A Tale of Two Goats

A Tale of Two Goats

Parashot Acharei Mot and Kedoshim

On the Day of Atonement two identical goats are brought to the High Priest. Through a ceremony of drawing lots, one goat is designated for the LORD and is offered as a sin-offering. The other is designated for Azazel and is sent out in the wilderness carrying the sins of the Children of Israel.

The goat for Azazel is often called the scapegoat and is often associated with the work of Yeshua, who has borne our sins and taken them away.

What is often missed is the more glorious imagery of the goat offered as a sin offering and how the atonement it brings points to the atoning work of Yeshua in the Heavenly Temple!

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Messiah did not enter a holy place made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

hebrews 9:23-24

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