He not only says He will provide the sacrifice, He says He Himself will be the sacrifice...God will provide Himself a lamb...Genesis 22:8.The Goat above goats.
Also God said to Abraham that He'd provide the lamb as well.
He not only says He will provide the sacrifice, He says He Himself will be the sacrifice...God will provide Himself a lamb...Genesis 22:8.The Goat above goats.
Also God said to Abraham that He'd provide the lamb as well.
Yes, obviously Christ is the sacrificial one of the two. Though He did become sin for us...
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to
righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.” For “you were like sheep going astray,”
but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 1 Peter 2:24-25
2 Corinthians 5:21Christ did not become sin. He became a sin offering. There is no unique word for sin offering in either Greek or Hebrew; it is simply the word sin with a qaulifying preposition.
1 Peter 2:24He bore the penalty for our sins.
2 Corinthians 5:21
New Living Translation
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Contemporary English Version
Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so Christ could make us acceptable to God.
Haweis New Testament
For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be a sin offering for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Mace New Testament
for he hath made him who knew no sin to be a sin-offering for us, that we might be justified by God thro' him.
Worsley New Testament
For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be a sin-offering for us, that in Him we might be made righteous before God.
I don't think Christ is the scapegoat, which I see as the symbolic banishment of evil away from the presence of God's people. There is no sin in Christ, so how could he take sin away himself?
Currently, Christ is in the holiest place making reconciliation for his people. This is the fulfillment of the day of atonement when the high priest entered into the holiest place the second time to make reconciliation for the people. When he emerged from there he transferred Israel's sins to the scapegoat and banished it alive into the wilderness away from God's people.
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. Leviticus 16:10Christ has not yet emerged from the temple. But when he does the beast and false prophet will be arrested and banished alive into the lake of fire. And so will be separated evil from the presence of God's congregation forever. This I think will be the fulfillment of the scapegoat.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Revelation 19:20
2 Corinthians 5:21
New International Version
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
New Living Translation
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
English Standard Version
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.