The Day of Trumpets, Yom T’ruah in Hebrew, is a feast about the return of the Messiah. This seder covers the four aspects of Yom T’ruah and touches on the meaning of Rosh Hashannah, the Hebrew New Year.
Day of Trumpets and Hebrew New Year Seder – English
In addition to the above, Hebrew words are use for Yahweh and Yahshua.
Yom T’ruah and Rosh Hashannah Seder – English/ Hebrew
Yom T’ruah Seder – English/ Hebrew
Sin is a broad subject with a lot to talk about. I don’t want to talk about sin without talking about repentance. I don’t want to talk about repentance without talking about forgiveness. The few things I want to cover are:
If you do not understand something I’m saying, please ask. The concept may be hard to grasp at first but it will change how you see yourself and your life when you do.
You could say that this is what our space program is named after though most likely unintentionally. Nasa literally means to ‘lift’ in a variety of applications. It can be to carry or lift a burden, a cloud or lifting of smoke, lifting up of a person such as a leader, a lifting of a standard or flag wherein one can find refuge or safety. The context of the verse determines whether it means forgive, guilty or other; it depends on who is bearing the burden.
This is where the concept of sin ‘weighing you down’ comes from. When we do not repent, we bear or carry our sin.
Lev 5:17
17 And if a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear (נשא) his iniquity.
When we repent, someone else bears our sin hence our sin and the burden thereof is removed. This type of forgiveness was done on the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur.
Lev 16:21-22
21 Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man.
22 The goat shall bear (נשא) upon itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
Ιn this way avon – iniquity sin and p’sha – rebellious sin are forgiven. Note that even though this process removed sin, it did not pay the debt for these two types of sin. This was done by the Messiah who came later.
John 1:29
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away (αιρω, נשא) the sin of the world!
John was a priest after the lineage of Aaron. Jesus, like the scapegoat, took our sin upon himself, was led into the wilderness, and died. But unlike the scapegoat, he also paid our debt to sin because he is God and he said he would.
Ex 34:5-9
6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving (נשא) iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
8 And Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 And he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon (סלח) our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
(Happened right after the golden calf. Moses reminded God of this statement later in Numbers.)
Moses petitions God to forgive the sins of Israel. This is very important. It establishes that our debt to sin is and always has been paid by petition. The purpose of the sin and trespass offerings is to physically remove that sin. We will look at this a little more in depth in a moment. First, lets tie this up as to why Jesus’ death both removed and paid the debt for our sin.
Matt 26:28
28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission (סלח) of sins.Jer 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah–
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive (סלח) their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
This is the covenant Jesus initiated. We have yet to enter into verse 34 which will happen upon Jesus’ return. Our debt will be paid and we will be set free not simply from sin, but from our sinful nature which is what the blood of animals doesn’t have the ability to do. Also notice, p’sha sin is not mentioned in these verses meaning the (unrepented) rebellious will not be part of his eternal kingdom.
This word is typically translated as bear, lift up, forgive, laded and carry.
The Physics and Definition of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness
Part 3: Types of Forgiveness and their Definitions: Salach
Part 5: Physics of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness: Physics of Sin
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