We looked at the Blood in last weeks post and surely it is the keystone of a triumphant life in Messiah. Lack of understanding of the power in Jesus/Yeshuas Blood can impede our complete and sustained victory as we follow Him.
To remind ourselves and to help seal the revealed knowledge into our hearts:
We are probably very familiar with the term the Scarlet Thread or the line of the blood because throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation runs a broken continuous scarlet red stream of blood from an atoning sacrifice.
Beginning in Genesis 3:21 through the sacrifices including those of Noah and Abraham recorded in Exodus, Leviticus and the whole Old Testament/Tanakh system, until it bursts forth in the supreme sacrifice of Messiah at Calvary.
It runs on, in an ever increasing and widening course through the generations; and will flow on through the countless ages of eternity.
Unto Him Who loved us and
washed us from our sins
in His own blood
Salvation must be of the Lord. John 3:16
and must be by
the death of an innocent substitute
1 Peter 2:22,24
It must be by blood. 1 Peter 1:18 – 20
Every acceptable sacrifice
must meet these three conditions
as taught in Genesis 3:21.
Abels sacrifice did meet the conditions
but Cains did not.
Abel brought an innocent lamb as a substitute in his place
and he was justified before God in
its sacrificial death and the shedding of its blood.
Having laid the foundation we move on to the connection… and
What follows is a seldom preached incident concerning the necessity of the blood. The reason why the Lord must demand blood for the atonement of sin lies in the nature of God and in the nature of sin.
God is perfectly and unimpeachably Holy, because of this truth, sin can never be passed over without the justice of God being satisfied; and because sin is rebellion against an infinite God, there is none higher. Therefore, only the greatest and the highest price can be accepted as an atonement for sin.
That price is
Life/chaim itself;
and we have agreed that scripturally,
the life is in the blood.
Again, every sacrifice that is acceptable to God
must meet these 3 conditions.
It must not be man’s work but Gods.
On Mount Sinai,
God gave to Israel the law/10 sayings/commandments which comprised directions and instructions for life/living and how to approach Him.
which was
Holy,
Perfect
and
Just.
Disobedience to this law demanded the greatest penalty in payment. It was for this reason that God gave the instructions for the ark of the covenant to be in the Tabernacle, right in the Holy of Holies.
Recall from previous posts, what the box/ark was and the specific items it contained.
It was COVERED with beaten GOLD
Inside were the tablets with the ten sayings/ law written on them. These had been broken by Israel when Moses was up the mountain.
The broken Law demanded the eternal damnation of Israel; but God had made a provision and had planned the
Mercy Seat of beaten GOLD to COVER this broken law.
He required that once a year, on the
day of Atonement/Yom Kippur,
the High Priest took the blood of the animal sacrifice,
which was God’s provision,
from the altar of burnt offerings and
sprinkled it on the Mercy Seat/The kapporet.
Here we have BLOOD placed upon GOLD…
Recall it is compared to the throne of grace; because the Holy of Holies is called the place of the mercy-seat, the mercy seat is a place where people come to be in God’s presence.
The term mercy seat comes from the Hebrew word kapporeth, which means a covering. In the Old Testament it refers to the covering or lid of the Ark of the Covenant, where the children of Israel kept the Ten Commandments.The Ark’s covering was made of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps a plate of solid gold, 2 1/2 cubits long and 1 1/2 broad (Ex. 25:17; 30:6; 31:7).
Ephesians 2:6compares the place of mercy with the throne of grace, the place where God sits upon His throne. Hebrews 9:5associates the covering of the altar with the cherubim, creatures that represent God’s glory and presence. See previous posts.
The Holy of Holies is called the
place of the mercy-seat in1 Chronicles. 28:11: Lev. 16:2.
This is significant, because in Jewish culture only the High Priest was permitted to enter the Holy of Holies, the place of God’s presence. Because of Yeshua haMashiach/Jesus Christ’s self-sacrifice, specifically His shed Blood, today because of and through His blood, anyone can come to the mercy seat to be in God’s presence.
In many churches people seek the Father at a specific time and place, where God could be found. We know that there is nothing special about the place itself. And we would be limiting God to our way of thinking. He is right where we are because as born again/born from above by His Spirit of Holiness children; the Kingdom of God is within us – we are the living stones.
