It was a defenseless little town in the path of the invading army. Only women and children and the elderly were still there, but something had angered the commander. In the presence of his troops he swore that he would kill the entire population. As his troops rushed in, the order was “wipe them out!”
Sick with horror, one fugitive watched from his hiding place as the soldiers broke into a house and he listened to screams of the victims inside. As the men burst out and raced toward the next house, one stopped to slam the door behind them, and with a bloody cloth he marked the door as a token to others of what had taken place inside.
The watcher understood in a flash what he had seen. Slipping as much out of sight as he could, he made his way ahead of the mob of men to a large house near the center of the town. A number of his friends were hiding there, and breathlessly he told them what he had seen.
They acted at once. A goat in the yard was immediately killed and its blood splashed on the door. Scarcely had they closed the door again when a band of men rushed into the street and began their murderous work. But when they came to the blood-marked door they made no attempt to enter! All inside the house with the blood-marked door were saved, though many around were slain.
Yes, Christ has indeed been “sacrificed for us,” and every believer in Him knows that what has stopped the sword of divine judgment is His sheltering blood.
Have you believed God’s word about the blood? Have your sins been washed away by the blood of the Lord Jesus? “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth . . . from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)).
“ This is My blood . . .
which is shed for many
for the remission of sins.”