Article • Water Baptism
Heaven Rejoices Over His Blood
In the eternal presence of God, redemption, cleansing, and victory are attributed to one thing only: the blood of the Lamb. Not once is water baptism named.
“Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.”
Revelation 1:5 (KJV)
Those who insist that sin is washed away by water baptism, or that baptism completes a supposedly half-finished work of salvation by Jesus on the cross, must answer a simple question: why does Heaven, the eternal presence of God and His eternal Kingdom, attribute redemption, the cleansing and washing, and the eternal victory of believers in Christ only to Jesus and His shed blood? Nowhere in the eternal realm of God is there any reference to water baptism. Period. None.
Revelation consistently places redemption, cleansing, and victory in the blood of Jesus Christ. It never assigns these saving benefits to baptismal water. The Lamb shed His blood, purchased His people, cleansed them from sin, and secured their victory.
Revelation 1:5
Jesus Christ released believers from their sins by His blood.
Revelation 5:9
The Lamb purchased people for God with His blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
Revelation 7:14
The redeemed wash their robes and make them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 12:11
Believers overcome Satan because of the blood of the Lamb.
Heaven’s testimony is unanimous: the blood of the Lamb, and the blood alone, redeems, cleanses, and overcomes.
Common Questions
What does Heaven credit for redemption?
The blood of the Lamb, and nothing else. "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood" (Revelation 1:5). In the eternal presence of God, redemption, cleansing and victory are attributed to one thing only.
Is water baptism ever mentioned in the worship of Heaven?
No. Nowhere in the eternal realm of God is there any reference to water baptism. Revelation places redemption, cleansing and victory in the blood of Jesus Christ and never assigns them to baptismal water.
Why does that silence matter?
Because those who teach that water washes sin away must answer a simple question: why does Heaven itself never say so? What the worship of Heaven credits is what actually saves.
“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (KJV)
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