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.