Cleansing the Land

Does 'cleansing' relate to God shedding blood in judgment? Let's examine.

SHEDDING BLOOD: BABYLON KILLING THE PROPHETS… AND MORE SO IN TRIBULATION?

Mt 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

Ge 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Mt 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Re 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Lu 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Lu 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

Re 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Re 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

CLEANSING, ATONEMENT: GOD FORGIVING ONLY WHEN BLOOD IS SHED?

Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Le 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement <03722> for the soul.

De 21:8 Be merciful <03722>, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven <03722> them.

De 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful <03722> unto his land, and to his people.

Eze 43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge <03722> it.

CLEANSING THE LAND: JUDGMENT - MAN’S BLOOD SHED BY MAN?

Nu 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed (atonement) <03722> of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Da 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed (justified).

Eze 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

2Ch 34:5 And he (Last good King – Josiah) burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Eze 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east <06926> of the sea: and it shall stop the {noses} of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog (multitude of Gog).

Pr 9:14 For she (foolish woman) sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Pr 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:

Ge 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east <06926> of Eden.

Eze 39:12 And seven months (judgment?) shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

Mt 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Eze 39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

Eze 39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

Isa 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Re 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Eze 39:15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign <06725> by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

Jer 31:21 Set thee up waymarks <06725>, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

Eze 39:16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah (multitudes). Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Joe 3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Joe 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

SUMMARY CONCLUSION

The Bible appears to be equating cleansing with atonement. Sin can only be forgiven when blood is shed. In the case of the elect, they are cleansed because Christ shed His blood for them. In the case of the wicked in judgment. God cleanses the land when he allows their blood to be shed by man because they have shed innocent blood.