taught from Revelation 20, Satan is to be bound and cast into the bottomless pit, which act and place are significantly symbolized by the ancient High Priest sending the scape-goat into a separate and uninhabited wilderness.
Eighth , Thus we have the Scripture, the definition of the name in two ancient languages both spoken at the same time, and the oldest opinion of the Christians in favor of regarding the scape-goat as a type of Satan.
In the common use of the term, men always associate it with something mean, calling the greatest villains and refugees from justice scape-goats.
Ignorance of the law and its meaning is the only possible origin that can be assigned for the opinion that the scape-goat was a type of Christ.
Because it is said, "The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited." Leviticus 16:22; And John said, "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh ( margin , beareth) away the sin of the world," it is concluded without further thought that the former was the type of the latter.
But a little attention to the law will show that the sins were borne from the people by the priest, and from the priest by the goat.
First , They are imparted to the victim.
Second , The priest bore them in its blood to the Sanctuary.
Third , After cleansing them from it on the tenth day of the seventh month, he bore them to the scape-goat.
And fourth , The goat finally bore them away beyond the camp of Israel to the wilderness.
This was the legal process, and when fulfilled the author of sins will have received them back again, (but the ungodly will bear their own sins), and his head will have been bruised by the seed of the woman; the "strong man armed" will have been bound by a stronger than he, "and his house (the grave) spoiled of its goods (the saints)." Matthew 12:29; Leviticus 11:21,22 see Leviticus 16:21,22.
The thousand years imprisonment of Satan will have begun, and the saints will have entered upon their millennial reign with Christ. 25 * * * * * The Sanctuary must be cleansed before Christ appears; because,