Jerry Ensey wrote a great article on the Light Doc

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Originally Posted by Sam

Jesus is called the lamb slain from the foundation of the world in Revelation 13:8. Salvation has always been through the death of Jesus on the cross and then His subsequent burial and resurrection. Prior to the cross they looked ahead to the cross and that sacrifice was pictured every time an animal was sacrificed all the way from the animal sacrifice in Genesis three until the lambs who died at the Temple the day before Jesus died. We now look back to that sacrifice on the cross and it is pictured every time we have communion.

It is interesting to point out that no one pre-cross, was saved without making that sacrifice....


I completely agree that the cross is the fulcrum of salvation... but those before and those after MUST turn to the cross to find salvation...