Consider Paul’s following statement: “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5.21). Did you happen to notice on your calendar that this past Wednesday, September 26, was Yom Kippur? “Yom” is the Hebrew word for day, and “Kippur” means atonement. So, Yom Kippur is the “Day of Atonement,” as described in Leviticus 16. Under the Law of Moses, this was the annual day upon which the High Priest entered the Most Holy Place to apply animal blood to the Mercy Seat (the […]