Atonement
Why blood, why a lamb, why a cross — traced from the first substitute.
A ram caught in a thicket, blood smeared on a doorframe, a goat sent into the desert, a man on a Roman cross. The Bible keeps telling the same story with better and better pictures until the last one is a person.
The thread
Genesis 22 · ~2000 BC
A ram caught in the thicket
Exodus 12 · ~1445 BC
Blood on the doorpost
Leviticus 16 · ~1445 BC
The Day of Atonement and the scapegoat
Isaiah 53 · ~700 BC
Wounded for our transgressions
John 1 · AD 27
Behold the Lamb of God
Hebrews 10 · ~AD 65
One sacrifice, once for all
Lessons