Yom Kippur...."It is finished!"

Yom Kippur...one of the High Holy days in Judaism. It began last night at sundown and goes through the day today. It is known in English as the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16) and is a beautiful picture of Christ. It is a festival which longs for a lasting mediator, because Moses, Aaron, and the High Priests were not only insufficient but temporary as well. Now we finally have a mediator in Christ(I Tim. 2:5-6) who will never fail us and will always be there seated at the right hand of God on our behalf. Only the High Priest could enter the Holy of Hollies; only once a year could he enter; only would he live in the presence of God if he was "clean." We longer have to fear, for our mediator and priest is Christ who lived a perfect life...able to stand before God as a mediator and priest forever! Yom Kippur is also the festival of the sacrifice that would cover the sins of the people. And each year an insufficient sacrifice would be slain....every year....every year, year after year. Who would not long for a more permanent sacrifice!? Praise be to God that "it was finished" at the cross!
Christians today do not understand Yom Kippur very well. For many Christians, it's just one of those "Old Testament laws that we do not have to observe anymore and therefore is not as important as the NT." What a shame that some Christians think like this! Christ himself said he did not come to "abolish the law..but to fulfill the law." This would imply that in order to fully understand what Christ did for us at the cross, we must understand what he fulfilled in the OT. Just as we look back to the cross for salvation and remember the cross through sacraments such as the Eucharist...so the Old Testament saints looked forward to a redeemer, Meshiach, High Priest, and sacrifice that would be final. Yom Kippur is a beautiful picture of Christ and it would do Christians good to know and understand this festival and its part in the metanarrative of God's redemption of humanity!

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

May you be inscribed in the Book of Life!

Good advice

It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

A Calvinist witnessing

Putting things in perspective

Quite Funny

This makes the "Onion" even funnier...

One giant slip in Bangladesh news

Armstrong did not say the hoax had been "one giant lie" for mankind

Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.

The Daily Manab Zamin said US astronaut Neil Armstrong had shocked a news conference by saying he now knew it had been an "elaborate hoax".

Neither they nor the New Nation, which later picked up the story, realised the Onion was not a genuine news site.

Both have now apologised to their readers for not checking the story.

"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency.

"We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."

The article said Mr Armstrong had told a news conference he had been "forced to reconsider every single detail of the monumental journey after watching a few persuasive YouTube videos and reading several blog posts" by a conspiracy theorist.


The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up
Daily Manab Zamin

"It took only a few hastily written paragraphs published by this passionate denier of mankind's so-called 'greatest technological achievement' for me to realise I had been living a lie," the fake article "quoted" Mr Armstrong as saying.

The made-up quote went on to say that although the journey had felt real, in fact "the entire thing was filmed on a sound stage, most likely in New Mexico".

"I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind."

'Numerous hits'

The story was published on the Onion's website on Monday and on Wednesday, the Daily Manab Zamin translated it into Bengali, attributing it to the Onion News Network in Lebanon, Ohio. It then ran in New Nation on Thursday.

Daily Manab Zamin, the only tabloid newspaper in Bangladesh, published an apology to its readers on Thursday, saying the report had "drawn a lot of attention".

"We've since learned that the fun site runs false and juicy reports based on a historic incident," it said.

"The Moon landing one was such a story, which received numerous hits on the internet.

"The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up. We are sorry for publishing the report without checking the information."