The shedding of innocent blood through abortion has marked a profound culture of death in this nation since the US Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade on January 22, 1973. This decision struck down all state laws protecting the lives of unborn children, legalizing abortion in all 50 states for the full nine months of pregnancy under broad justifications of social, economic, and health reasons, including mental health conditions. Over 54 million unborn children have been legally murdered in America, a number surpassing the total US military deaths in all wars combined, revealing a staggering loss of life. Isaiah prophesied that when Israel sinned, separating her from God, the nation becomes known for lying and the shedding of innocent blood. God declares that He does not intervene because man, by his own choice to sin, is left to his own devices. The scale of this bloodshed, with over one million abortions performed annually in the United States alone, including through drugs like RU486, underscores a pervasive disregard for life. Late-term elective abortions, such as partial-birth abortions involving brain suction, have been conclusively shown to occur even in the last trimester, despite denials from abortion advocates. God's Word, as seen in passages like Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17, forcefully prohibits murder, identifying abortion as the unjustifiable taking of an innocent human life. In Exodus 21, God's law concerning violence indicates that if a fatal miscarriage is caused, capital punishment is required, suggesting His judgment on premeditated abortion would be no less severe. All life falls under God's law, and as the Lord of life, His will governs, not the state, individual, parent, or doctor. Man and nations may deny this, but they cannot escape the consequences of violating it. The biblical perspective affirms that life begins at conception, a truth supported by scientific understanding of human development as the union of sperm and ovum forms a living, human, complete being. God's acknowledgment of life at this earliest stage, as reflected in scriptures like Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1:5, underscores the sanctity of the unborn. To deliberately destroy this life is deemed murder by the Creator, punishable by eternal judgment unless genuine repentance occurs. This nation, having embraced violence against the unborn for 40 years, stands on borrowed time, awaiting the day of God's wrath for the bloodshed it has sanctioned.

The blood refers to His violent and bloody death on the stake to pay for the sins of the world. The blood is a witness for God of Jesus Christ His Son. The blood has a testimony and a message. There are 427 references in Scripture to blood atonement indicating that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. The blood speaks better things than that of Abel. The blood of Jesus Christ has been shed for the sins of the whole world. Trust in His blood because His death redeems. The English word atone means to reconcile or to pay for but the Hebrew word kaphar means to shelter or to put a covering over. Only blood can atone for sin. The righteousness of God will be satisfied only by death where sin is involved. Without shedding of blood there is no remission. The blood speaks as a constant rebuke to the tendency to make light of sins. An innocent victim had to be slain in order that purification from sins might occur. God purchased the church with His own blood. His blood is the propitiation. The place of expiation is the crucifixion. The means of expiation is His blood or His death. The propitiation is a completed act and also a present process in which His blood cleanses from all sin. Love and propitiation are interchangeable. Without the testimony of the blood before God there is no appeasing of God's righteousness and holy justice. There is no covering for sins. There is no reconciliation with God. There is no redemption. There is no justification. There is no receiving of God's Spirit. There is no further cleansing unto sanctification. There is no reconciliation with brothers. There is no hope.

Blood, in scriptural terms, functions as a living witness that testifies to the truth of Jesus Christ's identity and work. In I John 5:6-9, the apostle John describes Christ as coming "by water and blood," terms better understood as "through" or "with," indicating that these elements accompanied and testified to His ministry from beginning to end. The water represents His baptism, marking the start of His mission to fulfill all righteousness; the blood represents His sacrificial death, marking its completion. Like witnesses in a courtroom, these elements certify truth, and because the One at the center of these witnesses was the Creator God Himself, their testimony carries immense weight. The water and blood, together with the Holy Spirit, are described as constantly bearing witness in the present tense, as though God refuses to let believers forget what His Son accomplished on their behalf. This shed blood is central to the entire purpose of God for humanity. Christ's death makes possible every aspect of the calling of the converted, touching salvation, answered prayer, entrance into God's Kingdom, and the eternal life God desires to share with His people. Without that death, there is no future and no possibility of fulfilling any promise God has made. This is why the subject of Christ's sacrificial blood is always "in season" for preaching, regardless of any specific occasion. The seriousness of sin, and therefore the necessity of blood atonement, is underscored by the striking observation that Scripture references blood atonement in various forms 427 times—a figure equal to sixty-one multiplied by seven, the number signifying perfection and completeness. This repetition demonstrates how emphatically God impresses upon humanity that death is the only means by which sin can be covered, blotted out, or atoned for. The image of a "red ribbon" of blood running through Scripture from Genesis to Revelation illustrates that the entire narrative of the Bible is inseparable from the theme of blood and sacrifice. This teaching is set against the backdrop of widespread spiritual neglect, illustrated by the prophet Isaiah's description of a rebellious, wounded, and desolate nation, and reinforced by statistics showing large numbers departing from Christian profession. The exhortation drawn from this connection is pointed: those who have received the covering of Christ's blood must not treat it lightly or drift away from it, as Hebrews warns. The blood that was shed is presented as the most important blood ever shed on earth, deserving continual appreciation, and a deepening relationship with the One who gave His life so that others might have life eternal.