I didn’t talk much about this in The Day the Revolution Began because it would have doubled the length of the book, especially by including a discussion of the Letter to the Hebrews. What I need to say here again subdivides, this time into four subpoints. The first subpoint states that the Levitical sacrificial system is not about animals being punished. Unlike pagan sacrifices, Israel’s sacrificial animals were not killed on an altar, and the purpose of the blood ritual was to cleanse the sanctuary. The blood, the God-given sign of life, was the purgative agent through which all traces of
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