Yom Kippur is a day of fasting, prayer, and repentance. It begins tonight (Sunday, September 20, 2026) at Sunset and ends at nightfall on Monday, September 21, 2026. As I watch Jew hatred increase and Jews and Christians alike try to combat it with natural reason, I am reminded that everything concerning Israel is spiritual. You could have the best political argument in the world, and it would not make a difference to those who do not know God or the Bible.
When I look at much of the Christian world who have the view that the Church has replaced Israel and that God’s everlasting covenant with the Jewish people is in fact not everlasting, it breaks my heart. Christians believe the Bible, yet we ignore or explain away the majority of our Bibles, including the whole of the “Old Testament.”
In Ephesians, Paul writes that we were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel and had no part in the covenants (plural) of promise. Through Jesus we were grafted into Israel (see Rom. 11). As evil gains a foothold in this world in ways we have never seen, everything comes down to where you stand on the issue of God’s covenant with Israel; that covenant includes the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish people, and the land of Israel. Christians do not get a pass on this issue simply because they have accepted Jesus as their personal Savior. That personal Savior happens to be a Jewish rabbi who said He did not come to do away with the Torah and that anyone who taught people to disobey it would be least in the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:17-20).
On this Yom Kippur, my prayer is that we as Christians would hear the voice of the Lord call us to a place of love towards the Jews and a place of holiness in our walks with Him.
I saw a post earlier today in a community group, and someone was selling some really dark-looking Halloween decor. I thought to myself, I don’t remember decorations being that evil when I was a kid. Little by little, an evil holiday has become more and more overtly evil over the years. Last year I even saw Christian podcasters say that Halloween wasn’t a satanic holiday. The year before, those same people warned against the darkness of Halloween.
It’s time for us to become more serious about holiness in our walk with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17 “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,”
The world’s standards will always change, and they will continue to become more ungodly. Yom Kippur reminds us of the essence of our born-again nature as Christians; we are no longer to live as the world does; we are to put on Christ and become more and more like Him. Yom Kippur offers us the opportunity to recommit ourselves to the Lord and the life of holiness we are called to.
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