A young
bullock, two
kid goats and
two rams are utilized in the rituals on the Day
of Atonements in the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus. After
defining what *Atonements
are we will start with the young
bullock and look at the rituals and their prophetic purposes. (Please do not skip down to the Scapegoat
until you have read this vital information concerning the young
bullock & the kid
goat chosen to be for YAHWEH.)
Leviticus 16
(3) Thus shall Aaron
come into the holy place: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a
burnt offering. (4) He shall put on the holy
linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be
girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are
holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so
put them on. …
(6) And Aaron
shall offer
his bullock of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and make an atonement
[covering]
for himself, and for
his house …(11) And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin
offering, which is for himself, and
shall make an atonement
for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering
which is for himself: (12) And he
shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before YAHWEH,
and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it
within the veil: (13)
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before YAHWEH,
that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is
upon the testimony, that he die not: (14)
And he shall take
of the blood
of the bullock, and sprinkle it with
his finger upon the mercy seat
eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his
finger seven times.
The Bullock dying as the sin offering portrayed Messiah YAHshua dying as the
ultimate sacrifice for our transgressions because death
is the penalty of sin.
I John 3 (4)
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin
is the transgression of the law. (5)
And ye know that He [YAHshua]
was
manifested to take away our sins;
and in Him is no sin.
Making
the Atonement
by the sprinkling of the Bullock's blood portrayed our High Priest and Mediator of the New Covenant Messiah YAHshua who sprinkled His
own blood (His life was in
the blood that He shed! Lev. 17:11) in the Heavenly Tabernacle and
is still performing
His continuing redemptive work of cleansing,
hallowing, sanctifying & purifying those who repent & continue not in
their unbelief.
Hebrews (7)
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which
he offered for himself, and for the
errors of the people: (8) The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the
way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest,
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: (9)
Which was a
figure for the time then present, in which
were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that
could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
(10)
Which stood only in meats and drinks,
and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation.
(11)
But Messiah
being come a High
Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building; (12) Neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but by His
Own blood He entered in
once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. (13)
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth
to the purifying of the flesh: (14)
How
much more shall the
blood of Messiah, Who through the eternal
Spirit offered Himself without spot
to YAHWEH,
purge
your
conscience from dead works to serve the
Living Elohim?
Please notice that the process of killing
the Goat chosen for YAHWEH
and making the Atonement by sprinkling
the blood was the same as it was with the Bullock. In verses 18 & 19, the
process of making the Atonement
by sprinkling the blood is called cleansing
and hallowing.
Leviticus 16 (5)
And he shall
take of the congregation of the Children of Israel
two kids of the goats for a sin offering,
and one
ram for a burnt offering…. (7) And he
shall take the two goats, and present them before YAHWEH
at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation. (8) And Aaron
shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for YAHWEH,
and the other lot for the scapegoat. (9)
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which YAHWEH’S
lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. … (15) Then
shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is
for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, 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: (16)
And he shall make an atonement
[covering]
for the holy place,
because of the uncleanness of the Children of Israel,
and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and
so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them
in the midst of their uncleanness. (17)
And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in
to make an atonement in the holy place,
until he come out, and have made an atonement [covering] for
himself, and for his household, and for
all the Congregation of Israel. (18)
And he shall go out unto the altar that is
before YAHWEH, and make an
atonement for it; and shall take
of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it
upon the horns of the altar round about. (19) And he shall sprinkle of
the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse
it, and hallow
it
[H6942.
qadash-to be, to make, to pronounce or observe as clean it] from the uncleanness of the Children of Israel.
Surely the sacrifice and the making the Atonement
by sprinkling
the blood of the sacrificial victim for
cleansing
and hallowing
portrays the redemptive and intercessory
work of Messiah
YAHshua.
THE *SCAPEGOAT
i.e. (GOAT OF
DEPARTURE)
*H5799.
'aza'zel, az-aw-zale'; from H5795 and H235; goat
of departure; the scapegoat:--scapegoat.
Please read the scripture below with the
understanding of the process
of using the sacrificial victim's blood to
make an Atonement by sprinkling
the blood to cleanse and hallow
us from our
iniquities and our transgressions in all our sins.
Leviticus 16 (10) But the
goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat,
shall be presented alive before YAHWEH,
to
make an atonement [covering]
with
him, and
to let him go for a scapegoat ['aza'zel:H5799
goat of departure]
into the wilderness…. (20) And when
he hath made an end of reconciling
[H3722
kaphar-covering] the
holy place, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
(21) 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: (22)
And the goat
['aza'zel:H5799 goat of
departure] shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited: and he
shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Let us see who could fulfil those things that were portrayed.
