One of the greatest blind spots in Rabbinical Judaism is in regard to the blood atonement. Perhaps this lack of understanding came about as Jewish religious leaders over the years attempted to distance themselves from Christian doctrine. But at the time of Yeshua, the Jews certainly understood and practiced blood sacrifice.
Now the Temple is no longer available to make sacrificial to offerings. After the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, rabbis looked for an alternative approach to God. They did not have far to look. All false religions teach basically the same thing--we reach God by doing good deeds.
Rabbinical Judaism today teaches that good deeds give us access to God. But Jewish prophets taught that we are all sinners and deserve to die. We can come into the presence of a just God only when the death penalty has been paid.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement (Lev. 17:11).
If there is no atonement, there can be no redemption, no forgiveness of sin, no way to approach and be in the presence of a holy God.
But Rabbinical Judaism now teaches that sacrificing animals was a primitive tradition the early Hebrews picked up from the heathen nations around them. They explain that Moses, knowing that it was very hard to change everything at once, indulged his people by letting them sacrifice animals. But as far as God is concerned, the rabbis claim, blood sacrifice has no significance.
This blind spot must be challenged and removed. It is one of the strongest Rabbinical Orthodox doctrines that goes against the teaching of the Jewish prophets. Blood atonement can be found in literally every book and section of the Bible. It was the blood of a lamb that kept the firstborn males of Israel from being killed for their sins. The Hebrews had sinned just like the Egyptians and deserved to die. But blood saved them. When Moses ratified the Covenant that God had given him to deliver to Israel, he
...Took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half...he sprinkled on the altar...Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, 'Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words" (Ex. 24:6,8).
When the Jewish people understand the significance of an animal dying that they might live, they will understand why Yeshua, the Lamb of God, had to die.
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