Jonah and Yeshua's Yom Kippur Connections

The other profound example is when Yeshua began His earthly ministry. Before I get to that, because I didn't include this on the scrolls, I'll mention one more before we get to Yeshua and the Tanakh: the prophet Jonah. We all know the prophet Jonah gave Moses, or excuse me, excuse me, I repent, actually, for that. That's crazy. But anyhow, Jonah walked into Assyria, Nineveh, and told the people to repent for 40 days and 40 nights. My friends, if we understand how the Bible works and how the calendar works and repentance works, he didn't walk in on any 40 days. He walked in on Elul one, after they had the solar eclipse over Nineveh. By the way, that's why the people were ready to repent because there was a solar eclipse. You can go look this up in the records. There was a solar eclipse over Nineveh before Jonah walked in. That's why the people were ready to repent, from the king down. And he said, "You've got 40 days." What happened? Yom Kippur came, and they were delivered. God delivered the Assyrians. And that's why He had the conversation with Jonah afterwards, because Jonah didn't really want the Assyrians to get deliverance, you know, because they were an enemy of Israel. But He corrected the prophet, corrected him big time, and He poured out His mercy on the Assyrians and let them survive that time, and then He destroyed them with Nebuchadnezzar in 605 BC with King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. So again, the 40 days were not just any 40 days. Jonah told the people to repent, and they did. The Assyrians did. It goes into what Jeremiah 18 says about a nation: whenever they repent, then God will relent. And if they don't, then He won't relent. That is what Jeremiah says in Jeremiah chapter 18.

So now let's go to the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. So Yeshua, the Messiah. This is a profound example of Yeshua's earthly ministry. Once John the Baptist immersed Him, He was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by Satan for 40 days and 40 nights. The time of testing commenced on Elul one and ended on Tishrei 10, which is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. How do we know this? Luke records Messiah going into the synagogue to teach on Yom Kippur after His time of testing, which fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy. It is written, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who are who mourned."

Very important. So, the prophet Isaiah prophesies this, and then here we go with the fulfillment, partial fulfillment with Luke 4. So, Messiah partially fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy right after His temptation by Satan in the desert on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Luke 4:1-2: "Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for 40 days by the devil. And in those days, He ate nothing. And afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry." In Luke 4:14-21: "Then Yeshua returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding regions. And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, when He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, everybody, and stood up to read. And He handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it is written: 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.' Then He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, 'Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.'"

In Isaiah 61:1-2, the prophet declares, "to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God." However, in Luke 4:14-21, Messiah concluded with "to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord," and then He closed the book. He did not finish by declaring "the day of vengeance of our God." This explains the day of vengeance, which is Messiah's second coming events, will culminate on the Feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, just as the other portion of Isaiah's prophecy was fulfilled on this divine appointment at His first coming as well.

So again, let me say this really quick. So again, we saw what Isaiah wrote and what also Messiah said as well, and He fulfilled everything up to that last part, the vengeance, the day of vengeance of our God. So again, what does Isaiah say about setting the captives free? If one knows the Jubilee year, that means it starts on Yom Kippur, the Jubilee year. So, we have to understand this, my friends, with the Torah to understand the Gospels. We can't understand these things in the Gospels unless we understand the Torah of what I just said. So again, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, is when the Jubilee year starts, not on the Feast of Trumpets, the Jubilee year. So, we have to understand that He came down on that, on the Feast of Yom Kippur, and then He said what He said. And then when He comes back again to redeem the nation of Israel with all of us, it's going to be on Yom Kippur. And it goes into Isaiah's prophecy of Isaiah 61. So, this is truly remarkable. It's totally amazing how we can understand these things if we understand the prerequisites to understand them, the foundation to understand them. If we don't, we won't. So, we have to realize what Yeshua was doing here, just like Moses did as well. He atoned. And then when He comes again, He's going to atone the nation of Israel, and He's going to redeem them from the Islamists, and then He's going to judge everybody for their falsehood as well. So, it's just not Him coming to the Islamists to hand them the business. It's about everyone and anyone who's practicing falsehood and a lie. So, we've got to understand what He's truly coming to do. Isaiah 11, we'll go through that as well with that. Super important. This is really awesome when you look at Isaiah 61, Luke 4, the partial fulfillment. And He did it on Yom Kippur, and then He's going to do it on Yom Kippur again, at the Second Coming events.

