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"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."
Dictionary,
scapegoat = =
1 a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others.
2 (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
".....On the day of atonement, two goats without blemish were taken by the priest, upon which lots were cast, one for the Lord, and the other for the scapegoat. The one upon which the Lord's lot fell, was then slain, and his blood carried into the sanctuary to make an atonement for the children of Israel. After which the sins of the people were confessed upon the head of the other, or scapegoat. And the scapegoat was set free, into the wilderness."
In the levitical atonement sacrifice, an innocent [substitute] was sacrificed, as atonement for the sins of the people.
Dictionary,
atonement = =
1 reparation for a wrong or injury.
2 (the Atonement) Christian Theology the reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus Christ.
In exchange for their sacrifice offering [symbolising their acceptance of their guilt], the guilty [of the children of Israel] were 'set free', but were [still, symbolically] separated from their God.
In the context of this Biblical analogy,
....Jesus Christ is our sacrifice for sin,
....and the 'chosen people', Israel were/are the 'scapegoat'.
....the 'wilderness', is symbolically, this world.
The guilty were set free, to wander in the world, until they found [their] redemption.
....or until they found their 'promised land'?
The 'scapegoat' type of Israel, was supposed to be, was intended, as a spiritual lesson [a 'witness'] to us 'heathens'/gentiles [and to Israel],
.....to do good, and no more evil!
The fate, of the children of Israel was predicted...
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
This sacrificial atonement type was prefigured in the story of Abraham and Isaac.
Genesis 22:1
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
The words could have said,
".....God will provide a lamb for a burnt offering."
or,
".....God will provide the lamb for a burnt offering."
But the words used were,
".....God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering."
Persuing Biblical spiritual analogies...
Q.
In the world today, who is the scapegoat?
Q.
And today, who is being prepared as a 'sacrifice'?
Israel???
Do you really, really, think so?
Typically, in the 'atonement sacrifice' analogy, symbolically, Israel was/is always the 'scapegoat'.
....and not the one sacrificed, for the sin offering.
But to many today, to those who have eyes, it appears that this time, it is the nation state of Israel which is being prepared, as the sacrifice [offered by the guilty world community],
.....a sacrifice, which will be offered to placate the angry god of ISLAM.
But the God of Israel has a different agenda [i believe].
".....God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering."
Exodus 3:18
.....and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
Exodus 5:1
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.i
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