Heralds Digest

   ““ And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ “Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil.” Ezekiel 16 : 6 , 9 NKJV Even in the Old Testament dispensation, the beast blood was preferred to the birth blood from any sinner. Despite the fact that you cannot atone for your sins and live to enjoy the atonement, a temporary cleansing by the blood of a blemish-free beast is needed to appeal for every sinner’s unrighteousness. And while “ And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood ” summarizes the ceaseless frustration of the human atonement plan in the Old Testament, the New Testament now offers ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live! ’ to all who come to God by faith in the atonement or the breakthrough blood by Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, the struggle for relevance and righteousness through...

  “ And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God . ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭16‬:‭62‬-‭63‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ We now know that the Old Testament’s atonement is symbolic of the New Testament’s redemption plan; but the people of old would often pride in the multiplicity of their sacrifices and provisions towards earning continuously repeated redemption. Notwithstanding, the bragging of the human’s natural abilities and accomplishments is still central to the depravity in the mind of the natural man. Whereas, the redemption plan was finalized at the Cross where Jesus Christ was offered as the sacred Lamb of God. Those who have faith to ‘Behold the Lamb ’ can attest to the fact of total forgiveness of sin in the adorable atonement. The atonement through the blood of Jesus Christ is acceptable, total, optima...