The Blood Atonement

(Key Scriptures)

  1. Leviticus 17:11
    • "The life of the flesh is in the blood"
    • Is this always true?

  2. I Corinthians 15:50

  3. Genesis 2:16-17 Supporting Scriptures (Show / Hide)
    • What was promised for disobedience?
    • Without delay ("in the day") - physical death

    Supporting Scriptures

    1. Genesis 2:17

  4. Genesis 3:16-21
    • Did that judgment fall?
    • NO, they were allowed to live and propagate children
    • Did God lie?
    • NO, the provision of clothing indicates the shedding of blood
    • ThIs is the first type of the promised Redeemer (Genesis 3:15) Who is called the "Lamb slain from the foundation (Greek, "katabole") of the world" (Revelation 13:8)
      • Greek ("katabole") = "kata" ("down") + "bollo" ("throw")
      • Greek ("katabole") = "throwing down" or "overthrow"

  5. Matthew 26:36-46
    • What made Christ exceedingly sorrowful?
    • The cup that the Father had given Him to drink

  6. Matthew 26:26-29 Supporting Scriptures (Show / Hide)
    • What was the cup?
    • Christ's blood
    • What did the disciples drink (in the evening of the SAME DAY as that of the Crucifixion) that represented Christ's blood?
    • They drank wine

    Supporting Scriptures

    1. Genesis 1:5

  7. John 19:28-35 Supporting Scriptures (Show / Hide)
    • What did Christ drink on the Cross?
    • He drank "vinegar" ("sour wine")
    • What were the Nazarites forbidden to drink as evidence of their consecration ro God?
    • They were forbidden to drink wine
    • What happened immediately after Christ's drink on the Cross?
    • He said, "It is finished" and He died
    • What was then shed from His body?
    • Blood followed by water

    Supporting Scriptures

    1. Numbers 6:1-8
      • the vow of the Nazarite (type of Christ)

    2. John 2:3-4; 13:1-2
      • wine associated with the "hour" of Christ's death
      • "vinegar" ("sour wine") offered twice, but only received at the time of the end WITHOUT mixture - compare the first time before the "sixth hour" (Mark 15:23,33) with the last time at the "ninth hour" (Mark 15:34-37)

    3. Judges 13:5-7; 16:17
      • Samson the Nazarite (type of Christ)

    4. Lamentations 4:7
      • purity of the Nazarites

    5. Amos 2:11-12
      • abuse of the Nazarites

  8. Romans 5:12,19 Supporting Scriptures (Show / Hide)
    • Sin (blood) entered the world through Adam which resulted in death for the human race
    • By Adam's SINGLE ACT of disobedience (eating of the fruit of the vine) - MANY were made sinners (Psalms 51:5)
    • By Christ's SINGLE ACT of obedience (drinking of the Father's cup) - MANY were made righteous (Isaiah 53:11)

    Supporting Scriptures

    1. I Corinthians 5:7

  9. I John 5:6 Supporting Scriptures (Show / Hide)
    • What was Christ physically at His Incarnation?
    • Water ONLY and NO blood (John 1:13)
    • What did Christ physically become on the Cross?
    • Water AND blood (John 19:34-35)
    • How did Christ bear our sins bodily on the tree? (I Peter 2:24)
    • By physically drinking on the Cross what Adam physically ate in the garden, i.e. the "fruit of the vine" (Matthew 26:29)
    • What is the "fruit of the vine" called? (Matthew 26:29)
    • The "blood of the grape" (Deuteronomy 32:14)

    Supporting Scriptures

    1. John 1:13
      • NOT "which were", BUT "Who was", i.e. "the Word ... made flesh" (John 1:1,14)
      • Companion Bible (E.W. Bullinger):
        "Which = Who, i.e. those who believe on His name. But antecedent (prior to) any ancient MSS (Manuscripts), Irenaeus         (A.D. 178), Tertullian (A.D. 208), Augustine (A.D. 395), and other Fathers, read "Who was begotten" (Singular, not Plural). The Greek "hos" (English "Who") agreeing with the Greek "onoma auto" (English "His name") from the end of the previous verse (John 1:12). The next verse (John 1:14) goes on to speak of the incarnation of Him Who was not begotten by human generation. The Latin Codex Veronensis (before Jerome's Vulgate) reads, "Qui ... natus est" ("He was born"). Tertullian, in "De Carne Christi" ("The Flesh of Christ"), says that "believers" could not be intended in this verse, "since all who believe are born of blood". He ascribes the reading of the Received Text (used by KJV translators) to the artifice (cunning device) of the Valentinian Gnostics ** of the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D."
        ** Valentinian Gnostics viewed anything material (such as the physical body) as evil.

    2. Hebrews 2:14
      • "partakers" (Greek, "koinoneo"), i.e. by distribution (passed down) - you and me (Romans 5:12)
      • "took part" (Greek, "metecho"), i.e. by ingestion (eating of drinking) - Adam ate (Genesis 3:6) and Christ drank (John 19:28-30)

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