There are three parts to this mystery and we begin with
Blood.
Charles Spurgeon once said
“The Bloody Sacrifice on Calvary
is the only hope for sinners…….”
and its because
a bloodless gospel
is a lifeless gospel.
This IS the Gospel
the Blood of Messiah has been shed for us.
It is not preached or taught enough.
It is The Blood of Sanctification
Don’t let the word Sanctification cause us to stumble or retreat,
because the verb sanctify means
to set apart and
to make clean.
Sanctification is the process of
being separated and made clean unto God.
Heb. 13:12.
It’s not a quick fix, nor is it a pass to live as we please;
it is directly related to everyday life.
The Blood
and the process of
sanctification cannot be separated.
We are sanctified, set apart,
the ecclesia, the called out, set apart ones.
If we are still vitally connected to the world, we are vulnerable to compromise and stumbling.
Sometimes we have heard a message on a subject so many times we don’t pay attention to it in as much detail as we should.
We think we know what it’s about and yet we still do not have full or enduring victory in areas of our lives. We know of the armor but do we live with it always in place 24/7?
He is the Sanctifier –
The people are the object of His Sanctifying Grace
and the BLOOD, HIS BLOOD,
is the means of cleansing, or is the sanctifying agent.
This was His primary purpose.
Without Blood there could be
NO ACCESS
by sinful man to a Holy God.
This is critical to every believers life in Christ/Messiah/Mashiach. It is essential that we understand the meaning in its’ fullest sense and we must take the time to chew on this word and understand it, digesting it, and allowing it to be absorbed into our deepest innermost being. Only then can it impart to us His LIFE/chaim.
What was shadowed at the gate of Eden, on Mt Ararat, Mt Moriah and in Egypt was now confirmed at the foot of Sinai in a most solemn manner by Blood covenant.
Although the manner of application differed in the previous occasions:
on Moriah the life was redeemed by the shedding of the blood;
in Egypt it was sprinkled on the doorposts of the houses;
but at Sinai it was sprinkled on the people themselves.; not something they would quickly forget!
Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Ex.24:8
The contact with the blood was more personal/intimate and the application that much more powerful.
1 Peter 1:18,19
The word
atonement means
a covering
it is the blood that makes a covering for the inner man.
it is the blood which makes atonement for the soul.
Lev. 17:11
The Hebrew word is
כפר
kaphar
Kaf: Palm of hand, to open
Pey: Mouth, word, speak
Resh: Head, person, first
Strong’s Hebrew: 3722. כָּפַר (kaphar) — appease
HEBREW WORD STUDIES כָּפַר ‘kaphar’ meaning ‘to atone’ 3722
to cover over and to make reconciliation.
Definition. to cover, purge, make an atonement,
make reconciliation, cover over with pitch.
Think ark of Noah!
The pitch protected the people inside, making a water-tight seal,
and Messiahs’ blood covers our sins and protects us
from the wrath of God. For more click link below
The original meaning of this word is to cover, to cover over, or to overspread. The example given in Genesis 6:14 closely expresses the original meaning. Both the verb and the noun are used:
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch [kaphar] it within and without with pitch [kopher].”
As a noun kaphar is used to signify a place of shelter.
(Qal) to coat or cover with pitch. (Piel) to cover over, pacify, propitiate. to cover over, atone for sin, make atonement for. To cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites. (Pual) to be covered over.
Hebrews 9:22.
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-far’)
Definition: to cover over, pacify, appease, make propitiation
The word atonement is an abstract word and in order to understand the true Hebrew meaning of a word we must look to the concrete meaning. If an offense has been made, the one that has been offended can act as though the offense is covered over and unseen. We express this idea through the word of forgiveness.
Atonement is an outward action that covers over the error.
Only the blood makes a covering which He accepts.
Bloodless coverings are unacceptable to God.
God did a miracle through Mary enabling His Blood to become a reality in His Son that could be poured out for us and redeem us from eternal death/separation from Him. This Blood is like no other before it or since; and has the power to remove the sin contained in ours from Adams curse. His life/chaim is in the Blood and it’s why it’s so powerful because unlike human blood it cannot die or dry up.
Why?
Because the chaim/life of God cannot die.
It’s an eternal source of sacrificial substitution and speaks continually, crying mercy – forgiveness; and this is why it will never lose it’s power.
As we are quickly approaching the Fall Feasts/Appointed Seasons of The Lord it is a timely opportunity to speak of the Atoning Sacrifice of Messiah.
