isn't it curious that......

Today I was at PWoC for bible study time, like i am pretty well every wednesday. We are currently doing a study of the book of Hebrews. If you ever want to do a study on this book, i highly recommend reading Holding Out For A Hero by Lisa Harper. She does a humorous, yet in depth look at Hebrews. She writes in a way that makes me wanna read more. This whole study she has been talking about how Jesus is "better than". He's better than the angels, better than Moses, better than man (absolutely), better than the priests and Levites, better than even the high priests, better than any other sacrifice. Today, we were talking about how He is better than any other sacrifice. We were talking in depth about how animal sacrifices were made and why. also about how the people would just trust that God would supply a sacrifice for them. They didn't have a place where they could just go buy a cow for sacrifice. Then God supplied the ultimate and final sacrifice. all we have to do is trust Him, believe in Him, have faith in Him. Not so hard, certainly not too much to ask. So anyway, in the odd way that my mind works, i got to thinking.......did they have people back in the sacrificial days that protested animal sacrifice? You know how we have PETA today? Did they have people more concerned about the well being of the animals than their own souls like we have today? don't you find it interesting that today we have people all obsessed with the well being of animals, trees, garbage, the planet, and various other things, and not so many people concerned about their own souls? There are people in this world all concerned about everything else in the world but don't care at all about where they will spend eternity. Is that not just the saddest thing ever? Don't get me wrong, i love animals. I certainly wouldn't want to have to hold my hand on a poor cows head and look at it while i'm cutting it in half a sacrifice for the sins that i committed. I'm much happier just knowing that Christ was sent here to this Earth to die for me. He was the sacrifice for me. Awesome! I don't have to do anything about it. I just have faith in Him, believe in Him and there it is.....eternal life in Heaven. i don't have to observe Yom Kippur and go to the temple and remember ALL of my sins for a whole YEAR! I can ask for forgiveness every day no matter where i am or what i'm doing. You know....another thing that crossed my mind.....waaaaay back in Genesis in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve sinned. They were the first sinners. And what did God do when they sinned......he killed an animal and used it's flesh for clothes to cover Adam and Eve. Would that not be the first animal sacrifice? An animal died because of sin. Hear that PETA people......God himself killed the first animal! God himself set up the whole killing system. and he didn't do it for food. God killed an animal for clothing. He sacrificed an animal's life. Not only that but God himself sees that animals are below humans when it comes to the cycle of life and such. He cares for them, he loves them, but man comes first. So we should be more concerned about fellow men than we are about animals. God says he cares for the birds of the air so why wouldn't he care for us? anyway.....just been thinking about these things today. Thought i'd share.