Azazel, 45-47 and the Ritual of the Two GOATs
Will Donald Trump, the most pro-Christian president in modern history, usher in a new era of anti-Christian fervor?
Welcome to the “what does this mean?” portion of our program.
This is the part where the American electorate overwhelmingly votes to return a publicly sinful and politically flawed former president back to the White House over a blatantly corrupt and unqualified career politician/Montell Williams escort.
So now what? as the pundits like to ask.
Now we found out whether Trump, the 45th and 47th POTUS, has been engaged in the single greatest political con job in American history, or whether he truly believes himself to be the one to bring his people back to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Over and over and over again for the last four years, the postmortem corporate undead formerly known as as the “mainstream media” told us that "Trumpism" and "MAGA-ism" has become a quasi-religion for White Evangelical Christians.
Not coincidentally, it was overwhelmingly that same electorate who again put Donald Trump back in the White House.
In fact, Protestant and Catholics overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
You know who didn’t? Jews (79% for Harris ) and atheists (72%).
Weird, right? Jews voted overwhelmingly with atheists, rather than with Evangelicals, their so-called “Judeo Christian” counterparts.
Why would the self-proclaimed “chosen people of God” align with those who say in their heart “No God” rather than those Evangelicals who are constantly praying for their salvation?1
Shouldn’t we be talking more about this?
Trump is.
Let’s start with his victory speech.
Following an electoral landslide, Trump acknowledged the historic coalition that put him into office: black voters, Hispanic voters, Muslim voters.
But there were specifically two glaring omissions in Trump’s acknowledgements: Christians (namely Evangelicals) and Jewish Americans.
This omission did not go unnoticed by the Israeli media, which has long warned that Trump was planning to blame Jewish voters in the event he lost to Harris.
Speaking in Florida at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, near his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump made sure to thank everyone, it seemed, except the Evangelicals who voted for him and the Jewish voters who did not.
“They came from all quarters,” Trump continued, “union, non -union, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American. We had everybody. And it was beautiful. It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.”
Trump frequently complained about the state of Israel during his campaign.
“Israel has to do one thing, they have to get smart about Trump because they don’t back me. I did more for Israel than anybody. I did more for the Jewish people than anybody — and it’s not reciprocal,” he said.
Despite all that very transparently Jewish money behind Trump, post-election, there are two competing narratives here:
Trump 47 will be the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish administration ever
versus
Trump 47 will the most anti-Israel, antisemitic administration ever
Now you don’t have to be a logician to realize both of these statements cannot be true. They can both be false, but they cannot both logically be true.
So which is it? Did Jews put Trump over the top, or did he win in spite of Jewish support for Kamala?
Hard to believe it’s the latter considering the lightly-veiled threats Trump made prior to November when he said if he lost that “Jewish people would have a lot to do” with it.
“Think of it, that means 60% are voting for Kamala,” Trump added.
And apart from Trump winning the election, that’s basically what happened.
Trump blaming Jews for his potential defeat, which he has said would lead to ruination in America and Israel, sent shudders through liberal and centrist groups in a Jewish community already rattled by a year of rising antisemitism spurred by the Israel-Hamas war. It also alarmed watchdogs who have seen extremists inspired by Trump’s rhetoric engage in dangerous conduct.
And it cast a renewed spotlight on accusations that Trump is antisemitic at the very moment when he is seeking to position himself as a fighter for Israel and against antisemitism. The Jewish Democratic Council of America has already repeatedly branded him as an antisemite.
Here’s what Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said on X:
“President Trump, your words preemptively blaming Jews for your potential election loss is of a piece with millennia of antisemitic lies about Jewish power. It puts a target on American Jews. And it makes you an ally not to our vulnerable community but to those who wish us harm.”
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a national public policy group put out a response to Trump’s comments saying 45-47 was engaging in “dangerous dual loyalty tropes.”
The American Jewish Committee said Trump was endangering the Jewish community.
“Setting up anyone to say ‘we lost because of the Jews’ is outrageous and dangerous,” it said in a statement. “Thousands of years of history have shown that scapegoating Jews can lead to antisemitic hate and violence.”
“Scapegoating.” What an odd word choice at this moment in history.
Scapegoating, of course, was the ordinance Yahweh gave to the race of Israel as part of the Law of Atonement in Leviticus 16, in which the priest chose “two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering” (v. 5). The priest would then bring the animals before Yahweh and cast lots between the two goats.2
One of these goats would be a sacrifice for the nation; the other, a scapegoat.
In this Levitical ceremony, the high priest would transfer the sins of the people to the scapegoat, which was then pushed off of a cliff as a symbol of the casting aside of wrongdoing.
This word “scapegoat” is actually a translation of the Hebrew word azazel, literally meaning “goat of departure.”3
Here’s how GotQuestions.com summarizes the definition of “scapegoat”:
Symbolically, the scapegoat took on the sins of the Israelites and removed them…For Christians, this is a foreshadowing of Christ.
In fact, according to the American Jewish Council, scapegoating is antisemitic “hate speech” blaming Jews “for deicide — the murder of Christ.”
It gets stranger.
According to Jewish scholars:
The ritual of the two goats appears to present Azazel as a deity, since Azazel is parallel to YHWH in the ritual, with one goat going to each. Several clues in the passage suggest, however, that the god Azazel has been “demoted.”4
GotQuestions also says the name “Azazel shows up in some Jewish mythology”:
While there are different versions in the Book of Enoch, the Book of the Giants, and other pseudepigraphal books, the story is essentially that Azazel was the name of one of the fallen angels who sinned in Genesis chapter 6. As a curse on his sin, Azazel was forced to take the form of a goat-like demon.
