The Perfect Law of Love: Torah and the Everlasting Gospel Part 6 – The Law of Atonement

The Law of Atonement, as described in the book of Leviticus, outlines the sacrificial system instituted
by God to provide temporary atonement for the sins of the people of Israel. However, the sacrificial
system was a foreshadowing of the ultimate and permanent atonement accomplished through the
sacrificial death of Yeshua, the Lamb of God, in the New Testament. Let’s explore this connection
further to discover the eternal existence of the Torah and its relevance to us today.

The Law of Atonement in the Old Testament: In Leviticus 16, the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) is
established as a significant observance for the Israelites. On this day, the High Priest would enter the
Most Holy Place of the tabernacle or temple and offer sacrifices to atone for the sins of the people.
Two goats were used in the process: one as a sin offering and the other as the scapegoat to carry
away the sins of the people into the wilderness (Leviticus 16:5-10, 20-22).

“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12

The sacrifices performed on the Day of Atonement provided a temporary covering for the sins of the people. The blood of the sacrificial animals symbolized the life offered as a substitute for the life of the sinner, as the wages of sin is death. The ceremony pointed to the need for atonement and reconciliation with God due to human sinfulness.

• Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar tomake an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”
• Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christour Lord.”

I believe that the tenth chapter of Hebrews explains this topic in detail. Yeshua’s sacrificial death is
presented as the fulfillment of the Old Testament sacrificial system. He is described as the Lamb of
God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). Yeshua’s death on the cross is understood as
the perfect and ultimate atoning sacrifice for the sins of humanity. His blood, symbolizing His life,
was shed to provide complete and permanent forgiveness and reconciliation with God.

Yeshua’s sacrificial death accomplishes spiritual cleansing and redemption for believers. His blood
cleanses us from sin (1 John 1:7), and through faith in Him, we are justified and made righteous
before God (Romans 3:24-25). The apostle Paul speaks of Yeshua as our Passover Lamb, whose
sacrifice grants us freedom from the bondage of sin.

Yeshua’s atoning work establishes a new covenant between God and humanity. This is an individual covenant, instead of, a corporate relationship. Remember, we were divorced under the corporate relationship in Jeremiah and freed from the divorce in His death. Yeshua’s atonement is eternally effective,
providing access to God’s grace and forgiveness for all who believe in Him (Hebrews 9:15). The book
of Hebrews expounds on the superiority of Yeshua’s priesthood and His once-for-all sacrifice. We will
cover this topic shortly.

The Law of Atonement in the Old Testament foreshadows the ultimate and complete atonement
achieved through Yeshua’s sacrificial death in the New Testament. Yeshua, as the Lamb of God,
becomes the ultimate and eternal atoning sacrifice, providing spiritual cleansing, redemption, and
reconciliation with God for all who place their faith in Him. The connection between the Old
Testament sacrificial system and Yeshua’s sacrifice emphasizes the continuity of God’s redemptive
plan throughout history, culminating in the ultimate act of love and grace through the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let’s discover this directly from the Scriptures.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law (Torah) having a shadow* of good things to come, and not the very image
(exact) of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually
make the comers (people) thereunto perfect.

A reader should be able to observe in Hebrews, each, and every sentence is packed with thousands
of years of Hebrew culture and tradition. Let’s look at Yom Kippur. Yōm Kippūr, [ˈyom kiˈpuʁ], lit. ’Day
of Atonement’) is the holiest day in Judaism, and Samaritanism, the most widely known “Gentiles”, to
the common Israelite, in the time that Paul writes to the Hebrews. It occurs annually on the 10th of
Tishrei. Primarily centered on atonement and repentance, the day’s observances consist of full fasting
and ascetic behavior accompanied by intensive prayer as well as sin confessions traditionally inside of
a synagogue.

The word used here for ‘shadow’ is the word G4639 σκία skia (skiy’-a) n. darkness of error or an
adumbration. This is quite a difference from the usual, and widely accepted definition, “likeness”.
Adumbration means to suggest, disclose, or outline partially. This is what Torah does for us… it
outlines and discloses.

