The Crucifixion of Jesus guaranteed a horrific, slow, painful death. Having been nailed on the Cross, Jesus now had an impossible anatomical position to maintain.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt...
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ even as we keep loving...
Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan....