However what if Jesus stepped up and offered to water it this time... this is not an inapt metaphor.
Everybody has to accept it, is the catch. We can’t have any prideful holdouts. The prideful holdouts case operated in the situation of the Civil War and so God said fine, if you want it to be your blood, your blood it is. It wasn’t for the lack of My offering a better way.
However what if Jesus stepped up and offered to water it this time... this is not an inapt metaphor.