Years ago while visiting the doctor's office as a child, I would devour the Highlight's magazine. I would find the hidden objects and laugh at the cartoons. The stories fascinated me and the jokes would be shared the next time I was with my friends. Today, in the Mentzer household, we have the monthly Highlights for Stefani in a basket in the family reading room--the bathroom. Recently I read an older issue from November 2010 and read the story of the White House turkey. The issue focused upon the history of the pardon given to the turkey going back to President Lincoln and his son Tad who begged his father to intercede for his pet turkey. This issue showed President Obama extending his hand pardoning the turkey and setting it free.
However, the whole story is even better. Two turkeys are selected from birth and fed to the point they grow to nearly sixty pounds. The association of turkey farmers gives the White House two turkeys, one to be pardoned and the other to be prepared and served for the White House family. Then it struck me the similarities of another event when two are present and one dies and one lives.
In Leviticus 16, the Chief Priest was to lay his hands on the head of a goat and confess the sins, rebellions, and transgressions of the people of Israel and then someone would lead the scapegoat into the wilderness to die. We see this same scene played out on Calvary when God laid upon the head of his Son, the sins of the world and was led out of the city to die at the place of the skull, Golgotha. In this same procedure, God made Jesus to payment and extended his hands to us and pronounced pardon.
However, the whole story is even better. Two turkeys are selected from birth and fed to the point they grow to nearly sixty pounds. The association of turkey farmers gives the White House two turkeys, one to be pardoned and the other to be prepared and served for the White House family. Then it struck me the similarities of another event when two are present and one dies and one lives.
In Leviticus 16, the Chief Priest was to lay his hands on the head of a goat and confess the sins, rebellions, and transgressions of the people of Israel and then someone would lead the scapegoat into the wilderness to die. We see this same scene played out on Calvary when God laid upon the head of his Son, the sins of the world and was led out of the city to die at the place of the skull, Golgotha. In this same procedure, God made Jesus to payment and extended his hands to us and pronounced pardon.
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