Sealed with the Blood

By Dr. Lee Warren, B.A., D.D. 

(c) 2002 PLIM REPORT, Vol. 11 #6

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Mankind from his very beginning has recognized the power of blood to seal his mind. All cultures have known that blood has the power to remove sins, heal, appease the gods, and facilitate blessings from them. Priests have usually attained this blood in some type of ritual setting from both human and animal sacrifices.

History shows this is true for the believers of many gods (polytheist) as well as believers of one god and it is also true from the most advanced civilizations to the most primitive. Even today worshippers of Satan and Lucifer believe in blood sacrifices and the power of the blood.

 Why is blood a universal principle?

            The question that arises is why does mankind universally have this blood fetish impressed upon his psych? Most scholars and archeologists know this to be true for they have unearthed altars from every corner of the earth.  The fact that sacrifices were offered still does not explain why this true.

            Carl Jung, the eminent psychiatry, put forth a theory that within the psychic of man there are archetypes. He discovered that humans have a "preconscious psychic disposition that enables a (man) to react in a human manner." These potentials for creation are actualized when they enter consciousness as images. [See this http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~davisct/nt/jung.html]. This means the mind is programmed to receive certain potentials, thoughts, or ideas and there are patterns in place in the mind or consciousness.

            In order to explain this one has to acknowledge the existence of a supreme being, Yahweh Elohim who created man and programmed his mind with certain attributes as love, intellect, justice, etc. Now in plain English, mankind collectively understands from a physical standpoint that blood represents the life of the flesh, for without it all flesh dies. 

Is blood linked to magic?

Magic plays an important part in mankind’s worship of various deities and the spirit. Since blood represents life, it was believed that by offering up blood or using blood in some rituals, it has the power of passing on this principle of life, giving power to protect, heal and create. For example, many Gentiles would drink blood of sacrifices believing they could obtain some type of spiritual attributes from the substance. Killing an innocent baby and drinking the blood was thought as a way to obtain the principle of innocence.

Even at the time of the Messiah, Pilate mixed human blood with the blood of animal sacrifice (Lk. 13:1). Again, it was thought that human blood increased the efficacy of their rituals to their pagan gods. 

Was blood important to the Patriarchs?

When Elohim created Israel from the seed of Abraham, he gave them a more perfect understanding of blood and removed many of the Gentiles’ superstitions regarding these blood rituals. For example, Israel only used the blood for atonement of their souls (Lev 17:10) and they were forbidden from drinking it as the Gentiles did. Israel was also forbidden from offering human sacrifices.

 Paul, the apostle, writes: “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission (Heb 9:22).” Now the gentiles knew and believed this but they did not have the reality of what blood represents on a spiritual and psychological level. 

How did Israel use blood under the Law of Moses?

Even with the Law of Moses, it must be understood that Israel did not have the reality of what blood represented spiritually and psychologically. The Passover blood of lambs and goats placed on their doors in Egypt had no real power to protect them from the death angel that passed through the land that smote all with death that did not have this blood. It was just a symbol that pointed to the Messiah who was the reality.

The Messiah told the leaders and teachers of Israel that they did not understand the scriptures. The priests taught and believed that the people obtained eternal righteousness through performing these rituals laid down in the law and prophets (Old Testament). The Messiah told them that the things in the Law of Moses testified and pointed to Him (Jn. 5:39), which were the works He had to do fulfill.

So all the animal sacrifices that Israel, as well the Gentiles ignorantly, offered up for sin and atonement pointed to the true sacrifice, the Lamb of Yahweh (Jn. 1:29), Yahshua the Messiah. It was His death that brought the Law of Moses to an end and began the New Covenant (Heb. 9:?), where true worshippers worship Elohim in Spirit and Truth (Jn. 4:21-24). This means all offering sacrifices, performing rituals, keeping feast days, temple worship, etc., ended and is not valid under the New Covenant. 

What is the spiritual reality of blood?

Before His death, the Messiah reveals the spiritual reality of physical blood. He spoke this in a parable. “Then the Messiah (Jesus) said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him (John 6:53-56).”

 Many that heard this saying said this was a hard saying, for they were trying to interpret them in a literal sense, which did not make any sense. In a literal sense it seems that the Messiah was advocating cannibalism, which was forbidden under the law.

The Messiah explains the drinking of His blood and eating of His flesh as spiritual principles. He said: “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (Jn. 6:63).” So it is the words of the Holy Spirit that must be eaten (or believed) in one’s heart and mind, for this is the life of the soul as blood is the life of the physical body. Job wrote: the ear tries (eats) words as the mouth eats meat (Job. 34:3). Peter confirms this, for he said that the Messiah had the words to eternal life (Jn. 6:70). To better understand the power of the words of the Holy Spirit upon the soul or mind, an examination of the basic properties of physical blood will be given. 

What does blood do for the physical body?

Now the definition of physical blood is “the usually red fluid, consisting of plasma, red and white blood cells, etc., that circulates through the heart, arteries, and veins of vertebrates: blood is a body tissue that carries oxygen, hormones, cell-building material, etc. to, and carbon dioxide and waste matter away from, the other body tissues”

Now the blood of the physical body carries oxygen and other life supporting materials, such as hormones, cell-building material, protein, carbohydrates and fats, to list a few. Blood also removes waste materials.

As the blood carries materials to the cells to build and nourish the body, likewise the words of the Holy Spirit carries spiritual material to build and nourish the ‘fruits of the spirit’ in the mind, such as faith, love, patience, self control, joy, peace etc. (Gal. 5:22). The blood removes toxic material from the body. Likewise, the words of truth by the Holy Spirit remove all toxic ideas, such as hate, doubt, lust, etc., from the mind. 

Does the Messiah’s blood have a deeper meaning?

Now the Messiah’s blood in reality represents a spiritual principle, for we know that his physical blood had no power to wash sin in a literal sense. Since His physical body only had a few quarts of blood, this would not have been enough to wash all of humanity physically. So the blood of Yahshua must have a deeper meaning. In the war in heaven or the angelic realm, the archangel Michael was able to overcome the archangel Lucifer and his host by the blood of the lamb (Rev. 12:6-11). Since there was no physical hemoglobin in the incorporeal realm, the words of truth (symbolized by blood) in reality gave Michael the power to stand up against Lucifer. [NOTE: It is utterly amazing that the Creator would create an entire physical world based on blood flowing through the life of flesh to typify words of truth coursing through the life of the mind. The allegory, analogies, and symbolism of Yahweh’s creation is profound.]

 Conclusion

The Messiah’s blood is the seal of truth for mankind’s mind against all forms of lies and Devil’s propaganda. Blood coursing through the life of all flesh symbolizes truth flowing through the mind and cleansing it. It must be understood that the Messiah’s blood are the words of truth that wash all toxic ideas and thoughts that the Devil has planted in the subconscious mind.

It is these thoughts that are causing havoc in the mind and driving men mad. This is the true incarnation of evil spirits in the mind. Simply put, Yahweh said that he would write His Law within Israel’s mind, which are His words and the New Covenant.

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