Dear Arno Froese, 

Thank God for all the Light of God you have and wonderful Midnight Call magazine etc. I usually agree with you, but I happened to see January 2011, and oh no! You are the last person I ever would have thought write such. I wish I could see what was written before you wrote on page 45, “Pleading the Blood.” J. Smith, NY wrote, “I just finished listening to the CD ‘The Deliverer – Part 4.’ Thank you for telling me that pleading the blood of Jesus is wrong.” (My Lord, my God, in Jesus’ name, let there be Light.) How could you say this? “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” The life of the flesh is the blood, and I have given it you on the altar (cross) to make atonement for your sins. It is the blood that makes atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11, Genesis 9:6, Hebrews 2:14, Revelation 21 & 22). We all know when Adam sinned, “all have sinned,” in the bloodstream.

“The soul that sinneth shall die.” From Genesis through Revelation, the Blood of the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus, our only Victory. 

Jesus, my Creator, Savior, Lord God. The Lamb of God, “Behold, the Lamb of God” (John 1:29).

We are redeemed with His precious blood (1 Peter 1:18-19, Revelation 1:5-6, Isaiah 4:4, Ezekiel 16:9). “For this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). “By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us” (Hebrews 9:12).

-V. Collins, SC

Answer: “Pleading the blood” means addressing the blood. This practice seems to separate the Lord Jesus Christ and His blood. Of course, the blood of Jesus is decisive for redemption, but note, it is “His” blood. 

The reason I question this statement is because it’s not found in Holy Scripture. We are not to come to His blood: we are to come to Him who shed His blood. Jesus, and He alone, is the center of our pleading, our prayer and our worship. Without His dying—pouring out His life in His blood—His death and subsequent resurrection and ascension, including His return, Jesus would not have accomplished His work of redemption. If any of these items were missing, it would be invalid. The center is, and always must be Jesus. Paul states in 1 Corinthians 2:2: “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”