Reconciliation – A WORD Study

RECONCILIATION – A WORD STUDY

HEBREW words translated as reconcile
• kaphar – atone – atonement
• Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement

GREEK words translated as reconcile
• hilaskomsi – hilasmos – atonement
• hilastérion – hileós – mercy
• allássō – experience change

ENGLISH words related to reconcile
• atone – at-one-ment (to be at one, united)
• appease
• cover, cover over
• pacify
• propitiate
• restore
• mercy
• change

OT Atonement Passages
• Leviticus 6:29-32
• Leviticus 14:19
• Leviticus chapters 15-16 (Yom Kippur)
• Leviticus 16:33-34
• Numbers 28:28-30
• Numbers 29:5
• 2 Chronicles 29:24
• Ezekiel 43:20
• Ezekiel 45:20

NT Atonement Passages
• Matthew 16:22
• Luke 18:13
• Romans 3:25
• Hebrews 2:17
• Hebrews 8:12
• Hebrews 9:5
• 1 John 2:2
• 1 John 4:10

UNDERSTANDING REDEMPTION & RECONCILIATION

Redemption – redeem – ransom – reclaim

Reconciliation – reconcile – restore – reunite

Redemption is when JESUS paid our ransom price with His own life by offering Himself in our place on the cross.

Reconciliation is the further work that JESUS has done to restore us fully restored and complete back to God

UNDERSTANDING ATONEMENT & PROPITIATION

Atonement & Propitiation are God’s unique divine way of saving, redeeming, reconciling, restoring and reuniting. Man’s ways are to stay separated in broken relationships, sin and unforgiveness. God’s Way is to break through the humanly insurmountable barriers of sin, hurt, brokenness and unforgiveness.

He does this through His own Atonement, by Propitiation, and after having completed this, He sits down as the High Priest Who has completed ALL His priestly duties having opened the door, paved the only Way whereby reconciliation, restoration, redemption and salvation are already completed.

RECONCILE – CHANGE

(Greek katallássō)

• Matthew 5:24
• Romans 5:10
• 2 Corinthians 5:18-20

diallássō – thoroughly experience change
– properly, to reconcile (reach mutual concession), i.e. where people in conflict come together through meaningful change (used only in Mt 5:24).

katallássō – decisively experience change

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Note this root allássō is a different word than the other well known Greek word for change – metamorphosis as in transformation