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The VOICE of Prophecy! Final Fulfilment Edition, 20/21

                     4 September 2021

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT – PART ONE

MAN DID NOT EVOLVE. HE WAS CREATED BY GOD FOR A UNIQUE PURPOSE; AND TO HAVE A “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP” WITH HIM.

SATAN’S PLAN:

‘Angels Falling’ – Artist unknown(?)

SATAN (the fallen Archangel, LUCIFER) didn’t like that; in fact HE HATED IT. And he made it his MISSION from the very outset to “upset the applecart” (so to speak); to DIVIDE mankind from God, and men from women – to come between them – TO DIVIDE AND RULE.

It is Satan who is “THE GOD OF THIS WORLD” and who exercises RULERSHIP over it.

GOD’S PLAN:

GOD was prepared from the very beginning to COUNTER any ambitions Lucifer has to both dethrone Him, or derail His Devine PLAN. From the very “foundation of the earth” He prepared a sacrifice for sinful man, who could and would bring mankind BACK into a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with Him.

JESUS came as a “living sacrifice;” a “second Adam” who would pay with his own blood the DEATH PENALTY for sinful mankind – An ATONEMENT (at-one-ment) that RESTORES the broken relationship between MAN and GOD

God’s plan is prefigured (or symbolised) in the HOLY DAYS He gave to the descendants of ISRAEL when He delivered them from 400 years of slavery in Egypt. A pivotal moment in God’s plan occurs in the Fall Festival Season, on THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (Leviticus 16); which pictures the SACRIFICE of a LIVE GOAT and the banishment of “the Azazel goat” (scapegoat).

ABOVE: this table sets out GOD’S FEAST DAYS (Holy Days) as given to the ancient Israelites by Moses when they came out of slavery in Egypt (Leviticus 23). The “MEANINGS” are those presented in publications of the Worldwide Church of God in the 1980s

IN THIS SERMON, delivered to the Basildon congregation of the Worldwide Church of God on 3 October 1987 by Phil J Gray (then a local elder in WCG); the significance of THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, in God’s Plan is explained; a day to “afflict your souls,” abstain from food and drink on an annual Sabbath day of rest.

PART ONE:

SERMON: THE DAY of ATONEMENT (Part One), delivered by PHIL J GRAY to the Basildon congregation of the Worldwide Church of God, Saturday 3 October 1987

COVERS THE EXPULSION OF SATAN FROM HEAVEN; THE TEMPTATION OF ADAMAND EVE; THE INFLUENCE OF SATAN OVER THE EARTH; THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS FOR MANKIND; the message is continued in THE DAY OF ATONEMENT – PART TWO.