Hebrews 10: 11 - 18: For it is impossible that
the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins....
says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in
the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he - goats.
The idea wasn't that
the blood of bulls and goats somehow «appeased God,» the sacrificial system was foreshadowing the time when God Himself would make the ultimate atonement for sins.
For it is impossible that
the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins....
They knew, as do we, that
the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin, and that there was no sacrifice for willful sin, and so they had to depend solely on the grace and mercy of God, just as we do today.
4 For it is impossible for
the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Furthermore, not that there can be degrees of promises with God, but this promise He makes with Abram is based on
the blood of bulls and goats, whereas the covenant God makes with us about salvation is based on the blood of Jesus Christ.
Prior to the shedding of
the blood of the bulls and goats, the covenant was not active.
«For if
the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the UNCLEAN, sanctifies for the PURIFYING of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, CLEANSE your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?»
That sounds an awful lot like some ancient Pagan sacrificial rituals where worshippers pour
the blood of bulls, goats, and lambs over their heads.
Priests cleaned house by performing the sacrificial rites, sprinkling or smearing blood on the furniture of Yahweh's house, purging the earthly sanctuary with
the blood of bulls and goats.
The priest took the blood behind the veil to sprinkle the mercy seat as he had before with
the blood of the Bull.
Now, more than 150 years later, in an age of computers and biogenetics, the blood of those miners courses through the veins of citizens in these 50 states, and
the blood of the bull - and - terrier dog's descendants continues to be splattered against the sides of pits.
I have always heard that it was from
the blood of bulls, oxen, etc..