Let me see here. So, this explains the day of vengeance, which is Messiah's second coming events, will culminate on the Feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, just as the other portion of Isaiah's prophecy was on this divine atonement as well. Moses atoned for the sins of the nation of Israel on the first Yom Kippur at Mount Sinai, just as Messiah will also redeem the nation or kingdom of Israel in His second coming events on Yom Kippur as well. So, look at the tie-in with Moses on Yom Kippur and also Yeshua on Yom Kippur, redeeming the kingdom or redeeming the children of Israel. Remember what Moses said in Exodus 32: "I will go make atonement for you." Is what he said in Ezekiel, not Ezekiel, Exodus 32. And that's what Yeshua is going to do as well. He's going to redeem them. He's going to restore them. It's truly amazing to put these things together with this fall feast.

Remember, Messiah has atoned for all of mankind's individual sins at the Feast of Passover. However, as a corporate nation, the believing Jews and Gentiles, Israel will not be completely redeemed until Messiah's second coming events, when He meets them face to face at Mount Sinai, with the ultimate destination in sight: the Holy Mount Zion. You can read that in Hosea, Ezekiel, and also Ephesians 1 is a great understanding of that. But if you're going to read Ephesians 1, you've got to understand the calendar and the feast days. If not, then we won't understand what Paul's writing in Ephesians 1. There's just no way to understand that because he says this in Ephesians 1: He gives you a timeline, individual to the nation timeline. He says, basically, about Passover, you were redeemed with the set-apart Spirit, the redemption of sin or forgiveness of sins, the redemption through the blood of the Messiah, Passover, until the purchased, treasured possession is possessed by Yeshua. When is that? Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Paul talks about Passover, individual salvation in Ephesians 1, if we understand it. And then he concludes it with the Feast of Yom Kippur when He redeems the nation of Israel, including believing Jews and Gentiles, at the Feast of Yom Kippur. Individual salvation, Passover; national salvation, the Feast of Yom Kippur, with Israel, with the overall nation, according to the everlasting covenants. He has to do it. He has to. There's no ifs, ands, or buts. As the Jewish Messiah, He has to do this with the feast days, with the covenants, with the calendar. He has to fulfill every jot and tittle. Everybody. So, that means everything He's going to fulfill. What do I mean by that? When He comes, He has already fulfilled the first four. When He comes again, He will fulfill the last three. While He's fulfilling the last three, He will be the Seed of David and the Seed of Abraham, the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and the Davidic covenant. What are those? The Abrahamic covenant promises the land and the seed of the land: think about it, the land, peace, promised land, the boundaries, and the seed of the land, Yeshua. Davidic covenant: David was promised a seed as well, which is Yeshua, to rule on His throne over the promised land of the Abrahamic covenant. So, the Davidic covenant builds and extends from the Abrahamic covenant, and then He is the New Covenant. And the New Covenant will be when the Jewish people say, "Baruch, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." They will be His people, and He will be their God, and we will be living literally in the New Covenant, which is the millennial kingdom. We're all saved by the New Covenant right now, the blood of the Lamb, all these things. You're not living in the New Covenant. Please look around. The New Covenant will be the millennial kingdom when He fulfills the Abrahamic, the land, peace, the Davidic covenant, the throne, and rule over all of us with the land, peace, on David's throne in Jerusalem. That's why Matthew, my Christian friends, that's why it's important to read Matthew 1:1, the very beginning of the New Testament. What does Matthew say? Seed of David, Seed of Abraham. The first line of the holy of the New Testament is Seed of David, Seed of Abraham. So again, in all due respect and love to everybody out there, if we do not understand that, close the Bible and go back and read the Torah and get educated, and then go back to Matthew, and we will understand what the Jewish writer said. He said, "Seed of David, Seed of Abraham." So, the Jewish people would understand Yeshua is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and the Davidic covenant. That's why I tell people, no way is Israel going to conquer the promised land for many reasons, but for this reason: they are not the Seed of David. They are not the Seed of Abraham. He is, and no one's conquered the promised land but He will. So, we've got to understand that Seed of David, Seed of Abraham, Yeshua the Messiah. No one else. And He's going to conquer the promised land. He'll sit on David's throne and rule over the Jewish remnant and over the Gentile remnant as well for a thousand years, the one new body and the one new man. Praise be His holy name. Praise be His holy name. Awesome.

As Luke concludes, he provides another confirmation that this event occurred on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is written, "So all of those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff." Then, passing through the midst of them, He went His way. As the people heard Yeshua testify that Isaiah 61:1-2 was fulfilled in their hearing, they were filled with wrath and wanted to throw Yeshua off the cliff. This attempt on Yeshua's life signifies this event was on Yom Kippur because only on the Day of Atonement would the people throw the scapegoat over the hill for the redemption of national sins. In Leviticus 16, we find this statute to be completed on one day and one day only, which is the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. That's why, my friends, we have to understand the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms to get the revelation out of the Gospels.