The Blood Part 19

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19. The blood of Jesus Christ is the testimony of good through to us, but of judgment on the world which we are. That "blood of sprinkling, speaketh better things than that of Abel." (Heb. 12:2424And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:24).) The voice is from heaven, " God speaking peace to us by the blood " (ver. 25), and telling us also of judgment coming upon all things that can be shaken, yea, upon everything save that kingdom which is ours, which cannot be shaken. Thus does He not only lure us on by descriptions and pictures of Canaan's lovely land to which we go, but also push us out of Egypt, the house of bondage and the land of captivity, by the threatening aspect of the judgment coming from Himself upon Pharaoh's people. " Up, get ye out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city," was the solemn word of Lot. " And the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city... [Remember Lot's wife]."