What does it mean to be covered by the blood of Jesus?
"Pastor, what does it mean to be covered by the blood of Jesus?" The average believer would translate that statement as "protection by the blood of Jesus". As much as I'd like to discredit that translation, I'd rather focus on explaining what it really means to be covered by the blood. First, we understand from the scriptures that blood has a voice in the realm of the spirit. When Cain unjustly killed his brother, Abel, God told Cain that his brother's blood was crying to Him for vengeance. And God had to avenge Abel. Just as the law court judges a matter by human witnesses, part of the witnesses that God uses to judge matters on earth is blood. Let's see how the scriptures put it: 1 John 5: 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. Did you see that? It's impossible for those three things to bear false witness. For instance, we're told from the scriptures that ...