Why were the people to seek God in humility on the day of atonement?
To reveal their sincerity. Those who did not humble their souls on that day were “cut off” le2329. In this sense it was judgment. Those who refused to seek the Lord in humility revealed their hearts. They still clung to their sin wanting forgiveness for sin without the cleansing. They wanted to escape the punishment for sin without seeking God to change their characters. Christ’s complete work in us leads us ever upward to the measure of the stature of fullness in Christ (Eph. 4:13) ever trusting Him, secure in the grace of His salvation. We have looked at much of this before. Here we can make sense of the overall system. The sanctuary services represent how God handles the sin problem from its beginning and on through to final redemption in heaven. On this planet, the process began with the problem: Adam’s sin (and ours). The solution came by: Christ’s death on Calvary as the Passover lamb, His resurrection and appearance in heaven, the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost, the trumpet war
