Without the Shedding of Blood There is No Forgiveness
1. God revealed the importance of blood through the prophet Moses and therefore commanded that blood should not be eaten.
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 your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, NO SOUL OF YOU SHALL EAT BLOOD,…
Leviticus 17:11-12
Perhaps we would have thought it was our heart, our brain or our kidneys that were most important. But through Moses, we learn that the life of a person is in his blood. None of us would have known the importance of our blood. All the parts of an animal could be eaten but the blood was not supposed to be eaten because it represented life.
2. Long before medical science discovered it, Moses taught us that the blood of a person contained his life.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: …
Leviticus 17:11
Today, we know that the blood carries life to all parts of the body. Moses could not have known that by medical science. He knew this because God revealed it to Him.
The Lady’s Life
In medical school, I was privileged to be taught by a famous gynaecologist. After surgical operations, we would sit around him in the changing room whilst he taught us. Sometimes we wrote notes and sometimes we just listened to his amazing stories.
One day, he told us about an experience he had whilst working in the rural areas. He described a lady who had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. She was bleeding internally and very near death.
“I was desperate,” he said, “And there was no anaesthetist to make this woman sleep whilst I operated on her. There was also no blood to transfuse her with and I knew she was dying.”
Desperate situations require desperate measures! Extremes must sometimes be fought with extremes! He described how he operated on her without anaesthesia and “plugged” the source of bleeding within her abdomen.
After he stopped the bleeding, he realised that most of the lady’s blood had collected in her abdomen and she needed blood desperately. Since she was dying, he decided to give her her own blood. He told us how he scooped out the lady’s blood, put it in a bottle and connected it to the lady. He transfused her with her own blood that had leaked out.
We, the students, were awe-struck as he described how the lady came back to life as her own blood re-entered her circulatory system.
You see, the life is in the blood! As the lady’s blood re-entered her she came back to life.
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