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Repentance And The Chosen People People Volume XVI, Issue 7 September 2010 REPENTANCE ANDINSIDE JOY Isaiah 53 and Atonement • Celebrating the High Holidays THIS ISSUE: in Israel • The King’s Two Messianic Entries into Jerusalem ISAIAH 53 AND ATONEMENT Dear friend, The focus of the High Holidays is Jewish friends! You can fill out the Shalom from New York City! We on atonement and the forgiveness of enclosed card and send it to us and we enjoyed a fruitful season of ministry sin. This is the very theme we will send them a copy of the book. this summer. By God’s amazing grace, emphasized during our Isaiah 53 Alternatively, you can refer them to you helped purchase a new building Campaign! Isaiah 53 was written our website where they can order it in Brooklyn (we’ll tell you more more than 700 years before Jesus and themselves: www.Isaiah53.com. about our renovation progress soon), is the clearest prophecy in the Old I would like to share an abbreviated conducted major outreaches in Israel Testament of the atoning death and portion of the book that is especially and New York City and held a resurrection of the Messiah. well suited to this time of the year children’s camp on the West Coast. This is not easily communicated to when Jewish people—even the most We also began our Isaiah 53 today’s average Jewish person, who is secular—are observing the Day of Evangelistic Campaign, and the first often secular and unfamiliar with the Atonement. This adapted portion is phase in New York City is now Bible! Religious Jewish people have from the chapter entitled “Isaiah 53 complete—except for the ongoing developed extensive arguments about and Atonement.” I hope that by follow up with seekers! Please keep why Isaiah 53 does not point to Jesus, reading it, you will be blessed and praying for the hundreds of Jewish but these objections are easier to have a better understanding of the way people who are now reading the book address by examining the Scriptures, in which we are communicating these Isaiah 53 Explained and whom our which are viewed as authoritative by eternal truths to our Jewish people. local staff members are visiting. both devout Jews and Christians. As you read, please remember that we As I wrote the evangelistic book we have written this for the modern The High Holidays are using for our campaign, Isaiah 53 Jewish reader who is not yet a believer are Approaching Explained, I wrestled with how to in Jesus: We are on the cusp of the High communicate the life-changing biblical Chapter 7: Holidays, which include the Jewish truths of salvation and forgiveness through the Isaiah 53 and New Year (Rosh Hashanah), the Day of Atonement Atonement (Yom Kippur) and the sacrifice of our Messiah Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot). Your Jesus. I believe the Lord led Introduction me, and the book does speak Chosen People staff across the globe is The idea of atonement is to the heart of today’s average especially busy during this season, as one of the most difficult in the we are conducting services and doing Jewish person. Bible to explain; however, it is all we can to help our Jewish people It would be my great joy to also one of the most important see that Jesus is the One who fulfills send a free copy of this 165-page of all spiritual truths. It would each of these great biblical festivals. book to one or more of your be impossible to grasp the 2 The Chosen People meaning of Isaiah 53 without God’s examining the meaning of atonement. standards. The Surveys of the modern Jewish Bible describes this community indicate that most Jewish “missing the mark” as This is the context for people do something to acknowledge sin, and claims that sin is under standing what the Servant the Day of Atonement—Yom Kippur. endemic to the human described in Isaiah 53 did for you But do we really understand what this condition—no one is perfect. If sin were and me. The chapter predicts that means? We know it involves forgiving not universal, then atonement would be God would send His innocent Servant others and being forgiven by God (the optional or only the worst among us to die in our place and pay the one day a year we believe in God— would need it. Rather, according to the penalty of death, which we deserved. with or without evidence!), but most Bible and also the Jewish religion, we And through his death and people would have a difficult time all need atonement! resurrection, God’s wrath and defining and explaining the idea of There are a variety of ways to look judgment for our sin would be atonement. for atonement. Some of us try to find removed! Both Judaism and Christianity hold atonement through seeking or earning this important teaching in common the forgiveness of others. There’s Conclusion and both faiths are built on this nothing wrong with making amends, Only through accepting God’s concept, so it is very important for us and as Jews we know that at least atonement will we experience peace in to understand it! The idea that the once a year this is a major personal our relationship with our Creator— a Servant dies for our sins cannot be project! But making amends is peace that will enable us to face life understood without grasping what the different from receiving atonement. and even death with a confidence that Bible teaches about atonement. We might try to earn atonement by comes from an intimate relationship Atonement, especially personal sacrifice: volunteering or with the God who made us. substitutionary atonement, is giving money to philanthropy. These The choice is yours! understandably difficult for the modern efforts have great merit, but once we mind to grasp, as it is founded upon stop doing them, our sense of peace Happy High Holidays certain presuppositions that are not wanes, so that we live on a perpetual I hope you will enjoy the rest of widely accepted today. treadmill, seeking atonement generated the newsletter, especially the featured by our own efforts. We innately know article by Rachel G., one of our Israel The Presuppositions we need to make atonement for the staff members, on how the High of Atonement wrongs we have done, but it is in trying Holidays are celebrated in Israel today. The first idea essential to the that we experience our deepest sense concept of atonement is that there is a of failure. Please remember to request a free copy of Isaiah 53 Explained for your personal God who made us, loves us, Atonement—removing the Jewish friends, associates or family desires to have a relationship with us alienation and guilt that keep us from and who also holds us accountable a close personal relationship with our members. Also, our beautiful Messianic for our actions. This personal God is Creator—only comes about when the Jewish Art Calendar for 2010-2011 is holy and righteous and created problem of sin is removed. From the available now, and it is simply beauty, love and all the things we Bible’s point of view, no one among spectacular . you will love the artist’s enjoy in this life. He gave us us is capable of achieving the depth of vivid photographs of Jewish life! parameters for our behavior so that repentance that would enable us to As always, we could not reach our we do not misuse all the blessings He meet God’s holy standards. Jewish people without your faithful has given us. But for some reason, no Once we accept the presupposition support and prayers! Thank you! moralist or philosopher has been able that there is a personal God, and that May the One who adequately to explain why we we fail to meet His standards, we then made a way to heaven continually stray from the divine come to a third presupposition: for you and me be guidelines found in the Bible. Ignoring atonement begins and ends with God’s your greatest joy! these guidelines is called sin. efforts, and our responsibility is simply Your brother, The second presupposition to accept what God has accomplished foundational to understanding on our behalf. In other words, atonement is that people find it atonement from the Bible’s perspective Dr. Mitch Glaser difficult—even impossible—to meet is an unmerited and unearned gift. Mitch President September 2010 3 Celebrating the High Holidays in Israel There is an air of excitement in Israel in the days leading up to the fall High Holidays, and the sights, sounds, and smells are wonderful! The weather has finally become cooler, ripe pomegranates are arriving in the market, and there is delicious golden round challah to eat. Beware of getting caught in the market a day or two Yom Kippur before the holidays, as it is extremely crowded— everyone is trying to prepare for enough food to last for days on end as stores, buses, schools, businesses all shut down during these festivals. In the days of the Temple, the shofar blast marked the beginning of the ten-day period leading up to Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) when the sacrifice presented to the Lord by the High Priest on behalf of the nation would be either accepted or rejected, thus paying for the sins of the people. As believers, we know that a perfect, complete, and Rosh HaShanah eternal sacrifice was made for us—that of Jesus our High Priest! Ten days after Rosh HaShanah comes Yom Rosh HaShanah (the New Year) is the first of the holidays Kippur, and Israelis—whether religious or not—flock to the to occur.
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