Made for ‘whosoever will’ and whosoever chooses to, accept and receive His priceless gift of redemption.
Many books have been written and even more sermons and teachings given and most readers will be familiar with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua and all that it means.
The Power of the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua is
that His blood redeems us.
There was a price against us that we could not pay, but the blood of Messiah redeemed us.
1 Peter 1:18-19 says, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things…. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
The power is in the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus, because Yeshua/Jesus, was the spotless Lamb of God, and because He shed His blood for us, we can be forgiven of our sins.
We can see the extent of this forgiveness and the effectiveness of His blood in the Scriptures. God, our Heavenly Father separates us from our sins by an immeasurable distance.
The blood of Yeshua/Jesus had to be applied
to the heavenly mercy seat
to redeem mankind.
If all of Yeshua/Jesus’ blood had soaked into the ground at Calvary, then the sins of humanity could not have been taken away.
Hebrews 9:12, “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”.
God was represented and was envisioned by Israel as sitting enthroned upon the Mercy Seat.
The term “Mercy Seat” comes from Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into German, where he added to the meaning of kapporet by translating it as a location or “seat” of mercy.
The English term Mercy Seat is not a literal translation for the name that describes the place on which the golden angels’ wings touched and from where God would speak.
The Hebrew word is Kapporet
כפורת
and the Complete Jewish Bible simply translates it as
ark cover.
The High Priest in the Tabernacle or Temple Sanctuary appeared before God and offered the blood of animals for expiation/atonement on the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur.
As our High Priest, Messiah Yeshua/Jesus entered into the reality that was foreshadowed by the Tabernacle and Temple.
Teachings and sermons on these foundational subjects such as the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus are few and far between today.
Many don’t like the teachings on the Blood, reacting squeamishly and look for something nicer and more pleasant to preach or listen to.
We MUST remember that
without the shedding of blood
there is no forgiveness,
salvation,
redemption or atonement
and we all remain dead in our sins.
It all begins when the blood speaks. Gen. 4:6-11
It was a witness against Cain, later, God instituted a covenant with Moses which we call the old covenant. Hebrews 8:6 tells us it has been replaced with a better covenant, through the prophesied Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.
Why do we plead the blood of Yeshua/Jesus?
It is to plead the Living Word of God. Jesus/Yeshua was and is the Living Word, The Word made flesh.
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
Many of us have been pleading the blood without knowing what we were doing.
When we plead the blood of Yeshua/Jesus we plead the whole TRUTH of God. Messiah said I Am The Truth.
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:16
The blood is central to the whole Torah, Tenach and Brit Chadashah. It began in the garden with the first Adam and ended with the last Adam in Jerusalem. Blood was integral to Adams fall, as God declared only blood could cover and redeem from sin.
Why? because the life is in the blood.
When there is no blood there is no life
and when life exits the blood, it dies and dries up….
all except the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus
because He came from the Father. His Father is The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel. His Father was not of this earth BUT His blood type came from the Heavenly Father, Creator and King of the Universe.
Because God is an eternal being, He imparted His eternal essence into the blood of His Only Son, by the overshadowing of Marys’ womb the Ruach/spirit/breath/nephesh: a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion of God.
נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35
The Ruach HaKodesh (the Wind of the Set-apart One) shall come upon you, and the Power of the Most High shall overshadow you. And for that reason HaKodesh (the Set-apart One) born of you shall be called: Son of Elohim. (Luk 1:35) The creative Power, Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit), of YHVH shaped this miracle of the Word that became flesh (Joh 1:1-3)
ἐπισκιάζω (to overshadow; envelope; [h/c]over over by presence)
The scripture says the blood speaks, it is alive and has a voice. Ables’ blood cried from the ground.
“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice]. Gen.4:10
The saints blood cries in heaven
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Rev.6:9,10
The blood of Messiah cries mercy for us.
Abel’s blood crying out for vengeance is listed all the way in Hebrews 12:24, pointing out that the blood of Messiah gives us mercy from the kapporet in Heaven where the ark is.
Revelation 11:19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
They overcame him with the word of their testimony of what God has done for us, literally the gospel of His kingdom; and the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 12:11
John declared the prophetic had manifested…
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
John 1:29
God came to save and redeem us in Messiah, and shed His blood to not only cover our sin but wipe them away forever. The blood does more than cover as it did in the old testament and it’s why we must not deny its’ amazing power.
We have sung the songs but do we truly understand the power in His Blood?
It is so important to understand that we must apply the knowledge of the blood of the sinless Lamb of God.
