Further clues linking Yom Kippur and Azazel to the bitter water trial and Lilith can be seen in the history of the only two miracles that took place in the Temple on a regular basis.\u00a0 These miracles were the Sotah\u2019s bitter water trial and the changing of the scapegoat\u2019s scarlet woolen cloth to white on Yom Kippur.\u00a0 Tradition has it that the Sotah trial never failed to deliver its miraculous curses against the adulterous woman, and that the scarlet cloth never failed to turn white on Yom Kippur, at least until 30 CE.\u00a0 After that date, the same year of Christ\u2019s crucifixion, the miracles suddenly ceased.\u00a0 For the 40 remaining years of the Temple\u2019s existence, the bitter water and scarlet cloth miracles were replaced by three other ill foreboding miracles.\u00a0 The first was that the main lamp of the menorah could not be maintained lit by the priests.\u00a0 Despite their best efforts, every night for 40 years it went out.\u00a0 This main lamp was the mother lamp from which all the others were lit.\u00a0 Its fires were always to be kept burning.\u00a0 The second ill-boding miracle from the Talmud is that the Temple door to the Holy Sanctuary opened of their own accord each night.\u00a0 This exposed the Holy Place.\u00a0 Yohanan ben Zakkai, the leading Jewish authority leading up to the time of the Temple\u2019s destruction, declared that this was a sign of impending doom.\u00a0 The third ill-boding miracle concerned the lots for the Scapegoat. \u00a0For the last 40 years of the Temple\u2019s existence, during every Yom Kippur ceremony the lot was always found in the priest\u2019s right hand.\u00a0 It was considered a good omen if the lot for the Scapegoat was found in the priest\u2019s left hand.\u00a0 The odds of this happening by chance are astronomical.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why did the bitter water and scarlet cloth miracles stop?\u00a0 Edersheim explains that the scapegoat\u2019s scarlet cloth miracle ceased because the ultimate atoning sacrifice, of which the Yom Kippur ceremony was just a prophetic foreshadowing, was completed.\u00a0 This was Christ\u2019s crucifixion.\u00a0 Now we see that the bitter water trial stopped for much the same reason.\u00a0 The story of the trial\u2019s supernatural promised seed and its atoning sacrifice was now completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Further clues linking Yom Kippur and Azazel to the bitter water trial and Lilith can be seen in the history of the only two miracles that took place in the Temple on a regular basis.\u00a0 These miracles were the Sotah\u2019s bitter water trial and the changing of the scapegoat\u2019s scarlet woolen cloth to white on … Continue reading “6.4.4 The Miracles of the Temple”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":354,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions\/1034"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}