As you requested ping.
Much appreciate the ping. Will read and respond to it later.
Why are all the refereces to MacArthur from 1986 and before?
It's fishy to take 20+ year old stuff from a still active pastor.
I'd imagine MacArthur has learned a thing or two in 20 years...have you?
there is another reason that the blood is so vitally important and not Just the death of Christ. (not to put any shadow on his death at all)
That is that the blood was considered unclean. That the sin was actually taken in to the blood and that is how we are washed and made clean. Yes a sacrifice was made, and all the sin was placed on that sacrifice, but the part of the blood was that it had become infused with the sin. Therefore its nature is to take sin from us.
THis is evidenced by: The pass over being unlevened bread, leven being a simble of sin; and wine, not grape joice, being that fermentation was present in the wine. Fermentation and or yeast being the symbol of sin.