The End

ascension. It will be the 40th Jubilee! Could there be a better

day for the return of Christ than this day?

It was on Yom Kippur that blood offerings were performed

by the high priest—one for his own sins, and the other for the

sins of the Israelites. During a blood offering, the high priest

wore linen garments. After the sacrifice, he changed into his

regular priestly garments of glory and beauty and reappeared.

He was in his priestly garments when he came out of the tent

of meeting and sacrificed an offering by fire. The details of this

are found in Leviticus 16.

The Lord instructed the Israelites to do this on the tenth

day of the month of Tishri,

“…because on this day atonement

will be made for you, to cleanse you”

(Lev. 16:30). For this

reason Yom Kippur would also be known as the Day of Re-

demption. It is at this time that the Great Trumpet will be

blown, to seal the final fate of those upon the earth.

This festival prophesies the literal, physical second coming

of Messiah, which will be the end! The different parts of the

ceremony of Yom Kippur foretell events that will occur on that

day.

The first time the Messiah came He wore His

“linen

gar-

ments,” that is, He did not wear His garments of beauty or

splendor:

“He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root

out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to

him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him”

(Isa. 53:2).

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