THE BLOOD THEOLOGY IN THE HOLY BIBLE: “A Scarlet Cord from Genesis to Revelation”
The heart and soul of all redemption is the “BLOOD SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST”. Any religious idea, scheme, or theology that is not utterly dependent upon, supportive of, or connected to, the “Blood” is false. Apostasy always, either at the beginning or shortly after it appears, will begin to reduce or destroy the absolute necessity of the “Blood” sacrifice. Any change of human character or cleansing from human sin or mental sickness that is not fully dependent on the “Blood” offering is dangerous heresy.
Psychology, psychiatry, and every humanistic idea of self-help, self-esteem, or self-worth is a demonic affront to the “Blood” of Jesus Christ. The best that these ideas can offer is a band-aid without adhesive. Every idea in these systems was born of men that deny the supernatural Gospel and the redemption of Christ’s “Blood.” Sigmund Freud believed that “religious doctrines are illusions and that religion is the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.” (Broken Cisterns, by Richard O’Ffill) Yet, the modern church has so removed itself from the authority of the Bible and the power of the Spirit that “humanistic counseling” is their hope for the church family. Sinners are counseled with humanism instead of being cleansed by the “Blood” of Jesus Christ. The result is religion instead of salvation. The “Blood” is viewed as a covering of sin instead of a cleansing from sin.
A Theology of Blood! From the book of Genesis the Creator established an absolutely perfect system and theology of the “Blood.” Adam and Eve sinned and their fellowship with God was destroyed. The Father was walking in His creation, but when He came to the garden, Adam and Eve withdrew themselves and hid from His presence. Sin has never changed; it still drives the guilty party from all things holy, especially from God Himself. The call of God’s heart for His created friends and family was full of sorrow and plaintiveness. “And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?” (Genesis 3:9)
The Gospel has never changed either. Sin is the same and the call of God is the same. Sin flees, and the heart of God calls. Adam’s guilt was overwhelming. “And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:10) God set about immediately to establish the “theology of the Blood.” A clean animal was chosen, and God Himself drew the “Blood” from this type of His Son. The skin of the animal was a covering of that animal life which was in the “Blood,” and the skin became a coat of covering for the sinful pair. Once the coat was about Adam and Eve, they commenced to have limited fellowship with God. Driven from the garden, they watched a perfect world begin to bear thorns and thistles, and felt the pain in their bodies as something in them began the slow path to death. The price of sin was almost unbearable.
The “Blood” theology was immediately established as an exclusive pathway out of sin into the presence of God. When Adam’s first two sons came to worship with Dad and Mom, one of them came humbly and one came haughtily. Abel found a clean animal from the herd while Cain sought a more sophisticated approach. The result was shattering; God received Abel’s gift, probably by fire consuming the offering, but Cain’s worship was left untouched on the altar. God had rejected the religious gift that was absent of “Blood.” Cain was a modern day Robert Schuller, Bill Hybel, Rick Warren, or any one of thousands. The result was similar to the present. The true worshipper was hated and often killed because of the “Blood.”
Every expression of worship from Genesis to Malachi was established by “Blood.” The worship of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was completely dependent on a “Blood” sacrifice. When Melchizedec appeared to Abraham after the slaughter of the kings, Melchizedec served Abraham bread and wine. Melchizedec was the priest of the Most High God. “For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.” (Hebrews 7:1) I believe he was a priest who served in the Heavenly Temple in Heavenly Jerusalem. This was the first event in Scripture where the foreshadowing of the Lord’s communion was on the table. The bread and wine was the future type of His body and His “Blood.”
