BobRyan said:So you are saying that "Jehovah's goat" is paying for sin - and then the scapegoat goes out into a desolate unpopulated area outside the camp to "testify"???
Where does scripture suggest that the scapegoat is giving a testimony? Where is such a "testimony in the desert" ever a part of "substitutionary atonement" paying the debt "that we owe"?? Were WE supposed to go to the desert and "testify" and yet didn't so now Christ does that for us - in our behalf?
In Christ,
Bob
Did you expect the goat to preach the gospel to the human beings? or to the fellow goats ?:laugh:
What God could do with goats was to symbolically demonstrate what Jesus Christ would do at the Cross.
Do you know the Hebrew name of Numbers ( Bible book) ? It is Bemidbar which means Wilderness. After the salvation from Egypt, the Israelites had to spend time in the wilderness before they enter the Canaan where the milk and honey flow. The world is a wilderness to the believers and the Scapegoat didn't have to bleed and die again as the other goat-Jehovah's goat. If our sins could be laid upon the shoulder of Satan, Why did God kill His beloved Son, the precious, sinless person? Lev 16:21 tells us that the iniquities and transgressions of Israel were laid upon the Scapegoat. If Satan can carry away our sins, why should Jesus be killed at the Cross? Why did Jesus have to suffer from the most painful death at the Cross ? He suffered the extreme humiliation and reproach by being hung on the tree, the sinless, precious, person was hung on the tree ! That was just for you and me, and for all the people in the world ( 1 John 2:2)
Because we are so sinful, He died in our stead. He was humiliated to set us free, He suffered the pains and death to make us kings and priests in Him.
Scapegoat and Jehovah's goat functioned as symbols of Jesus Christ, showingt the different aspects of Jesus, one showing the blood and death at the Cross, the other victory over the sins and death, preaching the gospel to the wilderness of this world, by going away to the wilderness as the woman in Rev 12 fled to the wilderness under the protection of God.
One goat couldn't explain 2 different aspects of Jesus and therefore God showed them thru 2 goats.
Hope Bob Ryan change his mind on this as he has been very much smart in understanding many parts of Bible truth so far. Bob, you must know I liked you in many doctrinal issues and debates, and do love your soul very much, but please remember that Jesus paid all the price for our sins, even including our future sins Once For All at the Cross.
Eliyahu in Jesus
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