Atonement for Blood Guilt

 Numbers 34-36; Mark 11 

“’…Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites.’”

Numbers 35:33, 34

Cain, the first son of Adam and Eve, killed his brother Abel. When God confronted Cain with his sin, he said, “Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4:10) This cry of innocent blood from every nation and region of the world continues to cry out to God for justice. God’s requirement that blood must be shed to atone for the sin of taking innocent blood still stands today. That is why Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, came to earth. His sprinkled blood “speaks a better word than the blood of Abel” (Hebrews 12:24). God is looking today for intercessors and evangelists who can proclaim this “better word” of the blood of Christ to their people and lands. The blood of Christ sets us free from the curse of sin.

Are we declaring this good news?

“Lord Jesus, thank you for the power in your blood to set me, and our nation, free from blood guilt, for your glory.”