on the Passover in the emptying of life (the body and blood) as the substitute for man’s sin (2Cor.5:21), which is the first day of unleavened bread, through which seven days of this unleavened bread perfected/sealed the children of Israel from the sins of Egypt in remembrance of the Exodus. So the unleavened bread was a symbolic remembrance of the emptying of the leaven/idolatry of Egypt, of which enslaved the Hebrews to do the works of evil outside their promised land, and of the judgment that passed over them in that land to fall upon first-born of Egypt in death.

But this feast was only the beginning of feasts which would lead to a particular day of atonement. A day of which, if affliction was not found in the soul, that the individual would be “cut off” from among the people. For the Christian, this signifies the “eternal Day” of atonement in the fulfillment of Christ, but this same principle applies to the negative portion of this same Day of the LORD.

Leviticus 23:26–32 (NKJV)

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27 “Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. 28 And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. 29 For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. 30 And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31 You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.”

Isaiah 22:12–14 (NKJV)

12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. 13 But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” 14 Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts, “Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.

Those who have no repentance (affliction in the soul) on this day, that is on the eternal Day, there remains no atonement for those who reject the Most High Priest.

Hebrews 10:26–31 (NKJV)

26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

To reject Christ as the crucified (and risen) King of the Jews, in the revelation of the fallen Temple and sacrificial system that has “ceased” because of Israel’s rejection of Jesus of Nazareth as Christ, is to be found on this eternal Day without atonement. You may, by reason of your Jewish mind, deny the divine nature of the prophets, Christ himself, and the apostles of Christ, but you cannot deny the nature of the Torah which currently has no sacrificial system, which then has no sacrificial blood for the remission of your sins. Without this “perpetual/annual” system the Hebrew Torah has no power in its words.

Exodus 24:7–8 (NKJV)

7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

Hebrews 9:16–22 (NKJV)

16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” 21 Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

Deuteronomy 28:60–68 (NKJV)

60 Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. 64 “Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. 65 And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. 68 “And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

You see, the Jew needs the Christian desperately! For without the once and for all sacrifice that is upon the Christian, there is no rest or peace for the Jew alienated and isolated from her Temple and its sacrificial atonement! The Jew cannot prosper without the prayers of the Christian, so you never have to fear a Jew, my beloved! Show them how the Law and its Power separates them from Yahweh and the Day of His atonement.