We are told that the blood of Jesus “cleanses us of our sins” and is crucial for forgiveness but what does that mean? How does Jesus’ blood do this and was that the main point? In actuality, the blood of Jesus was meant to expose us; that we are bloodthirsty violent people who proved it with the ultimate act of violence towards God himself. 

 The blood of Jesus was designed to prove to us that he has always forgiven humans, always wanted a relationship, not religions, so he gave himself over to our false religious, violent, and scapegoat views to make the most spectacular flip in history. Now that we can see that we have peace with God, and always have, we should now live as though we have peace with others. The blood was always a covenant of grace and God used goats and bulls to point us towards himself as the final agreement between a man and himself.  Jesus did not need to spill his blood to forgive us, he spilled his blood to prove to us we are already forgiven! This should allow him to enter our lives and bring the Prince of Peace to our souls.