"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' [Lev. 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.
1. They are imparted to the victim.
2. The priest bore them in its blood to the sanctuary.
3. After cleansing it from them, on the tenth day of the seventh month, he bore them to the scape-goat.
4. 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. Matt. 12:29; Luke 11:21, 22.
The great work of atonement is now complete, and the work of our 
Lord as priest, accomplished. The sins of those who have obtained pardon through the great sin-offering, are, at the close of our Lord's work in the holy places, blotted out (Acts 3:19), and being then transferred to the scape-goat, are borne away from the sanctuary and host forever, and rest upon the head of their author, the devil. The Azazel, or antitypical scape-goat, will then have received the sins of
those who have been pardoned in the sanctuary, and in the lake of fire will suffer for the sins which he has instigated. God's people, the host, will then be free forever from their iniquity."
J.N. Andrews