Leviticus 16:2-9 “And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come
not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark;
that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Thus shall Aaron come into
the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall
put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be
girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy
garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. And he shall take of
the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram
for a burnt offering. And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. And he shall take the two goats, and
present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron
shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

Leviticus 16:17-18 “And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he
goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an
atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. And he
shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it; and shall
take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the
altar round about.”

Leviticus 16:30-34 “For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It shall be a sabbath of rest unto
you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever. And the priest, whom he shall anoint,
and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make
the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: And he shall make
an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of
the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all
the people of the congregation. And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord
commanded Moses.”

Over and over again Paul asserts that this form of sacrifice, and the statutes [Torah] surrounding
them, were a schoolteacher or a pattern in which to discipline oneself in the faith of YHVH. This
pattern was established as a temporary covenant until the “fullness” of the Gospel. What made the
Everlasting Gospel full? When the Torah was opened through the actions of Yeshua Messiah!
Look again at the Scriptures and hold tightly the concepts we have discussed previously about the
Marriage Covenant and the Law of the Divorced Woman.

Numbers 5:11-15 “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, And a man lie with her
carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there
be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; And the spirit of jealousy come
upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon
him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the
priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall
pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of
memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.”

This is what got the two Houses of Israel divorced in the book of Jeremiah. Remember Exodus 20
where YHVH tells the people that He “is a jealous God” and that the people should not go whoring
around with the pagan gods. So what is Yom Kippur? A remembrance of the infidelity of mankind in
their relationship with YHVH. It is only through the death of the Groom that the remembrance of that
infidelity can come to an end. There is more evidence of this all throughout Scripture. Take Daniel’s
prophecy for example.

Daniel 9:27 “And He shall confirm THE Covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be
poured upon the desolate.”

So what we are witnessing in the death of Yeshua is a convergence of all the covenants at once while
existing in perfect compliance to the Torah commands. Watch as Paul brings this into focus with the
Jealous Husband and the Atonement.

Hebrews 10:2-3 “For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.“

It was a never-ending merry-go-round of sin, sacrifice, trying to better, failing, sin, sacrifice…. Sound
familiar? I spent many years in the Catholic fake… I mean faith…. And that was the exact plan for
mankind. Sin, sacrament, sackcloth, and repeat. Nothing close to a relationship. It was more of a
tally sheet.

Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

These recent verses are loved by the dispensational crowd and they cry out “see its all changed, no
more Torah”. But the Scriptures clearly state that God was growing weary of the “treadmill traditions”
and the “merry-go-round madness” of sin, wash, and repeat.

What God is seeking; a people that want the relationship and not the tradition. God warns them, and us, through the prophet Isaiah…

• Isaiah 1:10-14 “Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts (fraudulent worship) my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.”

• Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

This is also a refence to Psalms 22 & 40…
This Psalm was written more than 1000 years before Yeshua lived.

1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the
words of my roaring?

• Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm*, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

*H8438 עָתּוֹל towla` (to-law’) n-m. the crimson-grub, but used only {in this connection} of the color
from it, and cloths dyed therewith. Usually in the Bible, the Hebrew word for a worm is “rimmah”,
which means a maggot – but the Hebrew word Jesus used here for worm, is Towla.

The Crimson worm [coccus ilicis] is a very special worm that looks more like a grub than a worm.
When it is time for the female to have babies, which she does only once in her life, she willingly
climbs the trunk of a Kermes Oak tree and attaches her body. In the same way Yeshua willingly took
up the cross, once for our salvation, and producing an offspring for the Father.

The worm then secretes a crimson, or deep red fluid which creates a hard shell of protection for the
babies. This fluid will leave a permanent stain on the tree. After the worm has attached herself and
laid her eggs there is a 3 day period in which the head and the tail of the mother worm encompass
the eggs forming the shape of a heart. In order for the offspring to escape the shell becomes white
like snow and softens. This is a natural shellac that now preserves the tree.

• Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

• Matthew 27:31 “And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.”
• Matthew 27:41-42 “Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.”
• Luke 23:36 “And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar”

8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my
mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls (reference to power and leadership) have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan
(Country of the Philistines) have beset me round.

• Matthew 27:1-2 “When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.”

13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

• Matthew 27:22-23 “Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.”

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in
the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast
brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my
hands and my feet.

• John 20:25, 27 “The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.”

17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

• John 19:33 “But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs”

18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

• John 19:24 “They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.”

19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling (beloved) from the power (control) of the dog.

This is a Hebrew euphemism for prostitute, thus meaning the priests that are prostituting
themselves out to other gods.

21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Another euphemism meaning “from the power of the ‘wild bulls’ or foreign leaders

• Matthew 2:1, 7 “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.”

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the
seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face
from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

• Numbers 20:16 “And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt”

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear
him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live
forever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the
nations shall worship before thee.

• Isaiah 45:23 “I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”

28 For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat (rich, fertile)upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the
dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he
hath done this.

One day the entire world will know what YHVH has done for us, some will rejoice, others will
wail.
Returning to Hebrew Chapter 10….
Hebrews 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O
God.

And now… Psalms 40
Psalm 40:1- 8 “I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He
brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock,
and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our
God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh
the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O Lord
my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears
hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I
come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea,
thy law is within my heart.

Hebrews 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin
thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first (marriage),
that he may establish (to stand/make firm) the second. (marriage)

• Leviticus 19:20 “And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.”

I often wonder if the people claiming the freedoms of “Christianity” realize their bond of marriage to
the Creator? This marriage theme, as we have seen here in Hebrews, is replete among the Scriptures
and it requires our fidelity. The freedom associated to Yeshua is not a license to act in any manner
we want, it is, freedom from the death associated with our relationship to the world.

Hebrews 10:10 By the which will (his purpose Isaiah 46.10) we are sanctified (made holy) through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (permanently and thoroughly)
Watch as John delivers this same message to us…

• John 1:11-14 “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
• John 6:35-40 “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Hebrews 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering (offering public rituals) and offering
oftentimes (frequently) the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Here again, this is not a dispensational line in the sand; this is the promises of YHVH, in Scriptures,
through the Prophets, coming to completion.
Hebrews 10:12 But this man (Yeshua), after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down
on the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. (Psalms 110)
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.

• Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days*, saith the Lord, I
will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

*After WHICH days? The days in which they took their relationship for granted? The days in which
they went whoring after other gods they did not know? After the days of their divorce? Or after the
days where God himself reclaimed through resurrection the relationship to a new bride?

• Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. This is our mind and soul!

Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

• Hosea 6:1-6 “Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness (assurance) to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new* and living* way*, which he hath consecrated (inaugurated) for us, through the veil,
that is to say, his flesh;

G4372 πρόσφατος prosphatos (pros’-fa-tos) adj. previously (recently) slain (fresh).
G2198 ζάω zao (zaō’) v. to live.
G3598 ὁδός hodos (ho-d̮os’) n. a road.
This means there was a previous path…. Ok…. What was that path? The fast and easy answer is the
use of “the shadow” by animal sacrifice.

• Galatians 3:16-19 “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”

21 And having an high priest over the house of God; [The Mediator]
22 Let us draw near (approach) with a true heart in full assurance (entire confidence) of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
The Priest had to be consecrated with a Mikvah or ceremonial baptism prior to making the
Atonement Offering. Jesus fulfilled this at the Jordan and God was well pleased. Our hearts being
sprinkled is a direct reference to the Horns of the Altar being sprinkled by the blood of the Sacrifice.
23 Let us hold fast (firmly retain) the profession (acknowledgement) of our faith (in Yeshua’s
sacrifice) without wavering; for he is faithful that promised;
24 And let us consider (observe fully) one another to provoke (to entice) unto love and to good
works. (virtuous acts):

If we are the Bride of Messiah, the heirs of Promise, then this is the Promise. If we claim to be
followers of the Creator of the Universe…then this the pathway and this narrative is a prophesy … a
shadow… the disclosure of a plan.

