We see Capricornus bowing down in death. But he is a very odd looking goat: his back end is a fish tail—a very alive fish tail!
What does this mean? It is prophetic: out of his death comes life.
The millions of goats slain in sacrifice never truly took away sins. They pointed to the coming One whose sacrifice would once a for all solve the sin problem.
The fish tail is the promise of the new life available to everyone who believes in Messiah's substitutionary sacrifice—everyone who receives it and applies it to himself. This new life is a changed heart—one in which God's law is written. Those who have it are no longer bound by rules, but live freely, desiring and doing God's will.
"Because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
Then I said, "Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, O God."'. . . And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." —Hebrews 10
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