This page is about
blood!
the
blood
of Jesus,
the Son of God
Blood is a miraculous and life-giving substance. In an incredibly complex 60,000 mile network of vessels, blood delivers food to every one of our 100 trillion cells. Then, on the return trip it picks up waste for disposal, literally "washing" each cell.
Without this constant food supply, we could not live. Without this constant removal of waste, we would die from poisoning. Amazingly, thousands of years ago, before any scientific knowledge of the body existed, the Bible writers said that "the life of the flesh is in the blood," and that the blood of Messiah washes and cleanses us. The latter statement was made at a time when blood was thought of as something that only soiled or stained.
God apparently chose blood to represent life and also to demonstrate death, the consequence of sin, unless "washed" away or "cleansed" by the blood of His Son. From the Garden of Eden throughout the Old Testament (Covenant), blood sacrifice represented a covering or cleansing for human sin. It prophetically and symbolically pointed toward the coming Messiah, the Lamb of God, who would be sacrificed as a substitutional punishment for all humans who ever lived.
At the last meal before His execution, the Passover meal, Jesus said that His blood was the "blood of the new covenant." He also said that consuming this blood, or truth, (by faith) into our spirits gives us eternal life. Like human blood does physically -- giving life and washing away poisons, Jesus' blood does spiritually-giving spiritual life and washing away spiritual poisons.
"In the veins of Jesus
flowed God's own blood"
Dr. Roy Blizzard
scholar in Hebrew studies and archaeology