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BRAGADAYJAH 328

The Law of the Scapegoat.

Aaron was commanded that when he would have finished atoning for the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and of the altar, he shall take in the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, and their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and sending it away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness.

And the goat shall bear upon it, all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited, and he shall let go the goat into the wilderness.

And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy place and leave them there.

And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make an atonement for himself and for the people. And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar

And the one who had taken the goat into the wilderness shall before returning to the camp wash his flesh and his clothes in clean water.   More   

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BRAGADAYJAH 327

Next Aaron as a sin offering for himself shall kill the bullock which is for a sin offering for himself and his house, and he shall take a censor full of burning coals of fire from off the altar which is before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine and he shall bring it within the veil; and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony that he dies not.

Then he must take the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle the blood seven times.

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood within the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon and before the mercy seat.

And he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgression in all their sins and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

And no man shall enter the tabernacle of the congregation until he has made an atonement for himself and his household and for the congregation of Israel.

And he, the priest, shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it, and shall take the blood of the bullock and of the goat and put it upon the horns of the altar; and sprinkle with his finger the blood seven times and cleanse and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.  More

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BRAGADAYJAH 326

The Day of Atonement

And the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons and told him to tell Aaron his brother, never to appear at any time into the holy place within the veil of the temple before the mercy seat which is upon the ark that he may not die. For said the Lord, “I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.  Only thus shall Aaron come into the holy place; he shall bring a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.  He shall put on the holy linen coat, and the linen breeches upon his flesh, and be girdled with a linen girdle and the linen miter; these are holy garments; therefore before he puts them on, he shall wash his flesh in water.”

“He shall also take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.  And Aaron shall offer his bullock for a sin offering for himself, and make atonement for himself and his household.”

“And he shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other for a scapegoat. And he shall then take the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell and offer it as a sin offering. But the goat upon which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to make an atonement with it and let it go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. More

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BRAGADAYJAH 325

When it came to women, the Lord told Moses and Aaron about female illnesses too.  So it was provided that if a woman had an issue of blood for many days beyond the time of her separation, or if she runs many days beyond that time, all her days shall be as the day of her separation and she shall be unclean.

Every bed whereupon she laid, during the period of her issue shall be as per her bed of separation; and whatsoever she sits upon shall be unclean. And whosoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash clothes and bathe self in water and shall be unclean until the evening.

And after she is cleansed of her issue, that is to say after the issue stops, she shall count out seven days after which she shall be clean. And on the eight day she shall take to herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation And the priest shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and the priest shall make an atonement for her for the issue of her uncleanness.

And the Lord said, “Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. The foregoing is the law for the man who had an issue, and of the woman in her uncleanness due to her issue and of him who lies with her while she is unclean. More

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Before continuing further, I find it necessary to pause and point out one salient, undeniable, but often overlooked, fact, especially today; that all sin must be atoned. In this regard there is no change in God’s law; so it was then when God was instructing the children of Israel regarding sin and its atonement, so it still is today. The only difference is the method of, not the need for, atonement.  Then it was by the flood of sheep and goat, bulls and rams and birds; but since the death and resurrection of Jesus, it is his All-Sufficient blood and His alone.  

Since, therefore, leprosy and diseases such as running out of the flesh were symbolic of sin, so, then all such had to be atoned by a sin offering.

Running is not described with any degree of certainty or particularity; but from all the surrounding facts it does appear to be what we now know to be gonorrhea. It maybe a little surprising to learn that way back then such ailments were known; but then again it may be that God was merely being proactive and providing a remedy in advance.

Be that as it may, however, we see that there was a provision for atonement in the case of the man who had that terrible disease in his body to the extent he was taken as having contaminated his house.  He too, had to provide two birds, two young pigeons or two turtledoves, and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop and the priest would do with the birds that which he had done formerly to cleanse the leper of his leprosy. The law was the same for all manner of diseases of the flesh be it leprosy, scabies, running and such like eruptions and breaking outs of the flesh of man.  More

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BRAGADAYJAH 323

Continuing to instruct Moses and Aaron about human diseases, the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying, Tell the children of Israel that when any man has a running issue coming out of him, he shall be unclean.  And every bed that he lies on, everything he sits on, whatsoever he touches shall be unclean. And if any one touches his bed or his clothing he shall be unclean also and shall bathe himself and wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

And anyone who touches the flesh of an unclean person shall be unclean and shall bathe himself and wash his clothes in water and shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who sits on the unclean person’s saddle or anything else that was under him, or touches any of those things of the unclean person shall be unclean and similarly had to bathe himself and wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening.

After the person who had the issue becomes clean, then he shall count seven days at the end of which he shall bathe himself and wash his clothes in running water. More

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BRAGADAYJAH 321

As has been said leprosy typifies sin and so a trespass offering and burnt offering on cleansing.

Also the Lord demanded that the house of the leper should also be cleansed. This symbolizes the need for the sinner man to be cleansed within and without. To be cleansed without by water, and within by the Holy Spirit.

          “When ye are come into the land of Canaan which I have given you for a possession,” said the Lord, “and I put the plague of leprosy in a house in the land of Canaan, and if the owner of the house shall report to the priest that there appears to be a plague in the house, the priest shall, before entering into it, command that the house be first emptied. Then having entered, the priest was to look at the walls of the house, and seeing certain signs, streaks on the walls, he shall go out of the house and shut it up seven days. And if after seven days on entering the house the priest sees that the plague has spread, he shall order that the stones of the house be broken down and cast into an unclean place set aside for the purpose outside the city.

After the walls would have been broken down and the stones carried outside of the city, the house would be re-built with fresh stones and re-plastered.  More   

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