One Expensive Goat!
A bidding war was set off recently for a goat in Saudi Arabia. According to the Saudi newspaper Okaz, a businessman in the country laid down about $3.47 million dollars for a goat. Supposedly, the goat was from a rare breed and had unique characteristics. My first response is that our oil money is soaking the Saudi’s so much they can fork out outlandish amounts for a goat!
But my spiritual side reminds me of the expensive goat in the Scriptures. That goat is found in Leviticus 16. Two male goats were to be taken for a sin offering from among the people (verse 5). One goat was offered as a sin offering. The other goat would symbolize the carrying-away of Israel’s sins.
The sprinkling of the blood of the goat would make atonement for the Holy Place (verse 16). With the live goat, Aaron was to lay both his hands on the head of the goat and confess over it all the sins of the people. He consequently put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness through another man who stood nearby. The goat then carried all the sins on itself to desert area, and the man would let the goat go free. In that way, it symbolized the carrying-away of the sins of Israel (verses 21-22).
The New Testament writers do not refer to Jesus as the “scapegoat.” I do not know why but He is presented as the “sacrificial lamb.” Yet, in light of the goat from Leviticus 16, Jesus does make atonement for us. In Romans 5:11, Paul writes: “we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation” (KJV has “atonement”).
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Jesus serves as our “scapegoat.” When we obey the Gospel, in essence we lay our hands on His head, hanging on the cross, and God allows our sins to lay on His shoulders and He carries them into the “wilderness.” That means that we do not have to see them, confront them, be judged by them ever again.
I recall the words of Isaiah: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (53:6).
Because He paid the price for our sins, He is one expensive “goat.” As Isaac Watts wrote, He “demands my soul, my life, my all.”
–Paul Holland
