"Daniel 8 is worth looking at more closely. The entire chapter is filled with sanctuary imagery that is specifically related to the Day of Atonement.
To mention just a few:
--The ram and the he-goat (Dan 8:3-8) were the two animals specially involved on the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:5).
--The reference to the “rebellion” (pesha‘) of the little horn (Dan 8:12, 13) uses a word found in connection with the sanctuary services only in Leviticus 16 (vv. 16, 21).
--The word for “the sanctuary” (qodesh) in v. 14 links the vision of these verses to the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16 where the same word is used repeatedly for the Most Holy Place (Lev 16:2, 3 16, 17, 20, 23, 27, 33).
--The word nitsdaq (“cleanse, restore”) in v. 14 is uniquely suited to cover the scope of what Christ’s Day of Atonement ministry in heaven accomplishes.
--The description of the 2,300 “days” as “evening-morning” units points to the days of creation in Genesis 1 which are also described as evening-morning units (Gen 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31).
The connection of the cleansing of the sanctuary with Genesis 1-2 is significant because Creation Week culminated with total rest on the seventh day. Thus God blessed the Sabbath and made it holy. The only other day on which total rest is commanded in the Bible, besides the weekly Sabbath, is the Day of Atonement when the sanctuary was cleansed!"
Fulcrum7/CliffGoldstein
To mention just a few:
--The ram and the he-goat (Dan 8:3-8) were the two animals specially involved on the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:5).
--The reference to the “rebellion” (pesha‘) of the little horn (Dan 8:12, 13) uses a word found in connection with the sanctuary services only in Leviticus 16 (vv. 16, 21).
--The word for “the sanctuary” (qodesh) in v. 14 links the vision of these verses to the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16 where the same word is used repeatedly for the Most Holy Place (Lev 16:2, 3 16, 17, 20, 23, 27, 33).
--The word nitsdaq (“cleanse, restore”) in v. 14 is uniquely suited to cover the scope of what Christ’s Day of Atonement ministry in heaven accomplishes.
--The description of the 2,300 “days” as “evening-morning” units points to the days of creation in Genesis 1 which are also described as evening-morning units (Gen 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31).
The connection of the cleansing of the sanctuary with Genesis 1-2 is significant because Creation Week culminated with total rest on the seventh day. Thus God blessed the Sabbath and made it holy. The only other day on which total rest is commanded in the Bible, besides the weekly Sabbath, is the Day of Atonement when the sanctuary was cleansed!"
Fulcrum7/CliffGoldstein