By pleading the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua we can enforce satan’s defeat in our lives and begin to live a victorious life in Him.
Isaiah 43:25-26 in the New American Standard Bible says, “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. “Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; state your cause, that you may be proved right.”
When we plead the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus, we’re making a confession of the
redemptive power
and mercy
God provided to us through Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach.
It is a faith declaration of His righteousness,
which is what makes us righteous.
When the enemy attacks us or makes accusations against us, we must answer him in faith using the sword of the Spirit/the Word of God; declaring what the Blood of Messiah has done and is doing for us.
Pleading the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua means we know and understand and have faith in the Blood of Jesus. Then we can rest our case and be assured that things will be settled because of our faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Our faith in the power of His Blood is what we need to enable us to walk in total victory in our lives!
It is good to reaffirm that when we plead our case before our Heavenly Father, we can be assured that our case rests on what Yeshua/Jesus did for each of us when He died, was buried, and was resurrected from the dead.
He’s alive and has already won every victory in every area of our lives.
Our responsibility is by faith to receive that victory.
As the world grows darker, we are to be the bright light shining brighter. We are that lighthouse, the beacon in the storms of peoples’ lives. They see our lamp/light shining brightly and run to it and we point them to Yeshua/Jesus; Who in turn points them to His Father by His Ruach HaKodesh.
We need to be saved from ourselves because if we do not obey the light in us and walk while we have that light, darkness is creeping up trying to overtake us. We must take a serious sober look at the atonement; and focus more on the work of Messiah’s cross.
We glibly speak of our salvation but neglect to speak of the price.
It is free …
yet…
the cost is without measure.
Instead of easing off, we are to press in….
the day is coming when no man can work.
Think for a moment of our Heavenly father.
The scriptures say He is
Spirit
and Light
and Life.
He is not human with a corruptible flesh body like ours. We should try to refrain from aligning our physical attributes to our Heavenly Father because we will get a false image of Who and What He is. Because we know Yeshua/Jesus had a human form like us, we tend to place a similar image upon the Father. Yeshua/Jesus has now a resurrected body, a whole new thing never seen before! He says He has flesh and bone but does not mention blood.
“See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” Luke 24:39.
There was no blood on Thomas’ hand because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God and Jesus/Yeshuas’ resurrected body had no blood left in it. John 20:27
We have seen from scripture that He poured out His blood at Calvary and upon the kapporet/mercy seat in Heavens throne room, where the Ark of the Covenant is. If He and the Father are one, then this blood was indeed The Fathers blood!
Angels have no blood because they have no flesh. Ps. 139:14
They are spirit and have only spiritual life; and why they were amazed at our creation…
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Ps.8:4-6
But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. Job 32:8.
This is possibly because life itself is spiritual
but
must have a physical carrier and this carrier is the blood.
The contact between the divine and the human rests in the blood stream and its capacity to carry the life of God.
When we leave this realm we will be similar to angels:
For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. Mark 12:25
I am the Life..
God imparted His own chaim/ life into the bloodstream of Yeshua/Jesus. The blood that flowed in His veins was perfect.
It was not contaminated by Adams sin which brought sickness and sin into human blood. If Adam had not sinned he would not have died. Jesus/Yeshuas’ perfect blood gave Him the title of the last Adam.
We are pleading the reality of the light of God which we received at the new birth when we were overshadowed by His Ruach. And His blood cleanses us so that the light of that life in us is part of Himself.
Christ in us the hope of glory. Col. 1:27
We are covered with the righteousness of Messiah – a robe of righteousness. That robe is really the blood which He shed for us and we are covered – this is our covering. No man or church denomination can cover us as Yeshua/Jesus blood does. God’s life/chaim is light. Jesus/Yeshua said John 8:12 I am the light of the world.
We read in Leviticus 17:11 that the life of all human flesh is in the blood. That is where Adam’s life was in Genesis 2:7, where he was formed out of the dust of the ground. Man had a body but it was not living, not alive, there was no life in it. Out of His divine being where all life originated,
God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
So follow it through, if God breathed into man the breath of life and if the life is in the blood, then there must be some relationship between what God breathed into man and into our blood?
Blood is charged with air/ oxygen so as we breathe there is a close relationship between our nostrils and our blood stream.
The air we breathe in is oxygen which goes directly into our blood. With every breath our blood is charged with oxygen. Adam’s first breath came directly from God, it went straight into his nostrils inflated his lungs and charged his blood with the chaim/life and nature of God. Adam became a living soul when God’s life began pumping through his veins. Was that life, eternal life, the same that flows from The throne of God?
