QQCQuirks, Queries and Commentary—Exodus 24:8
In God's kingdom, blood is an important commodity. We can see this in the New Testament where the blood of Jesus is frequently referred to. In fact, at the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), of the four Levitical laws Gentiles were required to keep, two were about blood: "abstain from...the meat of strangled animals [if strangled, the animal's blood would stay in the meat] and from blood." (vs. 20)
Blood is a spiritual cleansing agent. Revelation 7:14 says that the survivors of the Great Tribulation will have their clothes "made white in the blood of the Lamb"; Hebrews 9:14 talks about how the blood of Christ cleanses our consciences and Hebrews 9:22 asserts that nearly everything needs to "be cleansed with blood" and that there is no forgiveness without blood.
This helps to explain why, after he had read the Book of the Covenant to God's people at the foot of Mt. Sinai and after the people responded …
In God's kingdom, blood is an important commodity. We can see this in the New Testament where the blood of Jesus is frequently referred to. In fact, at the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), of the four Levitical laws Gentiles were required to keep, two were about blood: "abstain from...the meat of strangled animals [if strangled, the animal's blood would stay in the meat] and from blood." (vs. 20)
Blood is a spiritual cleansing agent. Revelation 7:14 says that the survivors of the Great Tribulation will have their clothes "made white in the blood of the Lamb"; Hebrews 9:14 talks about how the blood of Christ cleanses our consciences and Hebrews 9:22 asserts that nearly everything needs to "be cleansed with blood" and that there is no forgiveness without blood.
This helps to explain why, after he had read the Book of the Covenant to God's people at the foot of Mt. Sinai and after the people responded …