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Prophetic Significance Of The Scapegoat

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What is the prophetic significance of the scapegoat's connection to Jesus Christ?


A scapegoat in the Bible is “the goat that goes away” (escape + goat). In essence, a scapegoat in the Bible is one who makes atonement for another (or redeems them). In the context of Leviticus 16:8-22
 
Hello cheirthbrook.
I believe the goat is symbolic of the Spirit of Christ. He goes with the strong man (the believer) into the world bearing sins (being persecuted) for the gospels sake.
 
Hello cheirthbrook.
I believe the goat is symbolic of the Spirit of Christ. He goes with the strong man (the believer) into the world bearing sins (being persecuted) for the gospels sake.
Thanks, that's so interesting the way you worded it. That made me think of the goat and the Holy Spirit having a combined role or some type of transformation between the two.
 
Thanks, that's so interesting the way you worded it. That made me think of the goat and the Holy Spirit having a combined role or some type of transformation between the two.
Yes. They have the same mind,

The Holy Ghost this signifying.....he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; Heb.9:8, 10:20 KJV

The law was put beneath His mercy seat. He sprinkled it with His blood and then sat on that throne!

The living goat is our risen Lord,

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Pro.28:13 KJV

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, Lev.16:21 KJV
 
Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. Mk.15:1 NIV

the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin. Jn.19:11 NIV

Our Savior bore such sin against Himself and has from the beginning along with our Father and the Holy Spirit.

Confessing the sinfulness done to the goat.
 
Leviticus 16:8-22
In reading chapter and verse you quoted; a thought sprung to mind. Animal sacrifice has been a part of a majority of "pagan religions" throughout history; why would Our Father (God) have need of such a thing? God creates life, and can take life at will; why would he need men to take the life of any animal?
 
In reading chapter and verse you quoted; a thought sprung to mind. Animal sacrifice has been a part of a majority of "pagan religions" throughout history; why would Our Father (God) have need of such a thing? God creates life, and can take life at will; why would he need men to take the life of any animal?
I agree paganism uses animal sacrifices, plus human sacrifices, but done unto Satan, not God

So, are you saying what God ordained as animal blood sacrifices, in which He was the first one to do so with Adam and Eve, Genesis 3:21, to make atonement for sin as the blood was poured on the Mercy Seat behind the veil of the Temple according to the Levitical law was paganism?

You need to read Leviticus Chapter 16.
 
I agree paganism uses animal sacrifices, plus human sacrifices, but done unto Satan, not God

So, are you saying what God ordained as animal blood sacrifices, in which He was the first one to do so with Adam and Eve, Genesis 3:21, to make atonement for sin as the blood was poured on the Mercy Seat behind the veil of the Temple according to the Levitical law was paganism?

You need to read Leviticus Chapter 16.
Christ said "the Scriptures must not be broken"; which a lot of "scholars" claim validates the OT. If the Scriptures must not be broken; why doesn't Christian Churches sacrifice animals on a regular basis today? If God Himself does require the blood of animals; why isn't that done every day?

None of that makes any sense.

I did read chapter 16 before I posted anything in this thread. If the Holy Bible is the absolute authority of God's Word; and animal sacrifice is required by God in His Word; then how can anyone claim to be faithful to God if they are not following His Word? You can't "pick and choose" bits and pieces, then make up your "own religion" from that.

Satan is nothing; that one has no power. He was never God's equal.
 
Christ said "the Scriptures must not be broken"; which a lot of "scholars" claim validates the OT. If the Scriptures must not be broken; why doesn't Christian Churches sacrifice animals on a regular basis today? If God Himself does require the blood of animals; why isn't that done every day?

None of that makes any sense.

I did read chapter 16 before I posted anything in this thread. If the Holy Bible is the absolute authority of God's Word; and animal sacrifice is required by God in His Word; then how can anyone claim to be faithful to God if they are not following His Word? You can't "pick and choose" bits and pieces, then make up your "own religion" from that.

Satan is nothing; that one has no power. He was never God's equal.
No one has ever said that Satan was equal to God. Satan can do nothing unless God allows him to do like that of Job.

Animal sacrifices were under the old covenant that was done away with as in the new covenant Christ Jesus was made the final blood sacrifice for all our sins. We are no longer under the Leviticus Temple ritual laws as now the Temple of God is within us, 1Corinthians 3:16-17.


Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
 
1Corinthians 3:16-17
I did not read anything in there, or in Romans chapter 8; where God said animal sacrifice was no longer required. In John 10:35 Christ did say specifically that the Scriptures cannot be broken.

As for the OP; the meaning of a scapegoat. I would say that Satan is the ultimate scapegoat; someone else to blame for misdeeds and Sin, so that men do not have to take responsibility for their own. Every Christian who shouts "Satan this, or Satan that"; is not looking in the mirror to take responsibility for themselves.

If the Book of Leviticus is of the OT, and that makes up the "old covenant" which no longer applies to the "new covenant"; then that Book has no meaning in the Prophecy of the End Times given in the NT. While men may want to blame anyone and everyone else (the scapegoat); every man shall be judged!
 
I did not read anything in there, or in Romans chapter 8; where God said animal sacrifice was no longer required. In John 10:35 Christ did say specifically that the Scriptures cannot be broken.

As for the OP; the meaning of a scapegoat. I would say that Satan is the ultimate scapegoat; someone else to blame for misdeeds and Sin, so that men do not have to take responsibility for their own. Every Christian who shouts "Satan this, or Satan that"; is not looking in the mirror to take responsibility for themselves.

If the Book of Leviticus is of the OT, and that makes up the "old covenant" which no longer applies to the "new covenant"; then that Book has no meaning in the Prophecy of the End Times given in the NT. While men may want to blame anyone and everyone else (the scapegoat); every man shall be judged!
We all hear the phrase "the devil made me do it" but it is only sin that dwells in the flesh. This is why we have to be Spiritually born again and indwelled with the Holy Spirit.

There are laws (613 commandments) of God that were especially written just for the Hebrews pertaining to the rituals of the Temple, sacrifices, festivals, Torah, Kohanim and Levites, the King and the Nazarite. Then there are the existing moral laws (commandments) for all of us to still follow under a better covenant of God's mercy and grace through the blood sacrifice of Christ Jesus as we still keep the moral laws as in prayers and blessings, love and brotherhood. The poor and unfortunate, treatment of the Gentiles, Marriage, divorce and family. Forbidden sexual relations, business practices, employees and servants. Vows, oaths, swearing, Court and Judicial procedures. Injuries and damages, property and property rights, criminal laws. Prophecy, idolatry and all its practices as the moral laws (commandments) keep us in line with the will of God.


Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
 
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