On the Day of Atonement one goat was sacrificed and one was a scape goat. The scape goat was taken outside the camp and set loose in the wilderness.
I wonder if he ever tried to return?
Do you think that some red-neck Israelite went out after it?
If the scape goat returned did he bring with him the sins that were placed on him?
Were did the goat go?
L.L.L.
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The scapegoat could not return - it would destroy the picture of Christ carrying off our sins. however, if he did return, would he find the Samaritans washing feet on Mt. Gerizim, the philistines playing tiddly winks and the easter bunny and rudolf competing in a marathon? how could the wise men find their way home if the star didn't lead them back? Did they have a map or why didn't they just go over the hill and through the woods? Maybe they found the three bears and Grandma's house while the three pigs sailed away on Noah's ark. Meanwhile, back in the wilderness, God saw to it the scapegoat never returned.
ReplyDeleteWell brother you answered everything except the red-neck Israelite.
ReplyDeletePS I know he didnt return--scripture teaches what happend to the scape goat. He was taken to an uninhabited land, he didnt return
PSS Somewhere in the wilderness is a colony of scape goats.
LLL
What if he never returned to Israel, but bred in the uninhabited land, and then the land was named America. No wonder so much sin exists in today's world. The shelter of the world for churches "Bible - belt" is overrun with sinful scapegoats.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, it's interesting that the word scapegoat was made up (invented) to be used in an English Bible. I think it was Tyndall who made it, but I could be wrong.
I am so proud of Arch Bishop's sarcasm. Lovin every minute of it!
ReplyDeleteThe red-neck Israelite would've field dressed it and brought it home and put it on the grill.
"At a later period an evasion or modification of the law of Moses was introduced by the Jews." "The goat was conducted to a mountain named Tzuk, situated at a distance of ten Sabbath days' journey, or about six and a half English miles, from Jerusalem. At this place the Judean desert was supposed to commence; and the man in whose charge the goat was sent out, while setting him free, was instructed to push the unhappy beast down the slope of the mountain side, which was so steep as to insure the death of the goat, whose bones were broken by the fall. The reason of this barbarous custom was that on one occasion the scapegoat returned to Jerusalem after being set free, which was considered such an evil omen that its recurrence was prevented for the future by the death of the goat" (Twenty-one Years' Work in the Holy Land). This mountain is now called el-Muntar."
ReplyDeleteQuoted from Easton's Bible Dictionary, take it for what it's worth.