How do these words and concepts work together? What do they have to do with the Ark of the Covenant? What does 'covering' (Kippur) with robes have to do with Atonement? How is mercy a part of the Spiritual Economy?
all right so let's cover atonement here
atonement comes from it's an English
word that came from William Tyndale or
tinsdale in the 14 1500s and basically
what he did is he took the term Kippur
which is to cover in the Old Testament
and gave the word atonement and
atonement comes from a couple of
different words that he put together so
you have at and one so atonement is at
one mint it's the same idea as covenant
it's taking two sides and having a
reconciliation or bringing them
together together that's what covenant
means right Cova near would be to come
together
that's a covenant and so at one mint is
bringing God and man together there is
the higher law where God is coming down
to men condescending them in and paying
for man's sins sacrificing for him and
then there is the lower law where man is
reaching toward God to be at one with
him by obedience and by prayer and by
anything that's reaching upward toward
God so that's really what
atonement means is being at one it has
to do with covenant but there's another
meaning as well that has to do with
covering so Kippur we think of the day
Yom Kippur
which is a Jewish holiday right that is
the day of atonement
well Yom Kippur really means day of
covering and day of covering is the same
thing as atonement so in the in the
ritual of the Day of Atonement the high
priest would go into the temple would go
into the Holy of Holies and would
cleanse everything out with the blood of
an auction the blood of a goat and etc
and it would cleanse the temple and
cleanse the land and cleanse the people
and reconcile God with man it was like
it was also called a the covenant of
peace sometimes it's termed so it would
be a covering of this through it with
the blood that would be the payment
you would cover and we see this imagery
throughout the scriptures as well of
covering for example when Adam and Eve
lose their garments of light they lose
their covering they lose their Kippur
the atonement in a sense they lose that
and then when Jesus Christ or Jehovah
makes garments of animal skins for Adam
and Eve he is giving them a covering
right he's giving them a cap or he's
giving them atonement it's a
representation of atonement now we use
the term atonement also in the sense of
a verb to atone for someone and that is
also correct it's a payment to pay for
somebody else or to pay for a past sin
of yourself
it's payment and we can see that in a
couple of other words also attributed to
William tinsdale is the term mercy seat
so in the Holy of Holies you had the Ark
of the Covenant and what covered the Ark
of becoming the lid that had the two
cherubim with the with the wings on
them that was called the Kippur it right
the covering and so that would cover it
but it was also called at least by
William tinsdale apparently the mercy
seat now think about the word mercy we
think of mercy as in the bowels of Mercy
and having compassion but what does that
really mean what that means is you are
paying for someone right you're paying
the price of having empathy and
suffering in behalf of somebody else
think of the word mercenary mercenary
would be a soldier who is paid by a
different nation usually to come in and
battle for them to go to war for them
it's a payment they're accepting payment
as a soldier mercy same thing where we
the same term or word from where we get
mercenary so mercy is actually a payment
and so we have the law of justice which
is the lower law
very important but what supersedes that
it's the law of at one mint from God
it's the law of covering from God it's
the law of mercy from God His mercy His
grace is a covering and we think of his
glory is something that covers us
garments of glory the temple garment is
a covering and so when we are naked or
ashamed so to speak it's because we've
been separated from God and as we are
covered in holy raiment or of glory then
we are reconciled in a sense with God we
have there is a payment there it is a
covering and that is atonement at one ment
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