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Day of Atonement: War Crimes Punishment
October 8, 2011
The fall holy days begin with the Feast of Trumpets and this holy day pictures the return of Jesus Christ. In between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement, is the time when the final troubles of mankind's governance of this world occur. Beyond the physical realm, is the spiritual realm, and underneath the mess created by mankind, is the spiritual deception by Satan. Even though Jesus will dispatch the physical armies, the spiritual commander of the physical armies is Satan. And for all the evils perpetrated on mankind through Satan, Jesus will determine using modern language that Satan is a war criminal, guilty of committing atrocities against mankind. They Day of Atonement acknowledges this and reconciles us to God. This concept of finding Satan guilty of war crimes is introduced in the Old Testament.
Leviticus
16:1-32
And
the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they
offered before the LORD, and died; And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak
unto
Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place
within the vail before the mercy seat, which is
upon the ark; that he
die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Thus shall Aaron come into
the holy place:
with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy
linen coat, and he
shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with
a linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are
holy
garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so
put them on. And he
shall take of the congregation of the
children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one
ram for a
burnt offering. And
Aaron shall offer
his bullock of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and make an
atonement for himself, and for his house. And he shall take the two goats, and present them before
the LORD at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for
the LORD, and
the other lot for the scapegoat. And
Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer
him for
a sin offering. But
the goat, on which
the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the
LORD, to
make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a
scapegoat into the
wilderness. And
Aaron shall bring the
bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and shall make an
atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of
the sin
offering which is for himself: And he shall take a
censer full of
burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands
full of
sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the
vail: And he shall
put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the
incense
may cover the mercy seat that is upon the
testimony, that he die not:
And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it
with his
finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. Then shall he kill the goat of the sin
offering, that is for the people, and bring his
blood within the vail,
and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it
upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: And he shall make an
atonement
for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of
the children of
Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so
shall he
do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in
the
midst of their uncleanness. And
there
shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in
to make
an atonement in the holy place, until he come out,
and have made an
atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the
congregation of
Israel. And he
shall go out unto the
altar that is before the LORD, and make an
atonement for it; and shall
take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put
it
upon the horns of the altar round about. And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger
seven times,
and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of
Israel. And when he
hath made an end of reconciling
the holy place, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the altar,
he shall bring the live goat: And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon
the head
of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the
children of
Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them
upon the
head of the goat, and shall send him away by the
hand of a fit man into
the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a
land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. And Aaron shall come into
the tabernacle of
the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on
when he
went into the holy place, and shall leave them
there: And he shall wash
his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and
come
forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the
people, and
make an atonement for himself, and for the people. And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn
upon the altar. And
he that let go the
goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water,
and afterward come into the camp. And
the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for
the sin
offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place,
shall one carry forth without the camp; and they
shall burn in the fire
their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe
his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. And this shall 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: 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. 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:
In the New Testament, the Book of Hebrews shows that Jesus is our high priest today. The statute that is to last forever, references the fast and no work obligation of this day. There are many reasons given for the fast and solemnity of this day. The chapter from Leviticus shows that the blame for the sins of the congregation is placed on the scapegoat. In modern usage, scapegoat refers to a person who takes the blame for somebody else. The intent of these verses is to show that this goat carries the responsibility for the sins of the people. Counter-intuitive to our modern way of thinking, it is not this goat that is sacrificed, as the sacrifice is not intended to be a punishment. The sacrifice is intended to show the sanctity and purity of life. Instead of being sacrificed, this goat is led into the wilderness and abandoned. This is symbolic of the fate of Satan, and Satan's fate is sealed on the Day of Atonement.
Revelation
20:1-10
And
I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and
a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent,
which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast
him
into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that
he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be
fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and the
souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the
word of
God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither
had
received mark upon
their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest
of the dead lived
not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first
resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that
hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be
priests
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
And when the
thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall
go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the
earth, Gog
and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as
the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the
earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire
came
down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil
that deceived
them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and
the
false prophet are, and
shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever.
Satan's war crime punishment is a sentence of isolation. Why this is fitting for Satan, only God knows. We can speculate that Satan is narcissistic by nature and deceives mankind through this thought process. The narcissistic mind may be self-absorbed and it feeds off the understanding that others are paying attention to it. Isolation is perhaps one of the most severe punishments for the narcissistic mind as no reinforcement for narcissistic tendencies can be given. Those who were deceived by Satan, except for the beast and false prophet, are given an opportunity for life. These verses reference that the rest of the dead will live again. And what comes next in the Book of Revelation is what is celebrated by the Feast of Tabernacles.
All verses are from the King James Version.
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