Exodus 12:13, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”
The death of the Passover lamb wasn't enough. Likewise, the death of Jesus Christ, Whom the Passover lamb and every sacrificial animal in the Old Testament symbolized, was NOT sufficient to wash away men's sins. THE BLOOD HAD TO BE APPLIED! The Lord raised up from the dead after three days and ascended into Heaven, to appear bodily in the presence of the Father on our behalf, and sprinkled His literal, physical, precious blood on the Mercy Seat in the Holy Place.
This is plainly taught in Hebrews 9:12,22-24.
In fact, the entire theme of the book of Hebrews is concerning the
application of the literal, physical, liquid, precious, blood of our dear
Savior and God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you recently thanked Jesus for
His payment upon the cross and Mercy Seat in Heaven for your sins and mine.
JESUS PAID IT ALL!!! The Lord paid a debt that He did not owe, because we
owed a debt we could not pay. Praise God for His wondrous mercy, love and
grace!!!
The Blood Does NOT Merely Represent Jesus' Death!
There is a damnable heresy circulating in many of our churches today, popularized by religious liberal, John MacArthur. Moody Publishers sadly prints all of MacArthur's liberal books these days. Moody Ministries has really gone downhill spiritually. Dr. MacArthur teaches that Jesus' liquid blood has no value or significance in and of itself. He claims that Jesus' blood is important only in the sense that it represents the DEATH of Christ. Nothing could be further from the truth!
In MacArthur's Bible commentary, he teaches that Hebrews 9:12 doesn't mean what it says. Hebrews 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.” John MacArthur teaches that the phrase “BY HIS OWN BLOOD” only refers to Jesus' death, and not Christ's literal blood. It is a sinful thing to diminish the literal teachings of the Bible as only being figurative unless the Bible indicates otherwise. For example: In Revelation 1:20 we are told that the mystery of the seven stars are the seven angels, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches. No where in the Bible are we ever told that the death of Jesus is represented by the blood. Thus, if the Bible teaches in Hebrews 9:12 that Jesus entered into the heavenly holy place BY HIS OWN BLOOD, then we must accept this truth literally. MacArthur is perverting the Scriptures.
When God told Moses to warn the Israelites concerning the coming 10th plague, i.e., the death of the firstborn, the people were instructed to kill a lamb, and then APPLY the lamb's blood to the side and upper doorposts of the home. John MacArthur likely learned his heresies from Robert B. Thieme Jr. and John MacArthur Exodus 12:23, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” Did you read that ... WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD!!!
...WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD!!!
LEARN THE INSPIRING HYMN... “WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD”
R.B. Thieme Jr. and John MacArthur Jr. are fools to diminish the importance of the literal, physical, blood of Jesus Christ. MacArthur has tried to defend himself by saying that he loves the blood of Jesus and upholds it's importance; but he plainly maintains that the blood is only important and precious in that it REPRESENTS THE DEATH of Christ. MacArthur clearly denies the efficacy (power) of Christ's literal, physical, blood.
Carefully notice that the Lord wasn't looking for the dead lamb. Rather, the blood had to be APPLIED. Also, please read, The Importance of the Blood. John MacArthur is an unsaved liberal. Hebrews 10:29, “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
The blood is very important. The Bible is very plain that Jesus entered into the heavenly holy place after He arose from the dead. Jesus ascended into Heaven with His blood. The blood had to be applied. Hebrews 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.” Shame on these fake Bible scholars who trample upon the blood. MacArthur is wrong, wrong, wrong to say that Jesus' blood is precious to him when in reality he only sees Christ's blood as symbolic of His death. What a sham! I'm sad and surprised that Moody Ministries actually promotes this wicked man. MacArthur is wrong about the blood and he's wrong about the way of salvation.
R.B. Thieme, Jr. and John MacArthur... Heretics!
It's All About the Blood of Jesus!
From
the blood of Abel's slain lamb in Genesis, to the robes of the saints washed
in the blood of the Lamb in Revelation, the Word of God centers around the
blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 9:22, “...without shedding of
blood is no remission.” Jesus' death was just as important as His blood
sacrifice, and equally important the burial and resurrection; BUT everything
concerning the events of Jesus' life were leading up to the blood being
applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven.
Hebrews 9:24-26 state, “For Christ is not
entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the
true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us...” (that
is, God the Father). Jesus took His shed blood to Heaven to present unto the
Father, by applying it to the Mercy Seat. This is why Jesus said to Mary in
John 20:17, ”Jesus saith unto her, TOUCH ME NOT; for I am not
yet ascended to my Father...” The blood couldn't be tainted.
The Corrupt New International Version (NIV) Perverts the Holy Blood of Jesus!
I watched a film on the GOSPEL OF JOHN, which is based upon the New International Version [NIV]. I almost fell out of my chair when Mary Magdalene grabbed Jesus' hand after He rose from the dead and appeared to her outside of His tomb. The NIV horribly corrupts the Scriptures, which reads:
“Jesus said, 'Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.'”
Do not hold on to me? That's not what the inspired King James Bible says! The King James Bible reads:
“Jesus saith unto her, TOUCH ME NOT; for I am not yet ascended to my Father...”
The NIV is of the Devil. Jesus needed to apply His blood in Heaven, just as the Old Testament highpriest did every year in the holy of holies in the tabernacle. If Mary had touched Jesus, she would have corrupted the blood. The NIV is ridiculous, as if Jesus could not ascend into Heaven because Mary was holding on to him. That's not what John 20:17 means at all. Jesus had risen from the dead and needed to appear before the Father in Heaven as Hebrews 9:24 teaches; and Jesus needed to apply His blood in the Holy Place as Hebrews 9:12 teaches.
