Surprise of the Day  

Why would Jesus pick on goats and say they represented bad people?  That’s not fair.

Matthew 25:31-34  –  Exodus 121-29  –  Leviticus 16:1-4

Fact of the Day

Under the Law of Moses the Jews kept an annual feast called the Passover.  It was a memorial of the time when God threatened the Jews and Egyptians that he would destroy the first born of every family for their sins.  But, if they put the blood of a sheep on their doorpost, God would Pass Over them and they would live.  The blood did not erase their sins, but hid their sins.   

Also under the Law of Moses was an annual ritual on the Day of Atonement when the high priest would put his hands on a goat and symbolically transfer the people’s sins onto the scapegoat. Then the goat would be let loose in the wilderness.  Again, the sins of the people were not erased but covered over.  The word Atonement means to cover.

Centuries later, Jesus said he would judge the world [after dying in our place and saving us by his own blood] and allow the sheep (those who’s sins Jesus had completely forgiven) to be on his right side to enter heaven, while the goats (those who’s sins Jesus had not forgiven) would be on Jesus’ left side to go to hell.

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