From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 13 of 26 · Leviticus 16

The goat that walks away

One goat dies. One goat walks into the wild, carrying what the people did.

The text
Aaron shall lay both hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the sins of the people. He shall send it away into the wilderness.

The word

עֲזָאזֵל

the goat that goes, sending away, the wilderness (azazel)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01Two goats, one day

    Leviticus 16:8

    They cast lots: one for the Lord, and one for Azazel. The day of atonement is not a mood. It is two animals and a name spoken over them.

  2. 02Blood behind the curtain

    Leviticus 16:15

    The goat for the Lord is killed. Its blood goes in, behind the veil, onto the lid. Someone dies so someone can walk in.

  3. 03Both hands on the live goat

    Leviticus 16:21

    Aaron names all the iniquities of the people. The goat carries them. A man leads it into the wilderness. They watch it go.

  4. 04Outside the gate

    Hebrews 13:12

    Jesus suffered outside the gate to make the people holy by His own blood. The camp is not where the carrying-out finished.

  5. 05Who takes away the sin of the world

    John 1:29

    John’s sentence is Leviticus in a loud voice. It is not a goat disappearing over a hill. It is a Man who carries the sin out and does not bring it back.

Stays in the camp

The sins named with both hands on a living head

Carried out

A goat walking into the wild. Then a Man outside the gate.

Read it this way

Once a year two goats are brought to the tent. Lots are cast. One goat is for the Lord: its blood goes in, behind the curtain. The other goat stays alive. Aaron lays both hands on its head and names the sins of the people. Then it is led out of the camp, into the wild, still carrying what they did. Azazel (עֲזָאזֵל) is the hard word — the goat that goes, the wilderness, the sending-away. We do not pretend the root is simple. The scene is.

The people watch it go. Sin does not sit in the tents. It is carried out. Hebrews says Jesus suffered outside the gate, to make the people holy by His blood. John is still pointing: look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

John 1:29Hebrews 13:12

Some sayThe yearly goat day is temple ritual. It has nothing to do with Jesus.

Sin does not sit in the camp. It is carried out. John is still pointing: look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

Open Leviticus 16

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.