Propitiation involves the making of a sacrifice that will turn aside the wrath of God. This term comes from the world of the temple, as James Montgomery Boice explains: The idea of propitiation is most clearly observed in the Old Testament sacrificial system, for through that system of sacrifices God taught the way by which a sinful man or woman might approach him. Sin means death.… But the sacrifices teach that there is a way of escape and of approaching God. Another may die in a sinner’s