Chapter 5 -

The message of the patterns and fulfilment

 

 

 

 

In proceeding with our survey, we should consider the message found in patterns. The Scriptures teach us about the Passover and the laws, about making offerings and God’s covenant, about the priesthood and the tabernacle – all taught to us through the writings of Moses. These also convey a message for people of our day. They gain a new meaning and fulfillment in Yeshua, whose nature, as we already noted, was quite similar to that of Moses. Let’s study some examples:

 

THE New covenant

 

One of the prophecies in the Scriptures was written by Jeremiah. It is called the Covenant of Jeremiah.

   His prophecy came after the nation of Israel had broken the covenant God made on Mount Sinai with his people through Moses. The condition of that first covenant was that the people would obey the law. But they were unable to meet that condition.  

   Jeremiah prophesied about the establishment of a new covenant, one that was not written on tablets of stone – as the Old Covenant had been – but would be written in the hearts of people, and through which people’s sins would be forgiven. Jeremiah’s prophecy pointed to the establishment of a deeper relationship with God than was previously possible.

   Regarding the fulfilment of this prophecy, the New Testament very clearly declares that a New Covenant is established through Yeshua, the Messiah. He is the mediator of the New Covenant (as Moses was mediator of the first covenant) and He assures us that a covenant based on better promises. This New Covenant came into force after He bled and died. Now, all people can participate in fellowship with God through Yeshua the Messiah.

 

Old Covenant

 

- (Ex 24:7-8) And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD has said will we do, and be obedient.

8  And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.

 

- (Jer 31:31-33)  "Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was an husband to them, said the LORD:

33  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

 

New Covenant

 

- (Matt 26:26-28) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink you all of it;

28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

 

- (2 Cor 3:6) Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

 

- (Hebr 7:18,19, 22)  For there is truly a cancellation of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

19  For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near to God.

22  By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

 

- (Hebr 8:6-7) But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

 

- (Hebr 9:15-17) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16  For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

17  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.

 

Passover

 

One celebration in Israel nowadays is Passover, which Moses gave to the nation of Israel. It was celebrated then and is still celebrated nowadays to make sure they remember their nation’s departure from Egypt and rescue from the punishment of the Egyptians. They were rescued -- the punishment passed over them (pesah / Passover means “to pass over”) -- because they had sacrificed a lamb without defect. The lamb’s blood protected them (compare Leviticus 17:11).

   Jews still celebrate Passover to honor the memory of their delivery from Egyptian slavery in ancient days. (Read Exodus 12:1-14). The Lord taught them to slaughter a perfect lamb in the hour between dusk and dark,  drain the blood, then roast the meat and prepare a meal. They were to smear the blood on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they were to eat the meal. They were to dress for traveling, and to eat the meal quickly. It was that night on which the Lord would pass through the land of Egypt and kill every Egyptian firstborn man and beast. When the Lord saw the blood over the Hebrew doors He passed over their household. This was called the Lord’s Passover.

   What is the modern-day fulfilment of the Passover, in the New Covenant? The New Testament clearly teaches that animals and their blood are no longer needed for protection. Instead, we learn in the New Testament that Yeshua was perfect, without blemish or defect, and that He replaced the Passover lamb because he died at that hour. He shed His blood so our punishment would pass over (pesah / pass over) us.    

   The first Passover served as the model for the perfect act of sacrifice by Yeshua Christ – God gave us that pattern so we could recognize the meaning of Jesus’ sacrifice. The Passover taught us that we can be saved from punishment. Now, in the New Covenant, we need no other model. All who put their trust in Yeshua are saved from eternal punishment:

 

Moses set the first Passover:

 

- (Ex 12:3-5,8,11-14) Speak you to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4  And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

8  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

11  And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.

12  For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

13  And the blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14  And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

 

Yeshua fulfilled the Passover promise of delivery when He died at the same hour and shed His blood for the sins of the whole world:

 

- (Matt 26:1-2) And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,

2  You know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

 

- (1 Cor 5:6-8) Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

- (Eph 1:7) In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace

 

- (1 Peter 1:18-19) For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot

 

- (1 John 1:7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleans us from all sin.

 

- (Rom 8:1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

 

PentecostAL

 

Another feast celebrated today in Israel is the Pentecostal (it is also called other names: the Feast of Harvest – Ex 23:16, the Feast of Weeks – Ex 34:22, the day of the first fruits - Numbers 28:26 and Shavuot), which honors the giving of the Law to Moses. It is believed that on that day Moses climbed the mountain where he was to receive the Law. He returned carrying two tablets on which had been written the most important commandments. Pentecost is always celebrated exactly 50 days after Passover. Read Leviticus 23:15,16:

 

 - (Lev 23:15-16) And you shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

16  Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering to the LORD.

