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The Blood of the Lamb
Slain before the Foundation of the World.
And almost all
things are by the Law
[Torah]
purged with blood;
and without the shedding of blood there is no
remission.
(Hebrews
9 verse 22.)
In the Beginnings of Time
Before Elohim's Salvation WORD of Promise that He declared in the Garden of Eden, the Infinite Creator Yahweh God's Justice and Mercy had already been established even before He laid the foundation of the world. Yahweh Elohim saw from Eternity the course of events that would take place in His creation of free flowing time. In His oversight of His creation, Yahweh Elohim knew that the seductive persuasion of sin with its condemnation of death would come into the world: Therefore He had previously established with His WORD that the Messiah of Yahweh God was crucified to death even before the foundation of the world. (See 1st Peter1 verse 19 thru 21.) None of the satanic princes of this world knew of the Eternal God's plan of Salvation for lost mankind: For if they had known they would never have crucified to death the Lord of Glory. (Confirm 1st Corinthians 2 verse 5 thru 8.) But God has revealed His Wisdom to us by His Spirit, yes, for [Yahweh] God's Spirit searches the deep things [Eternal Wisdom] of God [Almighty].
With the deceptive persuasion of the satanic serpent in the Garden of Eden, the first Man/Adam rebelled against his Maker and brought sin and death to himself and to his prodigy. But from Eternity,Yahweh God's Justice would conceive in His Mercy a second Man/Adam, to be the Savior of the world. This second Man, being a True genetic Son of Adam was Incarnately conceived in the genetic seed from the unknowing first Woman/Ishshah. The generational lineage of this Woman was passed onto faithful Hebrew women and in time to eventually become One Seed within the Ovum the Hebrew virgin Mary. The prophet Isaiah bore witness to the Jewish king Ahaz of the Eternal Power of the Almighty's WORD, as Isaiah prophecies to the house of David:
Therefore, the Lord (Yahweh) Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and His Name shall be Immanuel. (See Isaiah 7 verse 14 thru 16.)
Approximately 365 years after Isaiah's prophecy, it came to pass in the sixth month of the Jewish calendar, that Gabriel, the angel of the Lord Yahweh, appeared unto a Hebrew virgin woman named Mary and said:
Fear not Mary, for you have found favor with [Yahweh] God. And behold, you shall conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and you shall call His Name Jesus/Yeshua. Then said Mary to the Angel, "How shall this be seeing I know not man. And the angel answered her saying: "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the Power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: Therefore that Holy Thing, Which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God". (See Luke 1 verse 26 thru 38.)
Then 9 months later the virgin Mary gave birth to a male child, in English we call Jesus, but Yahweh God called Yeshua, Salvation. When the child had matured to a grown Man, then the Incarnate innocent Man of Yahweh God Yeshua/Jesus, would defeat sin and death not only for Himself, but for the people of the world who would come in Faith to Him. With His own innocent death for the sin of Man kind, Yahweh God was pleased to follow with Jesus' resurrection into the LIFE of His Eternal Holy Father. Yeshua haMashiach with His Eternal Holy Father Yahweh God would send the LIFE of His Holy Spirit to all who would fully believe in Yahweh God's Salvation IN the Christ of the Eternal God. The Eternal, all-knowing Yahweh God of His creation of time and space and the substance in it, would bring about the destruction of evil with the Perfect Love and Obedience of the Last Adam, through the True genetic Son of Adam, and the only Begotten Son of Yahweh God.
Yeshua/Jesus, as the Incarnate Son of His Father Yahweh, would be born the Last true genetic Son of Adam, and then as the Incarnate unblemished Man, He would totally fulfill Yahweh God's Garden Promise with His Sacrificial Love and perfect obedience to His Father Yahweh God. He was the Lamb of God, Yeshua haMashiach, and with His crucifixion death and then His resurrection into the LIFE of HIS Father God, He brought to the dead in sin the potential of the Living Faith of God through the Salvation of Yashua, For God so Loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, so that whosoever believes IN Christ/Messiah's suffering, death, burial and His resurrection into the LIFE of His Eternal Father, should not perish, for they would follow the WAY and TRUTH of Christ, and enter into the very LIFE of Christ.
