The Blood of the Covenant in Accordance with All These Words (Ex. 24)

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[Sung Psalm: 66]

Among all the strange practices that you hear about in the Bible, one of the strangest is one that you hear about here in verse 8: “And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, ‘Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Yeah, I went to church today and the pastor threw blood on us.

What?!

Now do you understand why no one ever sits in the front row at church?!!

But seriously, the sprinkling of blood on the people is really important in worship. Hebrews 12 tells us that we have come not to the earthly Mount Sinai, but to the heavenly Mount Zion – not to a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken, but to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

How does God bring people near to himself? Sprinkled blood.

Hebrews 10:22 says that we draw near to God “with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Hebrews 10 helps us learn how to think about Exodus 24. We need to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus.