The mystery of the twin goats has eluded many throughout the ages and some have even suggested that the scapegoat for Yowm Kippur was the devil when our Messiah was being tempted in the wilderness. But I am going to dispel that myth in this study, as this idea completely destroys the prophetic shadow picture of why our Messiah came in the first place. The first thing that must be understood, is that the term “scapegoat” literally means “an innocent person who takes the blame for a guilty person.” We know that the devil is by no means innocent, neither is he sinless, so he could never take our place, and he would never want to remove our sins from us. The confusion comes from the fact that the Hebrew word for “scapegoat” is “Azazel” which is also the name of a demon mentioned in the book of Enoch. But we must understand that our Messiah literally had to “become sin for us” even though he never knew sin. Therefore it is no surprise that he took upon himself all the sins that were inspired by the devil and he conquered them all when he was tempted of the devil for us: 2nd Qorintiym (Corinthians) 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of Elohiym in him. In this study, we are going to see a beautiful picture of the Heavenly Father and his Son, Yahuwshuwa in the role of the twin goats. At his first coming, our Messiah lived out an intermediate fulfillment of Yowm Kippur, after his forty days of fasting in the wilderness. At his second coming, he will fulfill it again on the “Day of Wrath” when he “avenges the blood of the set-apart ones” and he returns with his bride (Revelation 19:2-16). The first thing that we must understand before proceeding with this study is that YaHuWaH our Creator is both the Father & the Son. In Isaiah 9:6, we are shown that the Son who was born to us is also called “the everlasting Father.” Our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa did not inherit the sinful bloodline of his ancestor King David, for that would have made his blood unfit to atone for our sins. He was called “the Son of David” because he was legally the heir of his earthly father Yahuwceph (Joseph), who was the ancestor of King David. To fully understand this phenomenon, see my other article entitled “The Oneness of the Father & the Son Versus Trinitarianism.”
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 02:40:41 +0000
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