You have eloquently expressed a beautiful message.
Just on this one statement;
the God requiring blood sacrifices.
Man offered up the blood sacrifice first.
God says He didn't want them, besides the fact that the inevitable blood sacrifice of His Son (Himself as Man) which suggests they were to happen. Requiring, hmmm, yes,
I'd just like to take you back to the design, planning and building of the Tabernacle where God suggests, if you are going to offer up a sacrifice, an animal which has My breath in it to give life, then you are going to have to do it in a very disciplined, strict, and yes, brutally described, Holy way.
So if I were to suggest anything, and by no means bring to minimise your beautiful representation, it would be to read Exodus 25 onwards and have a clearer representation on how disciplined and Holy a sacrifice had to be done, if it were to be done.
Imagine being a being in the tent, with all the textiles, gold and precious stones, priests dressed accordingly, ceremoniously, with the smell of hide and incense and oil and bread and burning flesh as the breath of life is taken out of animals which God created and said were good.
Really get into the depths of actually being there feeling repentant of sins and remembering from where you came and where you were and where you are going, hmmm, to be with God in a promised land.
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