If you are risen with Christ, then seek those things which are above where Christ sits on the Right Hand of the Almighty. Set your desires on things that are above, and not on things of or on the earth. For you are dead, and your Life (to come) is hid with Christ in Yahweh God. When Christ, Who is our LIFE, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in Glory. (See Colossians 3 verse 1 thru 4.)
Without living Faith in the Holy LIFE giving Blood of our High Priest Jesus Christ, Who is the Lamb of Yahweh God, then there is no entrance into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh, the Almighty Lord God of the Living.
Without true humility there is no repentance; without true repentance there is no remission of sin, for without the remission of sin, then there is death, with the absence of the cleansing LIFE giving Blood of Yeshau within the conscience of man through God's Holy Spirit of Grace. Therefore; in our obedience to the Will of Yahweh God, then the subtle power of sin's death will not have dominion over us, for in our true sorrow and repentance from the power of sin, Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace leads us in the WAY, and the TRUTH and the LIFE of His Son, Who is the Lord our Righteousness. (See Romans 6 verse 10 thru 18.)
Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty through His Spirit of Grace, provides His cleansing Grace in the LIFE Blood of His Son that is given to us for the remission of sins of the flesh of the believing of man-kind. Indeed, Salvation and Justification is by mankind's Faith in the death, burial, and then the Resurrection into LIFE of the Lord Christ Jesus. The Lord our Righteousness, will answer the call of a pertinent soul to cleanse and relieve them of their entanglement with their sin. If you say you have no sin then you make Yahweh God a liar.
Wake up to the facts that hold you captive to sin, for the nature of idolatrous sin remains in the corrupting idolatrous flesh of our fallen humanity. In participating in Holy Communion the Sanctification of our flesh's propensity to sin, is a prerequisite necessity through the One Body of Jesus where our Faith in Him enables the many members of His Body, to come into the Presence of Almighty Yahweh God. The Almighty is not willing that anyone should perish, whereas His Grace in His Christ enables us to humbly remain in agreement with God's New Covenant WAY IN the Life giving Blood of HIS Son Jesus the Messiah of God. (See Revelation 21 verse 5 thru 7.) It is impossible for the new believer to serve Holy Yahweh God in the strength of his own flesh, but we are to serve Holy Yahweh God by the Power of His Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus the Man of God. In Christ, we become ambassadors of Yahweh God through the Grace of Yahweh's Holy Spirit of LIFE in Christ Jesus. Let us witness among ourselves that God's Holy Spirit is the Fountain of LIFE, pouring out Living Water to those who return to the Fountain:
But My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Living Waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2 verse 13.)
The absolute Perfection of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty, requires absolute Perfection for anyone to come within His Holy Sanctuary that is made without the hands of man, and into His Holy Presence. This required Perfection could never be achieved by sinful mankind, nor could the blood sacrifices of animals that were continually performed by the sin laden priest of the old covenant make for an entrance into the tabernacle made by the hand of man. Only once a year, on the Day of Atonement (Rosh Hashanah) occurring on the 1st of Tishrei, the 7th month of the Jewish Calendar, was the high priest of Israel allowed to enter the sanctuary, even with fear and trepidation, he entered into the Holy of Holies to present the sprinkling of the blood of animals upon the mercy seat of the Tabernacle.
Hear again the amplified Eternal Wisdom of the WORD of Yahweh God that never fails, and then consider the Scripture in context with Yahweh God's New Covenant with the Sacrifice of Christ Jesus:
The Life of the flesh is in the Blood, and I have given it [the Life Blood] to you upon the sacrificial altar, to make an atonement for your souls.
In the end of all contentious views, it will be Christ's LIFE giving Blood alone that makes an atonement for the soul of the believer. (See Leviticus 17 verse 11.)
