“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. . . . And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made” (Genesis 2:1).

“According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world . . .” (Ephesians 1:4)

“. . . And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor” (Ephesians 5:2).

In this verse, Paul tells us that Christ gave Himself an offering on our behalf, and that offering became “a sweet-smelling savor to God.”