Joseph and Two Dungeon Friends! The dreams of the two companions of Joseph in an Egyptian dungeon is another great episode in the “theology of Blood.” One of the men was a butler to Pharaoh and the other was the baker to Pharaoh. They both dreamed a dream the same night and to each Joseph gave an interpretation. To the butler he interpreted as follows: “And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.” (Genesis 40:12-13)
The baker’s dream was similar, and Joseph gave him this interpretation: “And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.” (Genesis 40:18-19) Both interpretations were perfectly fulfilled. The butler served the cup that represents, in prophecy, the “Blood” of Christ. The baker died because the bread representing the Lord’s body had to be broken for the cup to survive in redemption and deliverance. For a story as this to come from a dark night in an Egyptian dungeon enforces the great truth of this “theology of Blood.” And we have not even left the first book of Scripture – the book of Genesis.
When the curtain is lifted form the horrible four hundred years of Egyptian bondage, the door for escape is clearly opened by “Blood.” The dark night of the first Passover was approaching. Every family, or two or more families when the families were small, was to prepare a Passover lamb from the flock. The lamb lived with the family until the offering was the love of the house. When every heart was tender and the lamb had become part of the household, he was slain, and his “Blood” was freely applied to the doorway, threshold, lintel, and doorpost, and the flesh was eaten by the family. No one must leave the house after the “Blood” was applied.
The angle of death death passed through Egypt that night and broke the will of Pharaoh’s resistance to his slaves freedom. The people of Egypt became well aware that the children of Israel must be allowed to go after their God. The gold and silver, the riches of Egypt, was piled on the children of God as they begged them to leave lest all Egypt should die. The Passover was forever established as the perfect picture of a future Lamb, the Lamb of God, who would die for the world. The “Blood” of this spotless Lamb is the one and only hope of all mankind.
The Mosaic System and the Tabernacle! The height of God’s divine plan was pictured in the great sacrificial system established by Moses and Aaron and the priestly tribe of the Levis. The tabernacle was prepared with the treasures of gold and silver and other precious items that the Egyptians had bestowed on the Jewish slaves as they were thrust out of Egypt. The gold and silver in the portable tabernacle was worth, at today’s value, thirteen billion dollars, not counting the great eloquent structure, the veil that shielded the Ark of the Covenant, and other precious items. It was a perfect shadow of the Temple in Heavenly Jerusalem on the sides of the north, the city of the Great King. Everything from the priests that ministered in this tabernacle, to the structure of the tabernacle, the floor plan, and every instrument of worship and sacrifice, was a perfect type of the Messiah and His “Blood” sacrifice.
When this great structure and order of sacrifice was finished, Moses was commanded to offer a “Blood” sacrifice and to sprinkle every part of the tabernacle, the veil before the Ark, and the priest in preparation for the dedication. There was no glory in this priceless place of worship, and no forgiveness or covering of sin until the appointed “Blood” was upon the whole of this great system. Every sacrifice and every great feast day connected to this sacrificial plan was a type that continually made reference to Jesus Christ and His future death. It was a bloody system of temporary relief from sin and death.
Whenever the Jewish nation was walking in obedience they were dedicated to teaching their own people and the heathens that deliverance was anchored to the “Blood.” The two spies that searched out Jericho, the first city to be encountered as they entered the Promised Land, gave hope to a harlot woman that covered their presence in the city. When the people of Jericho learned of the spies’ presence, they sought them to be slain. Rahab, recognizing the hand of God with these men, hid them on her roof, and then requested a promise of protection. The promise was given, but it required faith and action that testified of a “Blood” sacrifice.
Rahab was told to hang a scarlet cord from her window and to bring all her family within her house located on the wall of the city. The Bible tells us of the results of that scarlet cord. “But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.” (Joshua 6:22-23)
When I was in Israel and visited Jericho, the guide took us into an area where archaeological research has exposed the remains of that ancient wall. At one place there was a portion of the wall still standing and I felt sure it was the outer wall where Rahab and her family had trusted Israel’s God and the army to protect them because the scarlet cord was in its place. What a message these spies had taught this heathen woman and her household. She became part of the “seed of woman” that gave us Christ, the God-man of the “Blood” of redemption.
