BLEEDING BACK

“Then Pilate laid open Jesus' back with a leaded whip.”

JOHN 19:1 (TLB)

The first bleeding part of Jesus’ body on the Cross was his back. Scripture lets us know that stripes were laid to his back, and this act caused blood to flow out. In the realm of the spirit, blood is needed for redemption, and man could only be redeemed by the blood of a man and the only man whose blood could redeem man was that of Jesus.

The back part of the body represents the past. This past includes one’s parental background, foundation, and history. The past of man has a great influence on his present and future life. Scripture says, “for we are but of yesterday Job 8:9.” Some of the challenges people go through in life are a product of things done in the past. The posture of the dispensation of the law towards the past of a man is to have him suffer the consequence of his sins even to his third generation Exodus 20:5, but it is different with the dispensation of grace.

God, under the dispensation of grace, clearly states that man would no longer live by the consequence of wrong deeds of the past, “What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, said the Lord GOD, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel Ezekiel 18:2-3.”

The bleeding back of Jesus Christ signifies man’s redemption from the past. Hallelujah! When blood came out of Jesus’ back, it once and for all atoned for generational sins and brought man into an estate where they are no longer subject to the mistakes of the past. Scripture says, “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ 1 Corinthians 3:11.” You can stand on the authority of this word to refuse any negative trend from your family foundation, if any man be in Christ through faith in Jesus, he is a new man, scripture says that old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new 2 Corinthians 5:17.

There is no reason for you to live with the consequence of the past. Rid yourself off it by believing your position in Jesus and declaring with all persuasion that Jesus has delivered you from the past.