WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2023

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

 

The Scapegoat: A Foreshadowing of the Messiah

 

Regular offerings on the altar of the tabernacle played a significant role in the Hebrew’s spiritual lives. Guilt offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings all involved the sacrifice of animals. But the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement stood out s a picture of God’s forgiveness of His people’s sins.

 

READ: Leviticus 16: 2 – 31

 

  1. What steps did the high priest (Aaron) have to do before entering the tabernacle to conduct the sacrificial ritual on the Day of Atonement     (vv.3 – 13)

 

 

  1. What protected the high priest from death when he entered the Holy of Holies?  (vv. 12 & 13)

 

  1. What did the high priest do in the holy of holies, and why? (vv. 14 - 17)

 

 

  1. What did the Israelites know had occurred when the high priest came out of the tabernacle? (vv. 17 – 19)

 

 

  1. Specifically, what did the scapegoat carry away? (vv. 20 – 22, 34)

 

 

  1. What parallel exists between the animals sacrificed on the Day of Atonement and the sacrifice of Jesus’ life for the sins of all humanity? READ:  Leviticus 16: 20 – 22, 27 & 28;  Matthew 27: 31 – 33;           John 19: 17;   Hebrews 13: 11 – 13

 

 

  1. When the high priest returned from the holy of holies on the Day of Atonement, the Israelites knew that God had accepted their sacrifice READ:  LEVITICUS 16: 17  What happened after Jesus’ death on the cross that demonstrated God’s acceptance of Jesus’ sacrifice as the sinless Lamb of God?  READ:  Matthew 28: 1 – 10;   Mark 16: 1 – 7

 

 

 

  1. What did the sacrifice of Jesus accomplish that the atonement sacrifices could not?  READ:  John 1: 29;   3: 16 & 17;   Hebrews 9: 22 – 28;      Hebrews 10: 11 -14;   1 John 1: 7;  3: 5