Just some points about sacrifice some may find interesting but most will be too busy with their nose in the daily horrorscopes.
Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac is ultimately replaced by a ram which is caught in thorns is symbolic of Christs sacrifice to come. What is not widely known is that Isaac at the time was not a child but a man in his thirties, quite capable of overpowering his much older father.
Jesus had choice hence the Satanic temptation, he had to overcome what he had the power to avoid.
The first blood sacrifice of innocence occured when animals where slaughtered to provide skins to cover Adam and Eve, this was the enterance of sin into the world and set the wages of sin.