The blood, signifying its relativity to the life of a being, was the ensign of Yahweh God's first Covenant that was to be settled in the heart of Israel. The temporary propitiation of an animal's blood was a ritual excised before the altar, twice daily for the sins of the people. Then once a year, on the 10th day of the 7th month, was the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) that occurred just before the seven day Feast of Tabernacles. On this one day, the people of Israel would fast and afflict their souls in repentance to sin, and then the priest would offer up to Yahweh God the blood of a sacrificed bull and then the blood of one of two he goats. It was at this one time of the year, that the sacrificial blood of a sacrificed bull was excised for the sins of the high priest, his house, and the sons of Aaron. The high priest would carry the bulls sacrificial blood beyond the temple veil, into the holiest of the earthly tabernacle, and there sprinkle the bulls blood with his finger seven times on both the east and then the west side of the Mercy Seat of the Arc of the Covenant. Having left the Holiest Place, the high priest would then bathe and change his linen clothing.
Then for the sins of the people, the blood of one of the two he goats was presented before the Mercy Seat in exactly the same manner as that of the bullock. After coming out of the temple the second time, the high priest would anoint the four horns on the altar with a mixture of the blood of the sacrificed bull and that of the goat, and then sanctify the altar seven times in the manner that he had done with the blood upon the Arc of the Covenant. When this was accomplished, then the priest laid his hands upon the second he-goat to transfer the sins of the people of Israel to the scapegoat that was to be released in the wilderness. It would appear that our Lord Jesus Christ IN His resurrection from the dead, is Yahweh God's innocent scapegoat released into the wilderness for the sins of a dying world. (See Isaiah 53.)(On this matter, please read thru Edersheim's scape goat.)
Yahweh God's Highest Standards of Holiness have not changed, nor can they. Holy Yahweh God, is Eternally Holy, and He desires the willing heart of His people to come to Him full of Faith through Yahweh God's Provisions within the Spirit of Immanuel our Living Mediator. The LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's Only Begotten Son, the Man Jesus the Christ, is the Only WAY into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God, and certainly not in the old way of perfunctory blood offerings of Yahweh God's own animal creations. From the beginning of His creation, Yahweh God's Covenant was with His Perfect WORD, that was cemented in the Garden of Eden, for Yahweh Elohim's' Perfect WORD was His Perfect Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. It is impossible for the Perfect Wisdom of the Eternal God to perish in the earthly finite wisdom of created beings. The Wisdom of Yahweh God Almighty is Eternal, and the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God will maintain the Wisdom of His Eternal WORD in His creation through out time eternal.
The children of Israel, in their carnality, would fail many times to keep the essential core of God's Divine Purpose that He declared from the beginnings to bring forth His Salvation WORD in the Seed of Ishshah. To whit, God's Perfect Lamb was established in Ishshah's XX Seed and the Lamb would be the Perfect genetic Son from the first Man. For God's Holy Spirit would perpetuate the true Genetic Seed of His Perfect Lamb Who would be Gods' Perfect Man throughout Yahweh's chosen generations of Hebrew women who would be of the unsullied Seed of Ishshah. The very good genetic seed of His creation of Adam would be perpetuated through Adam's wife, whom Adam first named Ishshah meaning Woman. The first Man failed with his rebellion again His Maker, and brought death to all of mankind: The Second Man remained apart from sin and brought God's Holy Spirit of Life to all that would believe in Yahweh God of the Living. The first Adam was of the earth, and the self centered will of his flesh was lusting for power, and with his conceived rebellion against Elohim, he made his soul void of God's Holy Spirit of LIFE. The Second Adam was the True Bread come down from Heaven, and was conceived by God's Holy Spirit to be One IN the genetic flesh from the first Man, Adam. The core thoughts of the last Man, Christ Jesus, was Perfect toward God, even knowing of His own passion that would end with His Crucifixion death. Adam, the first son of God, loved himself to death, but Yahweh Father God was forever pleased with another Son's selfless and innocent offering of himself for the sins of the people. In His Pleasure, Yahweh raised Yeshua/Jesus from the dead, revealing that this Man's one Perfect Offering of Love for the sin's of Adam and his kind, is excepted by Yahweh God, and Yahweh God has put all things under His Feet, until death is ultimately destroyed. (See 1st Corinthians 15 verse 20 thru 28.)
Israel's infidelity would break the heart of their Covenant with the WORD of Yahweh God, and no amount of animal sacrifices could ever suffice for sinful mankind's failures then and now. Yahweh God, in His Eternal Understanding, would bring judgments upon the children of Israel, so as to segregate the True Seed of His Promised Salvation. The Almighty Yahweh God, is Eternally Faithful to His WORD, and would oversee time's circumstances, and then in His foreknowledge of time, He would bring forth His WORD of Salvation and Lamb Who was conceived in the ovum of the virgin Mary. The Hebrew virgin Mary was a generational daughter of Adam, and she would give birth to the Incarnate Son of Adam. (Read Luke 1 verse 26 thru 30.) Now that the Messianic Lamb of Yahweh God has come as Man to atone for the sin of the First Adam and to bear the sins of the many, then there is no other sacrifice for sin and Yahweh God's Eternal Sacrifice of HIS SON for sin and death is accomplished for mankind once and for all time. The Sacrifice of Yahweh God's only Lamb, Yeshua/Jesus, as the innocent offering of the Man Christ Jesus for the guilty of mankind so pleased the Lord that Yahweh God Almighty in His Holy Justice gave Eternal LIFE to the dead Body of the innocent Son of Man/Adam.
The Wisdom of the Eternal Yahweh God can not be perceived without the Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God. With the Eternal Yahweh God's purposeful intervention in time, He would bring forth His WORD of Salvation/Yeshua, as the Promised Messiah, whose sole purpose as the Son of Adam/Man was to defeat sin and overcome the imposed death of the first Man/Adam. The Perfection of the WORD of Yahweh God is mankind's Standard for holiness, and mankind can be seen as justified by Faith in Yahweh God's Lamb, that is if they live and breath IN Yahweh God's Standard of LIFE IN the Man Christ Jesus.
The daily offering of the sacrificial animal for sin, only precipitated the eventual death of the performing Levitical priest, who was bound in his own sin and death. Likewise the sacrifice of the animal also precipitated the death of the people who were of the priest's like corrupted nature. (See Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 12.) The sacrificial offering of the life blood of an animal of its kind, could never give life to the souls of man that are of their own kind that is created in the image of the Creator. Because of their free will to sin, all of man-kind are dead in their own nature of sinful corruption. But now the WORD of God at the Will of His Father, has come down from heaven as the True Bread of Heaven to be born of the flesh of Adam/Man; So then:
it is this Man after He had offered His one sacrifice for sin, forever sat down on the Right Hand of His Holy Father.
The Jew was to understand that there are no more continuing sacrifices of animals to set aside the sin of mankind. For while the first covenant stood only in dead works offered
in meats, and drinks, and various washings, and in carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation (a return to God's first order).
For God's Faith is Living fully in the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE of men that is IN Christ Jesus Alone. Christ Jesus/Yeshua, having died once for sin, and raised by the Spirit of God from the dead, reveals God's Eternal Satisfaction with the Man Jesus Christ's and His perfect Presentation Offering of Himself. The Man Christ Jesus has ended all animal sacrifices forever, as well as the carnal sacrifices of all of sinful mankind.
Now with the remission (obliteration) of these is (meaning animal sacrifices), there is no more (animal) sacrifices for sin. (Hebrews 10 verse 18.)
The sin of the first Adam brought death to all of mankind, but the Sacrificial death of the Last Adam with His sinless Life as a Man, has conquered death for all time, for LIFE is revealed in His Resurrection from the dead. Now Christ's LIFE giving Spirit would bring the beginnings of true Life to the souls of all of sinful man kind that believe in God's Saving Gift of LIFE in Yeshua haMashiach, Jesus the Christ of God.
Therefore, remember the "Therefore" in the next passages that ties Holy Yahweh God's Covenant as One Spirit in the Body and Blood of Yahweh God's Offering of His only Begotten Son.
Having "therefore" brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest place by the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua, by a new and living Way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say His Flesh (The Bread of Life); and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith (in God's Word), having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience (by His Blood) and our bodies (of sin) washed with pure water (by God's Spirit of Holiness). (See Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 23.)
Note that our fleshly bodies of sin were initially washed in the Baptism of Faith through the Fountain Water that flows from Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus.
Let us understand that Yahweh God's TRUTH is the Person of Christ Jesus, for the True Bread of Heaven inaugurated IN Himself, the only Entrance into the very Holy of Holies made without hands and is through our Fellowship/Communion/Koinonia with Yahweh God's WORD of TRUTH. Now by the Faith of Christ Jesus, we have the True Entrance into heaven's Holiest Place into the Presence of His Holy, Holy, Holy Father, Yahweh, the Lord God Almighty. First the faithful would acknowledge within themselves of our failures in our own flesh and our dependency on Yahweh God's Covenant TRUTH. Then in the eating of the Bread of LIFE with true Faith IN Yahweh God, and drinking in of Christ's LIFEe giving Blood, we will have entered through the Veil of the Unleavened Bread of Christ's Body, having the spirit of our contrite minds, cleansed with Christ's purifying LIFE giving Blood of His Spirit of Grace.
This is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin.
Only absolute holiness will satisfy Yahweh God's Holy Requirements that permits one to come into His Presence. I AM the WAY, and I AM the TRUTH and I AM the (Perfection of the) LIFE of men: No one comes to the Father except by Me: Declares our High Priest, the TRUTH and the Man, Jesus Christ.
Elohim's HOLY WORD of the Promised Messiah established before the foundation of the world and established in the Garden of Eden, could not fail IN one jot or one title of the WORD of God for the Lamb of Yahweh God is the TRUTH of Eternity. The True Hebrew Lord Jesus Christ, the True Bread of Heaven, was born on Earth as the Son of Man, and yet Emmanuel the TRUTH must preside at His Table of Grace during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You will take notice in the Books of Matthew and Mark that while the disciples were yet eating of the animal flesh of the old Covenant, then Jesus/Yeshua brought to a close the old Covenant in the sacrificial blood of animals when He inaugurated His Father's Everlasting Covenant in the fullness of Christ's Body and Blood. For the WORD of God said:
Sacrifices and offerings Thou would not accept, but a body Thou prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou had no pleasure therein. Then said I: Lo, I come to do Thy will O God. (See Hebrews 10 verse 4 thru 10 . (Now compare transliterated scripture with the Septuagint's correct Psalm 40 verse 6.)
The author no doubt used the Greek Septuagint Scriptures for reference, but the word 'body' is missing in the English transliterations of Psalm 40 verse 5. The WORD, as the Christ of Yahweh God, fulfills the heart of the Scriptures;
for He takes away the first (covenant) that He may establish the second (Covenant). Take and eat: This IS My Body, given for you. Take and Drink, for this is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for the remission of sin.
Now with the Third Cup of Blessing, Jesus/Yeshua inaugurated God's New Covenant in His Life giving Blood, given for the remission of the current sins of admission for all baptized believers. In God's New Covenant for fallen mankind, Yahweh established His finale Eternal Covenant in the Perfect Sacrifice of the selfless Life of the Incarnate Son of Man/Adam. (See Hebrews 9 verse 23 thru 28.)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto Salvation. Whereby, we are set apart through the offering of the (Whole) Body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Yahweh God's Eternal Covenant, began with His Personal Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, and would be established with the incarnate birth of Emmanuel, and would be finished with the crucifixion death and resurrection of Jesus/Yeshua the Christ of Yahweh God, There are no more animal sacrifices by the Aarronic priesthood that only temporarily set aside the sin of man kind, but could not eradicate death. (See Isaiah 66 verse 1 thru 4.) The only Sacrifice that is pleasing to Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh, Father God of the Living, is the one selfless Sacrifice (Chagagah Offering) of His Lamb and only begotten Son Jesus Christ. The Lamb of God was God's WORD and God's Holy Spirit of LIFE and Grace would bring about the conception of Yahweh's WORD in the flesh of Man by impregnating with His Spirit the ovum from the genetic flesh of the Hebrew virgin Mary. The virgin Mary was the Last True genetic daughter from the genetic lineage of "Woman" (Ishshah), the wife of Adam that Elohim took from the side of the first Adam, "Man".
Yahweh God's New Covenant of Grace calls the baptized believers, circumcised or uncircumcised, to His Table of Grace, to participate in thankful remembrance of Christ's suffering and death for our sins, and then to rejoice IN Yahweh God's Holy Sanctifying Provisions of LIFE IN the Body of Christ with the LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus. The incarnate Son of Man, as the Holy One of Yahweh God Almighty, and being One with His Eternal Father, instituted at His Passover Table, with the Sanctifying Spirit of His Father's Word, the New Covenant of Grace IN His Life providing Blood.
Drink of this, all of you: For this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin. For God so Loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. And to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My Word.
Jesus Christ alone, as the Son of Man, has met Yahweh God's Highest of Standards that is at the core of the Spirit of Yahweh God's Eternal Mind, so that His children born of Faith in Yahweh God's Salvation Gift of His Son have gained an entrance into the Holiest of Yahweh's Heavenly Tabernacle through God's faithful High Priest, Jesus Christ, made forever after the order of Melchizedek.
But [This Incarnate Son of Adam] by His own Blood (Chagigah offering) He entered in once [for all time] into the Holy of Holies, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us. (Hebrews 9 verse 12.) (Please see again Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 23.)
Yahweh God's New Covenant in the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, was established on the evening of the Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread, and occurred hours before Jesus the Messiah of Yahweh God was crucified to death in the daylight hours on the 15th day of Nisan. Christ Jesus is the manifest Power and of the Wisdom of God Almighty, and as the Eternal WORD of His Father Yahweh, Jesus took the unleavened Bread and said to His disciples
Take and eat: For this is My Body given for you: And the wine after supper He gave Thanks to God and said: Drink of this, all of you: For this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin. (See 1st Corinthians 1 verse 23 thru 25, Matthew 26 verse 27 thru 28,).
After
His Resurrection from the dead,
Jesus said unto His Disciple: Thus it is written, and so it behooved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And
repentance and
remission
of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
(See
Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.)
The TRUTH of Yahweh God has spoken and His Holiness will not repent. Holy God has called man kind to repentance from our own destruction, knowing full well that the flesh of man has an arrogant tendency to subjugate the Word of God to accommodate its own self belief system of twisted theology. Unbelief, in the TRUTH of the WORD of God, perpetuates the self centered sins of the perishing flesh of our fallen humanity, and these same unrepentant sins, continues to bring death to relationships, as well as to our selves. But the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Light of God, is absolutely One with the Life and Soul that is in the Sacrificial Blood of His Lamb, God's Son, Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God's Word of Grace is a never-ending Wellspring of the Water of Salvation LIFE in Christ Jesus, and Yahweh God Almighty has given His Eternal Word "To Be" the renewal of New Covenant Life, to those, who have a new essence of mind and soul that lives by faith in the Sacrificial Life giving Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Life is in the Blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. (Leviticus 17 verse 11.)
The offering of the life of a sacrificial beast of the field for the sins of the people, by a Levitical priest, had no permanency and perishes with its use from year to year. But the WORD of God having been made the flesh of the last Adam, was Yahweh God's innocent Lamb, born in the flesh of Man, and was crucified to death for the sin's of mankind, but because of His Holiness, the Christ of God was raised from the dead, through the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God of LIFE, for the Eternal Yahweh God of the living raised the guiltless Man Christ Jesus from the dead. (See Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 14, and Hebrews 5 verse 8 thru 10.)
If you will look at the above linked scriptures than you should perceive that sanctification is a continuing process after our initial cleansing and justification within God's Spirit of Water Baptism into the Body of Christ. Now the sons of God, who are being set apart from sin are led into an obedience to the Spirit of Life .
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a Witness to us: for after that He had said before [hand]: This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts for in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is [their sins and iniquities of the flesh], there is no more offering for sin. (Hebrews 10 verse 15 thru 18.)
Understand this: God's New Covenant is indeed, a one and done in the one selfless sacrificial death for sin by the Son of Man, Christ Jesus, and was confirmed with His Bodily resurrection over sin's power of death. There are no other offerings of animals or the works of man that will satisfy Holy Yahweh God Almighty. But in God's Wisdom, the Sanctification in the New Blood Covenant by Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace is not a one and done: For those who have entered into Yahweh God's New Covenant of Love in Jesus Christ, the Spirit of His Law's govern the heart of the matter. The Covenant Laws of His Kingdom, remain set in His two Great Commandments of Love, whereby His Covenant Provision for the remission of the transgressions of the flesh, affecting the the spirit of the mind and soul, are indelibly set in the Body and Blood of our High Priest, Jesus, the Christ of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My Right Hand, until I make Thy enemies Thy footstool. The Lord has sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. (See verses in concert Psalm 2, and Psalm 110.)
He that eats My Flesh and Drinks My Blood dwells IN Me and I IN Him. The Words I speak unto you, They are Spirit and They are Life.
The Salvation WORD of the Eternal Yahweh God is inextricably bound in the shed Blood of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach. The Perfection of the LIFE of the Father, is the same Perfection of LIFE in His obedient Son. The LIFE of Christ over came the death of man, for His LIFE was given as a Perfect Sacrifice for sin's death through the shed Blood of the WORD of God that is Christ Jesus the Last Man/Adam. In Christ the Man, with His Resurrection from the dead, Yahweh God indeed magnified His WORD over His Name, for the Perfection of LIFE is IN His WORD, for Christ Jesus the incarnate Man, overcame humanity's corruption of sin and death with the LIFE that is of Holy His Father.
Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I AM the Light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of LIFE. (See John 6 verse 12, John 14 verse 6 thru 7.)
This then is the message we have heard of Him and declare to you: That [Yahweh] God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all.
If there is no darkness whatsoever in Yahweh God of all Light, then where does that put us with our sins from decaying flesh?
If we say that we have "Communion" with Jesus, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not do the TRUTH: For if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have "Communion" one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. (See 1st John 1 verse 5 thru 10.)
The Spirit of the Grace Yahweh God, delivers to us the Sacrificial LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, so that we may have Communion/Koinonia/Fellowship with Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty, and with each other by the same Holy Spirit of Grace, for God is faithful and just to cleanse our confessed sins of the flesh. That which is yet hidden in me, myself and I, remains in our flesh of self idolatry.
There is no Love/Agapao in the darkness of sin, for the Almighty Yahweh God, does not have fellowship with our darkness. Holy, Holy, Holy God Almighty cannot not deny His Nature nor change His Nature to accommodate the dark nature of fallen man kind. But, in His Holy Nature there is yet Mercy for those of repentance who seek Yahweh God's Mercy in His Salvation WORD that brings LIFE to Faith within the new born souls of man kind. Jesus Christ is the Constancy of the WORD of the TRUTH of Yahweh God, Who created the universe, and holds all things together in subjection to His WORD of Infinite Power: And Jesus is the same constancy of TRUTH, Who sets the prisoner free from their chains of sin that shackles the fallen self centered nature of human flesh to death.
If we say we have no sin, then we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us.
If the TRUTH, Jesus Christ, is not in us, then we do not walk in fellowship with the Light of the world, and will be like the five foolish virgins with no oil in their lamps. The only entrance into the Wedding Feast will be closed to those souls who have no Light from the Spirit of God. (Matthew 25 verse 1 thru 13.)
If we say we have not sinned, We make God a liar and His WORD is not in us.
In any moment of time, all of God's covenant people will be forgetful hearers of the WORD and TRUTH of Yahweh God, setting our idolatrous selves as first, especially in our judgment of others with our own interpretation of scripture. The idolatrous deception of the flesh, within the neuronal mind of all of man kind, remains in a tangle of self idolatrous confusion. What we think in our own self justifying minds of flesh to be true and good for us, may be perceived as false and evil to others. Can you not hear the old mantras? "Do as I say and not as I do".
Then again, "Actions speak louder than words", and yet what is rightly heard should provoke right actions. Now consider Hannah's prayer:
There is none Holy as the Lord: for there is none beside Thee: neither is there any Rock like our God. Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogances come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of Knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. (See 1st Samuel 2 verse1 thru 10.)
In our day to day lives, even Christians are prone to forget that we were bought with a price, and that Price was the Sacrificial Sanctifying LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's Perfect Incarnate Son of Man, for Jesus, the Lamb of Yahweh God, Loved His Father, and us, perfectly. Having heard in our ears of flesh concerning Yahweh God's New Covenant Mercy, we now think we are OK in our own minds, and have safely arrived, so that we can do no wrong. We are all right in our own eyes, because our opinions of ourselves remains transfixed in the me, myself and I. The nature of the mind of flesh, even with those that say they are saved, causes us to esteem ourselves as being first, having a superior understanding of why we are right.
The subjective spirit of the flesh of our minds has not all of a sudden changed into total perfection, but in Truth, the spirit of our minds requires an ongoing metamorphic change by the cutting edges of the Sword of the Spirit that is one with the LIFE Saving Blood of Jesus Christ. When we come to Christ Jesus, our unseen souls may be saved, having our past sins of the former old man dissolved in the Holy Spirit's Serum Waters of our Baptism into Christ Jesus, but the question remains: What do we do with the demands of the innate sin of selfish flesh that is ingrained within our fallen humanity?
Who can understand this continuing battle that we have with the flesh of our minds? The sin within our unredeemed flesh, blinds us, so that we may no longer see ourselves as sinners of omission or commission, but already perfected once and for all time. The error lies with the teachers that only teach that Christ's Sacrifice is done once and for all, but fail to understand and convey that Christ's Sacrifice transcends space and time, and His Covenant WORD remains effectual for covenant members of His Body that are nevertheless, sinners of the flesh. Yes, we absolutely agree that Christ Jesus died once for the forgiveness of the sins of the whole world, but because we yet live in this flesh we still need to appropriate Yahweh God's merciful forgiveness, beginning with our humility that repents before Holy Yahweh God, and acknowledges our need of Yahweh God's New Covenant repair through His Holy Spirit within the Life Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. But without partaking of Yahweh God's Remedy IN New Covenant Faith, we can be sure that our self loving sin will find us out.
But the Almighty God is Love, and in the Almighty's Covenant of Love and Mercy, He provides through His Holy Spirit of Grace, the Sanctifying LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ's overcoming Love, given for each and every repentant member of His Body. For he that drinks the Blood of the New Covenant in Faith, shall little by little be cut off from the old sinful nature of the flesh.
For we are to endeavor to be renewed in the spirit of our mind: And that we would put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Ephesians 4 verse 23 thru 24.)
In the revealing visionary dream, that we called "Seeing the Sword of the Spirit", Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace confirmed to me of the absolute importance of the Covenant Blood of our Lord Yeshua! Yahweh God's New Blood Covenant with man, through Yahweh God's Spirit of refreshing Grace, may be continually ratified within each of the believers, with our active participation in the Communion Body and the shed Blood of Yahweh God's very own WORD and the TRUTH of His Son Jesus Christ.
For we being many are One Bread and One Body: For we are all partakers of that One Bread (of Heaven). For the WORD of GOD says: This is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin.
So then, every time we come together to worship Yahweh God as the Body of Christ, it should be to participate in our Savior's Body, whose members we are, and drink of the Spirit of His Sanctifying LIFE Blood that covers the multitude of confessed and unknown sins. In the collective Body of Jesus, we come to worship Yahweh God, in Spirit and Truth within the exaltation of the spirit of our heart and soul, and not with the encumbrances of our self centered flesh. The New Covenant LIFE, in the Power of Yahweh God, is made possible by WAY of the Blood of the Lamb of God, slain from before the foundation of the world: To which end, we would glorify Yahweh God IN our Faith IN Him, where all things are possible.
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