Leviticus 16:
Lev 16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Lev 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
Lev 16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
Lev 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Christ Jesus is both the Bullock and the Lord's Goat, but not the Scapegoat [Azaz'el, who is representing Satan/wicked].
Furthermore:
Christ Jesus is both the Bullock and the Lord's Goat, but
not the
Scapegoat [Azaz'el, who is representing Satan/wicked], which is why there is the mentioning of the
"lots":
Leviticus 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats;
one lot for the LORD, and
the other lot for the scapegoat
There would be no need for
"lots" to be cast if both were to represent Christ Jesus.
"Lots" in scripture were
always used to choose between two [or more] differing things,
not one
[Leviticus 16:8,9,10; Numbers 26:55,56, 33:54, 34:13, 36:2,3; Deuteronomy 32:9; Joshua 13:6, 14:2, 15:1, 16:1, 17:1,2,14,17, 18:6,8,10,11, 19:1,10,17,24,32,40,51, 21:4,5,6,8,10,20,40, 23:4; Judges 1:3, 20:9; 1 Samuel 14:41; 1 Chronicles 6:54,61,63,65, 16:18, 24:5,7,31, 25:8,9, 26:13,14,16; Esther 3:7, 9:24; Nehemiah 10:34, 11:1; Psalms 16:5, 22:18, 105:11, 125:3; Proverbs 1:14, 16:33, 18:18; Isaiah 17:14, 34:17, 57:6; Jeremiah 13:25; Ezekiel 24:6, 45:1, 47:22, 48:29; Daniel 12:13; Joel 3:3; Obadiah 1:11; Jonah 1:7; Micah 2:5; Nahum 3:10; Luke 1:9; Acts 1:26, 8:21, 13:19].
Notice, that both goats receive a designation,
"one lot for the LORD".
How many for the LORD? Two or one? It is only
"one".
The other
"lot" was
not then
"for the LORD", but rather for someone else,
"the other lot for the scapegoat".
Notice "for the scapegoat",
not "for the LORD".
Also notice, that the scapegoat was not to make atonement for the people of God or sanctuary, but with "him", the "scapegoat":
Leviticus 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be
the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD,
to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
The Scapegoat was also never sacrificed, but to be
"presented alive before the LORD", for the reason of making
"atonement with him", after which the scapegoat was to be
"let ... go ... into the wilderness", representing the desolate earth during the 1,000 years:
Satan [represented by the scapegoat, `aza'zel, not a sacrifice for sin, but ultimately responsible for all sin] then, after the Saints are
"caught up" "to meet the Lord" "into the air" and the wicked are
"brought low" and
"slain" [to await their final sentencing in the Second resurrection after the 1000 years], is bound by his surrounding circumstance in the
"1000 years" on the desolate Earth, the
"wilderness" a
"land not inhabited" [see
Jeremiah 4:23-29, 25:33], where was once the
"fruitful place", and he is bound and led away by the
"strong man" [Jesus Christ; Psalms 19:5; Proverbs 24:5; Luke 11:22], just as
Leviticus 16 and
Revelation 20:1-3 reveal [for events beforehand
compare also
Leviticus 16:17 to
Revelation 15:8, and
also Leviticus 16:20; Isaiah 16:21 with Jesus coming out of Heaven to
Hebrews 9:28]:
And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy [place], until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. - Leviticus 16:17
[compare to]
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. - Revelation 15:8
Then also:
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy [place], and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: - Leviticus 16:20
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. - Isaiah 26:21
[compare to]
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. - Hebrews 9:28
Then also:
And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. - Leviticus 16:8
But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. - Leviticus 16:10
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy [place], and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: - Leviticus 16:20
[compare to...]
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. - Revelation 20:1
Then:
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: - Leviticus 16:21
And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. - Leviticus 16:22
[compare to...]
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, - Revelation 20:2
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. - Revelation 20:3
Satan is to be "presented alive" [Leviticus 16:10], and is not eliminated at the 2nd Advent, but is to be taken and "bound" by a "great chain" [see Lamentations 3:7; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6, for this is no ordinary chain of metal, seeing the devil may break these [Luke 8:29, etc], but a chain of circumstance] and "let go" into "the wilderness" alive.
"bottomless pit" is the Greek ἄβυσσος - abussos, and means, void, a desert wilderness [see also Luke 8:29 "into the wilderness", connected with Luke 8:31, "the deep", compare also to Mark 5:10, "away out of the country", out from cultivated and populated areas], see also LXX Genesis 1:2 "without form and void" - h de gh hn aoratos kai akataskeuastos kai skotos epanw ths abussou kai pneuma qeou epefereto epanw tou udatos, etc.
Consider also texts, which speak of the,
"after many days" [1,000 years],
"And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited." Isaiah 24:22 and
"After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them." Ezekiel 38:8
[see Gog and Magog in Revelation 20, see context in Ezekiel 38]
The earth during the 1,000 years has no human inhabitant, for the earth is laid low by the 7 last plagues, destruction, 2nd Advent, the righteous are all
"caught up together" [1 Thessalonians 4:15-17], and all of the wicked slain or remain slain until after the 1,000 years
[Revelation 20:5a]. Satan is bound there, a place once of a Garden, a place once of Babylon the Great, now to become a
"habitation of dragons" [Isaiah 34:14],
"a parched ground",
"thirsty land" [Isaiah 35:7]:
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be
an habitation of dragons, [and] a
court for owls. Isaiah 34:14
Dragon the symbol of satan, and owls the unclean night raptors/devils.