 

As to the fulfilment of the Pentecost in the New Covenant, the Bible indicates that it gained a new meaning by Yeshua. Just 50 days after the Passover, at the Pentecost, He poured out the Holy Spirit over the Earth, (the Greek word "pentecoste" or Pentecost which appears in the Acts of the Apostles means “50^th day”). The Lord sent the Holy Spirit to believers on the same festival day that honors the giving of the Law (read Acts of the Apostles 2:1-4). Yeshua told His followers that it would happen.

 

- (Luke 24:49) And, behold, I send the promise of my Father on you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.

 

 - (Acts 2:1- 4) And when the day of Pentecost (50. day) was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

3  And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat on each of them.

4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

 

The fact that Yeshua poured out the Holy Spirit on the very day of the giving of the law, speaks to us in another way. It tells us that when people had broken the law and the covenant of God (Jer 31:31-33), and they were not able to do His will, the Holy Spirit was sent to help them in their deficiency. He was sent here to help us live according to the will of God. We believe that this came true on the day of Pentecost almost 2,000 years ago.

 

Prophecy:

 

 - (Eze 36:26-27) A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.

 

- (Jer 31:33) But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

 

Fulfillment:

 

- (Rom 8:2,4,5) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

 

- (Rom 8:9) But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

 

- (1 Cor 6:19) What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?

 

- (2 Cor 1:21-22) Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God;

22  Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

 

- (Gal 5:22,23,25) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

 

THE Tent of Meeting and THE heavenly Most Holy Place

 

Very important matters 2,000–3,000 years ago in Israel were no doubt the tent of meeting, the temple built later, and ceremonies performed in those meeting places. They were an important part of faithful service at that time and reflected how people could get forgiven for their sins. They demonstrated that man can get in connection with God and be atoned by Him.

   The fact that Yeshua physically came to Earth to establish the New Covenant, however, altered the significance of the tent of meeting and the temple. The service in the tent of meeting as established through Moses set a pattern for Hebrews, so they, and we, would recognize what Yeshua would do. Jeshua’s physical sacrifice replaced that of the ceremonial lamb; his taking sins upon Himself removed our need to place them upon an animal. Because Yeshua became eternal High Priest, we are no longer bound to mortal priests in earthly sanctuaries. Let’s study at these issues separately:

 

Yeshua replaced animal offerings by His death and brought atonement

 

Above, we explained how Yeshua died during the Passover and in this way figuratively took the place of the Passover lamb. He died, thereby replacing the animal offerings that had only served as a pattern of Him. They were no longer needed, because eternal punishment for sin can be passed over (pesah / pass over) by Him as long as we put our trust in Him. (Other examples of substitution and exchange of life can be found in Scriptures. When Adam and Eve committed a sin God made garments of skin for them and clothed them. An animal died instead of Adam and Eve, Gen 3:21. Abel brought his offering from among the firstborn of his flock, Gen 4:3,4. Noah sacrificed burnt offerings on an altar, Gen 8:20. A ram was sacrificed instead of Abraham’s son, Gen 22:13.) 

   Yeshua also replaced guilt and sin offerings made during services in the tent of meeting and later in the temple. He replaced those animal offerings that inadequately "make the comers thereunto perfect." (Hebrews 10:1). Those were only "a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.” (Hebrews 10:3,4).

   The Bible teaches us that Yeshua the Messiah came to sacrifice Himself as a guilt and sin offering, just as was prophesied in the Book of Isaiah. (Earlier we noted that many rabbinical commentaries support the notion that the Messiah carried our sins to the cross. Refer to Chapter 4). Our sins were literally placed on Him on the cross (compare Leviticus 16:21,22 and 4:33), so that they would no longer separate us from God. The Bible also teaches us that Yeshua was without a blemish or defect, which was required of the guilt offering. His crucifixion reconciled all the sins of the world, once and forever. Nothing else is required (Hebrews 10:18):

 

Prophecy:

 

- (Isa 53:5, 6,10, 11) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.

6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

 

Fulfillment:

 

- (Hebr 10:1,11-18) For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

11  And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13  From now on expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14  For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15  Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

 

- (Hebr 9:25,26,28) Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;

26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin to salvation.

 

- (John 1:29) The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.

 

- (Rom 5:11) And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

 

Yeshua became an eternal high priest. When the high priest and other priests worked in the tent of meeting and the temple, there was one day more important than all others: the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).

   On only one day of the year could the High Priest enter the Holy of Holies, the Most Holy Place. The High Priest could only enter after bringing a sin offering for himself and his family.  Next he put on a simple white linen gown – to reflect cleanliness and holiness – and only then did he dare to stand before God in the Most Holy Place. He took with him a sacrificial blood offering to cover the sins of the people and reconcile the people to God for another year.

   What is important about this is that the high priest represented the whole nation. Just as priests offered gifts and offerings for forgiveness of sins for individuals, so the high priest did for the whole nation. He made atonement for the whole nation and represented them before God. All the people needed to do, was to trust that his actions would earn God’s approval.  

   In the New Covenant it is the same. Yeshua became eternal high priest and did everything for us. He reconciled us to God and did everything for us without our participation. Yeshua took His place at the right hand of the throne of God and now acts as our defender and representative there. In this role as our representative, He can relate to our weaknesses because He Himself "was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Hebr 4:15).

   The greatest difference between Yeshua and the priests of the Old Covenant is this: Yeshua never sinned. He was born and lived without sinning, and he entered into eternal priesthood unlike mortal priests. He is our eternal priest, just as his sacrifice carries eternal redemption. He fulfilled the purpose of the Day of Atonement because by Him our sins were reconciled. We neither need to reconcile ourselves to God, nor could we do so. Yeshua has done it for us:

 

- (Hebr 5:1-6) For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

2  Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

3  And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

4  And no man takes this honor to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

5  So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said to him, You are my Son, to day have I begotten you.

6  As he said also in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

 

- (Hebr 4:14-15) Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

 

- (Hebr 2:17) Why in all things it behooved him to be made like to his brothers, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

 

- (1 John 2:1-2) My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not.  And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our’s only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

 

- (Rom 5:11) And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

 

- (2 Cor 5:18-20) And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

19  To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20  Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled to God.

 

- (Col 1:20-22) And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled

22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreproveable in his sight:

 

- (1 John 4:10) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 

The heavenly Most Holy Place. As we noted earlier, the tent of meeting, the temple built later, and ceremonies performed in those meeting places defined Israel’s relationship with God and served as a model for the coming of Yeshuah. They served as “the example and shadow of heavenly things,” as described by the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews, and were necessary during the Old Covenant. In the New Covenant they are no longer required:

 

- (Hebr 8:4-5) For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5  Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, said he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.”

 

- (Hebr 9:1-5) Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

2  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the show bread; which is called the sanctuary.

3  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

5  And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

 

So, when the New Covenant came into being, these temple features lost their symbolism and were no longer needed, because the relationship they symbolized had been realized. The Bible teaches that when Yeshua carried out His act of atonement, he entered not into the earthly temple’s most holy place as high priest, but entered into God’s Most Holy Place. Yeshua replaced the earthly sanctuary with the “tabernacle that is not made with hands," and that is with God in Heaven:

 

- (Hebr 9:11,12, 24) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us

 

- (Hebr 8:1-2) Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

 

This means that Yeshua went to heaven into the Most Holy Place for us, and opened the way to God for everyone.

   Let’s consider Yeshua’s death. Witnesses recorded in the Bible that when Yeshuah gave up His spirit, the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Specialists say that this curtain was made of woven fabric about 10 centimeters thick, and would have been so strong that not even many pairs of bulls pulling in opposite directions could have torn it apart. No wind could have torn it from top to bottom. Only an act of God could have accomplished such a thing. Why would God have done such a thing? It showed people in a tangible way that He was removing the separation between Himself and His people. 

   If we want to enter into a relationship with God, we no longer need to rely on our own acts; our sin is not an obstacle because it has been wiped away. We need only turn to Yeshua the Messiah. He is the way and opens the door to God:

 

- (Matt 27:50-52) Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

52  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

 

- (Hebr 10:19) Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

 

- (Eph 2:12,13,18) That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

13  But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ.

18  For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

 

- (Hebr 7:25) Why he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

 

- (John 14:6) Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.

 

- (John 10:9) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

 

What took place when Yeshua died, 40 years before THE destruction of THE temple?

 

- (Dan 9:24-26) … reconciliation for iniquity… And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off... and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary…

 

When we consider the significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus, we can find one interesting verification in the old Jewish sources. These sources refer to something "special" taking place 40 years before the destruction of the temple (70 A.D.). It is widely thought that Yeshua died in 30 A.D.

   Both Mishnah Sanhedrin and Avoda Zara tell of something "shocking" taking place 40 years before the destruction of the temple. Suddenly all of "the offerings have lost their meaning and the doors to the Most Holy have been opened". These signs indicate that something supernatural took place in the temple when Jesus died.

   The Talmud (Yoma 39:b) contains a similar reference to the doors of the temple being opened, and mentions that the ram ceased to be supernatural. It ceased to be supernatural, because the woolen yarn that would normally change from red into white – as a sign of God’s forgiveness – no longer changed:

 

"Forty years before the holy temple was destroyed, the following things took place: on the Day of Atonement, the ram ceased to be supernatural; the red woolen yarn that normally changes into white stayed red and did not change; and the west side candle of the candelabra of the sanctuary did not want to burn when the doors of the holy temple opened by themselves.”

 

The conclusion drawn based on the statements above very strongly refers to the redeeming death of Yeshua in 30 A.D., when he opened the way for us to enter into the heavenly Most Holy Place. We must conclude that nothing can explain these special events at the temple better than Yeshua’s actions undertaken for our sins. At that moment, Jesus made all previous actions unnecessary.