Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-09-26
CEREMONY
OF Y0M K|PPUR
Rev. Henry Van EnseIen Discourses
On the Jewish Day of Atonement.

Yom kippur, the jewish day o.
atonement, was the subject of the
sermon last Sunday morning at the
Baptist church by Rev. Henry Val
Engelen. In part he said
Yesterday the loyal Israelite, whsl
ever he might be on the face of the
earth, ceased from his secular lab
ors, closed the doors of his place Of
business and spent the day in fasting
humiliations and confession of his
sins. Every household was supposed
to sacrifice fowl for a sin-offering
each member saying, May this be
my substitute Thus they observed
| Yom sKippur, the day of atonement.
! 1T points back to a very ancient
festival which God, through his sery-
ant Moses, instituted among their
fathers away back in the olden tim
es. In the golden age of the He
brew nation it was observed with
great reverence and enthusiasm in
their temple at Jerusalem. In fact,
it was the climactoric poin- of the
Mosaic ritual and was called 'Yoma.'
This symbohcally assured the abso-
lutte removal of all iniquity that
might intervene between the people
and Jehovah, their God.
In this important service the
high priest must officiate alCne.z In
offering the sacrifice of the atone
ment he must lay aside his gorgeous
garments and array himself in clean
white linen signifying purity and hui
mility. Two goats were selected for
the ceremony the one to be offered
and the other called the 'scape-
goat to be turned loose in the wilder
ness. Before he can proceed with
this solemn ceremony he must make
a sin offering and burnt offering
for himself and all the priesthood
and the people With the gloden
censor full of live Goals and his
land full of incense he enters the
holy of holes and having burnt the
incense he sprinkles the blood upon
the mercy seat for the expiation of
MS own sins, and then SCI Ell times
before the mercy seat for the cleans
ng of the holy of holes.
Then he begins to make atone |
nent by killing one of the two goats |
and carrying it's blood in
o the dark inner chamber of the
holy of holes, as 1t were, in the
presence of Jehovah, and
hus atones for the sins of the
people. Thus he does symbolically
What was done in reality by the
Goldman, who died for us and enter
d into the very presence Of God in
'ur behalf, thus reconciling us to
iod. Then the high priest, as he
avs both hands upon the head of
he living goat ,confesses upon it all
he sins of the people and finally
urns to the worship.ng multitude,
aging, 'Ye shall be cleanssd. The
oat is then led forth out..of the
ity to be turned loose in the wilder
ess. Thus have we typiiod that
nal and real removal of sin by
hrist Jesus, the Lamb of God I
hich taketh away the sins of the
orld'. /
I'VE see, then, what tremendous Z
nphasis this ancient ceremony plac-
) upon the awful fact of sin. It's
'preme purpose was to create a
of sin. Just as we can
ace the rain storms of the past up
| the old red sandstone and can
II which way the wind blew by B
e way in which the raindrops reg
tered themselves upon what WIS 8
en- mud, so we can trace the tenn 4
SITS of sin which have made their 8
preston upon the surface of hui
unity all down the ages. No life s
free from it's COMMUNICATIONS, for 1
have all sinned. Jesus Christ Y
rnedNthe searchlight upon the hui i
IN heart and told us what awful \
IS proceed DberefroM 4
The atonement;( While .emphasiz- Z
the awfulness d pin, reveals to 4
a God of infinite Move, who is Z
torious over. sin. It@hows US how 9
d has solved the sin problem with -
doing violence to his .e!n char -
err or the eternal principles &. Of
nonapess and holiness upon
>iRQf Jesus
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