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Y’shua is YHWH: Part 8 – In the ELS

The ELS (Equidistant Letter Sequences) were discovered several decades ago. Professors of mathematical scholarship at Yale, Harvard and the Hebrew University found embedded in the Hebrew text of the Scriptures words and phrases relevant to the face text. This was determined to be outside the realm of human capability with a ratio of less than 1 in 50 quadrillion. In other words, it is highly unlikely that human intelligence had anything to do with this phenom… Continue

In the garden of Eden there is a hall that is called “The hall of the Sons of Illness.” The Messiah enters that hall and He summons all the diseases and all the pains and all the sufferings of Israel that they should come upon Him and all of them come upon Him.
[The Zohar (a mystical book of Jewish antiquity)]

2,000 years ago, your scapegoat came and He received all your sins upon Himself. He received your selfishness and carnality. He received everything that has tainted your life. He received… Continue

The Scapegoat (A Yom Kippor Message) – Part 3

Why should we celebrate Yom Kippor today? If you have been born again, how can you not celebrate it? Your very existence as a blood washed believer is a living testimony to Yom Kippor!

On the day of the crucifixion, the people answered Pilate with, “Let his blood be on us and on our children” (Matthew 27:25). None of them could have known the full implication to what they were saying. When it is the blood of salvation that one is talking about, as… Continue

The Scapegoat – Part 2

He shall take the two goats and present them before YHWH at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one for YHWH and the other for the scapegoat.
[Leviticus 16:7-8]

The one for YHWH is to be killed and the other is to remain alive. At the time of the second Temple, the high priest would stand in the court with the multitudes all around and they would watch as he took the two goats (identical goats because they were considered… Continue

But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before YHWH to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.
[Leviticus 16:10]

Yom Kippor is the very center of Judaism. In times of the Bible, it was simply called “Ha Yom” meaning “The Day.” It was the day when everything came into focus. Everything came to a head. It was the day of man confronting YHWH – the day when the high priest stood trembling before YHWH in the Holy of Holies. It was the d… Continue