The following is from Billy Graham’s book, “Peace with God”
All through the Old Testament, God gave man the promise of salvation if by faith he would believe in the coming Redeemer. Therefore God began to teach His people that man could only be saved by substitution. Someone else would have to pay the bill for man’s redemption. . . .
Thanks be to God – that is exactly what happened! Looking down over the battlements of heaven He saw this planet swinging in space – doomed, damned, crushed, and bound for hell. He saw you and me struggling beneath our load of sin and bound in the chains and ropes of sin. He made His decision in the council halls of God. The angelic hosts bowed in humility and awe as heaven’s Prince of Princes and Lord of Lords, who could speak worlds into space, got into His jeweled chariot, went through the pearly gates, across the steep of the skies, and on a black Judean night, while the stars sang together, and the escorting angels chanted praises, stepped out of the chariot, threw off His robes, and became man!