Antitypical Day Of Atonement

1) The starting point is the text itself:

“Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, “How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled underfoot? And he said to me, “For two thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.”

So, we know the length of the time—2,300 days. But we do not yet know what the 2,300 days means and when it begins.

2) Chapter 7 of Daniel mentions that the 70 weeks begins with the degree to rebuild Jerusalem. Given the fact that there were multiple degrees, we need to know which one. The one that most clearly met the guidelines of the

First, the concepts earlier in the book of the ram and the goat give us a clue, as these are both the basic sacrificial animals. But more definitively, the concepts of nitsdaq (judgment) and purification are so clear in this book that we find ourselves clearly seeing this day as an antitype of the Day of Atonement, which is described in Leviticus 16 as a Day of Atonement.

8) Then we move to perhaps the most complicated part: establishing the day. As Jesus died during Passover (see Matthew 26), which symbolized His death, we can expect Him to do the heavenly Day of Atonement on the earthly Day of Atonement.

9) From here we move to the next point—what day is the Jewish Day of Atonement on in 1844. For starters, from the material we derive in Leviticus it is always in the fall. According to the rabbinic calendar, it was September 23.

10) However, this calculation was based on more simple time calculations. The Jewish calendar added an extra month some years, based on the ripening of the barley harvest. (Essentially the barley served as the basis for them to be able to determine if their years was getting off course, like when we have a leap year. Instead, they had leap