“The Annual Day of Atonement”

 “And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;” (Leviticus 16:1)

Copyright CaptBlackEagle 2020

Once a year the children of Israel offered a sacrifice of atonement. In Mosaic law, every sin you commit requires a sacrifice. Under that law, we would need to sacrifice everyday for every sin. God gave them and us these lessons that point to a future means of atonement.

The “Scape-Goat” has been a lexicon since the time of Moses. What was the “Scape-Goat”?

It all starts with the sacrifice. A goat is taken into the tabernacle, “Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:” (Leviticus 16:15)

The goat that is killed takes the wages of the sin of the human. The wages of sin is death.

The “Scape-Goat” is then brought before the altar alive.

“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:

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.” (Leviticus 16:21-22)

This is the model of Jesus Christ. He accepts the sin of the world onto himself, he dies for that sin. Sending the goat into the wilderness is a symbol of Christ’s remission of our sin.

Jesus forgives us our sins.