THE DAY OF ATONEMENT

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT WAS INSTITUTED BY YHVH-GOD.
AND PROCLAIMED THROUGH MOSES AT MOUNT SINAI.
HE SET FORTH THIS "APPOINTED TIME" AS A STATUTE FOREVER.

Leviticus 23:26-32 (NKJV)The Day of Atonement
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.”

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IS MORE THAN AN ANNUAL DAY OF JEWISH REFLECTION AND RITUAL. IT WILL EMERGE AS THE FINAL CLIMACTIC DAY OF ULTIMATE COVERING AND JUSTICATION. THIS FINAL DAY OF RECONCILIATION WILL COVER ALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT. THIS EPIC DAY OF RECKONING WILL THEN USHER IN THE APOCALYPSE, THE UNVEILING OF MESSIAH.

The Day of Atonement is the 6th feast. 
This is the most solemn day on the Hebrew calendar. 
When it come into its climactic fulfillment it will be am event of epic, even Biblical proportions. 
Because a blockbuster future Yom Kippur will become the last day of this present evil age.

For most people the Yom Kippur, a "day of covering" (for sin), or a Day of Atonement is just another obscure Jewish holiday. Our Jewish brethren celebrate this as a day for reflection upon deeds done during the past year and with that the hope of doing better in the next. The tenth day of Tishrei is a date on a Hebrew calendar of unknown significance to the heathen goyim, the gentiles. The Lost Ten Tribes, swaddled in materialism and paganism in the West, are still suffering from amnesia. They are having trouble remembering their God and where they came from. And even those who through the blood of Messiah have entered into the Commonwealth of Israel do not know about it yet. See Ephesian 2:1-13. They have their ticket to the mansions. So why should they study the Old Testament and reflect upon their Hebrew roots? And since most post-modern Christians now listen to men rather than searching the Holy Scriptures for themselves they have not considered the Day of Atonement. Nor have they looked in to discover what it all might mean.

But all that is destined to change.
The Day of Atonement is destined to be a global event remembered forever by all humanity.

Yom Kippur is destined to become more than just a Jewish day of personal reflection performed yearly,
More than a day of accounting and reconciliation with God and man celebrated at the end of every sabbatical year,
More than a day of economic and personal accounting at the end of every 49 year Jubilee cycle.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement is declared by Moses to become a statute forever. 

During the coming Millennium of Messiah it will continue to be all of the above.
But there is more!
Some stupendous future Day of Reckoning is destined break forth into world history.
Current human history under the rule of profane men will come to a screeching halt.

Yehoveh-God as Messiah will come down Jacob's Ladder as Emmanuel, which means "God with us".
And a future momentous tenth day of the Tishrei moon will mark the last day of this present evil age.

A future Yom Kippur will usher the world and its people into the Apocalypse, the unveiling of Messiah. Messiah's righteous judgments await the wicked, both angelic and human, and those justified by faith in the ultimate atoning blood covering of Messiah who at His first coming was Israel's promised Sacrifice Lamb and the Sufferin Servat the prophet Isaih spoke about in Isaiah 53. And so this is why the angelic rulers stir up the heathen gentiles to rage. (See King David's song in Psalm 2). The coming Throne of David is the ultimate target of all humanistic, communistic, capitalistic, ecclesiastic, and monarchical anti-Semitic loathing and furor.

Oh yes, the Day of Atonement must take its place in eschatology.
And it will.
That Day, the Day of the Lord will usher us into climax of this present evil age.