BobRyan said:
True - but all this was done in reference to sins already committed during the year, already brought to the temple - already brought with confession upon the head of the sin offering - already having a sin offering the covered them. This is the end-of-year ceremony.
Notice that in the normal case the sins are FIRST confessed over the sin offering and THEN the sin offering is slain. In the Case of Christ he took on our sins BEFORE his death while in Gethsemane and all through the ordeal until finally He died -- giving up His life an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
But once paid -- no "additional sins" were added to Christ for him to carry. It is done.
BEFORE Jesus died - he had all the sins of all mankind placed on him and while living - He sufferred the penalty for those sins - and then died.
After He died -- he did not have those sins - nor did anyone confess sins over him for him to carry after he died.
NOR does anyone today add sins to christ for him to carry.
The symbol in Lev 16 is to show us how the sins already confessed and already brought to the temple are resolved.
Some get resolved in the form of the blood applied.
Some get resolved as in the case of Matt 7 and Matt 18 -- the sins are returned to those who have claimed forgiveness for they in fact did not accept the Gospel.
in Christ,
Bob
Some errors are here again:
There is no additional sins for Jesus to carry.
But we do confess our sins every day as we read 1 John 1:9.
And when God forgive us, He remembers what Jesus did at the Cross.
This seems to be similar to the confession to the Scapegoat, then God forgave Israelites based on what the LORD's Goat did ( was killed).
Read the v 21-22 again:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and
confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions
in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
22 And
the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited:
and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Satan doesn't carry any of our sins. He has no capacity like that. If Satan can carry our iniquitiy, why did God let His only begotten Son, Jesus be killed?
As for Jesus, this interpretation may be simpler.
Jesus had 3 offices to fulfill. Prophet, Priest, King.
He was a Prophet while He was on earth, preaching the Gospel.
He healed the illness and forgave the sins of the people based on what He was going to do at the Cross. In that sense, they were forgiven on Credit.( on believing). Our generation are forgiven based on Prepaid Atonement.
When He was arrested, He went on His way to fullfil the Office of High Priest after the Melchizedek He offered the perfect sacrifice by offering His own body at the Cross.
Now only one Office is left to be accomplished, i.e. Kingship.
He will come again to rule upon the throne of King David. Until then we are supposed to remember Him by the Lord's Supper ( 1 Cor 11: 26)
We should confess our daily sins to God, then He forgive us by reminding us that even that daily sins were included in the forgiveness at the Cross.
Likewise, LORD had forgiven the sins confessed unto the Scapegoat by the High Priest based on the Blood and Death of the LORD's Goat.
Could you find anywhere that the fake Christians should confess the sins to the Satan?