As God leads us through conversion, He challenges our concept of Him, sharpening our mental image of His character through the Scriptures, which testify of the Father and the Son. Sometimes, the Scriptures present challenging truths about Jesus Christ, particularly regarding His sacrifice. Isaiah 53:4-6 prophesies that He bore our griefs, carried our sorrows, was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, with the Lord laying on Him the iniquity of us all. This fulfillment mirrors the Day of Atonement ritual in Leviticus 16, where the azazel goat bore the sins of Israel into the wilderness, typifying the Messiah as the antitype who endured great suffering beyond mere death. Further, Isaiah 53:11-12 affirms that by bearing our iniquities, He justifies many, having poured out His soul unto death and being numbered with the transgressors. I Peter 2:24 specifies that He bore our sins in His own body on the tree, experiencing extreme suffering, shame, and anguish during those hours, not just death. This bearing of sin was a real, physical fulfillment, not an abstract pronouncement, highlighting the spiritual healing that leads to eternal life, as we turned from straying sheep to the Shepherd. II Corinthians 5:21 reveals a startling truth: God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so we might become the righteousness of God in Him. This parallels the azazel becoming a representation of sin, showing that Jesus took on this dreadful role. Galatians 3:13 confirms that Christ became a curse for us, redeeming us from the curse of the law by hanging on the tree, fulfilling the azazel's role as sin and curse were laid upon Him. Hebrews 13:12 notes that He suffered outside the gate, akin to the azazel being led outside the camp, bearing sin over hours of agony rather than immediate death. Matthew 27:45-46 captures the depth of His suffering, crying out in darkness, feeling forsaken as He bore our sins. God's mercy provided this painful solution for our healing and reconciliation, requiring us to acknowledge the harsh reality of what the Son of God endured to grant us life with Him.

Jesus Christ was made to be sin for humanity even though He knew no sin. This occurred so that believers might become the righteousness of God in Him. The Greek word rendered sin in this statement refers to sin itself rather than a sin offering. In becoming sin Christ was identified with sin and became its representation. The Father therefore dealt with Him as sin must be dealt with. Christ experienced the full effects of sin including separation from God and being forsaken. The same principle appears when Christ is described as having become a curse for humanity after being hanged on a tree. Thorns placed on His head symbolized the curse that entered the world through sin. Darkness covered the land while He bore the iniquities of all and while God withdrew because of transcendent purity. The Messiah thus took the sins and their penalties in full.

Jesus Christ, in His profound sacrifice, became sin for humanity, bearing the weight of all transgressions on the stake at Calvary. As He hung there, He experienced total separation from God the Father, a condition resulting from sin that cuts off contact with the divine. In His cry, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" He expressed the intense loneliness of being forsaken, stepping into the place of mankind to endure the pain and anguish of this separation. During those hours of darkness, without the comfort of God's presence, He carried the sins of the world alone, fulfilling the penalty of death that sin demands. His life, of greater value than the sum of all humanity, paid in full the price for every sin—past, present, and future. When He declared, "It is finished," He signified the completion of His redemptive work, having suffered the penalty of God's justice as sin for all people. His blood, shed on the stake, was the life He gave, securing forgiveness and erasing the debt of sin for mankind. Through this act, He became the bridge to eternal life, offering hope and victory over sin and death to all who believe in Him.

The material develops the topic of Jesus Christ made to be sin by first establishing the actions of the azazel goat in Leviticus 16:21-22, where the high priest lays both hands on its head, confesses all the iniquities, transgressions, and sins of Israel upon it, and sends it away into the wilderness to bear those sins. These actions receive their fulfillment in Isaiah 53:4-6 and 53:11-12, where the Messiah bears the griefs, sorrows, transgressions, and iniquities of the people after the Eternal lays them upon Him. The same functions appear in Hebrews 9:28, where Christ is offered once to bear the sins of many, and in I Peter 2:24, where He bore our sins in His own body on the tree during the hours of suffering outside the gate. This identification leads directly to II Corinthians 5:21, which states that God the Father made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. The statement is explained through the Hebrew term chatta'ah, which denotes both sin and sin offering, showing that the azazel, once the sins were transferred, became the symbolic embodiment of sin and its curse. The material further connects this to Galatians 3:13, where Christ became a curse for us when hanged on the tree, fulfilling the rejection symbolized by sending the azazel outside the camp. These scriptural witnesses demonstrate that the azazel's role of becoming sin, bearing iniquity, and being sent away prefigures the Messiah's work of atonement rather than any other figure. The broader message emphasizes that only multiple clear biblical testimonies, not word studies or extra-biblical traditions, establish this identification and reveal how Christ alone accomplishes the removal of sin required for reconciliation with God.