Leviticus 17:10-12 (ESV Strong's)
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
Subject: Forgiveness and the Shedding of Blood
The above verses are the most famous of all the verses in Leviticus. The life (soul) of an animal and of man are in the blood. We know this biologically. If we lose blood we die. If we have a diseases in our blood we die. Stopping the bleeding is the first thing we do in an accident. Our very life is being poured out when we bleed. Note the list of verses from the New Testament that talk about Christ shedding of blood: (Matt. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Rom. 3:25; 5:9; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14, 20; Heb. 13:12; 1 John 1:7; Rev. 1:5). In each of these passages we see references of Christ pour out His blood for our sins. He gave His blood and His life was in the blood. Christianity is often spoken of as a "bloody religion." It is! Because life is in blood. Note what the writer of Hebrews tells us:
Hebrews 9:22 (ESV Strong's)
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Christ gave His blood for the remission of our sins. Life is in the blood!
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