{"id":2517,"date":"2009-09-27T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2009-09-27T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T19:18:44","slug":"tkach-on-atonement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wcg-news\/tkach-on-atonement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkach on Atonement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 275px;\" title=\"Worldwide Church of God Transformed from Truth to Fairy Tales\" src=\"\/tkach-transformed-from-truth.gif\" alt=\"Worldwide Church of God Transformed from Truth to Fairy Tales\" width=\"457\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">COGwriter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GIC (formerly WCG) sent out an email to an article by its J. Tkach which stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Perfect Atonement<\/h2>\n<p>In ancient Israel, as well as in Judaism today, the greatest of the holy days  was <em>Yom Kippur,<\/em> the Day of Atonement.<\/p>\n<p>It was the day that gathered up the worship of every other day.\u00a0The high  priest would stand before the people as their divinely appointed representative,  bearing the names of all of the twelve tribes engraved on his breastplate and  shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>He would perform the rituals of animal sacrifice using the blood of a bull  and a goat, and as the representative of every Israelite, confess the sins of  the whole nation.<\/p>\n<p>Only on this one day each year the high priest, and only the high priest,  after performing special rituals for his own cleansing and self-consecration,  would enter the most holy and sacred chamber of the Temple, the Holy of Holies,  on behalf of all Israel, praying for the people and sprinkling the sacrificial  blood for all their sins.<\/p>\n<p>The New Testament writers saw this sacred ceremony as the foreshadowing of  the atoning work of Jesus Christ, who came from God as the true High Priest, our  perfect representative and substitute, in solidarity with all humanity, bearing  the names of all people throughout all times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I would tend to agree with him on these points.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should add that J. Tkach (and the church he leads), while retaining some knowledge of the Day of Atonement, no longer observes it like those in the New Testament did.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the meaning and observation of the Day of Atonement, please read the article <a href=\"..\/..\/atonement.htm\">The Day of Atonement\u2013Its Christian Significance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COGwriter GIC (formerly WCG) sent out an email to an article by its J. Tkach which stated: Perfect Atonement In ancient Israel, as well as in Judaism today, the greatest of the holy days was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It was the day that gathered up the worship of every other day.\u00a0The high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wcg-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}