The Shedding of Blood

"God desired one perfect sacrifice."

GOD HAD MOSES build the tabernacle according to a heavenly design, which is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. We were made in His image, after His likeness. He was born in our likeness, after His image. The life of man was placed in the blood (Leviticus 16:11) so that when Jesus’ blood was shed, it would cleanse all of mankind and fulfill all of God’s promise to Abraham. His children would be as sand by the seashore and stars in the sky.

Stay with me here. In Hebrews 9:1-4, we are given the design of Moses’ tabernacle, the Holy place and the Holiest of all. We are told what elements were in each room. Notice the tables of Covenant were within the Holiest of all and placed beneath the mercy seat with the rod of Aaron’s priesthood which budded. The rod represents authority. And the pot of manna, which was still as fresh as it had been when it was picked up from the ground, was there as well. These represent the Covenant of the Law; the authority of the priesthood and the authority of man’s rule; and the bread or mind, will, and emotions of the soul.

In the Holy place, outside the Holiest of all, are the physical items of man: the lampstand or the life of the body; the table, our skeletal system and body organs which support us; and the shewbread, again our thoughts and choices which are both inside and outside of the veil. The veil is given as the flesh which divides us from God (Hebrews 10:20). I understand this is a lot to study, so I encourage you to read it and let the Holy Spirit direct you. But I want to show you the purpose of the blood.

The shedding of blood showed the death of the individual, that they were now powerless in the earth to do their own will. God desired one perfect sacrifice. It being not possible for God the Father to die or God the Spirit to die, for they are the life and the power of all things, They sent God the Son. He was born human and taught physical and spiritual things as human, so that He could willingly live the Father’s will and speak the Father’s words, doing the Father’s works (Luke 2:52). When He died physically, their unity being so complete, it was as if the Father gave His life (John 14:9). Read that again slowly.

This is why Hebrews says, when Jesus died, His death gave to us the inheritance (Hebrews 9:15-16). Jesus was the Father who died and the Son who inherited. We are children of God who share His inheritance.

“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” (Ephesians 1:11)

But it was necessary for Jesus to be perfect and without blemish because His blood now sits in heaven, in the holiest place of all where there is no sorrow, no death or things that bring death, and all is holy and pure. There would never be an imperfect, defective sacrifice on heaven’s altar. But no man could live in such a way but God Himself, and He knew this before man was ever created. He wanted man. He wanted children and relationship and intimacy such as described in Song of Solomon and in the Bride of Revelation. All of marital happiness comes from God’s design. Woman was made only for man. No other creation, angelic or demonic, has this beauty. But God knew the devil would do as he has done, and death would need to be condemned.

“One who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.” (Hebrews 7:16, BSB)

The devil is nothing. He was something in the angelic world but chose sin and so lost everything. Finding himself ugly and powerless, he sought to steal the dominion of mankind. He did not. You heard me. He convinced us he did, and death came because of our sin. He then used sin and death to destroy our thought life, our marital happiness, and he thought, our life. But the life of man is from the Spirit. The life of the damned is from the Spirit. Why then does God allow them to continue? He doesn’t. He condemned sin and gave us all of His authority and power over death (Luke 10:19). The devil then gradually convinced the church this had passed, and we are puppets to both the devil and an uncaring God.

This is a lie. We don’t have to tolerate anything, not poverty nor sickness nor injury nor conflict nor even aging, to a point. That all men must die remains because it is in our physical death that we rise above death. Death is only a way into the fullness of God, as seen in heaven. It is a release from the effects of the physical world and a renewal in the spiritual kingdom. Jesus died so that He could return to the Father’s right hand and be the Son of God who’d defeated death. So that we could be there with Him. That He is from the line of Judean Kings is shown in Matthew 1. He is, in fact, the King of Israel because of genetic descent. This is God’s plan fulfilled. He is Lord of all because He is never-ending and above death. There will be no one to replace Him, nor is there any other who can defeat Him and rise above Him. The only ones greater are the Father and the Spirit, as the Spirit (the breath) of the Father. The Spirit is also the Spirit of Christ and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. He fills all these rolls in man and in the Godhead and in both the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, which will one day not exist (Revelation 21:4).

“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2, BSB)

All must die also because it is the laying down of all of our physical abilities and our mental choices. It is complete submission to the Father, who will then lift us into His presence until such a time as He resurrects all the bodies of mankind. Just as He gathered every drop of Jesus’ blood from the earth, for nothing is impossible with God, and placed it on heaven’s altar where it lives, as alive as it was when it pulsed in Jesus’ veins, He will gather all of men from wherever death has scattered them, oceans, soils, wherever. And we will go to live with Him in completion forever. But there is much work to be done here on earth.

“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.” (Hebrews 9:12)

“And the dead in Christ shall rise first:” (1 Thessalonians 4:16)

I encourage you to read yesterday’s word from the Spirit. I had no teaching in my ear along this line when it was spoken nor was thinking of any particular person or sermon. I have deliberately removed myself from most of what I know for this reason. It is not an unusual behavior for those who speak for God.

READ “Future Generations – a prophetic word.”

Not until God has every spirit of man who can be saved will our Jewish Messiah return. Make no mistake in this. Jesus is the King of Israel. There will never be another. He is the Head of the church, which is His body (Ephesians 1:23; Colossians 1:18). But He is not English nor Latin nor any other Gentile culture. He was born in the second century to a couple named Joseph and Mary, and she was a virgin bride. The Spirit of God conceived Him in her womb. There was no sexual intercourse between her and her husband. Her Son, Jesus, the Son of God, was completely made from the nature and structure of God, without any imperfections at all.

Men disbelieve this, listening to the devil’s lie. But, as Jesus said, the devil is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44). This is the only meaning of the Greek word “archon” typically translated “prince” where he is called the “prince” of darkness. It is not a title of royalty but one of stupidity that he thought he could take over for God is completely ridiculous. He did not and has not. There is nothing within him but hatred and violence, for that is all that is left when you remove God’s life, God’s joy and peace. Yet, at the same time, what life he has is only because God leaves it so that He can destroy it in the manner in which He has chosen. What we do not understand of this, we must roll over onto Him and leave it there.

Stop reasoning in your mind and getting “out of” the Spirit. Stop teaching what is the knowledge of men and lean into Him who created all things. Let Him show John’s revelation to you. Stop counting days and years, as if Jesus will appear in the next breath. Look instead at the earth and see those who are suffering with sickness and disease that Jesus came to earth to heal and deliver.

He said He did the Father’s work. The Father came to bring His power to heal. He came to bring salvation from the condemnation of death. No man has to suffer damnation. But all men must see Him for who He is in order to be saved.

Here is the job of the church. The only job of the church. We must see it and accept it.

“The words I speak to you are not my own words; and the Father, who dwells continually in me, achieves in me his own acts of power.” (John 14:10, Knox)

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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