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“And Abel was a keeper of sheep…and Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering” (Genesis 4:2,4).
Abel brought to the Lord a blood sacrifice, for he realized that he could not approach God unless there was a substitute for him, that died in his place. Unlike his brother Cain, he realized that the produce of a cursed earth could not be acceptable to God.
Abel’s sacrifice was a picture of the Lord Jesus Himself, who was the ultimate sacrifice that puts away our sins, if we accept Him as our Savior. All the sacrifices in the Old Testament, beginning with Abel’s lamb, were only a picture of the real Lamb of God—the Lord Jesus Christ. It is His blood that cleanses us from all sin. Scripture calls today the Lord’s day, and it is a day when we can specially remember that the Lord Jesus died for us.
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