Listen with your head as well as with your heart. We are going to speak of The Scarlet Thread through the Bible—the blood of atonement from beginning to end. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. [Leviticus 17:11] Back yonder in the millennial years of along ago, years beyond number, the Lord God in heaven created the heavens and the earth [Genesis 1:1]. And if God did it, He did it beautifully, perfectly, gloriously. And in the creation, not only the material heaven above us and this planet beneath us, but God also created the myriads—that is the word in the Bible —the myriads, the uncounted throngs and multitudes of angels, those heavenly hosts that surround the throne of Almighty God [Psalm 148:1-5]. And in that creation was Lucifer; that means “the son of the morning” [Isaiah 14:12]. He is called in the Bible “th