Christ: Our Holocaust Sacrifice

“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us.” (1 John 3:16a) (Devotion Drawn from the Old Testament) When they spoke or wrote in Greek, the Jews referred to their burnt offering as a holocaust sacrifice. In the Greek holocaust means totally...

The Day of Atonement Goats

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) (Devotion Drawn from the Old Testament) For the Jewish feast called the Day of Atonement, God required two identical goats....