The broken law
was then covered
by the blood of a sacrifice onto gold.
God was appeased and atonement was made.
His justice was satisfied and
His mercy could flow out unhindered
to his erring, rebellious children.
Here we must remember that to look upon the
broken law without blood, is to face God’s wrath.
He said when I see the blood I will pass over you.
From Egypt and the 1st Passover Lambs blood…Here we begin to see the connection forming with Yeshua/Jesus as well as the blood connected to the gold on the kapporet as atonement for sin.
To remove the Blood from God’s righteous judgment, is to invite certain death and destruction.
What follows is possibly an area not often mentioned and yet it reveals what seems to be a profound insight and meaning for each and every one of us.
The Mystery of Beth Shemesh
בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ
means, house of the sun
1 the noun בית beth, house,
and 2 the noun שמש shemesh, sun.
(This could be linked to the play on words of sun/son and the Malachi 4:2 scripture: shall the Sun/shemesh of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.)
Beth Shemesh, was a small town on the border
between Judah and the Philistines;
located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi)
west of Jerusalem in Israel.
This is the place where the
Ark of the Covenant
came when it was returned by the Philistines. 1 Sam. 6.
Beth Shemesh stands in Israel’s Shephelah-foothills
lying between the coastal plain and Judea Mountains.
In 1 Samuel 6 the Ark of The Covenant had been taken captive by the Philistines. During the time the Ark was in their possession God sent diseases and plagues upon them.
1 Samuel 5:9the Philistines called for diviners and soothsayers as to the reason of these diseases and plagues. They correctly pointed to the fact that the Ark of the Covenant of Israel was in their midst.
Here is where they devised a very clever plan by deciding that, a pair of young cows who had recently given birth to calves; should be harnessed to a new wagon; upon which the Ark of the Covenant was to be placed. Together with some golden emerods and golden mice and headed in the direction on the land of Israel.
The emerods were a divine punishment on the Philistines when they defeated the Israelites and captured the Ark of the Covenant on the day that Eli and his sons died.
Emerods is an archaic term for hemorrhoids. Derived from the Old French word emoroyde, it was used as the common English term until the nineteenth century, after which it was replaced in medicine by a direct transliteration of the original Greek term haimorrhoides. The word is most commonly encountered, however, in the King James Bible, where it appears in the First Book of Samuel as a plague.
Golden emerods, i.e. figures/likeness of that part of the body which was the seat of the disease, which by its swelling, or some other way, represented also the disease itself; which was not offered in a contempt of God, but because they sought to gain His favor; it was rather as a testimony of their humiliation, and they considered that by leaving this token of their own shame and misery they might find and obtain pity from God, and freedom from their disease. 1Sam.6:4
They surmised that if the two cows went in a straight line away from their newly birthed young, it would be a indication that the Ark was the cause of the distress.
But if the cows would refused to leave their young calves and turn around, it would indicate that the Ark was not the cause of the plagues.
The result was contrary to nature because the cows did go in a straight line to the land of Israel and came to the city of
Beth Shemesh
which was the city of the Levites/Priests.
The reapers looked up from the field and saw the Ark of the Covenant coming without any human guidance!
For those who love archeology, here is a link to a recent find in the area that may be the stone on which the ark of the covenant rested?!
This peculiar stone, supported by stone “legs,” was discovered inside a temple dating to around 1100 b.c.e. And it may be the very same stone mentioned in the biblical account of the ark of the covenant.
Upon the arrival of the Ark of the Covenant in Beth Shemesh there was great rejoicing…
but during the course of the celebration some of the men of Beth Shemesh whether carelessly, unintentionally or accidentally, lifted up the
Gold Mercy Seat/Kapporet,
to see whether the contents of the Ark have been removed or disturbed by the Philistines. More likely moved by curiosity, they removed for a moment
the Bloody Covering off the Ark
and for only a brief moment in time, they looked upon
the broken law of God
without the Blood between them and the sin
and the result was tragic. 1 Samuel 6:19
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Recall: to look upon the broken law of God
without blood means certain death;
it was NOT just for curiosity!
This is the foundation of His plan of redemption.
But
God cannot look upon our sinful flesh without the
Blood of Yeshua/Jesus
standing/placed in that gap
between Him and us as our
Covering.
The only sacrifice must be by blood.
