The Mt. of Olives Goat
Thursday, August 31, 2023
The Scapegoat
On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year, the High Priest stood with the scapegoat, pronouncing the sins of Israel over the goat. Symbolically placing them on it. He turned to the multitudes and said, "You shall be cleansed." A priest then led the goat out of the temple, through the Eastern Gate, and up to the Mount of Olives. The people watched as their sins ascended the mountain, then disappeared, taken into the wilderness. The Mount of Olives was the vanishing point for the scapegoat and their sins which it carried. Messiah is our scapegoat. He took our sins upon Himself. And then, just as the scapegoat, He went to the Mount of Olives and there He vanished. The scapegoat disappeared into the wilderness, but Messiah disappeared into Heaven. It means there's no way on earth, literally, you can find your sins, in Messiah. He's taken them out of the world and into the sky. Let them go already. Let them vanish from your heart as they've vanished from the earth. Let them go forever with your Holy Scapegoat... into the sky.

Today's Mission
Let go of the shame from your past today. Messiah's blood has made you clean. Confess it and believe it.

1 John 3:5
5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
All who indulge in a sinful life are dangerously lawless, for sin is a major disruption of God’s order. Surely you know that Christ showed up in order to get rid of sin. There is no sin in him, and sin is not part of his program. No one who lives deeply in Christ makes a practice of sin. None of those who do practice sin have taken a good look at Christ. They’ve got him all backward.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND!