Washed White Through the Blood of the Lamb
When Alma preached to the people of Zarahemla, he taught, “There can no man be saved except his garments are washed white; yea, his garments must be purified until they are cleansed from all stain, through the blood of him of whom it has been spoken by our fathers, who should come to redeem his people from their sins.” He suggested that their garments were figuratively “stained with blood and all manner of filthiness.” He questioned them in these words, “Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?” (Alma 5:21-22, 27). So, in two related metaphors he likened their sins to their garments being stained with blood and likened the cleansing power of Jesus Christ to those same garments being washed with blood of the Lamb of God. An example of the first is seen in the story of Seantum who murder...