The Cleansing of the Sanctuary: The Scapegoat

 The Cleansing of the Sanctuary: 

The Scapegoat

 And he said unto me, 

Unto two thousand and three hundred days; 

then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Daniel 8:14

The process began with literal fulfillment of the 6th Feast [See section on the 2300 days] and will conclude with the Close of man's Probation, which is sometime after the implementation of the Mark of the Beast. Then the 2nd Advent (7th Feast), the Millennium and final end for the wicked including Lucifer.

**As for the Close of Probation: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. Revelation 22:11

 

"Because it is said, The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited [Lev. 16:22], and John said, Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh [margin, beareth] away the sin of the world, it is concluded without further thought that the former was the type of the latter. 

**But a little attention to the law will show that the sins were borne

from the people by the priest, and from the priest by the goat. 

1. They are imparted to the victim. 

2. The priest bore them in its blood to the sanctuary. 

3. After cleansing it from them, on the tenth day of the seventh month, he bore them to the scape-goat. 

4. The goat finally bore them away beyond the camp of Israel to the wilderness.

--This was the legal process, and when fulfilled, the author of sins will have received them back again (but the ungodly will bear their own sins), and his head will have been bruised by the seed of the woman; 'the strong man armed' will have been bound by a stronger than he, and his house (the grave) spoiled of its goods, the saints. Matt. 12:29; Luke 11:21, 22. 

The great work of atonement is now complete, and the work of our Lord as priest, accomplished." J.N. Andrews

 

Scapegoat: And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 

--And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 

--But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. 

--And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 

--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: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

Leviticus 16:8-10,20-22

Sacrificed Goat: And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, 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. And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

Leviticus 16:18,19

 

 SUMMARY

1) The Casting of Lots symbolized the element of Chance-- for Christ had to have the Chance to Fail OR the system would have been rigged.  

2) The sins of the people that symbolically built up all year in the Sanctuary had to be removed once and for all.

3) The blood of the goat chosen was taken into the Most Holy Place and sprinkled by the High Priest for the Final Cleansing of the people's sins.

4) The Scapegoat, whom the priest laid hands on, had the sins of those pardoned transferred to it and it was led away never to be seen again.

*Azazel, the Scapegoat, is Lucifer. The anti-typical Scapegoat will burn for the sins he enticed God's people, who have been pardoned in the Sanctuary, in the Lake of Fire.

  

Paul Explains this Day of Atonement 

and Cleansing of the Sanctuary

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, 

*by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 

not made with hands,...

*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. 

*For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: --How much more shall the blood of Christ,....

*not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another—He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; *but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 

This Cleansing is in the Context of the Judgment

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, 

but after this the judgment:

Hebrews 9:11-14,25-27

 

 

"Christ appeared before the law as an innocent victim to meet in behalf of others the sentence, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." (Ez.18:20). 

The offering was voluntary, and therefore involved no injustice; 

--it was from one of so exalted a position that God could accept it; 

--and it was of such infinite value that the law could honorably relax its claims from all those who would accept of it, even if all the world should do so. 

--but we have seen from the type that the removal of sin from the penitent did not cancel the sin itself, but only transferred it to some other object.

--The forgiveness was relative, not absolute; that is, as related to the sinner it was forgiven, but the sin itself was considered still in existence, to be disposed of in some other way. 

Christ has done for us in fact what the ancient offering did for the sinner in figure;..."

Uriah Smith