This was a tragic but vivid demonstration of the seriousness of His plan and the ultimate fulfillment of Messiahs act of submitted obedience. Yeshua/Jesus died physically so His Blood could be our covering on Heavens Kapporet/Mercy Seat of GOLD. We know that His Father could not look upon Him as He bore our sin and for that unspeakable moment He experienced separation from His Father, which amounts to spiritual death. He was broken for us and His Blood still cries Mercy/Forgiveness for us.
Herein is the mystery of the Gospel in Beth Shemesh, the town of the Priesthood. We must never take our redemption through His Blood for granted but walk in humility and love with a grateful heart of thanksgiving. Without the Blood of our Savior on that Golden Kapporet, we have no hope, it is the only thing between us and the broken law, the laws that we have broken and as seen in this episode to look upon the broken law without the blood covering is certain death… the wages of sin is death..BUT the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus/Yeshua.
There is another very mysterious illustration linking
Blood,Gold and Water
inExodus 32
which also sets forth this truth in a very clear way;
that is, in the atonement which Moses offered
after the people had broken Gods law
by making the GOLDen calf at Mount Sinai.
Moses and Joshua had been on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. During their absence Israel had given them up for dead. Possibly out of fear and/or confusion, the people demanded Aaron construct a god to lead them on their way.
The result was the golden calf.
When Moses descended from the Mountain with the tablets of the testimony in his hand, he found that Israel had already
broken the first two of God’s commands
and so they had already
placed themselves under the curse of God.
Moses knew that nothing but a
blood atonement
could avert disaster for the children of Israel.
Here we find a very unique account
of Moses’s sacrifice for Israel sin.
In Exodus 32, he tells the children of Israel that they ought to die for their sin but, that he would bring
an atonement to the Father..
He didn’t know if it would work, but that he was going to try it in order that they may be saved and spared.
Exodus 32:20
He took the calf which they had made and burned it in fire.
Ground it into powder and threw it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink it.
From this verse we see that Moses took the golden idol and
Beat it
Melted it
Ground it into powder
Put it in thewater
Made the children of Israel drink it!!
InDeuteronomy 9: 21
there is the same record with more details.
The greater detail is six things are mentioned:
He melted it
He stamped it
He ground it
Then he ground it again
And he put it into the brook/water and
he made the children of Israel drink it
Then he took some of the water out of the brook
and presented it to God
for the blood atonement
for the sins of Israel.
This seems strange.. but we should remember Moses had been raised in the palace and Court of the Egyptian Pharaohs and had been taught a great many things of which he was very knowledgeable. From the Scriptures it appears that Moses had a supernaturally given knowledge of the science of chemistry.
The apparently strange things that he did,
in the melting, grounding and suspension of the Gold
had however, a greater reason and meaning.
The result was a suspension which became
a vivid type of the blood of Jesus/Yeshua.
Chemistry gives three kinds of mixtures as follows.
A mechanical mixture: where if a piece of metallic gold is dropped in water no solution occurs.The gold remains intact in the water. Pure gold will not dissolve in water.
A suspension or emulsion: this is finally divided particles of eight metallic substance that can’t be suspended in water by adding another chemical to it. There is no solution, the finely ground particles are simply suspended in the water this is called an emulsion.
A chemical solution: a spoon full of sugar placed into water will not mix or be suspended; but will result in an increase in weight but not volume. The sugar dissolves and the atoms/ particles take up their place within the water itself.
Gold will not dissolve in water… why?
because it has a specific gravity of 19.5 times heavier.
Bare with the following description as the science reveals an amazing type and shadow of Messiah!
In fine powder,
Gold assumes a colloidal condition
and when added to water,
it results in coloration that it appears to be a solution.
As the particles are made finer, the bulk is greatly increased and acquires an apparent specific gravity, permitting its suspension in water, and giving it/ the liquid
a deep red color.
Scientific records state that,
colloidal gold in water is a rose red color
when the particles are of 10 micron size
in a dilution of 1 to 100,000.
From this we see that
gold in dust size will color water as blood
which means that this
calf of gold
need not have been very big in order
to color sufficient water blood red
to supply drinks to at least two or more million people!
Colloidal gold is a suspension consisting of sub-micron gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) suspended within a solvent, most often water.
