Now, in this dispensation, Israel has not believed, and the tabernacle of David is fallen down (Rom. 11:31-32), that, through the mercy of the Gentiles and the small "Elect" in Israel, picked out in this age, acting as kings and priests with Christ, THEY, ALSO, then, may OBTAIN MERCY!
How WONDERFUL is God's great PLAN of redemption, when we understand it, as we see it pictured in these annual HOLYDAYS!
In James 1:18, Romans 8:23, for example, the saints of this dispensation are called the FIRST FRUITS of God's salvation. This dispensation, and the picking out of these people to bear His name began on the DAY OF PENTECOST. This feast annually pictures this great event-this great "MYSTERY" dispensation-in God's redemptive plan!
Notice, too, that these feasts, Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost, fell at the BEGINNING of the year, and the great events they pictured occurred at the BEGINNING of the dispensation!
The group of holydays coming at the END of the year all symbolize tremendous events in God's Plan of redemption to occur, yet future, at the END of the dispensation! They all come in the SEVENTH MONTH and their fulfilment will introduce the SEVENTH thousand- years since creation!
The churches of BABYLON today teach it is the mission of the Church to SAVE THE WORLD. They teach that all who ever shall be saved are being saved, now, in this present dispensation. They teach that "Probation ENDS" at, or prior to, the second coming of Christ.
If this be true, what a failure is God's plan! Only a very, very FEW have been truly saved in this dispensation. One-third of all living on earth today have never even HEARD the only name whereby we may be saved!
Are they-the majority of all living, eternally LOST because they never HEARD- lost and condemned WITHOUT A CHANCE? The common teaching is that God has cast away His people Israel, and they are eternally doomed and lost. Had they been KEEPING these annual holydays, commanded to be kept FOREVER- all kept faithfully by the New Testament Church as recorded in Acts and in church history-they would have understood God's wonderful PLAN.
We are not to CONVERT everyone in the world in this age, but to declare the Gospel- what Gospel? the GOOD NEWS of the KINGDOM-the Good News of the thousand years of restitution of all things when Christ returns to reign in power and great glory!
Let us understand this. During this time Israel is blinded in part-but only UNTIL the completion of this Gentile dispensation. During this time, only the minority of Gentiles-Chinese, people of India and Russia- have even HEARD the name of Christ.
The Good News of the coming KINGDOM is to be preached AS A WITNESS. Many have been called during this time, but only few actually chosen, and still fewer have remained faithful to the end.
They- the people picked out for His name - shall be made immortal and shall REIGN DURING the thousand years of the Kingdom upon earth. Then Israel's blindness will be removed. They were BLINDED UNTIL the end of Gentile times. The heavens received Jesus UNTIL these times of restitution of all things (Acts 3:21).
Those now gathered, since that day of PENTECOST are the FIRST FRUITS, only, of God's Plan of Salvation. This dispensation, then is picking out ONLY the 'first, fruits" of those to be saved. And they are being tried and tested to qualify for positions as kings and priests in the Kingdom, to affect, THEN, the real salvation of the world.
THEN it is that God shall set His hand again the SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of HIS PEOPLE-Israel (Isa. 11:11).
THEN it is that "The Lord will come with fire, and ... by fire and by his sword will the Lord PLEAD with all flesh ... And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape [these plagues] of them unto the nations [Gentiles] ... that have NOT HEARD my name, either have seen my glory; and they SHALL DECLARE MY GLORY AMONG THE GENTILES" (Isa. 66:15, 16, 19).
Then it is that "living waters shall go out from Jerusalem," and the Gentile nations that have not HEARD previously "shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES!" (Zechariah 14:8, 16).
Then it is that many nations "shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain [nation] of the Lord ... and he will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for THE LAW SHALL GO FORTH OF ZION, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares ... neither shall they learn war any more ... In that day, SAITH THE LORD . . . THE LORD SHALL REIGN OVER THEM in Mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever" (Does "forever" MEAN forever?) (Micah 4:1-7). This does NOT apply to God's Church NOW-but to the glorious time of the KINGDOM, after Christ returns. What a wonderful PLAN of REDEMPTION!
Adam sinned. All have sinned. From Adam to now we behold a chronicle of man without God-of human suffering and failure.
And thus God, in His great wisdom, has permitted men to PROVE to themselves what sinners they are!-how HELPLESS they are, of themselves!
