God the Father, showing us the inestimable Value of the Blood of Jesus, designed and inaugurated a whole system of Levitical Offerings in the Old Testament.
There the Father usually describes sin (I mean sin for which a little lamb or goat or even a big ox has been sacrificed, its blood shed) as merely being “covered.”
In fact, the key Old Testament word for “atonement” means just that … “covered.” (The idea is …”covered” but apparently still there, still under that blanket!)
Here’s a word picture of what God does to sin, in the Old Testament … “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” Micah 7:19, buried, but still “down there.”
Here’s another … “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions.” God speaking to repentant Israel in Isaiah 44:22. Blotted out, hidden behind a thick cloud. But my point … still there!
That’s the best the Old testament can do … until Jesus God’s Son comes to earth and sheds His Precious Blood!
Then, after Calvary … Hallelujah … sins can be absolutely “washed away,” gone forever!
Read: “Unto him (Jesus Christ) that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.”
In Hebrews 9:13-14 we are show this comparison most clearly … “If the blood of bulls and goats” can cover sin, merely cover I remind you … “HOW MUCH MORE shall the BLOOD OF CHRIST, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
The Old Testament blood could cleanse the outside of a man, making him pure enough to worship God at the tabernacle, for example.
But Jesus’ Blood (New Testament) can cleanse from within, the heart. Thus making one a “new creature!”
Bottom line … JESUS IS BETTER!
HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD!
“And such were some of you (SINNERS) : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:11, but HOW washed? Sanctified? Justified?
Through the Blood of Jesus!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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