GOING LIVE ONLINE APR 4
or ON-DEMAND WATCH LATER
Sacrifice, Atonement, & Jesus (Yeshua): Eye-Opening Revelations is a LIVE ONLINE Term 4 2024 SIX-WEEK Course Apr 4, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16
held virtually on Zoom Thursdays 2:00–4:00pm EST or ON-DEMAND WATCH LATER. Once you register for this course, log into your MSI account, choose this course in 'My Courses', and you will find the Zoom link in the Course Contents along with all the course materials as they are shared.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Get ready to be astounded! Don’t miss this life-changing, eye-opening breakthrough in the understanding of sacrifice, blood, atonement, and Jesus’s (Yeshua’s) death, resurrection, ascension, and ongoing work as our High Priest. You will know Jesus better for who He really is and what He has really done—and continues to do. It will greatly expand your experience of the faith.
Week 1: What is Sacrifice? The Process of Giving a Gift to God
Week 2: Why Offer Sacrifices and What is Atonement? Sacrifice and Relationship.
Week 3: How do Sacrifice and Atonement Relate to Covenant? The Context of Giving Gifts to God.
Week 4: What is Yeshua’s (Jesus’s) Sacrifice and Atoning Work in Hebrews? The New Covenant High Priest and Gift.
Week 5: Why is Yeshua's Intercession Important in the New Testament? What the High Priest Continues to Do.
Week 6: Is Sacrifice still Important in the New Covenant? Worship and the Great High Priest in Heaven.
MSI LIVE ONLINE or WATCH LATER
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Prerequisite:
None
Required Textbook:
None
GOING LIVE ONLINE APR 4 or WATCH LATER
Your Instructor
Dr. David Moffitt
Dr. Moffitt’s research interests orbit around the various ways the earliest Messiah followers understood Yeshua and their own identities in relation to Jewish scripture, practices, and beliefs. His work is especially focused on the Epistle to the Hebrews and the strategies the text employs to interpret early Messianic claims about Yeshua's person, death, resurrection, and ascension in high-priestly and sacrificial terms. His book on Hebrews (Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews) attempts to show that the Christology and Soteriology developed by the author rests upon his correlation of the basic narrative of early Messianic proclamation (i.e., Yeshua’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension) with the ritual process of the Yom Kippur sacrifices, the end goal of which was the restoration and maintenance of fellowship between God and creation (i.e., atonement).
Dr. Moffitt has been a Fulbright Scholar (Germany 2006–2007). His book Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews was a recipient of a Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise (2013). He has also received a British Academy Small Research Grant to engage in research on several mosaics depicting sacrifice located in and around Ravenna.
Course Contents
- Class 1 Video 1: Introduction; Rethinking the Atonement; Common Ideas about Sacrifice (16:19)
- Class 1 Video 2: First Q&A Session (10:41)
- Class 1 Video 3: Sacrifice: Leviticus & Beyond; A Cultural Encyclopedia; 2nd Temple Evidence (22:05)
- Class 1 Video 4: Second Q&A Session (9:56)
- Class 1 Video 5: Basic Sacrifices at the Temple: Leviticus & Beyond: The Details (47:44)
- Class 1 Video 6: Third Q&A Session (1:58)
- Class 1 Video 7: Complex Sacrifices and a Few Key Festivals (7:42)