And finally we shall have to learn the lesson that it is only when GOD HIMSELF undertakes to save men- by sending JESUS to rule with a rod of iron, that the world can really be saved! And so, those now being saved are a FIRST FRUITS of salvation, and will have the very great honour of being Christ's assistants in that wonderful Kingdom work of redemption!
THAT is God's true Plan of Redemption, as taught from Genesis to Revelation! And how contrary to the popular teaching! But it is the Plan, nevertheless, pictured in God's annual HOLYDAYS. And had the churches continued to KEEP these Holydays, they would never have lost sight of this PLAN, and come under the deception of false religionists!
Just as we found the True CHURCH OF GOD continuing to observe the Days of Unleavened Bread and the Passover, so they continued to observe Pentecost. Read it: I Cor. 16:8, Acts 20:16.
Had they NOT been assembled in a HOLY CONVOCATION on the first Pentecost AFTER everything that was abolished had been DONE AWAY, we never could have read in our Bibles the sublime record of the second chapter of Acts!
Now a "HOLY CONVOCATION" means a holy ASSEMBLY of the CHURCH, convoked under absolute AUTHORITY. Look up the word "convocation" in the dictionary. It is an assembly where everyone is COMMANDED, under AUTHORITY, to be present. The Sabbath is a weekly holy CONVOCATION. We are commanded, therefore, to assemble ourselves together. Each of these annual days in an holy CONVOCATION. The early Church obeyed. Are we?
"And the LORD SPAKE... saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a SABBATH, a memorial (not a shadow) of blowing of trumpets, an HOLY CONVOCATION. Ye shall do no servile work therein" (Lev. 23:23-25).
Here is pictured to us that NEXT blessed event in God's redemptive Plan, when Christ shall COME again, in clouds, with a SHOUT, with the voice of the archangel, and with the TRUMP OF GOD (1 Thes. 4:14-17). It shall be "at the LAST TRUMP for the TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:52).
Unless Christ returns to RESURRECT the dead we would never gain eternal life- if there is no resurrection "then also those fallen asleep in Christ have perished" (1 Cor. 15:18).
Christ directly intervenes in world affairs at the seventh of the last trump (Rev. 11:15-19). A trumpet is a symbol of war. He comes in a time of worldwide war- when the nations are angry! As soon as the work of gathering in the FIRST FRUITS (pictured by PENTECOST) is completed at the end of this present age, then Christ will begin to set up again the tabernacle of David (Acts 15:16)- to set His hand again the SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of His people (Isa.11: 11)- to search out and to FIND His lost sheep that the ministers of the CHURCHES have FAILED to search out and seek and find and save during this period (Ezek. 34:1-14).
Notice exactly WHEN this takes place! "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great TRUMPET shall be blown, and they [Israel] shall come which were ready to perish . . . and shall worship the Eternal in the holy mount at Jerusalem" (Isa. 27:13).
When will Israel be re gathered? At the sound of the TRUMP [4]-at the second coming of Christ. Because the churches have forgotten the festival of Trumpets, many think that the return of Jews to Palestine now is the fulfilment of this prophecy!
Christ's direct intervention in world affairs will be the next great event in the Plan of Redemption.
And perhaps the glorious second coming shall occur, in whatever year it may be, on THIS VERY DAY of the Feast of Trumpets!- who knows? While we cannot say, yet cannot we see this possibility? The crucifixion was upon the Passover Day-the very DAY! The Holy Spirit came, beginning the selecting of the FIRST FRUITS of salvation, on the VERY DAY of Pentecost. Had not those 120 disciples been OBSERVING this annual Sabbath had they not been ASSEMBLED there in holy convocation- could they have received that blessing of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit?
Repeatedly Jesus warned us to WATCH! regarding His second coming. Could it be possible that, unless WE are observing the Feast of Trumpets, as the first century Church of God was observing Pentecost, that we shall NOT be ready, or caught up to meet Him? We do not- we cannot, of course, say- but we do ask the question. Is it not possible? Let us humbly and willingly yield to walk obediently in ALL THE LIGHT.
The festival of Trumpets is a day of REJOICING and, as the weekly Sabbath, HOLY UNTO THE LORD (Neh. 8:2, 9-12). The Levites were to blow the trumpet (Num.10:8), but we do not do so today as this was only a temporary duty of the Levitical priesthood.
