Published on Monday, 14 November 2011 20:04 | Written by Vernon Gillispie | | | Hits: 8820
When the Lord sent Moses to rescue the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt He soon established the necessity for atoning blood to provide protection from the penalty of God's judgment on sin.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. Ex 12:22-23; NIV (italics mine).
When God established His covenant with the Hebrews prior to the seeting up of the Tabernacle He made blood a requirement in that covenant.
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey."
8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up
10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself.
11 But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction." Ex 24:6-12; NIV (italics mine).
In Leviticus God makes it very clear that blood is the only atonement acceptable
11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. Lev 17:11; NIV (italics mine).
The author of Hebrews clarifies the connection between the blood, the Tabernacle with its ceremonies, the Lord Jesus Christ and the removal of our sin.
19 When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.
20 He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."
21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.
22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.
25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Heb 9:19-26; NIV (italics mine).
Everything God has done in the rescuing of the Hebrews from Egypt, giving the Law, requiring blood atonement, setting up the Tabernacle with its priesthood and ceremonies were prophetic illustrations of His future plans to establish the church and redeem mankind through the sacrificial atoning death of Jesus Christ.
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