We have been spending our time looking at the meaning of the blood of the covenant. The reason this is an important study is because Jesus proclaimed that when we take the cup in the Lord’s Supper, that cup is representing his blood of the covenant. We looked at the use of this term in Exodus 24 and Zechariah 9. But today we are going to look at how the writer of Hebrews uses the term. Open your copies of God’s word to Hebrews 9 and we are going to look at verses 19-21.
For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. (Hebrews 9:19-21 ESV)…
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