Leviticus 16:5

goats

The two goats. The offering of the high priest for himself has no anti-type in Christ (Hebrews 7:26); (Hebrews 7:27). The typical interest centers upon the two goats and the high priest. Typically...

1. All is done by the high priest (Hebrews 1:3) "by Himself"), the people only bring the sacrifice; (Matthew 26:47); (Matthew 27:24); (Matthew 27:25).

2. The goat slain (Jehovah's lot) is that aspect of Christ's work which vindicates the holiness and righteousness of God as expressed in the law (Romans 3:24) and is expiatory.

3. The living goat typifies that aspect of Christ's work which puts away our sins from before God (Hebrews 9:26); (Romans 8:33); (Romans 8:34).

4. The high priest entering the holiest, typifies Christ entering "heaven itself" with "His own blood" for us (Hebrews 9:11); (Hebrews 9:12). His blood makes that to be a "throne of grace," and "mercy seat" which else must have been a throne of judgment.

5. For us, the priests of the New Covenant, there is what Israel never had, a rent veil (Matthew 27:51); (Hebrews 10:19); (Hebrews 10:20). So that, for worship and blessing, we enter, in virtue of His blood, where He is, into the holiest; (Hebrews 4:14); (Hebrews 10:19). The atonement of Christ, as interpreted by the Old Testament sacrificial types, has these necessary elements:

(1) It is substitutionary-the offering takes the offerer's place in death.

(2) The law is not evaded but honored-every sacrificial death was an execution of the sentence of the law.

(3) The sinlessness of Him who bore our sins is expressed in every animal sacrifice-it must be without blemish.

(4) The effect of the atoning work of Christ is typified

(a) in the promises, "it shall be forgiven him"; and

(b) in the peace-offering, the expression of fellowship-the highest privilege of the saint.

( See Scofield) - (Exodus 29:33)