The Blood Is For The LORD

The Living God is the source of all life. (Gen.1:21,24,28,2:7, Job 12:10, Mal.2:10, Ps.145:16, Heb.12:9, Ac.17:24-9, Lk.20:38) Therefore because of the unchanging immutability of God’s nature and character, the soul that sins shall surely die. Eph.4:18, Rom.6:23,16, 5:12,17,21, 7:5,13, 8:2, Ezk.18:4,20, 3:20, 33:11,13, Jam.1:15, 2 Chr.25:4, Dt.24:16, Gen.2:17, 1 Cor.15:22. The Old Covenant is filled with blood sacrifices (the life of the flesh-Lv.17:11,14) and burnt offerings (Numbers 29 for example) and the Passover sacrifice and the day of Atonement where blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat. And again, the priesthood and entire sacrificial system was designed to shed blood.
It was not the blood of animals that would affect any demand of God’s righteousness. Heb.10:8, Mic.6:6-7, Isa.40:15-7, Hos.6:6, Mt.12:7, Psa.50:8-12, 69:30-1, 1 Sam.15:22 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Prv.21:3) These were mere instructions and shadows of the true. (Heb.7-10) What God taught us through those sacrifices, among other things, was that blood had to be shed in order to appease and propitiate his justice, to hold back his wrath. To do justice and judgment was the sacrifice of Christ. The wages of sin is death because God is the source of life. If God will forgive, then his forgiveness must be just for he is. (1 Jn.1:9, Rom.3:25-6) Grace is subordinate to justice as female is to male.
The sins of the world past, present and future were laid upon Jesus, (Rom.3:23-8, Heb.9:14-15, Rv.13:8 1 Pt.1:19-20, Jn.1:29) that is imputed to him on the cross. (Isa.53:5-6,8,10-12, 2 Cor.5:19,21,1Pt.2:24, 3:18, Heb.9:28,1 Jn.3:5, Col.1:19-22) Christ only died for sins once. (Rom. 6:9-10,1 Pet.3:18, Heb.10:10,12, Heb.7:27, 9:25-6) He was delivered up for our sins. (Rom.8:32, 4:25, Ac.2:23,1 Cor.15:3, Gal.1:4, 1Jn.2:2,4:10) This alone can fulfill all divine justice and allow for everlasting mercy to be poured out. (Matt.26:39,53-4, Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42)
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