The ScapeGOAT

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13). During the Day of Atonement, the High Priest would sacrifice one goat to God, and on a second goat was placed the sins of all of the people and the goat was sent off alive into the desert. This was called the scapegoat, because it was the goat that escaped or departed. As it symbolically bore the sins of all the people, the scapegoat was also a symbol for Jesus Christ, who would Himself bear the sins of all the world. Christ is the scapegoat but He is also the scape GOAT, as in, the Greatest of All Time, at escaping. The Devil and all of his legions tried harder to ensnare and imprison Jesus Christ than they did for any other of God’s children, but Christ escaped all of their efforts. The brightest minds and the most learned men in all of Judea laid their cleverest and most insidious traps and not only did Jesus walk through them unscathed but ended up turning their own snares against them. To whatever bondage and captivity we may find ourselves confined, it is our duty to escape, and to Whom better ought we to look for guidance and assistance than the GOAT of escaping? Christ will help us pick every lock, tunnel through every wall, and sneak past every guard in our prison until at last we are free. Whether we are under house arrest or in a maximum security lockup, Christ has been in our exact situation and knows all of the blindspots and weak links in the devil’s snares and He will help us to escape.