As you read your Bible you will find there is a stream of blood that flows through the entire Bible, beginning with Genesis and continues through Revelation. We find the word blood first used in (Gen. 4:10) but we find evidence of blood in (Gen. 3:21.)

God forbid that any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you should eat any manner of blood. The consequence being, I will set my face against that man. God gives His purpose in (Lev. 17:11) “for the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for the soul.”

Under the Levitical law there were numerous sacrifices and offerings, which they were to make, and most of them required shedding of blood. There were a few exceptions. Read (Lev. 5:11). (Heb. 9:22) “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission:”

Not one of those animals, which were sacrificed, ever freely gave that blood. It had to be taken from them on every occasion. All of those sacrifices and that blood which flowed so freely from the bodies of those thousands of animals and birds that were sacrificed did not put away sin but a remembrance is made again of sins every year. (Heb. 10:3) “But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.”

(Heb. 10:4) “For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.” It required much more than the blood of animals to take away sin but blood is still the requirement for atonement.

We find the 12th chapter of Exodus speaking of a lamb without blemish and the whole congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening and the blood shall be placed, with a bunch of hyssop, on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses where they shall eat it (THE LAMB). Brethren, I am persuaded to believe this is pointing to a blood that was to come in the fullness of time, a blood that was able to atone for sins, a precious blood that redeemed us from our fallen state.

(Ezek. 16:6) declares He passed by and saw us polluted in our own blood, when we were a babe in the field. We were born with this depravity we received from Adam. If you should pour some poison in a river at its head, the poison will flow down the entire river. Likewise, sin was in our federal head and flowed down to all his posterity. (Acts 17:26) “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;”

(I Peter 1:18) declares we are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold and (V-19) says, “But with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.” I believe this is the Lamb (Exodus 12) was pointing to.

(Rev. 1:5) “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the Kings of earth, unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood."  His precious blood cleanses us and makes us whiter than the driven show. Oh, how it does cleanse those who are washed in it.

(Heb. 9:12) “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” No offering had to be made for this High Priest after the order of Melchisedec to enter into the holy place. He entered by His own blood.

(Rev. 19:13) “And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called the Word of God." I am persuaded this vesture was dipped in blood when He trod the wine press of the wrath of God, alone.

(John 19:34) “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side and forthwith came there out blood and water.” I know there are many who have much knowledge concerning this text. I ask you to be charitable toward me for my lack of knowledge. I only see the atoning blood and the water, the washing of regeneration. I know not how much blood was shed there however; it was sufficient to atone for the sins of all the elect family of God.

We only have to look through our hymnals to see how the many authors were led by the spirit of God and were impressed to write about the precious blood of Christ. Songs like #511 in THE OLD SCHOOL HYMNAL. Nothing but the blood how sweet is its message.

“O precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow, No other fount I know,

#128 also in THE OLD SCHOOL HYMNAL. (THERE IS A FOUNTAIN)

“There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.”

All that will be in heaven will have been plunged beneath that flood, that fountain filled with His blood. Brethren, let us rejoice not in the arrangement of the words of this song but let us rejoice in the message the author is portraying concerning the precious blood of Christ. “His precious blood will never lose its power, till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more.) Oh how precious is His blood that He shed for sinner like me.