Jesus Christ, in becoming sin for humanity, endured profound suffering and separation as part of God's eternal plan. At the crucifixion, as described in Matthew 27, He cried out in agony, questioning why the Father had forsaken Him, reflecting the deep emotional and spiritual torment of that moment. This cry, a quotation from Psalm 22, signaled the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy before the eyes of the Jews, affirming His identity as the Messiah. Isaiah 53:6 reveals that the Eternal laid on the Messiah the iniquity of all, making Him a substitute who bore the sins and penalties of mankind. Galatians 3:13 further explains that Christ became a curse for us, as Paul applies Deuteronomy 21:23, indicating that being hanged on a tree signifies being cursed by God. This act necessitated distance from God's holiness, aligning with His nature to withdraw from what is cursed. In II Corinthians 5:21, Paul states that Christ was made to be sin for us, not merely a sin offering, but a representation of sin itself. This identification with sin meant that He had to experience the full range of consequences, including separation from God. Romans 8:32 underscores that God did not spare His own Son, allowing Him to undergo all that sin entails, such as being wounded, bruised, pierced, and shamed. The symbolism of thorns, pressed onto Christ's head as a crown in John 19, connects to the curse of sin from Genesis 3:17-18, representing the piercing effects of iniquity laid upon Him. During the crucifixion, as noted in Luke 23, darkness covered the whole earth from noon until 3 p.m., signifying God's withdrawal of light and presence, a judgment fitting for the moment when all human sin was placed on the divine Substitute. This darkness over all the earth reflected the Father's forsaking due to His transcendent purity and opposition to sin. Ultimately, Christ's experience of being forsaken was not due to His own sin but because He took humanity's place, bearing the separation that sin causes. Hebrews 9:28 assures that when He appears again, it will be apart from sin, as the curse was carried out, God's justice satisfied, and the darkness lifted. This act of becoming sin, though excruciating, was the awesome price of God's love, demonstrating that love and hardship are not mutually exclusive, but part of a greater eternal purpose.

In the final hours of His human life, Jesus Christ bore the weight of mankind's sins, not merely in a legal sense, but through a profound and agonizing sacrifice. Our sins were laid upon Him, and He paid the penalty of death for them, fulfilling the will of Almighty God. Yet, this legal fulfillment was only part of His great act of sacrifice. During His torture and crucifixion, Jesus likely did not dwell on the individual sins for which He suffered. Instead, His thoughts were shaped by His knowledge of what must come to pass. He knew the precise timing of His suffering and death, set for the Passover Day in AD 31, and that He must be entombed as that day ended. Aware of His impending separation from His beloved Father, Jesus sought close communication with Him in Gethsemane, praying earnestly as His final moments of human freedom slipped away. Jesus also knew He was despised and rejected, not just by those of His time, but by generations across the ages. The Eternal Lord, Creator of the universe, was regarded as contemptible, even becoming the subject of scorn. He understood that even His closest friends would stumble, forsake Him, and scatter, with one betraying Him. This rejection, coupled with the betrayal in progress during the Passover dinner, weighed heavily on Him. Upon arriving at Gethsemane, Jesus was suddenly overwhelmed by intense sorrow and profound distress, a depth of agony surpassing any human experience. His suffering was so great that, had it deepened further, He might have died there. Yet, determined to fulfill all things, He endured, knowing the set time for His death had not yet come. In agony, He prayed more earnestly, His sweat becoming like great drops of blood falling to the ground. The reasons for His sorrow were manifold, likely including the rejection by every generation, the betrayal and forsaking by His friends, and the dread of physical torture and death. However, the most painful aspect was being cut off from His human brothers and sisters, whose sins caused His suffering, and more crucially, from His perfect, loving, and eternal Father. In His final moments, Jesus cried out in delirium, expressing the desolation of being forsaken by His Father, feeling deserted in His hour of greatest need.

In His last hours as a human, Jesus Christ endured unimaginable agony as every sin ever committed was forced upon His perfectly pure head. He understood the limitless repulsion between God and sin, and the necessity of His Father turning away during this time, leaving Him to complete the task alone. This separation, though brief, was almost unbearable for both Jesus and His Father, with each moment feeling like an eternity. Jesus, in His suffering, quoted prophecy, crying out, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" fulfilling the words He inspired David to write a thousand years prior. Even in delirium, His utterances remained rooted in His own Word. In Gethsemane, Jesus prayed about the cup He was to drink, a spiritual poison composed of the world's sin and the separation from His Father. This cup, though a healing medicine for mankind, was deadly to Him, racking His body and mind with stinging agony. He asked if the time to endure this awful drink might pass quickly, yet only if it aligned with His Father's will. Jesus knew He must imbibe, retain, and endure every drop of this poison, as planned with His Father since the foundation of the world. The sins of the world, laid upon Him by His Father, contaminated Jesus until they were poured out with His shed blood, bringing remission and release. Despite the foreknowledge of this torment, He remained resolute, knowing that to falter would leave humanity without hope. Throughout His trials, Jesus suppressed thoughts of escape, aware that His Father could send legions of angels to rescue Him, but choosing instead to fulfill the Scriptures and pay the death penalty for humanity's sins. In His final human hours, Jesus did not dwell on individual sins but suffered the collective weight of seven millennia of human transgression. With quiet resignation after Gethsemane, He bore the physical torture and spiritual poison, focusing on His soon-coming reunification with His Father and the future vision of His enemies witnessing Him at the right hand of Power. In extreme agony, He cried out at the pain of separation from His Father, yet endured until the end, His human thoughts ceasing as His tortured body lay dead for three days and three nights.

The relationship of fasting during the Day of Atonement to the symbol of azazel goat as Christ is examined and shown to likely be a way to experience empathy towards the sacrifice of both Jesus and His symbolic representation of the goat. There has been much confusion towards the azazel goat as previous incarnations of the Church of God has often skirted by the issue. Jesus fulfills both the sin offering and the entity bearing the sin. Showing with the example of the foreshadowing of Abraham and the prophecy in Isaiah- Jesus bears the sins and it can't be Satan as thought previously by the interpretations of the azazel goat symbolism. We fast to learn humility, sacrifice, and empathy towards our Savior.