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The blood of Christ is so important, as shed upon the cross in death of His body that God saw fit to make a ritual observance which the descendants of Abraham were to practice assiduously.

In the New Testament we are given the revelation answering an open secret, that the blood of calves and sheep were not redeeming, but the blood of the Innocent One sent from God was the event which the temple sacrifices pointed to. In practicing that ritual of blood, the Jews were 'faithing' in the Holy One of God, the Messiah Who takes away the sin of the world!

So, the death on the cross, the shedding of His blood is so important that for more than a thousand years, God's chosen people had 'practiced up' for the coming event! What Jewish History should teach us is that 'faith' is an action word, that blood atonement is a connection to Jesus, that ONLY His blood shed for you and for me is what we 'faithe' in as means for our deliverance from our sin nature.

God's promises NEVER fail. He has promised us a new nature, possible ONLY because His blood was shed for us on the cross. When I sit upon a chair, I'm faithing that the chair will do its intended task of holding my bottom off the floor. When Mormons eschew the Cross, they fail to 'faithe' in the ONLY way they may be delivered by The Deliverer, the Soter, Jesus Christ.

Easter week and Easter Sunday are a 'faithing' way we exercise our faith in Him, in the efficacy of His shed blood, which God deems so important that an entire people ritualized the importance of the event as yet not happened, held as an open secret for more than a thousand years, and now as an open invitation for more than two-thousand years.

I once listened to Christopher Hitchens deride the blood of Christ and the 'obscene nature of a bloody sacrifice for sinners'. Well, to Christopher one might say, 'It is so important that God had an entire nation practice for the coming event repeating the ritual for more than a thousand years! The blood of Christ is the most powerful physical reality in the History of the human species.'

The Cross may be an obscenity to some, but God deems it so precious that He began pointing to the event more than a thousand years before the Cross of our redemption.