2 Chronicles 29:24 And the priests killed them and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
After Hezekiah cleansed the temple and restored temple worship, he had the priests prepare the sacrifices of bulls, rams, and he-goats for all the people. This sin offering was to make reconciliation with the blood of the sacrificial animals. Reconciliation is the bringing together of two parties that have been estranged or separated. A synonym word is atonement, or making one. God says, “Your sins have separated you from me.” The blood sacrifice reunites the two again.
It was most appropriate that reconciliation between God and His people take place at this time when such a rift had taken place. The separation was caused by the people because of their sin, idolatry, and forgetting God. Union between God and man is restored when the blood sacrifices for reconciliation are made.
Our sins have separated us from God and we have lost His life. God Himself, to whom we could find no way, has taken the initiative to come us in the person of the Son of God to reconcile us to God by the Blood of Christ. This is the way we come back to God and His life. Jesus reconciled us, propitiated God’s righteous wrath, and made atonement (at-one-ment) for us. Our saving response is to believe in Christ and joyfully receive the gift of reconciliation, life with God forever.