Does "Shedding of
Blood" Refer to Jesus' Death?
By David J. Stewart
"For the
life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon
the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood
that maketh an atonement for the soul." —Leviticus 17:11
"...without
SHEDDING OF BLOOD is no remission."
—Hebrews
9:22
No!
One of the most popular Bible teachers in America today is
Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr. (born June 14, 1939 in
Los Angeles, California). He's an American evangelical writer and
minister, most noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You.
He is currently serving as Pastor-Teacher of Grace Community Church
in Sun Valley, California, and as President of The Master's College (and the
related Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
His "Revised and Updated"
commentary on the Bible, titled "The MacArthur Study Bible," has already
sold over 500,000 copies. John MacArthur has been honored by Moody Bible
Institute, Christianity Today and others as a great man of God.
This is a shame and reveals the apostate condition of the church today.
A Canadian pastor recently sent me
several videos that he made, asking for my opinion on them. The videos were
excellent, except that he kept referring to John MacArthur as "that great
man of God." I wanted to vomit. This is why I expose John
MacArthur—because he is a false prophet who blasphemes the blood of Jesus
Christ, and is corrupting America's pastors and Christians. I wouldn’t give
you a dime for anything Mr. MacArthur has written, because he spits on the
blood of Jesus. MacArthur deceitfully claims to love the "precious blood of
Jesus," while ignoring it, diminishing it, disregarding it, and speaking
evil of its literal value. No sir, you don't love the precious blood
of Jesus!
Tragically, John MacArthur is a
Modernist who denies the redemptive power of the literal blood of Jesus
Christ. It baffles me how a man can be so right on so many Biblical
subjects, and yet be 100% wrong on the most important doctrine in the Word
of God. There is no teaching in the Bible any more important than the
precious redeeming power of the literal physical blood of Jesus Christ.
Mr. MacArthur needs to find the Christ of the Bible.
Here are MacArthur's comments for
Leviticus 17:11, i.e., the phrase "the life of the flesh is in the blood":
"..the shedding of
blood represents the shedding of life, i.e., death ... NT references to the
shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ are references to His death."
SOURCE: The
Revised and Updated edition of The MacArthur Study Bible, Thomas
Nelson publishers, page 178
Wrong! There is NO such teaching in the
Scriptures! The phrase
"shedding of blood" in Hebrews 9:22 is the Greek word, haimatekchusia
(SOURCE: Strong's Enhanced Lexicon), which literally means
"shedding of blood." That's what the Greek word means Mr. MacArthur, it
doesn't mean "death." If God meant to say "death," then He would have used
that word; but He didn't, He said "shedding of blood."
John MacArthur has fabricated his own corrupt way of
thinking. Hebrews 9:6-7 state: "Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the
service of God. But into the second [i.e., the holy of holies] went the
high priest alone once every year, NOT WITHOUT BLOOD, which he offered
for himself, and for the errors of the people." How can Mr.
MacArthur be so naive and unbiblical as to claim that Jesus' literal physical
blood didn't need to be applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven, in consideration
of such overwhelming Scriptural evidence? 1st Peter 1:18,19 proclaims, "Forasmuch
as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot."
Again,
the phrase "shedding of blood" in
Hebrews 9:22 is the Greek word, haimatekchusia, which literally means
"shedding of blood." That's what the Greek word means Mr. MacArthur, it
doesn't mean "death." Any Bible-teacher who is wrong on the precious
redeeming blood of Jesus Christ can't be trusted, because he has denied the
most important doctrine in the Word of God. It is the literal liquid
blood of Jesus Christ that takes our sins away. Revelation 1:5, "And
from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of
the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood."
"Neither by the blood of
goats and calves, but BY HIS OWN BLOOD he entered in once into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
—Hebrews 9:12
It's The
Blood Of Jesus!