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Keith Black
SALVATION ENTIRELY BY BLOOD OF JESUS
Dear Joe Chambers,
Our salvation is entirely from the blood of Jesus. He died to cover all our sins past present and future. He can see it all from beginning to end. Salvation it not by works. It is not even partly by works. Soe think you have to work to keep your salvation. To say that is to SLAP JESUS IN THE FACE. It is impossible for us to work to obtain or even to keep salvation. You cannot stay saved by holding on. It is GOD THAT HOLDS ON TO YOU WITH AN IRON GRIP THAT CAN’T BE BROKEN ONE YOU REALLY DO ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR. IT IS THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT THAT HOLDS YOU. Once you realize that you cannot save your self or even hold on, and you realize THAT ONLY THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF JESUS IS YOUR ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION AND YOU ACCEPT THAT AND ASK HIM TO COME INTO YOUR LIFE: THE BLOOD OF JESUS CANNOT BE REMOVED FROM YOU ONCE APPLIED. IT IS PERMANENT. YOUR ARE CHAINED TO GOD FOREVER. THE HOLY SPIRIT HOLDS ON TO YOU, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT HOLD ON YOURSELF. Here is a typ of holding to prove it, When God needed to remove Lot and his family fro Sodom before it was bombed, the Angels grabbed the hands of lots family and held on to them with iron grips and dragged them out of that city before it got bombed. Lot did not do any holding on, it was the angels that grabbed them with an iron grip. The Holy Spirit holds on to us with a much greater iron grip. It is not us that holds on but Him that does it. We are handcuffed to him. At the Rapture the Holy Spirit will have to DRAG US OUT OF THIS WORLD just as the angels grabbed Lots family and dragged them out of Sodom. It is the blood of Jesus that chains us to God forever. There will be NO PARTIAL RAPTURE, It wil be a TOTAL RAPTURE FOR ALL THAT ACCEPTED JESUS. All saints both strong and weak (Lot was a weak saint) will be dragged out at rapture. Not even the weakest saints will be left behind atrapture. there will be none left. Now there are a lot of people in the CHRISTEDOM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY that WILL BE LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE RAPTURE COMES. These people may think that they are saved “Christians” but are not really saved because they have not accepted Jesus and him alone for their salvation. The did not ACCEPT THE BLOOD SACRIFICE EXCLUSIVELY for their salvation. The ADDED WORKS TO IT. in the LOOT-WARM (These churches in Liberal theology support using Government as a means of re-distributing wealth. They are socialists.) LAODICEAN CHURCHES that preach the PORK-BARREL PROSPERITY-ENTITLEMENT GOSPEL do not worship the Jesus of the Bible, but worship ANOTHER JESUS. Their Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible, but is KARL MARX WITH A ROBE ON. SO the LOOT-WARM LAODICEAN CHURCHES VOTED FOR OBAMA, while the Philadelphia churches did not. The liberals wold consider this statement by Jesus to be POLITICALLY INCORRECT. The hate this statement by Jesus the most “I AM THE WAY, THE LIFE, AND THE TRUTH, NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME.” If there is any statement that they consider the most politically incorrect it is that one. The Liberals hate it. They crucified Jesus for saying it. If there was any other way for people to get saved, Jesus would not have gone to the cross. But he realized that he alone by his blood sacrifice was indeed the only way for people to get saved. That is why Jesus said “I am the way, the life, and the truth. No man comes to the father but by me.” He realized there was no other way but him. DO YOU FOLKS UNDERSTAND? Jesus was not kidding when he said that he was the only way to the Father. Chain yourself to God by the blood of Jesus, and you will be saved forever. Accept him now and you will be saved.
Sincerely,
Keith Black
Ed Wood
Think about this: If there was any other way our sins could be dealt with, do you think God would have subjected himself to the horrible bloody death of himself as Jesus upon the cross?
To dismiss the necessity of blood having to be shed to atone for sin misses the whole point of just how bad sin really is and the high price God was willing to pay personally to save us – remembering, too, that none of us deserve this kind of mercy, either.
That’s something to think about, isn’t it?