In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice 4:10 “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. for our sins.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 8:7
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:8
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Genesis 8:10
He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
Genesis 8:12
He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.