We, as Christians, worship Jesus Christ as our Saviour, remembering ultimate sacrifice He made for us. When He became our scapegoat, He took on God's wrath and defeated the death we deserved. This idea of a sacrificial scapegoat goes back to the Old Testament when Jewish people honoured the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), when God provided a very specific way to find temporary cleansing for sin for the Israelites, specifically through the blood of a sacrifice and a scapegoat. The scapegoat, from Leviticus 16, symbolically had all the sins of Israel placed upon it and then was sent away into the wilderness, pointing forward to Christ, Who would be the one who all the sins of the world would be placed upon. He would bear our iniquity. He would bear our shame. He would bear our sin so that, in the end, He could say, "It is finished." No more sacrifices. No more annual Day of Atonement. Jesus, the Lamb of God, carried our sins away as far as the east is from the west. He paid for it once and for all. Leviticus 16:7-22 Isaiah 53:3-6 Leviticus 16:7-10, 18-22