When I see the blood, I will pass over you " (Ex. la:13). There was only one place of shelter when the angel of justice, with his sword of judgment, passed through the land of Egypt:it was under the blood of the lamb.
If an Israelite had neglected to kill the lamb, and to sprinkle its blood on the side-posts and lintel of his door, nothing-no prayers, vows, or pledges; no tears, zeal, or cries for mercy-could have saved him from the sword of judgment. Even Moses and Aaron, had they neglected to sprinkle the blood on their doors, would have perished. And so will every one who does not take personal shelter under the blood of Christ. The blood of Israel's lamb sheltered them only from temporal judgment. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Lamb, shelters from eternal judgment.
In fact, the evil thought of blending the imperfections of human merit with the sacrifice of Him who was the brightness of God's glory is shocking in the extreme, and the height of folly. The atonement of our Lord is a complete satisfaction to the demands of God's justice against sin.
There is nothing left for man to do but, in the confession of his guilt and sinfulness, to receive the great salvation as, a gift from God. "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him " (John 3 :36). "The blood shall be to you for a token." There is nothing else that God will give for the assurance of salvation. Therefore, from first to last, our only resting-place is under the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God's providing.
The pardon of all our sins rests upon the blood of Jesus. We are redeemed-brought back to God- by the blood of Jesus, "in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins" (Eph. i:7). We are "justified by His blood "(Rom, 5:9). We are cleansed-made meet for the eye of God-by the blood of Jesus (i John i:7). We are sanctified-set apart to God from the world-by the blood of Jesus (Heb. 13:12). We are "made nigh" to God by the blood of Jesus (Eph. 2:13). We enjoy peace with God only because peace has been made by the blood of the cross (Col. i:20), We enter the holiest, as worshipers, only by the blood of Jesus (Heb. 10:19). Our robes are made white by the blood of the Lamb (Rev. 7:14). We overcome our spiritual enemies by the blood of the Lamb (Rev. 12:11). God's testimony to all is, "Without shedding of blood is no remission" (Heb. 9:22). There is no salvation, no pardon, no hope, no life, save beneath the value and shelter of the precious all-cleansing blood of Jesus. And the song that will fill the heavens from end to end to all eternity will be this glorious anthem, "Unto Him that loves us, and has washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen" (Rev. i:5, 6).
Such, and much more, is the infinite value of the blood of the Son of God. From Genesis to Revelation, from the beginning of the revelation of God to its close, God proclaims our eternal salvation, and the glory to which we are traveling, as due to the shedding of the blood of His beloved Son. It is His remedy for man's ruin, as it is the basis of His righteousness and the proof of His love.
D. C. Tuck