The very first sacrifice can be seen through the following verse. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. (Genesis 3:21)
  I find this verse to be a heart wrenching cry from the voice of the LORD God. Jehovah, (the eternal self-existing one), élohiym (the supreme completeness of the Godhead), the totality of the Person of God in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are One in the act of the very first shedding of blood. The very silence by the Holy Spirit of God in the words that He did not use gives us a very small indication of the depth of what God did. We do not see the words ‘blood,’ ‘kill,’ ‘slew,’ ‘sacrifice,’ ‘death,’ ‘offering,’ ‘animal,’ ‘lamb,’ and why? I can only say with the limitations I dwell in that it is impossible for man to understand what it took for God to take one of His creatures, a simple, helpless, innocent, beautiful animal with trusting eyes and slay it and watch as its life blood slowly flowed out, and it became a lifeless form. If God could cry this would be the moment for tears to flow from the heart of God. How could God do that? And why would God do that? Before the world began, before the very foundation of the world God’s redemptive plan for man in the giving of His Son for the sin of the world was put into an irreversible action.
  These animals that God Himself slew would be a symbol of what it took for God to send His only begotten Son to die for the sin of the world. As the blood flowed from these innocent animal(s), God looked on it and saw that one day blood would flow down a wooden cross from the wounds of His Son, and by His blood many would be reconciled to Him, this was the first gospel message to the world.
  It is recorded only once in Scripture in only two little words that ‘Jesus wept’ as he approached the tomb of Lazarus. He wept over where man’s sins led. He wept over where the sin of man placed him, in the depth of the darkness of death. He wept over Adam, He wept over you, and He wept over me — yes, God cried!
© Copyright 2016, Mary Haigh
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All Scripture references are from the Authorized King James Bible. (KJV)