God speaks and creates.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
--Genesis 1:1
Just one command
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
--Genesis 2:17
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
--Genesis 3:1
Man tries to deal with sin by hiding and covering
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
--Gen 3:7-9
The Protoevangelium
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
--Gen 3:15
An innocent animal dies to cover Adam and Eve. First death in the Bible.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
--Gen 3:21
God requires animal sacrifice, not vegetables
the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
--Gen 4:4-5
Abraham's sacrifice
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
--Gen 22:2
Isaac carries the wood for his own sacrifice like Jesus did
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
--Gen 22:6
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
--Gen 22:8
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
--Gen 22:13
Covenant with Abraham
[The Lord to Abraham]
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
--Gen 12:3
[The Lord to Isaac]
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
--Gen 26:2-4
[The Lord to Jacob]
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
--Gen 28:14
The Passover
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
--Exodus 12:5
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
--Exodus 12:7
The suffering servant
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
--Isaiah 53:4-7
Jesus is the Lamb of God
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
--John 1:29
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
--1 Cor 5 7-8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him [the dragon], whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
--Rev 13:8
These verses come courtesy David Wood in this debate:
http://youtu.be/TdEZbHYG5eY
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