Under The Blood

Suzanne and I have had a couple of conversations recently about being "under the blood." She had been challenged with this idea recently by a respected friend. Her friend was saying that we should take our place "under the blood" and place our struggles there and walk in victory. I agree. But have you ever used a phrase like this and just wondered if you really had a clue what it meant? That's where we found ourselves.



As we talked about this, Revelation 12:10-11 came to mind.

"And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, 'Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of the brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death." (ESV)



I believe this is how we overcome the enemy, and I pray this over my family every night. I plead the blood of Jesus and say, "Jesus is LORD." But I still don't think I understand all that it includes. I know that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross satisfies the wrath of God toward sin and I know that "He was wounded for our transgressions...crushed for our iniquities...(and) upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5 ESV) But I believe there is even more.

In the book of Exodus, when God delivers the people of Israel from the bondage of Pharaoh in Egypt, He tells them to kill a lamb. Then He tells them to take hyssop and dip it into the blood of that lamb and apply the blood on the top and sides of their door frames. Then, as Moses explains why, this is what he says.

"For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you." (Exodus 12:23 ESV)

When I heard that, I thought, "WOW! That's what I am praying when I plead the blood of Jesus and say Jesus is LORD. I am applying Jesus' blood to the spiritual door of my family and claiming this promise that the destroyer will not be allowed to enter! I am overcoming him 'by the blood of the Lamb and word of my testimony!!'" We have entered into the covenant promises God made with His people way back there through the perfect Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ and we can be sure that He will protect what He has purchased with that blood.

Pleading Jesus' blood,

Jon