One of these two goats, then, is the sacrifice for sin, and the other, the Azazel/scapegoat, flees into the wilderness.
Here’s the thing: the scapegoat has long been associated with a red crimson thread, or “scarlet wool.”
According to rabbinic tradition - men who reject Christ Jesus as Messiah - the thread was tied to the scapegoat twice, once following the casting of the lot for the two goats. Then the red wool “was tied on the animal again after it had been sent into the wilderness, immediately before it was pushed off a cliff.”
We see this scarlet thread appear throughout Scripture, not only in the Law, but in the NT as well. The Lord Jesus Himself is even clothed in a scarlet robe just prior to his crucifixion.5
So the scapegoat and the color crimson/scarlet red are intrinsically linked in Scripture.
Unsurprisingly, Trump identifies as the GOAT and knows exactly what it means. The media has lauded his GOAT political comeback.
The Azazel goat is satanic. Trump says he is the GOAT.
What do we do with all of this?
I believe the same Jewish interests who overwhelmingly supported the Biden mutiny in favor of Kamala will now redouble their efforts on scapegoating Trump as a satanic ruler who needs to be removed at all costs.
Think “Russiagate” only on a Biblical scale.
Recall that it was just four short months ago when Trump was nearly assassinated on live TV in Butler, Penn. when a sniper’s bullet grazed his ear. I’m convinced the plan was for Trump to be the sacrifice.
Now that the goat offering has failed, it’s my conviction that Trump will be scapegoated to the wilderness - or pushed off a cliff - for the sins of his people, namely, White Evangelical Christians.
Throughout history, the Jewish people have been blamed - scapegoated - for all manner of evils, according to the World Jewish Congress, including:
Accusing Jews of being responsible for the Bubonic Plague
Alleging that Jews poisoned wells (in an attempt to kill Christians)
Alleging that Jews used the blood of missing children for Passover matzah
Accusing Jews of ritual murder, e.g., Anderl von Rinn, the Damascus Affair, Simon of Trent, etc. 6
One of the modern-day manifestations of this scapegoating involves the claim that Israeli state actors were somehow linked to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
The worst-ever terror attack on U.S. soil also, perhaps counterintuitively, ushered in a new and unprecedented security state focused on protecting Jewish Americans:
The 9/11 attacks came during an escalating wave of terrorism in Israel, leading Jewish leaders to draw a link between the two countries’ struggles. The attacks also spawned what the Anti-Defamation League called “a new anti-Semitic canard” blaming Israel, or Jews, for the attacks. Jewish organizations began pouring millions of dollars into security organizations. Millions more, in the form of government security grants, were given to synagogues and schools.
Sept. 11, 2001, then, was a seminal moment in the relationship between the U.S. and the state of Israel. A turning point for both Americans and Israelis.
Dear reader, do you honestly believe - and I ask this in all sincerity - that Donald Trump is completely unaware that the numbers on his MAGA hat representing his two administrations, 45 and 47, are representative of 9 (4 + 5) and 11 (4+ 7)?
Notice the 45-47 / 9-11 is above the right ear - the same ear which was wounded in the Butler shooting and the same ear which the Israelite priests would apply blood from the guilt offering of a ram or a goat.
Now, admittedly there a few (though not infinite) ways to view this:
a) means nothing, total coincidence - fair but unlikely
b) is a reference to Sept. 11, 2001 - possible but still unlikely
c) is a veiled reference to Revelation 9:11 - possible and slightly less unlikely
By way of reminder, Rev. 9:11 reads as follows: “And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.”
For those like me who always assumed these were proper names, Abaddon means “destruction” in Hebrew. The Greek Apollyon means “destroyer.”7
What are the odds of all these elements coalescing biblically? I don’t know. But they can’t be very good.
Trump the GOAT. Crimson red hat. 9/11. The blood of the right ear.
I’m not going to mislead you. I don’t know what it all means. The Father has not seen fit to grant me any special revelation regarding this strange sequence of events.
But I have long believed that, much like the Jewish scapegoat of the last two millennia, at the end of the age, the world will hate the true Israel of God with the same enmity which has existed since the time of Christ.
In varied ways, with subtle language, Trump seems to be telling the American people that 47 will be qualitatively different than 45. Just maybe not in the way his supporters would like.
Instead of Jews being scapegoated, will Trump become the Christianized scapegoat, one who will be blamed as a stand-in for Evangelicals and their pesky theology for all of the world’s problems?
Will Donald Trump, knowingly or otherwise, so successfully and spectacularly lay the groundwork for a fascist, right-wing government that most of the spiritually dead electorate will mistake him for the Man of Lawlessness? Isn’t that happening now?
And if Donald Trump has any mandate from his supporters, if there’s one segment of the population which the majority of Americans identify with Trump, it’s Evangelical Christians - the MAGA Majority, if you will.
What happens when Trump, elected on the hopes of Evangelicals everywhere for a Christian nation that, apart from the coming kingdom of Christ, cannot possibly come to pass, instead asserts his considerable political influence to force the state of Israel into a peace deal?
Remember the Abraham Accords? That was just the start.
Trump, it seems, has major plans for peace, one which could see Jerusalem divided and East Jerusalem named as the capital of a Palestinian state.
This is something that Yahweh, God of Israel warns against time and again.
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
Joel 3:2
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.
And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
Zechariah 12:2-3
I’ll leave you with this. Do with it what you will.
And have a blessed Thankgiving.
