4/27 Devitions in Exodus

Exodus 24 The Blood

“And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people,” (v. 8)

One cannot say enough about the blood of the sacrifice. In verse six we see Moses sprinkling the same blood on the altar of God that he does on the people of God. The blood is sufficient for both, it reconciles the two together. The blood on the altar makes atonement, while the blood on the people cleanses and purifies them, so both are prepared, and acceptable unto God. The blood plays an important part in our lives, it is our redemption, or the “workings” of it, as seen in the sacrifices of the Old Testament, and at Calvary in the New Testament. One must be cleansed by the blood before he can ever hope to approach unto God, whether in actual presence or in prayer.

Yes, we are “bought with a price,” the price of blood, specifically, the blood of Christ, the Sacrificial Lamb of God, slain before the foundations of the world. The “sprinkling of the blood of Christ” has been our redemption (1 Peter 1:2), and not the corruptible things of this world, such as money, or benevolence, or any such thing, but with the “precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18,19). Thank God for this wonderful blood, shed for the sins of the world.

Notice too, that after the elders saw God, they “ate and drank”, (v. 11). Here we see another Biblical communion in the Old Testament, and this with God Himself. I would call this a communion of Joy, or rejoicing in the Lord. What a wonderful picture of the joy we share in Christ, and the communion we have “in remembrance” of Calvary, without which we have no hope of redemption, no hope of ever seeing God. Yes, it is the blood that unifies, and brings together the Holy with the unholy, and makes both as one, and when we see this, we have great reason to rejoice. We can have a sweet communion with our God today, because of the blood-- the blood of Christ, as well as the blood of the sacrifice.