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Christians do not observe the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Asking for an “Atonement Offering” flies directly in the face of Jesus' atonement for our sins on the cross of Calvary. Offering God money for atonement is a form of denying Christ's sacrifice.
The old covenant was with the Jews, not with “you’s”.
People think that modern day Judaizing doesn’t happen today but here we have a clear example of it. No it isn’t asking for circumcision to become a Christian, but that isn’t all Judaizing was about, it was also about doing Jewish works in order to be a better Christian as we see typified here. When Paul was writing Galatians, some were saying that you had to be Jewish to be saved, or that you had to do Jewish customs to be an advanced disciple. Wrong, dead, damningly wrong. Jesus was and is the substance that filled in the shadows. The tabernacle, feasts, and all those ceremonial trappings, customs, rituals, and offerings were all symbolic of Christ (1 Corinthians 10:3-4 / Luke 24:27 / John 5:39, 6:29-58 / Galatians 4:9-10 / Colossians 2:17 / Hebrews 10:1,14). They were types, and Christ is the antitype. You don’t go back to the type when the antitype has come. You don’t then go back to the type or try and reinvigorate or reinvent the type as a new form of blessing. Feasts, etc., don’t bring a new or extra blessing. “Jesus plus” types of false gospels elevate man and diminish God. If we have to do something then Jesus’ payment wasn’t enough, His value wasn’t great enough to fully pay for my sin, or to secure blessings or sanctification.
Yes, we can give the benefit of the doubt and say they aren’t trying to get you to give for forgiveness of sin, but they are trying to get you to give to them in order to receive a special blessing, and they are doing it based on a false teaching, false teaching of the worst and first sort to the Christian world, Judaizing. We don’t go through the steps anymore that is the old covenant which pointed to Christ, and to do it again, that is to retrace and rework the steps Jesus fulfilled, that isn’t what following Christ is about.
Those seven blessings, whatever they are, have been obtained in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). To go back and try to get them now for yourself is blasphemous and again saying Christ’s atonement was insufficient for you to have them, or that you must “work” to obtain them (which would be modern day Judaizing). Christ is the fulfillment of the tabernacle and IS our tabernacle; He is the real Tabernacle in heaven (Revelation 21:3).
You will not honor God with your atonement offering, and you will not receive some extra seven fold blessing other supposedly less informed or less spiritual believers will not get. Instead you will blaspheme His Son, Jesus Christ, and if, like this sign, that atonement is money well, then Acts 8:20 speaks plainly to you. Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Of course they might say, “no we love God, it is all about Jesus, that is why we are doing this!” Look at the teaching at face value. It is as if they believe that Jesus has given them all the spiritual, or eternal blessings, but they obtain the material, or temporal blessings by their works. And they believe that if they have faith in them they will get what they think they are promised. You do NOT please God apart from Jesus, and Jesus does NOT go back with you to try and re-fulfill the types and shadows. If you turn back to types, you have turned away from Christ.
3 comments:
Sometimes things can be so subtle that they are obvious...
I couldnt believe this when I saw it.
It is actually going to be a great teaching tool...
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