So don't let any modernist, nor false prophet,
minimize the importance of Jesus' blood. There could be NO forgiveness of
sins if it weren't for Christ's blood sacrifice. Curse the NIV! If you use
the NIV, you will be spiritually retarded.
Seventh-Day-Adventists Pervert the Holy Blood of Jesus Christ!
Seventh Day Adventists pervert the blood of Christ by claiming that Jesus' sacrifice wasn't enough, and that Christ is still in the process of completing His work of redemption (SDA's call this heresy, Investigative Judgment).
They call this heresy "investigative judgment," i.e., they claim that Jesus investigates our individual lives to decide whether we are “worthy” to enter Heaven or not. I ask you... is any sinful human being “worthy” of heaven? Does not Romans 3:23 declare that we ALL HAVE SINNED? Yes, it most certain does! There is NO ONE worthy to enter Heaven, which is exactly WHY we needed Jesus to shed His blood for our sins, because we could not save ourselves.
We all deserve Hellfire, nothing better. But thanks be to God for sending His only begotten Son into the world to pay for our sins. John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
The reason WHY we are to trust Christ alone for salvation is because of the blood that He shed for our sins. ONLY Jesus has the nail-scared hands and feet! No one else! Salvation is found only in Jesus Christ (Acts 4:10-12; John 14:6) because God's blood was shed upon the cross... “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood" (Acts 20:28). The blood that flowed from Jesus' veins was not the sinful, tainted, blood of Adam; NO, rather, it was the blood of God the Father.
Seventh Day Adventism is a heathen,
Satanic, and doctrinally rotten cult. They teach doctrines of devils.
The LITERAL Blood of Jesus Had to be Applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven
The great Bible teacher, M.R. DeHaan, M.D. (pictured below), has it 100% correct when he states concerning the blood of Jesus...
The blood was to be sprinkled, remember, on the mercy seat right after the death of the substitutionary animal of sacrifice, Now Christ is, of course, our substitute. He was slain for us upon the Cross, and entered into death for us, and when He arose, He immediately went to heaven, entered into the holy of holies in heaven, sprinkled His precious blood upon the mercy seat before the throne of God, and forever settled the sin questions, and delivered us from the curse of the law. This is clearly taught in the New testament. Hebrews 9:12 is very definite on this:
"But by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
The Bible also makes plain when He accomplished this. On the morning of the resurrection He meets Mary at the tomb. As soon as Mary recognized Him, she prostrated herself upon Him, and would have kissed His feet, but with shocking suddenness, Jesus emphatically says to her: "Touch me not"; and then He proceeds immediately to give the reason why Mary is not permitted to touch Him at all.
"For I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17)
Literally the Lord Jesus Christ said, "Touch me not; for I now am about to ascend unto my Father." We can understand this action when we remember the the high priest after he had offered the sacrifice, was to enter the holy of holies, before he did anything else, with the precious blood. No one was allowed to approach him. Everyone was shut out until this was completely done. And here in the record of the meeting with Mary we have the fulfillment of this type. Here Mary meets her great High Priest, just arisen from the tomb, but before He had entered the holy of holies with the reconciling blood. And so He says to her, "TOUCH ME NOT."
SOURCE: The TABERNACLE, by M.R. DeHaan, M.D., ISBN 0-310-23491-3, page 129.
What a wonderful truth! The Bible is so clear when you accept it as it's written. The best way to interpret the Bible is to not interpret it. By diligently cross-referring Scripture with Scripture, we are able to form a complete and accurate picture of divine Truth. Thank God for the precious redeeming literal blood of Christ Jesus!
“But BY HIS OWN BLOOD he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” —Hebrews 9:12
The Death of the Passover Lamb Was NOT Enough
When the Lord was going to pass over Egypt and destroy the firstborn, he said to Moses and Aaron in Exodus 12:13...
"And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt."
The death of the lamb wasn't enough, the blood had to be applied Mr. MacArthur. God wasn't looking for a dead lamb in the backyard; No, rather, God was looking for the APPLIED BLOOD on the doorposts and lintel (doorplate) above the door. The blood had to be applied. John MacArthur's entire ministry is flawed, and he is a false prophet, simply because he is WRONG on the most important Christian doctrine of all—Jesus precious literal liquid blood! No genuinely saved person would ever deny the redemptive power of Jesus' physical blood!
“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.” —Hebrews 9:12
If the Old Testament high priest killed the lamb and went home, the sins of the people were not atoned for. The lamb's blood had to be carried by a bowl into the holy of holies and applied to the mercy seat (which rested upon the Ark of the Covenant).
Here are the eloquent words of Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001) concerning the importance of the blood being applied...
In the Old Testament, the High Priest killed two goats on the Day of Atonement. The blood of one goat was taken by the High Priest into the Holy Place to the Ark of the Covenant. On the top of the Ark of the Covenant was the Mercy Seat. Over that Mercy Seat were two cherubims beaten out of pure gold. Between the wings of those cherubims was the Glory of God. The blood from the goat that was sacrificed was applied to the proper place which was the Mercy Seat. If the blood did not get to the Mercy Seat, then it was the proper price, but not paid to the proper place. It would have been no more valid than that check written but not paid to the creditor.
If the blood of Jesus was left on the ground at the cross, that means it did not get to the Holy Place and is not valid. "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus." It is not just the blood shed, but also the blood applied.
God told Moses to instruct the people to apply the blood of the lamb at the Passover. When He passed over and saw the blood of that lamb, He would withhold His judgment. God did not judge them based on His omniscience. He made a point of letting them know that He would not judge them only when He saw the blood. It was not enough that the blood was shed. The blood had to be properly applied.
SOURCE: THE PRICE OF THE CHURCH, by Pastor Jack Hyles
