Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

the skins from two animals, covering the nakedness of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:21). Noah, Abraham, and Jacob built stone altars from which they offered sacrifices during their lifetimes. By Moses’s time, the sacrificial offerings atoned for the sins of the priests and the Israelites. Blood sacrifices were important since “the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). An innocent victim was offered in place of the guilty. Each offering was a preview of the final and ultimate sacrifice that would complete the redemption process once and for all. At Passover, the Hebrews discovered the protective and redemptive power of the lamb’s blood (Exod. 12). The three marks on the outer door of the Hebrew homes restrained the death angel from entering the houses. The blood of a lamb defeated the destroying angel in the same manner that the blood of God’s lamb, Jesus Christ, would also defeat the power of death (Rev. 12:11). The sacrificial code included a lamb in the morning and in the evening, and bulls, rams, goats, pigeons, and turtledoves for sin, trespass, thanksgiving, and atonement offerings. (See the Book of Leviticus.) It is clear that the sacrificial requirement of the animal offerings in the Torah was fulfilled through the complete and vicarious sufferings of Christ. His death provided forgiveness from our sins and trespasses. Christ fulfilled the pattern of the sacrifices through His death on Calvary. There is now no more need for sacrificial animal blood (Heb. 9:11–12). Thus the secrets of the sacrificial code were unlocked through Christ.