Next, let us read Leviticus 23:26-32-"And the LORD spake ... saying ... also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a DAY OF ATONEMENT: it shall be an HOLY CONVOCATION unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls [fast] ... Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute FOR EVER throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be a SABBATH of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, FROM EVEN UNTO EVEN, shall ye celebrate YOUR SABBATH." Wonderful mystery! At-onement with God! Man at last made ONE with his Maker!
Again, in the 16th chapter of Leviticus, verses 29 and 31, where the symbolism of the Day of Atonement is explained, we find it instituted a holy Sabbath to be kept FOREVER! "And this shall be a statute FOREVER 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 ... It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute FOREVER."
Notice, too, in Lev. 23:32, the expression "from even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath." Every Sabbath- keeper quotes this passage to show that the Sabbath begins at sunset. If we believe that, then why not KEEP the Sabbath that this very text is speaking of-the ANNUAL high Sabbath of the Day of Atonement, instituted FOREVER? Are we consistent, when we continually quote this text to show when to begin the Sabbath, and then refuse to keep the very Sabbath referred to?[5]
The Day of Atonement pictures a wonderful and great event, to take place AFTER the second coming of Christ, which the world has entirely lost sight of because it has failed to see the true significance of these annual Sabbaths HOLY UNTO THE LORD. It has failed to KEEP them as a constant reminder of God's PLAN of Redemption!
The symbolism is all expressed in the account of the events of the Day of Atonement, as carried out before the crucifixion, in the 16th chapter of Leviticus
Verse 5-"And he [Aaron, or the High Priest] shall take of the Congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering."
Verse 6-The high priest offered a sin offering for HIMSELF and his house.
Verses 7 and 8-"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; the one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat (margin, Hebrew, AZAZEL)."
Now because this has not been understood because there are many different views and opinions and ideas and explanations of this, we here pause sufficiently to go into this in some detail. Let us, therefore, regardless of our own former convictions, study with OPEN MINDS, without prejudice, PROVING ALL THINGS. We want TRUTH!
The key to the whole explanation lies in a correct understanding of the meaning of AZAZEL. This word does not occur elsewhere in the Old Testament. The Comprehensive Commentary has: "Spencer, after the oldest opinions of the Hebrews and Christians, thinks Azazel is the name of the Devil, and so Rosen.... The word scapegoat signifies the goat which went away." The One Volume Commentary says: "The word 'scapegoat' in the A.V is not a translation." It is merely an interpretation of the supposed meaning by the translators.
True, the English word "scapegoat" signifies "one who bears blame or guilt FOR OTHERS. " But", scapegoat" is an English word, and is NOT a translation of the Hebrew word AZA-ZEL. The word ', scapegoat," and the meaning attached to this English word, is NOT a translation of the Hebrew word AZAZEL, and therefore it is NOT the word inspired originally. Continues the One Volume Commentary: "Azazel is understood to be the name of one of those malignant demons."
These two goats were, of course, TYPES. Notice, it was necessary to be decided by LOT, which one was qualified to represent Christ, and which Azazel. Some say BOTH were qualified. The Scripture does not say this. Let us not assume it. Now A LOT is a solemn appeal to God to decide a doubtful matter. It is a sacred religious ceremony. It includes a SUPER NATURAL ACT of God.
Notice, men were unable to decide which goat was qualified to represent Christ. This involved an APPEAL TO GOD TO DECIDE! "ONE lot for the Eternal, and the other lot for AZAZEL." Now one lot was for the Lord-this goat typified Christ-but the other lot was NOT for the Lord, did NOT typify Christ, but AZAZEL-Satan! These words most naturally suggest that Azazel is the name of a PERSON, here CONTRASTED to the Eternal! Notice the CONTRAST-one for the Lord, the other for Azazel.
Now the goat which God selected, through lot, to represent Christ, was SLAIN-as Christ, its antitype was slain. But the other goat selected by God to represent Azazel was NOT slain, but was driven, ALIVE, into an uninhabited wilderness. It was NOT a resurrected goat, symbolizing the resurrected Christ, for it never died. The uninhabited wilderness, to which this goat was driven, CANNOT, as we shall show, represent HEAVEN, where Christ went. Heaven is neither uninhabited, nor a wilderness.
