A Perfect Sacrifice

When Adam, according to God's special directions, made an offering for sin, it was to him a most painful ceremony. His hand must be raised to take life, which God alone could give, and make an offering for sin. It was the first time he had witnessed death, he was to look forward by faith to the Son of God, whom the victim prefigured, who was to die man's sacrifice. 

This ceremonial offering, ordained of God, was to be a perpetual reminder to Adam of his guilt, and also a penitential acknowledgment of his sin. This act of taking life gave Adam a deeper and more perfect sense of his transgression, which nothing less than the death of God's dear Son could expiate. He marveled at the infinite goodness and matchless love which would give such a ransom to save the guilty. 

As Adam was slaying the innocent victim, it seemed to him that he was shedding the blood of the Son of God by his own hand. He knew that if he had remained steadfast to God, and true to His holy law, there would have been no death of beast or of man. Yet in the sacrificial offerings, pointing to the great and perfect offering of God's dear Son, there appeared a star of hope to illuminate the dark and terrible future, and relieve it of its utter hopelessness and ruin. 

LHU, Jan 11

This star of hope was the coming of Christ. 

Often I wonder...  

If only Eve wouldn't of touched the forbidden fruit, 

if only Adam wouldn't of ran away from God,

if only, if only... 

But in God's great plan,  he saw us on earth and he gave us, as young and old people the job of helping get his children ready for Jesus's coming.