In the Law, God explained WHY it is BLOOD that "maketh
an ATONEMENT for the SOUL", because "the LIFE of the FLESH is in the BLOOD" (Leviticus 17:11)
"FLESH and BLOOD" is associated with CORRUPTION
and NOT with INCORRUPTION (I Corinthians 15:50)
BEFORE the FALL, Adam said of Eve that she is "BONE
of my BONES, and FLESH of my FLESH" (Genesis 2:23) - NO MENTION of BLOOD
Christ, AFTER His RESURRECTION, told His disciples that
"a spirit hath not FLESH and BONES, as yes see me have" (Luke 24:39) - NO MENTION of BLOOD
The first person in the Bible to describe MAN in his FALLEN
STATE was the Lord when He said to Peter, "FLESH and BLOOD hath not revealed it unto thee" (Matthew 16:17),
because He ALONE "KNEW what was in MAN" (John 2:24-25)
Adam: "In that day ... thou shalt surely die"
(Genesis 2:17)
God promised ADAM that in the DAY that he ATE of the FORBIDDEN
FRUIT - he would "SURELY DIE" (Genesis 2:17)
ADAM and EVE both ATE of the FORBIDDEN FRUIT (Genesis 3:6),
but they DID NOT PHYSICALLY DIE THAT DAY (Genesis 3:16-17)
God CLOTHED both ADAM and EVE with "COATS OF SKINS"
(Genesis 3:21) taken from "the LAMB SLAIN from the FOUNDATION (OVERTHROW) of
the WORLD" (Revelation 13:8), which PHYSICALLY DIED IN THEIR PLACE THAT DAY (Genesis 2:17)
When ADAM and EVE both PHYSICALLY ATE (Genesis 3:6)
- they PHYSICALLY CHANGED and became subject to "the BONDAGE of CORRUPTION" (Romans 8:21) causing "the WHOLE CREATION" to "GROANETH and TRAVAILETH
TOGETHER in PAIN" (Romans 8:22)
Christ: "My soul ... sorrowful ... unto death" (Matthew 26:38)
In Gethsemane, Christ told His disciples that "My
SOUL is EXCEEDINGLY SORROWFUL, even unto DEATH" (Matthew 26:38)
The reason for this SORROW was the CUP that the Father
would give Him to DRINK (Matthew 26:42)
He explained the meaning of the CUP to His disciples earlier
at the Last Supper saying, "this is My BLOOD ... which is SHED for the REMISSION of SINS" (Matthew 26:27-28 cf.Hebrews 9:22)
From the very beginning of His earthly ministry, Christ
associated WINE with MINE HOUR (John 2:3-4), i.e. the TIME WHEN "He should DEPART OUT OF THIS WORLD"
(John 13:1)
WHEN "ALL things were NOW ACCOMPLISHED", Christ
calls for His Father's CUP, "I THIRST" (John 19:28) - IMMEDIATELY AFTER He DRINKS the VINEGAR (SOUR WINE), He DIES (John 19:30)
- in FULFILLMENT of the TYPE, "the LAMB SLAIN from the FOUNDATION (OVERTHROW) of the WORLD" (Revelation 13:8)
By ADAM'S ACT of DISOBEDIENCE (Romans 5:19)
- "SIN entered into the world, and DEATH BY SIN" (Romans 5:12)
By CHRIST'S ACT of OBEDIENCE (Romans 5:19) - SIN was "CONDEMNED in the FLESH" (Romans 8:3)
of Christ when He "bare OUR SINS in His OWN BODY on the TREE (I Peter 2:24)
Christ was made in "the LIKENESS of SINFUL FLESH"
(Romans 8:3) and was "YET WITHOUT SIN" (Hebrews 4:15), i.e. He was "BORN, NOT OF BLOOD" (John 1:13),
but on the CROSS He was MADE "SIN for us, Who KNEW NO SIN" (II Corinthians 5:21) when He DRANK of the Father's CUP (Matthew 26:42) in order to SHED His BLOOD for the REMISSION of SINS (Matthew 26:27-28 cf.Hebrews 9:22)
Through "FAITH in His BLOOD" we RECEIVE "the
REMISSION of SINS" (Romans 3:25) and APPROPRIATE "the LAW of the SPIRIT (that) of LIFE in CHRIST
JESUS", which is able to LIBERATE us from "the LAW of SIN and DEATH" (Romans 8:2)
NOW the believer has the POWER through Christ to be LIBERATED
from "the LAW of SIN which is my MEMBERS" (Romans 7:23) through Christ's INDWELLING SPIRIT (Romans 8:9-11) and LATER the believer will be DELIVERED from "the BODY of this
DEATH" (Romans 7:24) "at the LAST TRUMP ... through our Lord Jesus Christ" (I Corinthians 15:52-57)
By declaring "ALL the COUNSEL of GOD" (Acts 20:27),
Paul said that he was "PURE FROM the BLOOD of ALL MEN" (Acts 20:26)
"The PREACHING of the CROSS" (I Corinthians 1:18)
is indeed "the POWER of GOD unto SALVATION to EVERYONE that BELIEVETH" (Romans 1:16)