• Genesis 22 :1-4 “And it came to pass after these things, that God did test Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.”
• Genesis 22:7-8 “And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself, a lamb, for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.”
• Genesis 22:13-14 “And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.”

H3070 הָהוְי אהֶ רִי Yhvah Yir’eh (yeh-ho-vaw’ yir-eh’) n/l. Yahweh will see to it.
We can see the temporary state of the Aaronic priesthood and the sacrificial system in this
interaction. So many people can easily recognize the resemblance to the life of Yeshua and the
sacrifice, what they miss is the shadow of the sacrificial system as a temporary path until the proper
time established by YHVH.

• Isaiah 43:19 “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”

25 Not forsaking (leaving behind) the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is;
but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. We are looking
for the time when things look like the description Jesus provided in Matthew 24
26 For if we sin (transgress the Torah) wilfully (with intent) after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

• 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law [Torah]: for sin is the transgression of the law [Torah].

27 But a certain fearful looking (formidable expectation) for of judgment and fiery indignation
(fervent fire), which shall devour (consume) the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law (Torah) died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Breaking this down to its essence using the Strong’s Concordance:
Sinning = G264 : to fail to do uprightly and completely (at any time, in any deed, word, or thought).
Deliberately = G1596 : voluntarily / Receiving = G2983 : to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer.
Knowledge = G1922 : full discernment / Truth = G225 : without deception
Sacrifice = G2380 : to give up to destruction {by fire} / Fearful = G5398 : terrible
Judgment = G2920 : decision,tribunal / Adversaries = G5227 : those opposed
Despises = G114 : to set aside / Law = G3551 : the Torah instructions
Consume = G2068 : devour, eat entirely
Dies = G599 : to die off, become dead, to be slain {present tense, active participle}
Without = G5565 : apart from / Mercy = G3628 : sympathy

Now applying the words as defined, from the original document:
“For if we go on voluntarily failing to do uprightly and completely, after preferring the full
discernment without deception, there no longer remains one given up to destruction for our sins, but
a terrible expectation of a decision, and a fury of fire that will consume those opposed. Anyone who
has set aside the Torah instructions becomes dead apart from sympathy on the evidence of two or
three witnesses.”

The question to consider:
Will the two (or three) witnesses of your acceptance or opposition to the Torah be your friends,
neighbors, relatives? Will it be your Sunday school teacher or Pastor? Or, more likely, will it be, those
that know the Torah fully; Satan describing your failures and Yeshua as your defense attorney?

29 Of how much sorer (worse) punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy (deemed
deserving of), who hath trodden underfoot (reject with disdain) the Son of God, and hath counted (to
consider) the blood of the covenant (heirs of salvation), wherewith he was sanctified (made holy), an
unholy thing, and hath done despite (insult) unto the Spirit of grace (benevolence)?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
And again, The Lord shall judge (put to trial) his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

• Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated (given
enlightenment/wisdom), ye endured a great fight (struggle) of afflictions; (hardships)

• Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents [demons] and scorpions [skeptics], and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock (spectacle) both by reproaches (derision) and afflictions
(pressure); and partly, whilst ye became companions (sharers) of them that were so used.
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds (when Paul was in prison), and took joyfully the
spoiling (plunder) of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an
enduring substance.
35 Cast not away (give up) therefore your confidence (assurance in Yeshua), which hath great
recompence of reward. (requital)
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the
promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come (Yeshua) will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now (So) the just shall live by faith (trust/firm persuasion): but if any man draw back (to
withhold, hide or timidly), my soul shall have no pleasure (approval) in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition (total destruction); but of them that believe
to the saving of the soul.

The only way we are going to make it through this thing called life is to follow the simple instructions
left for us by YHVH. The world will get so perverse that those adhering to the instructions will stick
out like sore thumbs becoming the epicenter for persecution. It is our perseverance to the end that
shows our dedication to YHVH.