Is Jesus or Satan The Scapegoat? Does Satan Bear All Our Sins? 🔎🔍
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Leviticus 16:5-10 & 20-22 talk about a goat that makes atonement for the people of Israel by bearing their sins and taking them away into the wilderness. The goat is called the scapegoat, or in Hebrew Azazel, and most bible interpreters believe that the scapegoat represents Christ who takes away the sins of the world. But Seventh Day Adventists believe that this goat is Satan and they believe that Satan will one day make atonement for the sins of all God’s people by bearing the guilt for all their sin and being punished for them. They even say that it is Satan who finally separates God’s people from their sins.
The Great Controversy Chapter 28—The Investigative Judgment
As the priest, in removing the sins from the sanctuary, confessed them upon the head of the scapegoat, so Christ will place all these sins upon Satan, the originator and instigator of sin. The scape-goat, bearing the sins of Israel, was sent away “unto a land not inhabited;” [Leviticus 16:22.] so Satan, bearing the guilt of all the sins which he has caused God's people to commit, will be for a thousand years confined to the earth, which will then be desolate, without inhabitant, and he will at last suffer the full penalty of sin, in the fires that shall destroy all the wicked. Thus the great plan of redemption will reach its accomplishment in the final eradication of sin, and the deliverance of all who have been willing to renounce evil.
Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.
The first thing that’s worth noting is that both of these goats are taken from the congregation of the children of Israel. Jesus came from the people of Israel. He was an Israelite. But Satan was not from among the people of Israel. He was the enemy of Israel.
The second thing that’s worth noting is that the two goats are described as “a sin offering”. They are not described as two separate offerings, they are one sin offering, and they represent two aspects of Christ’s atonement.
The third thing is that according to Leviticus chapter 4 sin offerings had to meet certain qualifications, namely, they had to be without blemish and this represented the sinlessness of Christ. No matter how you try to spin it, both of these animals were innocent creatures which had done nothing wrong and were completely blemish free.
Leviticus 16:6-8 "Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.
This further supports the view that both goats were blemish free because if one was blemished and one was not and the lot for the Lord fell to the blemished one then it couldn’t be sacrificed. So, both the goats had to be without blemish.
The word “scapegoat” in Hebrew is Azazel and Seventh Day Adventists try to argue that Azazel is another name for Satan. But there is no evidence for this from the time of Moses. At best there is a demon named Azazel in the books of Enoch but that was written over a thousand years later.
Unger's Bible dictionary
AZA′ZEL
It is a word of doubtful interpretation and has been variously understood. 1. By some it is thought to be the name of the goat sent into the desert. The objection to this is that in v. 10, 26 the Azazel clearly seems to be that for or to which the goat is let loose. 2. Others have taken Azazel for the name of the place to which the goat was sent. Some of the Jewish writers consider that it denotes the height from which the goat was thrown; whereas others regard the word as meaning “desert places.” 3. Many believe Azazel to be a personal being, either a spirit, a demon, or Satan himself. The Cabalists teach that in order to satisfy this evil being and to save Israel from his snares, God sends him the goat burdened with all the “iniquities and transgressions” of His people once a year. But we think it entirely improbable that Moses under divine guidance would cause Israel to recognize a demon whose claims on the people were to be met by the bribe of a sin-laden goat. 4. The most probable rendering of Azazel is “complete sending away,” i.e., solitude. The rendering then of the passage would be “the one for Jehovah, and the other for an utter removal.” Unger, Merrill Frederick; Harrison, R. K.. The New Unger's Bible Dictionary (p. 129). Moody Publishers. Kindle Edition.
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