After God designated which goat represented Christ, and which Azazel, the High Priest (verse I 1) killed the bullock for a sin offering for himself, then took the burning coals of fire and the sweet incense into the Holy of Holies, also sprinkling the blood of the bullock before the MERCY SEAT, typical of the throne of God, covering the tables of testimony (the law). This the High Priest was required to do in order to PURIFY HIMSELF to officiate, and to represent CHRIST as High Priest. In the antitype, this was not done, for Christ, our HIGH PRIEST, had no need of this purification as the typical substitutionary priests did.
Now the Levitical high priest is ready to go out and officiate.
Next, the goat which God selected by lot to represent CHRIST, as the SIN OFFERING OF THE PEOPLE was killed. Thus the SINS OF THE PEOPLE were BORNE by this goat, even as Christ, finally, once for all bore out sins on the cross. But Christ ROSE again from the dead, and ascended to the throne of God IN HEAVEN.
Now, WHO, or WHAT, from this point on in the Levitical ceremony, typified the RESURRECTED CHRIST, who went to heaven? Some say the goat representing Azazel. Let us see.
The RISEN Christ, now at the right hand of the throne of God in Heaven (1 Pet. 3:22), is called what? OUR HIGH PRIEST! What was the earthly TYPE OF GOD'S THRONE? The uninhabited wilderness? That is where the LIVE goat went! No!
The earthly type of God's throne was the MERCY SEAT in the HOLY OF HOLIES. After Christ died, He went to the heavenly mercy seat interceding for US, as our HIGH PRIEST..... entering into what is within the veil; WHITHER the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec" (Heb. 6:19-20).
Now, again, WHO, or WHAT, in the Levitical ceremony of the DAY OF ATONEMENT, typified the RISEN Christ, our HIGH PRIEST, who went WITHIN THE VEIL to God's throne in heaven? The one goat had been SLAIN. It represented the SLAIN Christ. It can no longer represent the RISEN Christ. The SLAIN Christ was NOT our High Priest as the Levitical priesthood, with its high priest, did not END until Christ rose from the dead and ascended to heaven as a High Priest AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC. But the RISEN Christ was HIGH PRIEST. Now WHO took this part in the Levitical ceremonies, temporarily reenacted year by year, on this eternal Holy Day? Why, so obviously a child could see, it was the Levitical HIGH PRIEST, not the goat representing Azazel!
As soon as the slain goat was dead, who went within the veil, presenting the blood of this goat before the typical throne of God?
Lev. 16:15-"Then shall he [the high priest] kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and [NOW the high priest himself typifying the work of the RISEN Christ] bring his blood within the veil ... and sprinkle it upon the MERCY SEAT: and (v. 16) he shall make an atonement for the holy place."
And so it was the high priest taking the blood within the veil, to the mercy seat, that typified the risen Christ figuratively taking HIS blood, once for all, within the veil to the very throne of God in heaven, there to intercede for us as High Priest. Surely this is so plain a child can see.
The slain goat represented the crucified Jesus. The High Priest, by taking the blood of this slain goat into the veil to the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies, a type of God's throne, represented and did the work of the RISEN CHRIST, who ascended to the right hand of the Majesty on High, there interceding as our High Priest. Can we honestly continue to teach that the goat representing AZAZEL represented the work of the RISEN CHRIST? Did this live goat take the blood of Christ WITHIN THE VEIL, to the mercy seat?
The high priest going within the veil, into the Holy of Holies, symbolized Christ's return to heaven. The work he did while IN the Holy of Holies symbolized Christ's work these 2000 years interceding for us, presenting His shed blood before the MERCY SEAT in heaven. Now, returning, symbolizing Christ's return to earth, what did he do?
"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 [Fenton: shall carry upon itself] all their iniquities unto a LAND NOT INHABITED: and he shall let go the goat IN THE WILDERNESS. And Aaron shall ... wash his flesh with water . . . and he that let go the goat for the scapegoat [Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and AFTERWARD come into the camp" (Lev. 16:20-26).
Let us get this STRAIGHT!
Is there JUSTICE with God? Is not God a God of JUSTICE, as well as of compassion and mercy? Who is the real AUTHOR of our sins? The Devil is the AUTHOR of them, even as Christ is the author of our salvation. Jesus took our guilt-our blame our sins-upon Himself as an INNOCENT
SUBSTITUTIONARY SACRIFICE. He was an INNOCENT VICTIM. He loved us, and was willing to die for us. OUR guilt-OUR sins, were borne by HIM, and HIM ALONE-and God forgives them when we repent and ACCEPT His Sacrifice. And yet-is this, if we stop there, FULL JUSTICE?