Colloidal gold has anti-inflammatory powers to alleviate pain and swelling among those with arthritis and bursitis. It has also shown promise for rejuvenating glandular systems to provide anti-aging, higher IQ, and pineal gland enhancing possibilities!
Colloidal gold can be made in many ways but
the method of Moses is the best
under those circumstances in the wilderness!
Remember the order of what Moses did…
The burning removed the impurities!
The stamping/ beating reduced it to thin sheets because of the special properties in the construct of gold itself.
Gold leaf can be made so thin
that it requires about 280,000 to make 1 inch.
Sheets as thin as 00.000004 inch have been made.
The grinding becomes easy then
and further information shows that Moses
ground it very fine, as fine as dust;
reducing it to the size of colloidal gold.
This was what he threw into the brook
and what made the water blood red.
It was not toxic because the impurities
have been burned out
and it was inhibiting towards germs.
The result was that the waters would be
blood red possessing purifying qualities!
All of this is a fitting type of the
blood of the Messiah.
This blood red solution
was taken by Moses
and presented before the Lord
as an atonement for their sin.
The record of this can be read inExodus 32:30, 31, 32.
Here he said, peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.The Father saw the blood red solution
which was a fit type of the blood of Messiah
and his wrath was averted and
his justice was appeased and
his love again flowed out towards them.
One last thing can be said concerning this Blood; that although Moses made an atonement and it was accepted by God, only those who appropriated it by faith were saved!
The others died… and it is a very strong suggestion made in the Scripture Exodus 32:26-28.True enough, it is not explicitly stated that the 3000 men slain by the swords of the Levites on that day were specifically the ones who
refused to bend down and
drink of the Crimson Brook
coming from the Mountain.
However it is suggested….and those who accepted God’s provision through the destruction of the molten Gold calf were saved.
Those who rejected were lost; and although it is true that Christ died for the sin of the whole world and he tasted death for every man, it still remains the fact that
only those who appropriate His provision by faith will be saved.
2000 years ago
the fountain
was opened from the side of Messiah/Mashiach on the cross.
From this day forward there is a stream flowing into which all who plunge, will receive remission of sins and eternal salvation.
To accept the Blood is to live.
To Reject it is to die.
What have we done with the Blood of the slain lamb? This very day in the Heavenlies, there is a resurrected Messiah Who paid the price for the sin of the world.
He is waiting to give Life, Joy, Victory and Peace
to all who will stoop down,
drink and live.
As the hymn says concerning our victory:
He plunges us to victory beneath the cleansing flow.
Since the life of Yeshua/Jesus is in His Blood..
if we plead, honor, sprinkle and sing about it
we are bringing in the chaim/lifes
and light of God into a situation. .
Darkness and death HAS to flee.
His Life is the Light of men.
The word atonement means a covering
we are protected with this covering which keeps us safe from the enemy. It is why John said in 1 John 5:18,the wicked one touches him not.
But like everything in the Word of God,
there is a condition
and the qualifications for this kind of protection is:
that the believer must keep her/himself.
This means that we must keep ourselves consciously under the blood. This means un-confessed sin is never under the blood… only when it is confessed, repented of, and forsaken are we then covered and protected.
As the world gets darker we need to weapons of our warfare at all times. Never remove your armor ofEphesians 6and if you haven’t already add the blood of Jesus/Yeshua to your arsenal and use it every day over yourself your families and all our brothers and sisters worldwide.
There is power in the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus
wonder working power…
miracle working power and
most of all… it is the agent of our salvation.
As we come towards Yom Kippur this season,
let’s remember that
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.
These are some of the reasons the devil and all demonically rooted entities fear the Blood of Yeshua/Messiah and why we must be covered by it. Stay under the Blood of Messiah Mishpochah at all times and remember…
What The Word Says
The Blood Of Yeshua/Jesus Does For Us.
We overcome the adversary when we testify/speak out personally to what the Word of God says the Blood of Yesua/Jesus has done for us!
Through the blood of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua HaMashiach,
I am redeemed out of the hand of the adversary, all my sins are forgiven and as I walk in repentance, I am continually being cleansed from all sin.
I am justified and made righteous, sanctified, made holy, set apart to My Heavenly Father…
I have boldness to enter into the presence of My Heavenly Father because the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus cries Mercy/Forgivenesss continually in heaven on my behalf to the Father.
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.
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
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
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