Blood Atonement

“IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKETH AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.” Leviticus 17:11

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:” 1 Peter 1:18-19

DID YOU CATCH THAT? – God calls the “BLOOD” of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, “PRECIOUS” and anyone who says otherwise, is a blasphemous heretic and wolf from hell.

Sing it with me beloved of God ….

O precious is the flow

that makes me white as snow

no other fount I know

nothing but the blood of Jesus!

A BLOOD-LESS GOSPEL IS NO GOSPEL AT ALL!!!! IT’S A LIE!!!! And whoever isn’t preaching the BLOOD of Jesus is preaching “another gospel” and is “accursed” ! (Galatians 1:6-9) What’s that say for the myriad of modern frauds whom people call “pastor” who never preach the BLOOD? – without which no one can be saved!!!!

No matter how long we go on walking with our LORD Jesus, it seems that the heresies never cease to boggle the mind.

“For it is the life of all flesh; the BLOOD of it is for the life thereof … for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof …” Leviticus 17:14

Recently I ran across a message from a guy named Jeremy Myers who has a site redeeminggod.com which in and of itself gives us a clue to the heretical questionings of God being done by this wolf. Who in their right mind would choose the url redeeming God? God redeems man. Man is sinful and can’t even redeem himself much less the Almighty. SMH Okay, so if Myers meant this url to mean that he’s rescuing the perception of God by teaching truth, he’s still dead wrong because he’s not teaching truth, he’s speaking blasphemous heresies.

Myers questions God and determines, in his own delusional mind, that blood is not necessary for remission, for forgiveness of sin. But in the divine economy, the mind of God, it is essential, whether we understand the “why” or not. “God said it. I believe it. That settles it” fits perfectly right here.

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an ATONEMENT for your souls: for IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKETH AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.” Leviticus 17:11

Under the Old Covenant, on the day of atonement, the blood of animals wherein was their life blood, was sacrificed to atone for the sins of the people. This all prophetically prefigured the ultimate, the perfect sacrifice of the Messiah. Jesus offered His sinless, precious, perfect life blood on the altar of the cross, shedding it to redeem mankind – to buy Him back from his fallen state to God, to restore that broken relationship (Matthew 26:28).  Read Genesis 3.

“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD IS NO REMISSION.” Hebrews 9:22

Leviticus 17 and Hebrews 9 take center stage in this paramount biblical doctrine of blood atonement. Namely Leviticus 17:11 and Hebrews 9:22. The propitiatory blood of Jesus is a Gospel essential.

“As far as remission of sin is concerned, there is no exception: blood must be shed.” William MacDonald, Believer’s Bible Commentary, p. 2187

“But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Hebrews 9:26

Jesus bought us back, but how? By His sacrifice on the cross. What happened on the cross? HE shed His BLOOD (Matthew 26:28). THAT was the price He paid to satisfy the claims of justice to redeem (buy back) fallen mankind. Questioning such as this man is doing reveals that he has “an evil heart of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:12-14) This guy is a heretic. He has denied Christ and the Gospel and is questioning God instead of simply believing what God says. He’s insinuating that God is a lunatic for requiring blood sacrifice. He reveals this when he says: “It doesn’t make any sense.” Sounds like he likes to hear himself speak and is relying on what he learned in seminary which is another clue.

“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29

And, how was Jesus, the Lamb of God, going to take away, make atonement for the sins of the world?

“For this is my BLOOD of the new testament, which is shed for many for the REMISSION of sins.” Matthew 26:28

“Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (atoning sacrifice) through faith in his BLOOD, to declare his righteousness for the REMISSION OF SINS that are past, through the forbearance of God;” Romans 3:25

“Much more then, being now justified by his BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Romans 5:9

“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the BLOOD of Christ.” Ephesians 2:13

“In whom we have redemption through his BLOOD, even the FORGIVENESS OF SINS:” Colossians 1:14

“And, having made peace through the BLOOD OF HIS CROSS, by him to RECONCILE all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:20

“Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but BY HIS OWN BLOOD he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal REDEMPTION for us.” Hebrews 9:12 

Another commenter on Jeremy Myers heretical post, named Kris, is correct when she writes:

“This article (by Jeremy Myers) is ridiculous. Not only does it twist the author of Hebrews’ main point, but it denies it.

