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Mandate for Mercy Pt 2 - FINAL
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  • Our Father
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  • You Are Holy (Isaiah 6)

  • His Mercy Covers Me

    There are several Hebrew words used throughout the Scriptures for the word “mercy”. But probably the one I am most grateful for is the word כַּפֹּרֶת kapporeth.
    When I think about this kind of mercy from God I am overwhelmed with His love and goodness to me. This form of God’s mercy transformed my life forever. It is so much more than compassion or empathy. This mercy is defined as that which covers and carries atonement in a covenant. This is a mercy that cost the giver. It further means propitiation. Propitiation is the act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of one who was offended. With our sin and rebellion we stood as an offense against a Holy Creator.
    Though God is not one to merely be appeased, He is Holy and His Law absolute. The wages of sin is death. And that has not changed. But He is a merciful God.
    This redeeming and merciful plan of God is revealed to us first through the Tabernacle. Of old, it was where we would come to meet with God. But you and I are the new tabernacle, the place where God has chosen to come and meet with you.
    Exodus 30:6 ESV
    And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you.
    The mercy seat was a foreshadow of the mercy of God both present and to come. 1 John 2:2 tells us that Christ and His shed blood was the propitiation for our sins.
    1 John 2:2 ESV
    He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
    Jesus Christ was God’s mercy from the throne of God poured out for us. His blood, rather than the blood of a bull, was sprinkled as the propitiation for our sin and offense against God.
    Leviticus 16:14 ESV
    And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
    Why was God so specific? Why must the blood be sprinkled from the front and the east side on Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement or Day of Covering? And why seven times?
    “If one has ever had the privilege of standing on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, it all makes sense. The east side of the mercy seat faces directly toward the Mount of Olives, where the altar of the red heifer was located. It was likely near this exact spot that Yeshua was crucified just outside of the Jerusalem city gates (Heb 13:12), and where he sprinkled his blood as an atonement for men’s sins” (Blood on the Mercy Seat…Facing Mount of Olives | Hoshana Rabbah Blog).
    Hebrews 13:12 ESV
    So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
    The Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies was a type and foreshadow of the heavenlies. So, what is the mercy seat in heaven and how was the blood of Christ placed upon it?
    There are a couple important words used in Hebrew to understand this concept. The “seat” of God is כִּסֵּא chiss’ay or throne; the seat of highest honor. But it is also the שֶׁבֶת הַ מָקוֹם sheveth ha maqom or a sacred place of violent termination. Thus, the place where God’s mercy is poured out.
    Leviticus 17:11 ESV
    For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
    God’s mercy is revealed and makes atonement for us in the blood of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning blood, you are made clean, made holy, and brought back under the covering of the Creator. If you have stepped outside of His covering, He has made a way back to safety and holiness through the redeeming work of His mercy poured out in Christ Jesus.
    The priest had to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifice on the mercy seat seven times. The blood makes the distinctive separation between the created and the Creator. He is the Creator and we are the created. He is holy and we were unclean. He is the redeemer and we are the redeemed. Apart from Him there is no other way. Without Him we are like the beast of the field and our souls are incomplete, void of the Holy Spirit.
    The number seven in Hebrew is symbolic of completion as God created all things in six days and on the seventh He rested for all was complete. So, Sabbath is not about being idle and not exerting oneself, it is about being complete in God.
    So many things in this world seek to convince us that we are not complete. Even Adam and Eve were convinced that they were incomplete in the presence of God without something being added to them though it was prohibited from God.
    The blood of Christ atones, covers, and completes you through the work of God. His mercy completes you. The blood of the sacrifice represented the life and sprinkling it on the mercy seat represented the payment for sin. The life of the innocent to cover the penalty of sin for the guilty.
    (Illustration: dip your finger into the cup of grape juice and let it drip on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant model seven times. Each time say - “My sin against God, My disobedience, My discontentment, my pride, my compromise, my rebellion, my selfishness.)
    Note that the priest could only enter safely into the Holy presence of God by the blood of the sacrifice acceptable to God. Thus, Christ entered the Holy of Holies of the Heavens of the Lord by His atoning blood and secured a redemption that is eternally available to those who would believe and receive.
    Hebrews 9:12 ESV
    he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
    The blood of goats and calves could only symbolize purification of the sanctuary. But the blood of Christ bought real, life changing, transforming purification with completeness to the soul of man, God’s new dwelling place of His Holy Spirit.
    Leviticus 16:16 ESV
    Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
    This is exactly what Christ has done for us. Only the blood of Christ, received can make you clean and complete in the Lord. This is what Jesus meant when He said at the Passover meal, “This is My blood...”
    Matthew 26:27–29 ESV
    And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
    The word used for “drink” used by Jesus would have been understood by the disciples as שָׁתָה shatah simply meaning to put the cup to your lips, tilt it up, and allow the wine to enter your mouth and swallow it. However, the context in which Jesus is using the analogy is that of נֶסֶךְ nesekh meaning a pour offering or that which covers.
    (Illustration: dip your finger into the cup of grape juice and let it drip on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant model seven times. Each time say - “My brokenness, My shame, My guilt, my sorrow, my guilt, my rejection, my hurt.)
    Jesus is not speaking of them literally drinking the blood of a sacrificed animal nor the blood from His flesh that would pour out at Calvary. But He is telling them that they must be covered by His blood that will be poured out as an offering for the atonement or propitiation of their sins that they be restored completely to the favor of God by His great mercy.
    Let your prayer today be, “Lord wash over all of me and cover me from head to toe by the blood of my Rabbi Yeshua. Lord cover me with Your great mercy today. Lord, I receive every single drop of Your merciful blood that restores, heals and makes my soul complete and new again” His mercy covers you and completes you. Without it, we are just seeking to cover ourselves with a religious cloak. But when you abide in Him and Him in you, in His mercy, it is finished. You are made new again.

      • Exodus 30:6ESV

      • 1 John 2:2ESV

      • Leviticus 16:14ESV

      • Hebrews 13:12NIV2011

      • Leviticus 17:11ESV

      • Hebrews 9:12ESV

      • Leviticus 16:16ESV

      • Matthew 26:27–29ESV

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