In verse 10, it stated that the Scapegoat
shall be presented alive before YAHWEH,
to make an atonement [covering]
with
him!
What will the Goat
of Departure be
made an atonement [covering]
with? When
will he be sacrificed to get the blood to make the atonement for Israel
and those grafted in with them
for their iniquities
that he was to bare?
Once again, please keep in mind that it
is the blood that maketh
an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17 (11)
For the
life of the flesh is in the blood: and I
have given it to you upon the altar to
make an atonement for your souls: for it
is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul.
In verse 21&22, the
Scapegoat
(the Goat
of Departure) had Israel's iniquities confessed over him and he
was to bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited.
Who does the prophet Isaiah
foretell would
bear upon
himself all our iniquities?
Isn't it Messiah YAHshua Who was prophesied to
bear upon Himself all
our iniquities?
Isaiah 53 (10)
Yet it pleased YAHWEH
to bruise Him; HE
hath put Him to grief: when THOU shalt
make His soul
[life]
an
offering for sin, HE
shall see HIS
seed, HE shall prolong His
days, and the pleasure of YAHWEH
shall prosper in His hand. (11)
HE shall see of the travail of
His soul, and shall be satisfied:
by His knowledge shall
MY righteous servant justify
many; for He
shall bear
their iniquities. (12) Therefore
will I divide Him a portion with the
great, and He shall divide the spoil
with the strong; because He hath poured out His soul unto death:
and He was numbered with the
transgressors; and He
bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
I Peter 2 (21) For even
hereunto were ye called: because Messiah
also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His
steps: (22)
Who did no sin, neither was guile
found in His mouth
[Isa.
53:9]: (23)
Who, when He
was reviled, reviled not again; when He
suffered, He threatened not; but
committed Himself
to Him that judgeth righteously: (24) Who
His Own Self bare our sins [Isa. 53:11- 12] in
His Own body on the tree [Deu.
21:22-23], that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed
[Isa. 53:5-6].
Please think about this:
Where on the Day of Atonements
was the sacrifice of the Goat
of Departure in order for him to be made an
atonement
with by sprinkling
his blood to cleanse and hallow Israel
and those grafted in with them from their iniquities
and there transgressions
in all their sins? To find the answer
let us go back to verse 5, 16 and 10.
Leviticus 16 (5)
And he shall
take of the congregation of the Children of Israel
two kids of the goats for a sin offering,
and one
ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus 16 (9) And Aaron
shall bring the goat upon which
YAHWEH’S
lot fell, and offer him
for
a sin
offering.
The Goat
chosen for YAHWEH('s sacrifice)
represented Messiah YAHshua, the
sin offering.
Leviticus 16 (10)
But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat,
shall be
presented alive before YAHWEH,
to
make an atonement [covering]
with
him, and
to let him go for a scapegoat
['aza'zel:H5799
goat of departure]
into the wilderness….
The Goat of Departure
portrayed the Messiah YAHshua
Who was resurrected
and was
presented alive to YAHWEH on the Day
of the Wave Sheaf Offering. He went into the Heavenly Tabernacle to
present His own blood with which to
make an atonement
to cleanse and hallow
Israel and those grafted in with them
from their iniquities
and their transgressions
in all their sins.
The sprinkling of
the blood by those priests in the earthly tabernacle also portrayed Messiah
YAHshua's ongoing redemptive
and intercessory
work as our High Priest and our Advocate with the FATHER, YAHshua Messiah
the Righteous.
I John 2 (I) My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the
FATHER,
YAHshua
Messiah
the
Righteous:
(2) And
He is the *propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole
world.
*G2434. hilasmos,
hil-as-mos'; atonement,
i.e. (concretely.) an expiator:--propitiation.
YAHshua Messiah was the only one qualified
to bear the sins of all and to be the
sin offering for Israel
and those grafted in with them
for it was
and is His blood that maketh an atonement
once for all!
Hebrews 10 (8)
Above when He said, Sacrifice and
offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin THOU
wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein;
which are offered by the law; (9)
Then said He, Lo, I
come to do THY will, O Elohim. [Psalm 40:6-8] HE
taketh away the first, that HE may
establish the second. (10) By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering
of the body of YAHshua
Messiah once for all.
HalleluYAH!!!
T.A.H.