1. CONTORTED CORPSES

We're dead in sin, we're corpses!
We are the guilty, the zombies of depravity, consumed in darkness, in shadows of the Death Valley.
Turning in our graves, we're restless; there is no escape; helplessly digging toward nothing in this empty place.
No one here is righteous, no, there's not even one.
We all practice deceit and our lips drip poison.
Contorted corpses.
We are all dead men.
We are cursed through the man of dust, wretched, full of sin, there's nothing good within us.
Born under the curse, carcasses dead in transgressions with no hope inside of ourselves; our self-destruction.
We're so swift to shed blood, misery marks our ways.
With no knowledge of peace, there's no fear of the Lord.
While rotting in our sin, unable to reach out, God declared His chosen.
The covenant of grace, proclaimed through history, God's plan for redemption.


2. BUTCHERED HALVES

Sharpen the knife!
Abram, a man unworthy, hearing God speaking clearly believed all that God had said.
God gave him a great blessing to build through him a nation, ushering in redemption through God's righteous sovereignty.
God promised, Abram believed.
Do not be afraid, your reward is great.
This covenant made, is God's redemptive grace.
Butchered carved up halves, promises from God bestowed on man.
Butchered carcasses arranged side-by-side to ratify God's plan.
Counting his faith as righteous, the fire of God passed by these dead beasts laid side-by-side, as the sun fled from the sky.
The Lord made a covenant while Abram slept near the dead.
God's grace alone was given passing through these carcasses.
Cut them up!
Our redemption begins and ends with the glory of Christ revealed that God promises, who is and was and is to come, who is the author and the finisher of our salvation.


3. SLAIN LAMB

At midnight!
He will descend on Egypt's inhabitance.
With hard hearts beating poison, her venom will soon come to an end.
God's chosen will sleep in peace, those among the Israelites; but there will be loud wailing in Egypt with no solace tonight.
Death comes tonight!
Prepare the lamb for slaughter, tonight comes the Passover.
Slain Lamb!
The Destroyer, soon passing through, brings judgement on Egypt's gods.
Those covered with the blood of the slain lamb dipped in hyssop will live.
Christ Jesus redeems our souls.
The slain lamb is a shadow.
Great is the Lord and His words, He provides the promised sacrifice.
The sacrifice!
Praise the Lamb of salvation.
History of redemption.
The Lord protected those who bore the blood of the lamb on their doors.
We pray for blood slain on our doors, the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.


4. FEARFUL GLORY

With flames descending on the mountain, trumpets sounding blasts from Heaven, we approach with fear and trembling before the fire all consuming.
Gripping death becomes our fate if unclean flesh defiles this place.
In God's presence on Mount Sinai, we bow down trembling before His fearful glory!
But soon ascending to the heavens, the city of the living God, with angels in festal gathering, our spirits approach the living King.
The sprinkled blood of Jesus speaks words greater than Abel's blood screamed!
In God's presence on Mount Zion, we worship in awe before His fearful glory.
So holy is the Lord's glory that we tremble in His presence where seraphim worship, covered with six wings in submission.


5. PURIFIED IN ROT

Through the second curtain, called the Most Holy Place, the priest enters once a year, but not without taking blood.
He offers for himself, and for the people's sins, these gifts and sacrifices, a shadow of things to come.
If the blood of bulls and goats will consecrate the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ purify our sins?
The Messiah enters these most holy places, but not places made with hands, now in the presence of God.
Offering up himself once, not repeatedly!
Purified through His blood.
Praise the Lamb of God!
Saints proclaim, "Purified in blood! The sacrifice of Jesus Christ, purifies with blood!"


6. GRAVE ROT

From the dirt of the young Earth, through the mighty word of God, the man of dust came to be, breathing deeply his first breath.
Yet, Adam, serving himself, tempted while the serpent spoke, broke fellowship with the Lord, choosing bondage, sin, and death.
We are cursed to return to the grave depraved.
Our bodies are dust rotting away depraved.
While tempted on the mountain, Jesus rebuked the Tempter.
Christ triumphantly prevailed!
This could not be done by man.
The life-giving sacrifice, Jesus, the second Adam, redeemed our curse, sin and death!
Praise be to God's perfect plan.
No longer cursed to rot in the grave depraved.
Our souls won't go on rotting away depraved.
We will not rot in the grave, we are saved!
All God's saints proclaim, "We are saved!"
Jesus Christ redeemed our souls.
Praise God's holy name.
Praise God's promises!
The covenant of grace.


7. VICTORY OVER DEATH

Followers of the Way, remember the good news, the solid ground on which we stand, the true gospel that saves.
Jesus Christ was buried and rose on the third day, cleansing our sins, vanquishing death, and reigns victorious.
"Oh, Death, where is your victory?"
"Hades, where is your sting?"
Victory over death!
Christ has conquered death!
Servants of our Savior, death has been crushed through Christ, giving us an inheritance of life everlasting.
So, when the trumpet sounds and the dead rise again, our mortal flesh, now immortal, will praise the living God.
He is risen, risen indeed!
Praise and glory be to the living King!


8. EXHUMATION

A time is coming when those in the grave will hear the thunder of God's voice that saves.
Some will rise to eternal life.
Some awake to where hell awaits.
You who dwell in the dust, awake, and praise your Lord.
The Earth brings forth the dead, to rise and seek reward.
Those who are in the sea, those who are in Hades, all will rise and be judged according to their deeds.
The resurrection and the life, those who believe shall not die, but rise to life.
The blessed hope through Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the Lord Christ whom through His great mercy, has made us to be born to a hope eternal.
Through the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, one day we will all rise.