Day of Atonement

  

...but you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish.

Numbers 29:8

Once a year

in Israel's past days

nine animals died

so sin's guilt could go away

on the day of atonement

On that day

a bull was burned

on the altar of sacrifice

so guilt would be turned

on the day of atonement

A ram was killed

so that guilt would be gone

as the blood ran

down the altar, sin was atoned

on the day of atonement

Seven lambs were slain

without blemish and pure

so that the nation could be

forgiven and holiness restored

on the day of atonement

But it all ended on the day

when the Lamb of God was slain

on Calvary's cross

His blood was spilled to attain

complete salvation: our Day of Atonement