SIn the Old Testament of the Bible,
God’s people were enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years. God used Moses,
as mediator, to eventually rescue his people. As part of the plan for
freedom, each household was instructed to sacrifice a baby sheep. Sounds
crude, right? If our sin (a kind of interior slavery) leads to death,
then something has to die. Right from the beginning, when humans
offended God they needed to find a way to make atonement (repair the
wrong). Instead of giving up their own life, a lamb acted as substitute
for the sinful person; life for life.