Tag - Atonement

Just Once A Year?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Leviticus 16:34 This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites. O-bservation: Once a year the high priest of Israel would enter the Holy of Holies and offer sacrifices for the Atonement of Israel's sin. For the Israelis, it was a build up to a time of fasting, mourning, and repentance. Afterward, a great feeling and sense of relief would come upon the people. A-pplication: When I study the "Day of Atonement" in the Old Testament I always think, "Just Once...

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His Blood Still Has The Power

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Leviticus 17:11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life. O-bservation: Here the writer was very specific in telling the people over three thousand years ago that the life of a creature is in the blood. That would include animals and birds and of course, humans. For a human being to be forgiven of their sin in the Old Testament, an animal, or bird, had to die,...

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Just Once A Year?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Leviticus 16:34 This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites. O-bservation: Once a year the high priest of Israel would enter the Holy of Holies and offer sacrifices for the Atonement of Israel's sin. For the Israelis, it was a build up to a time of fasting, mourning, and repentance. Afterward, a great feeling and sense of relief would come upon the people. A-pplication: When I study the "Day of Atonement" in the Old Testament I always think, "Just Once...

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