What has a goat got to do with Satan?

Answer 1

In The Bible Satan is God's most beautiful angel. He is not a goat. Satan's followers are depicted as goats in the prophecy of the sheep and the goats when the whole world is judged by God and the sheep go with God and the goats go to Hell for eternity.

Another Answer:

I believe you are asking about the Day of Atonement Feast Day and the 2 goats - one slaughtered representing Jesus Christand the other, after having the sins of the House of Israel symbolically placed upon its head, is let free in the wilderness representing Satan. This IS a religiously commanded feast day pointing to man's future re-unification with the God Family: AT-ONE-MENT.

The Actual Answer

The goat sent out into the wilderness was sent out to Azazel, not Satan the two did not become synonymous until the early hundreds AD, some 3-4000 years after the events of the Old Testament.

The goat became associated with the Devil during the 900's and later, during the Catholic Church's push to convert pagans. During this process, they "borrowed" a lot of the religious imagery from the various pagan religions around the Middle East and Southern Europe and reinterpreted them as demons as devils. The god Pan, who was half goat (cloven hooves, shaggy legs, horns), being a god of merriment, alcohol, sex and fertility (along with Bacchus) was reinterpreted as being the key symbol of man's temptation: His lusts and passions, so Pan became equivalent to the main tempter, Satan.