Why was the offering of Cain rejected and Abel’s offering accepted?
It seems that one of the most important themes in the Bible is the ransom which Jesus gave and the blessings that will come to all because of it. In the Old Testament God often directed His people as to what kinds of sacrifices He was pleased with. God was pleased with sacrifices that would point to His Son, Jesus, the Lamb of God, and the fact that Jesus would die and give His flesh for the life of the world. Abel’s sacrifice of a lamb was a very apt picture of this. We are told in 1 Peter 1:18-20 that, “Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, . . but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” In John 1:29, John the Baptist called Jesus “the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.” How would Jesus take away the sin of the world would be a logical question to Jesus’ early followers. Jesus partially answered this by telling them, “I will give . . . my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (John 6:51) In other words
