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What God says about … SACRIFICE
Before Jesus came —
Moses said, “Take a lamb according to your families, and kill it as a SACRIFICE. … Mark the blood on the top and sideposts of your door. … Roast and eat it … and when I (the Lord) see the blood I will pass over you. … Your firstborn will not be destroyed. … And when your children shall say, “What is the meaning of this service?”, you shall say — “It is the SACRIFICE of the Lord’s passover.” And the people bowed the head and worshipped. - Exodus 12:21-27
To obey is better than SACRIFICE, and to harken than the fat of rams. - 1 Samuel 15:22
So they took the bull and killed and prepared it and called on the name of their god from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal hear us.” But no one answered. They cried aloud all afternoon and cut themselves with knives and lances, but there was no voice or answer.
Then God’s prophet Elijah built an altar of 12 stones, laid the wood and the slaughtered bull in order, surrounded it by a trench filled with 12 barrels of water, and he said, “Lord God, let it be known that You are God and I am Your servant.” And the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the SACRIFICE and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water in the trench.
So they seized the prophets of Baal and took them down to the brook Kishon and executed them there. - 1 Kings 18:25
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After Jesus came —
Behold the Lamb of God! - John 1:35
From the third hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. - Matthew 27:45
Jesus cried, “It is finished!” and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. - John 19:30
Christ our Passover is SACRIFICED for us! - 1 Corinthians 5:7
This Man, after He had offered one SACRIFICE for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God. - Hebrews 10:12
If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more SACRIFICE for sins, but a certain expectation of judgment and fiery indignation. - Hebrews 10:26-27
Our God is a consuming fire. - Hebrews 12:29
