The Hebrews author is saturated in the Israelite world and way of looking at things. We take a moment to focus on the particulars in Hebrews to address the means by which he communicates regarding the atonement.

What comes to mind when you hear the term "atonement"? In what ways do the Scriptures connect Jesus' humiliating, degrading death with the reconciliation of God and man?

The New and Living Way | Episode 22 | Hebrews 9:13-15

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.