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Pride, Humility, and Fasting
I am going to begin this sermon with a scripture that I used in my last sermon. Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. My sermon on the Feast of Trumpets was …
As we have seen, the unique offering on the Day of Atonement for the sins of Israel consisted of two goats (Leviticus 16:5). The first goat was killed, and the high priest cleansed the sanctuary and the holy objects with its blood. The …
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Inventing Goddesses and Demons (Part Three)
Lilith is not the only extra-biblical character to be insinuated into Scripture by those influenced by folklore. In the Day of Atonement ritual involving two goats, the Hebrew text calls the living goat azazel (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), …
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Mark 8:26
(26) Then He sent him away to his house, saying, “Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town.”
He says, "Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town," another command to keep quiet about the miracle. This was not a universal prohibition but was limited to Bethsaida. Why? Christ had done many mighty works there, but the …
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The Peculiarities of Atonement
by Richard T. RitenbaughIt should come as no surprise that the Day of Atonement is the most unusual holy day of the year. Each holy day has its distinctive traits. For example, the Feast of Unleavened Bread has us eating unleavened bread for a week, and Pentecost has the unusual aspect of counting. But for outsiders, Atonement is just plain weird. They think it very strange that we will voluntarily not eat or drink for an entire day. Of course, in this distinction - called "fasting" or "afflicting our souls" - resides a great deal of the day's spiritual instruction. Fasting teaches us to realize just how …
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