Penal Substutionary Atonement is at the very heart of the Gospel (Isa. 53, Rom. 3, 2 Cor. 5:21, Gal. 3, 1 Peter 2-3).

To deny this crucial component of the Gospel is to deny the very Gospel itself. Sin is a big deal to God (as seen in pretty much any book of the Bible). Faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus is the means by which sin is atoned for and we are reconciled to the Father.”

The saints of many generations now have sung this glorious song …

What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus

oh precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow

no other fount I know

nothing but the blood of Jesus….

Of the glorious redeeming blood of Christ, one brother writes:

“Christ really did shed His precious blood for us, for the atonement of our sins. It is because of our sins that the only begotten Son of God was killed on the cross at Calvary, we are all guilty of his death, but we can receive forgiveness upon believing on Jesus Christ. Hallelujah Lord Jesus! You died for us so that we may receive life and have it more abundantly in Jesus’s name!” Tom Kooneeliusie

John Wesley on Hebrews 9:22:

“And almost all things – For some were purified by water or fire. Are according to the law purified with blood – Offered or sprinkled. And according to the law, there is no forgiveness of sins without shedding of blood – All this pointed to the blood of Christ effectually cleansing from all sin, and intimated, there can be no purification from it by any other means.”

Of this Hebrews 9 passage, F.B. Meyers writes”

“Hebrews 9:21-28
THE ONE SACRIFICE THAT PUTS AWAY SIN
Here are the three appearances of Christ: (1) He appeared once, at the ridge or meeting-place of the ages-where the first Covenant and the second met-to put away the sin of the race; and He has done this for each of us. We are called on to believe this and to enter upon our inheritance without questioning or trying to feel it. Men are told clearly that God will not impute their transgressions unto them, unless they place themselves out of the at-one-ment by the deliberate repudiation of Christ. The one question for us all is not sin, but our attitude toward Christ, the Sin-Bearer. See 2Co_5:19. (2.) He appears in heaven for us, as our Intercessor and Mediator, presenting our prayers mingled with the rich incense of His merit, and acting as the ground of our beseechings, Rev_8:3. (3) He will appear the second time. There will be no sin-bearing then. His appearance will be “apart from sin.” But then, salvation will be perfected, because creation itself will share in the liberty and glory of the sons of God, Rom_8:21.”

Of Leviticus 17:1-16 F.B. Meyer writes:

“THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD”
Every animal that was slain for food was regarded as a kind of peace-offering, and was therefore slain at the door of the Tabernacle. This law, though it expressed a great principle, was only provisional. It was kept as long as Israel dwelled in the Wilderness, but repealed when they entered the Land of Promise, where their numbers and diffusion would have rendered its strict observance impossible. See Deu_12:15-24. Very earnest insistence is laid on the prohibition of blood as an article of diet. See Lev_17:10, etc. The reason of this is in the repeated announcement that the life (or soul) is in the blood, Lev_17:11 and Lev_17:14. When we are told that the blood maketh atonement, we learn that it does so because it represents the soul of the victim. Life is given for life, soul for soul. Thus our Lord gave His blood, i.e., His life or soul, a ransom for many. “He poured out His soul unto death.” See Isa_53:12. It was His blood, not as it was in His veins, but as poured out, that effected the reconciliation. See Eph_1:7. It is the death of Christ in which the sinner finds peace. Compare Lev_16:30 and 1Jn_1:7.”

Of Leviticus 17:11 John Wesley wrote:

“Is in the blood – Depends upon the blood, is preserved and nourished by it. The blood maketh atonement – Typically, and in respect of the blood of Christ which it represented, by which the atonement is really made. So the reason is double; because this was eating up the ransom of their own lives, which in construction was the destroying of themselves. because it was ingratitude and irreverence towards that sacred blood of Christ which they ought to have in continual veneration.”

The Gospel Centers Upon Christ’s Blood: A Blood-Less Gospel is a False Gospel!