Red corpuscles are alive because of the life/chaim of God in the blood. With sin came, death and was passed down to every man in his blood. So we are all born in sin. After the likeness of Adam’s transgression/sin.
John 1:1 – 5,9
Gods’ life was light James 1:17 that life went into Adam’s blood and brought light. Matthew 6:22 the eyes are the light of the soul he had the spark of life in him. We are redeemed from the curse which was in our blood. Do we have His light in our blood?
Gabriel told Mary the Holy thing within you was conceived by God’s Spirit of Holiness. We see visible light around us every day but there is also invisible light. It’s known as infrared light and ultraviolet light which are not visible to the human eye. We have to understand that for the most part the Kingdom of God is invisible to us because it is beyond the spectrum of human vision. But it is there and that light is known in the spirit world. John 8:12
When Jesus/Yeshua said I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.
Is it possible He was not just talking about light but was also talking about the blood because He said that anyone who followed Him would have the
light of life.
Then He said ye are the light of the world,
so we became the light of life carriers.
He had the light of life and that
life was in His veins because
the Life of all flesh is in the blood.
Yeshua/Jesus’s life was in His blood and
His light was in His blood
also blood and light go to together
just as blood and life go together?!
God breathed of Himself into Adam
He had to breathe life into him.
1John 1: 5-7
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
Here light and blood are in the same portion of scripture.
Light is divine energy – the light of life.
His life was the light of men – these are not just nice statements they are deeply revelatory in their content.
Was it
Truth, Word, Life and Light
that was pumping through Yeshua/Jesus veins?
Is that why we plead the blood of Yeshua/Jesus…
because it covers everything?
Col 1: 12 – 14 the word redemption could also be translated deliverance. In the translation from the Latin Vulgate in the light of the Hebrew and Greek originals by Ronald Knox reads in the son of God in his blood we find the redemption that sets us free from our sins. Col 1 :13 we were translated out of darkness into light by the blood because the light was in the blood. By the blood of Jesus we have redemption col 1:15 16
When He breathed on the disciples,
He was breathing life/chaim and light/or into them.
The word translated “He breathed” is emphusaō, which is related to the Hebrew word for breath or spirit (nephesh).
John 20:21 Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.” 22 When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.
If we are sanctified and set apart, then our blood is cleansed from sin both original sin through Adam, and our own sins. We are also the LIGHT of His LIFE that the world will see, carriers of His mercy and forgiveness!
The work was completed by Messiah as He shed His sinless blood at Calvary as the spotless, sacrificial Lamb of God.
1Peter 1:18, 19
and then He ascended to the Father to place
His blood on the Mercy seat/kapporet in the heavenlies.
Conclusion in part 2 and as we come towards Yom Kippur this season, let’s remember what the
blood of Yeshua haMashiach/Jesus Christ
continually cries out for us…
mercy,
forgiveness,
cleansing
and
redemption…
not just on one day of the year
but
always and forever.
In Israel in the autumn (fall) of the year, we enter into an extremely important season of repentance/teshuvah in the Jewish/Hebrew calendar known as the Fall Feasts.
Feast of Trumpets: September 8-9, 2021
Day of Atonement: September 17-18.
Feast of Tabernacles: September 22-28.
Shmini Atzeret Wednesday Wed Sep 29,
Simchat Torah Monday Mon Nov 29
Last Great Day: September 29.
Another site gives the dates as:
Yom Kippur 2021 begins Wednesday, September 15
at sunset ends Thursday, September 16 at nightfall
Sukkot/ Tabernacles :
(sundown to sundown) 20th September – 27thSeptember, 2021.
The Great Day is the 8th
Day of Tabernacles: (sundown) 27th – 28th September, 2021.
Yom Kippur takes place on the final day of the 10 Days of Awe, which begins with
Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year for Hebrew Year 5782
רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה
Yom Kippur, Known as the Day of Atonement, this holyday is spent in prayer and fasting among many people of the Jewish faith.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/yamim-noraim-days-of-awe-or-high-holy-days/
https://www.minimannamoments.com/are-we-boxed-in/
further links for the Fall Appointed Times are to be found on home page under heading
7 FESTIVALS/APPOINTED TIMES/FEASTS
May His true Shalom rest upon each one in Yeshuas’ Name.
You are greatly loved Mishpachah, Family
משפחה
and prayed for daily..
make sure you are secure in the knowledge you are saved
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