Christ’s Blood, Shed for All Mankind:

Christ’s innocent blood was shed once and for all time to deal with ALL the sins of mankind at one time; for those sins of the past, present and future. The adequacy of His blood was foretold by typology without the mention of blood specifically.

The blood may be seen in the blood shed by some innocent animal in order for God to produce the skins necessary to cover Adam and Eve’s sin, and thereby the sin of all mankind .

Gen 3:7, 21 the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made them aprons. ²¹ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Here above the innocent animal blood that was shed produced only what would cover their act of sinning. It also foretold of a time when “the Lamb of God,” Jesus Christ, would come and shed His blood not to cover sins, but more effectually, to take away the sins of the world of mankind (John 1:29) … if they would only have faith in His blood (Rom 3:25).

What of The Sins That Are Past?

In Chapter 3 of Paul’s letter to the Romans he declares that God has set forth Christ as a satisfaction for man’s sin and that redemption is obtained by faith in “His blood,” or His payment for sin at Calvary, entirely apart from works, religious or otherwise (Rom. 3:21-26).

But in this same passage he states that this “remission” concerns the “sins that are past” (Ver. 25). What does he mean by this? Some have taught from this verse that when a sinner turns to God for salvation all his sins are forgiven up to that time and now that he is saved he is henceforth responsible for himself. But this would mean that God saves men by His grace only to turn them over again to their own weak and sinful natures. If this were the case, the converted sinner would be lost again the same day, for what Christian believer is wholly free from sin?

Paul rather looks back here at past ages and declares that we now know and proclaim that men like Abel, Noah and Abraham, and also like Moses, David and Daniel (who lived under the Law) were actually saved by the redemption wrought by Christ, although Christ’s death was still future in their day. In other words, Christ died, not only for the sins which we have committed, but also for the “sins which are past.” The believers of past ages simply believed what God told them then, and God counted them righteous (Gen. 15:6) on the basis of Christ’s coming payment for sin. Genesis 15:6 And he (Abraham) believed in the LORD; and he (the Lord) counted it to him (Abraham) for righteousness.

We have the same truth set forth in Hebrews 9:15, where we are told that Christ’s death availed also “for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant,” that was made with Abraham; i.e., the Law.

Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

How blessed we are to live at a time when God’s plan of salvation has been fully revealed, and that we can now look to the Lord Jesus Christ and exclaim with Paul: “…He loved me, and gave Himself for me!” (Gal. 2:20).

1. We can conclude from the foregoing that Christ’s shed blood and death applies to ALL the believing of “time past,” including those of Israel under the promise of the kingdom, which Israel will fully receive at the close of the Tribulation, “at His (2^nd) appearing.” Jesus foretold the purpose and work of His blood for Israel’s new covenant.

Mat 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Paul writes Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Zechariah confirms that one day a “fountain,” no doubt of blood of Christ, will cleanse Israel’s believers of sins when He returns at the end of the Tribulation. Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

2) Christ’s shed blood applies also under Paul’s “gospel of the grace of God” in this day of “the dispensation of the grace of God” for “ye Gentiles” (Eph 3:1-5).

With the blossoming of understanding that we may gain from Paul’s thirteen epistles, describing the riches of “the dispensation of the grace of God” and of the cross of Christ, we have the outline and basis of our first stage of deliverance that requires “the blood of Christ.” Jesse Penn Lewis offers these thoughts.

• We were convicted of our sins and saw our need of a remedy. (Eph 2:1-3)
• Under that light we struggled to gain peace, and even perhaps looked inward for relief, but all was in vain.

Romans 7:14-15 (AMP) We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a creature of the flesh [carnal, unspiritual], having been sold into slavery under [the control of] sin.
¹⁵ For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].

• At the point of inward despair we were shown that deliverance had to come from some power outside of ourselves. Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself…
• At last we looked away to Christ and saw Him on Calvary’s cross bearing our sins in His own body on the tree. (Heb 12:2)
• We ceased from struggling and, resting on His finished work of atonement, found peace with God through the shed blood of Christ. Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
•  New life, in the person of the resurrected Christ, now as “the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” was imparted to us, and His Spirit bore witness with our spirit that we now were the children of God. Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: