name Azazel is used by the Arabs to mean “evil demon.” This
demon goat represented the false god or false messiah (Satan or
the Antichrist) and in perfect parallel will be either bound in
Hades and/or cast alive into the Lake of Fire (respectively), on
the last Yom Kippur (Rev. 20:2; 19:19-20).
Yom Kippur—Doomsday
On Yom Kippur, at a location between the porch and the
altar, the high priest slew a bull during the ceremony. Joel, the
prophet, speaks of the coming of the Messiah at the time of
this ceremony.
“Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred
assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring
together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the
breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her
chamber. Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep
between the temple porch and the altar”
(Joel 2:15-17).
The declared fast must be at Yom Kippur. It is the only fes-
tival that is a fast, the only one that is a solemn festival, and the
only one that takes place between the porch and the altar!
The picture we have is a cry to the Messiah to come and
end the persecution by the Antichrist and his armies. It also
shows the bride coming back to the earth with the Messiah
after the wedding ceremony in heaven.
Other passages, symbols, and visions also point to this Day
of Atonement as being Doomsday:
“Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated be-
fore you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going
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