We are just over halfway through the Yamim Noraim, Days of Awe, and just days away from Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement.
According to tradition, this is the day Hashem seals the Books of Life and Death for the coming year. On Yom Kippur, we devote ourselves to communal repentance for sins committed over the course of the previous year. It is the most solemn day in the Jewish year; the day we are instructed to separate ourselves as much as possible from the physical demands of the world we live in, in order to give all our hearts and minds to repairing our relationship with Hashem.
As Messianic Jews, we not only acknowledge this day and draw near like our ancestors of old did, but even more importantly, we recognize Messiah Yeshua’s atonement granted us by his sacrificial death, and actively partner with Hashem to bring the reality of this forgiveness and atonement to Kol Yisra’el through prayer, intercession, and fasting.
So, we pray Al Chet. We cry Avinu Malkeinu. We confess and intercede for all Israel, and all the world with all our hearts.
May we all hasten the coming of Messiah, and may we all be sealed eternally in the Lamb’s Book of Life on the merit of Messiah, amen.
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