SERIES POEM
Caryl Ramsdale, American Poet
about:
when blood sacrifices
began and ended
TRIUMPH OVER SIN
to Shirley Skidmore Holley
Two flawless goats were chosen
And both were a sacrifice;
The first goat’s blood symbolized—
Loss of life is a great price.
The second, the ‘scapegoat’ was
Meant to remove transgression;
All the people’s wrongdoings
Were confessed—died with this one.
Abraham cut firewood—
Then took his knife and some fire
Up to the mountain God chose—
Where God test his heart’s desire.
Carrying sacrifice wood,
Abraham’s only son said,
“Where is the lamb we will burn?”
This son was offered instead.
Sin began in God’s garden
Where people ate from a tree;
Blood sacrifice began when
God shed blood to set them free.
The last blood sacrifice came
From the sinless, willing one.
Blood dripped from a rugged cross—
That blood belonged to God’s Son.
One life replaced another
Throughout the Old Testament—
Blood covered sin from God's eyes—
And blood sealed God's covenant.
There was only one way that
Sin could be dealt with back then;
Blood sacrifice was the rite
That claimed triumph over sin.
© Copyright 1999-2007 Caryl Ramsdale. All rights reserved
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God provided the first blood sacrifice
in the Garden of Eden where he shed
the blood of an animal to cover Adam
and Eve’s sin.
Adam, the first man, lost his sinless
nature when he rebelled against God.
Jesus was the last blood sacrifice.
Newsong Online
September 18, 2004