Forgiveness of Sin: the Shedding of Blood - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 2 Chronicles 35:11,

"The Passover lambs were slaughtered, and the priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them..."

Why was blood from the Passover lambs splashed against the alter at the temple in Jerusalem?

The Passover was an observance commemorating the "passing over" the Israelites by the death angel just prior to Israel leaving Egypt. The Lord told his people in Egypt to apply blood to the doors of their homes so a death angel, who was to visit death upon all the first born Egyptians, would pass over them. The Lord was preparing his people with an object lesson that death could be avoided by applying blood.

The fulfillment of that object lesson resides in an event that follows this age when all mankind who has ever lived will be raised from the dead and face the great white throne judgment. See Revelation 20:11-15. We learn from the Scriptures that all who symbolically apply the blood of God's sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ, for all sin will have eternal death pass over them - they will be delivered from it! That blood is applied by embracing Jesus Christ in faith today.

Hebrews 9:22 tells us, "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness." Jesus Christ paid for the sins of the whole world by shedding his blood on that miserable cross two millennia ago! The blood that was splashed on the altar at the temple in Jerusalem was a foreshadow of these redemptive acts that were to come.

Embrace Jesus Christ today to have his blood cause eternal death to pass from you!

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