What is the difference between Abel’s sacrificial crimson life flow and the blood that speaketh better things? It cannot receive any tag of quantifiable calculation. The difference cannot be likened to what hits your ocular experience when comparison places a smidgeon of droplet of blood and a whole ocean of blood flow. The blood of better speech, being the blood “which is, and which was, and which is to come,” is by far richer, and better; it is redemptive. The true difference between the shed blood of Abel and that of Jesus Christ is exactly the difference between a day and eternity. It is fathomless in scope, swallowing up the immenseness of the horizon, abysmal in depth, awesome in height and incalculably mind blowing is its eternal broadness. The blood that speaketh better things is the divine blood: God’s blood. Selah! And that is why it happens to be eternally inexhaustible.
The blood had stood continually as the covenantal witness between God and man. Why would Abraham be made to perform sacrificial rites, which culminated in “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of” (Genesis 22:2)? This verse eliminates any doubt of the inevitability of Jesus Christ going to the cross to lavish the divine blood of propitiation on the elect lady of divine endearment.
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