Holocaust Fact or Fiction

The English word holocaust comes to us through Latin and is derived from a Hebrew word meaning a sacrifice taken to the altar to be burnt before God. The Old Testament Jews were familiar with this concept of total burning or holocaust because of their sacrificial system. The lamb was slain as an innocent victim on the altar of burnt sacrifice as a type of our Savior's death (cp. Lev. 1 and Jn.1:29