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Thursday 24 March, 2016
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Book traces teenage bushranger ON Saturday March 19, 2016, it was 150 years since the Yass/Binalong teenager John Dunn was hanged for murder at Darlinghurst Gaol. Young Dunn being a champion jockey in the Yass District was conscripted into the newly formed Ben Hall Bushranging gang by Johnny Gilbert who reasoned that Dunn knew where all the fast race horses were and the gang could steal the best horses to escape from the police. John Dunn’s father Michael rode for two days searching for the bushrangers in a bid to try and get his son back, but couldn’t find them. John Dunn rode with Ben Hall and Johnny Gilbert and was part of a number of robberies. Tragically at Collector on January 25, 1865, while the gang held-up the Kimberley Inn (now the Bushranger Hotel), Dunn was keeping look-out and shot and killed Constable Samuel Nelson. Last year (2015), more than 200 people came to Collector on January 25 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the death of Constable Nelson. Many of these visitors to the little hamlet of Collector were descendants of Constable Nelson. In May 1865, Ben Hall was ambushed and killed by the police near Forbes. A few days later Gilbert and Dunn were betrayed by
Dunn’s grandfather and Johnny Gilbert was shot at Binalong. Young Dunn, wounded in the hand, fled to western New South Wales, where six months later he was captured at Quambone near Dubbo and brought to Darlinghurst Gaol and hanged on March 19, 1866. John Dunn was only 19. Kerry Medway has written a book on John Dunn’s life, titled ‘Teenage Bushranger’. It traces his bushranging exploits and how this young man guilt-ridden for murdering a policemen found peace with God. Books may be purchased from Koorong Books or direct from Kerry – see advertisement Page 15. Kerry is also available to speak at clubs, community groups, churches and schools, etc.
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Scapegoat link to crucifixion
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HOW is the Old Testament scapegoat linked to Christ’s death on the cross? In the book of the Bible called Leviticus (Chapter 16), the story of the scapegoat is revealed. Two goats were to be taken to the door of the tabernacle at the Jewish temple and one was to be chosen to be the goat for the Lord and the other was to be a ‘disappearing goat’. The first goat was to be sacrificed as a sinoffering for the people. The reference in Leviticus 16:9 to ‘sin’ implies a ‘sin offering’, thus making the first goat a sin-offering to pay for the deeds that have been committed by the people which have totally missed or fallen short of the target of obedience to God. In verse 10 of the same chapter, the second goat is referred to as the ‘scapegoat.’ This goat was not to be sacrificed, but kept alive as an ‘atonement.’ The word ‘atonement’ literally means ‘to make amends’ or ‘cover over.’ In the book of Genesis, the word ‘atonement’ was used to describe Noah covering the ark with pitch to prevent it from sinking. The word ’atonement’ has the idea of appeasement – to ‘cover over’ another person’s faults or failures. This second goat had the sins of the people placed on his head and then he was pushed out
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into the wilderness to run free. He was called a ‘scapegoat’. Let me sum it up – the first goat was sacrificed as a forerunner to Jesus being sacrificed on the cross for the sins of mankind already committed. The second goat called the ‘escape-goat’ or scapegoat who carried the sins of the people not yet committed. Jesus was both the ‘sin-offering goat’ that gave His life for the already committed sins of mankind. He was also the scapegoat rooting-out the very nature of sin. Jesus died to pay the debt that mankind owed due to sin and He rose again to ‘take away’ the ‘crookedness’ and ‘rebellion’ of our sinful human nature. When Jesus said in John 8:36: “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed”, He meant it. Totally free.
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