Verses 26-32: the Feast of Atonement EV 23:26-35{the Feast of Atonement, Like the One Before It, Falls in the Seventh Month of the Year. on the Tenth Day of That Same Month, the Israelites Are Told Three Times Over They Are to Afflict Their Souls and to Do No Work in That Day. It Is a Feast of Atonement. If Any Is Not Afflicted or If Any Does Do Any Work in That Day, He Will Be Cut off From Among His People and Destroyed

In the meantime and little by little, the repentance that was begun by what is typified as the blowing of trumpets will have been deepening. Then, when Jesus appears in glory, they will behold the wounds of Him Whom they had pierced so many centuries before, and will realize it was He Whom they had rejected and crucified. That realization will produce a still deeper sense of guilt and repentance in their souls. Accordingly, they will afflict their souls as never before and will mourn for Him as for an only son. This will be the point at which the Spirit's work of repentance in their souls will have been perfected.
Their great sin of having rejected their Messiah and of having manipulated the Romans into crucifying Him, as well as all their subordinate sins, will then be forgiven; and they will be fully restored to Jehovah, their God. Today, they are "a vessel wherein is no pleasure" (Hos. 8:8; Matt. 26:29a); but in that day, He will "rejoice over [them] with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over [them] with singing" (Zeph. 3:17; Matt. 26:29b).