THE PHRASE "In that day" appears 108 times in Scripture.
It appears (100) times in the Old Testament
and (8) times in the New Testament
It appears throughout the book of Isaiah foretelling of the ultimate fulfillment of Yom Kippur in the last days on the prophetic timeline of redemption. Isaiah uses the phrase 'in that day (44) times spanning across 50 chapters, from 2-52. Although he doesn't use the phrase 'in that day' in chapter 58 it is still about the Day of Atonement. It was the only required fast day of the entire year.
Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Isaiah 58:5
It appears that in one sense the entire book of Isaiah was prophesying about the final days on the earth as portrayed in the Fall Feasts.
1. Trumpets -
2. Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement - 44 times in chapters 2-31
3. Feast of Tabernacles -
4. Isaiah concludes his book with the Great Eighth Day - in chapters 64-66
There is dovetailed within the chapters of prophecy, prophecies for the times he was living in and for the near future as well, to confirm that the prophecies of the Messiah's first coming were true. But they are all laid out against the backdrop of the Final Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles, and the Great Eighth Day.
Chapter one has a visual taken directly from the Day of Atonement ceremony held during the fall feasts which foretells Jesus' second coming.
“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. Isaiah 1:18
Part of the annual ceremony on the Day of Atonement required the priest to cast lots for two goats. One goat became the sacrifice and the other goat was designated as the scapegoat led out of the city and off a cliff.
According to the rabbinic traditions, two similar stories have been told.
Story no. 1 - Back in the temple, the people watched the scarlet sash tied to the doors of the temple when the scapegoat died the sash turned white.
Story no. 2 - A scarlet cord or strip of Scarlet dyed wool was attached to the head of the scapegoat and when the sacrifice was accepted the scarlet cord or strip turned white as snow. No matter which story you choose to believe, the result was the same. This miracle happened every year of the second Temple, from the time of Ezra until the year that Jesus died. Josephus the historian records that the sash or cord stopped turning from scarlet to white 40 years before the destruction of the second temple in A.D. 70.
The following is an excerpt taken from the article
"In Tractate Yoma 39b, the Talmud quotes a Baraisa1 that discusses numerous remarkable phenomena that occurred in the Temple during the Yom Kippur service. More specifically, the Talmud states that there was a strip of scarlet-dyed wool tied to the head of the scapegoat2 which at times would turn white in the presence of the large crowd gathered at the Temple on the Day of Atonement. When this phenomenon occurred, the Jewish people perceived this miraculous transformation as a heavenly sign that their sins were forgiven. The Talmud relates, however, that 40 years before the destruction of the Second Temple the scarlet-colored strip of wool did not turn white." The text of the Talmud which missionaries quote states,
"The Rabbis taught that forty years prior to the destruction of the Temple the lot did not come up in the [high priest’s] right hand nor did the tongue of scarlet wool become white…"
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