The real CAUSE-the actual AUTHOR of those sins was Satan the Devil. Is it justice for CHRIST to bear guilt that is not His, while the Devil goes off scot-free? Do you not suppose GOD'S GREAT PLAN will finally work full justice by placing that original blame and guilt right where it belongs?
Now mark carefully this distinction. Christ bore OUR guilt. For we have been guilty, even though the Devil was the original CAUSE of it all. But justice certainly demands that God place right back on the head of the Devil HIS GUILT-not OUR guilt, but HIS OWN GUILT-for leading us into sin. We were guilty, too-and OUR guilt Christ bore-yet ALL OUR SINS belong right back on the Devil as HIS OWN GUILT!
Now notice another point. The Azazel goat CARRIES AWAY the sins of all the people ALREADY FORGIVEN. These sins already were fully paid for by Christ's SUBSTITUTE sacrifice, symbolized by the killing of the innocent goat, BEFORE those SAME SINS were finally laid on the LIVE goat had been previously paid for by the death of the slain goat.
The Devil is the real AUTHOR of all sin. Can we, then, be finally made AT ONE with God, as long as this instigator of sin is with us? Can we not see he must first be DRIVEN AWAY? And there would not be justice with God unless HIS OWN GUILT in our sins were placed right back on HIS head? Is it justice for Christ to bear the DEVIL'S GUILT, as well as our own guilt, for our sins? Christ has CARRIED OUR SINS, but must He CONTINUE to carry them? Should they not be REMOVED entirely from us, and from the presence even of God?
Thus the killing and sprinkling of the blood of the first goat visibly set forth the MEANS of reconciliation with God, through the substituted sacrifice of an innocent victim. So the final sending away of the second goat, laden with those sins, the expiation of which had been signified by the first goat, no less vividly sets forth the effect of that sacrifice, IN COMPLETE REMOVAL OF THOSE EXPIATED SINS FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD!
Webster says to ATONE means to SET AT ONE TO JOIN in ONE-to FORM by UNITING. We shall not be completely joined IN ONE, and UNITED with God, until this is done.
In the 19th chapter of Revelation, we have the prophecy of the second coming of Christ. At the beginning of the 20th chapter, what is to happen?
Exactly what this 16th chapter of Leviticus shows. The Devil is sent away-the symbol here used is the "bottomless pit" symbol of an uninhabited desolate wilderness (Rev. 18:2)-and he is sent there by a FIT man-an ANGEL from heaven. Now the devil is not killed. He does not die. He is still alive a thousand years later -after the millennium (Rev. 20:7).
Now a few points that will come to mind. Both goats were "presented before the Lord." Can Satan be presented before the Lord? Job 1:6 and 2:1 says he has presented himself before the Lord. Note, too, Azazel was driven away from the Holy of Holies, a symbol of God's presence.
And so the annual DAY OF ATONEMENT was instituted FOREVER to keep continually before God's children and His CHURCH the PLAN OF REDEMPTION, to occur after the second coming of Christ.
Now we come to the festival of Tabernacles-or Feast of Booths-the sixth festival. Let us notice the instruction concerning this occasion:
"Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou has gathered in from thy threshing and from thy winepress. And thou shalt REJOICE in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter ... SEVEN DAYS SHALT THOU KEEP A FEAST UNTO THE ETERNAL THY GOD IN THE PLACE WHICH THE ETERNAL SHALL CHOOSE; because the Eternal thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful ... and they shall not appear before the Eternal empty; every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Eternal thy God which He bath given thee" (Dent. 16:13-17).
Here is the festival of Tabernacles, to be kept for seven days, beginning the 15th day of the seventh month of God's Sacred Calendar. Notice Leviticus 23:33-35: "And the Eternal spoke to Moses saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Eternal. On the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do NO MANNER OF SERVILE WORK ' "
On the FIRST of these days is a HOLY CONVOCATION-A commanded assembly. No work is to be done. ". . . and ye shall REJOICE before the Eternal your God seven days ... It shall be a statute FOREVER in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month" (Lev. 23:40-41).
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