Once a year, the high priest was allowed to go into the Holy Place to make atonement for the sins of all of the people of Israel. The sacrifices included one bull and a goat, and the blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat before the Lord (Leviticus 16:14-16).
But, in the same chapter it says there was a second goat, a live one, that Aaron was to lay hands on and confess over it all the sin of the children of Israel and then send it away into the wilderness. This wilderness is where the demons of the Canaanites were worshipped; the same wilderness that Yeshua was sent into after He was immersed by John.
The second goat in Hebrew is called “Azazel”. This word only appears one time in the text and its meaning is obscure. It is most commonly called a “scapegoat”, but if we dig a little deeper, we find keys to help us understand how Yeshua fulfilled the prophetic meaning of this scapegoat by being sacrificed in this particular place, “outside the camp”.
Yeshua didn’t just come to take away our personal sin, He came to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). He is the scapegoat in the wilderness who defeated the entire demonic world and brought us VICTORY. He is our HERO. And we have the opportunity to receive His victory into our lives TODAY.
Watch this important and timeless message as we continue to meditate on Yeshua’s sacrifice on our behalf. Based on Leviticus 16, Hebrews 13:10-14, I Peter 3:18-22, Ephesians 4:9-10.
