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The History of Blood
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. (Hebrews 9:18)
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, (Hebrews 9:19)
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. (Hebrews 9:20)
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. (Hebrews 9:21)
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Hebrews 9:22)
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. (Hebrews 9:23)
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: (Hebrews 9:24)
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; (Hebrews 9:25)
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Hebrews 9:26)
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28)
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What We Now See
Once in the End of the World
In Hebrews 9:18-28 we are taken back to Moses and to the people of Israel. We stand before the tabernacle that was made by hands that it would represent shadows of the things in heaven. God also gave the book of The Law. This book was a book to guide man so that man would have a full and joyful life before the Lord. We also find that God provides for man’s failure under The Law with the blood of sacrifice. Again, we see the determinate counsels of God working in the past, present and future according to His foreknowledge. It is God building and providing the history of mankind through all the wanderings of Israel and all the failures in the land as they refused to see themselves as sinners in need of redemption. Although God had given them instruction in The Law to show them who they were and who they are, they refused to be obedient to The Law, therefore casting a greater judgment upon themselves. However, Christ IS come. God has sent His only begotten Son. He has died on the cross of Calvary for the sin of the whole world. He has tasted death for every man, and He has established His grace through His truth.
And now we see at the end of the world the continuation of God’s plan of redemption under His determinate counsels. Because of God’s word, we, in this day, can look back thousands of years and see all the failures of mankind under Adam. We can see through biblical knowledge how the history of mankind unfolds until the fullness of time. From the cross of Christ and the shedding of His blood to THIS day, we have been at The End of the world. When the Lord Jesus stated, It is finished, all the articles of grace were fulfilled: past, present and future.
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Once in the End of the World – IT IS FINISHED
IT IS FINISHED sealed the judgment of this world. IT IS FINISHED eliminated the excuse of sinners to refuse God’s mercy. IT IS FINISHED exposed the real hatred of mankind against the Almighty God and condemned the world. IT IS FINISHED brought the end to the Temple in Jerusalem. IT IS FINISHED brought the end of the Roman Empire. IT IS FINISHED placed both Jew and Gentile under the judgment of God, and mankind would stand before God without excuse.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. (Hebrews 2:1) For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; (Hebrews 2:2) How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; (Hebrews 2:3)
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Once in the End of the World – A New Order of Things
Once those three words were spoken by the Lord Jesus, IT IS FINISHED, the world came under a new order. Christ had come from the heavenlies. He was here to satisfy ALL the righteous claims that God had against mankind. He satisfied sin by taking the sin of the whole world upon Himself. He broke the shackles of sin by His grace. He tasted death for every person to break the bonds of death so that man could live IN God’s grace. He defeated all the works of the devil, and by all these things, out of this ungodly world, He would choose a heavenly people and separate them for Himself under His own blood that He shed on Calvary’s cross. The past was satisfied, the present was satisfied, and the future was satisfied in ONE sacrifice at THE END of THE WORLD in the FULLNESS of time. God’s only begotten Son, the express image of God, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and of the seed of Abraham, GAVE Himself a sacrifice to please His heavenly Father, and place between the eyes of judgment His blood of grace and mercy.
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The Voice of Blood
Let’s return to Hebrews 9 to look at all that is in Hebrews 9:18, Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. Again, the Holy Spirit brings the blood of Christ before us in type after the testator’s death. I see a wonderful thing in this Chapter, a tremendous value in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ even before His death. The Holy Spirit develops the worth of the blood of Christ BEFORE the death of the testator. And then AFTER the death of the testator the Holy Spirit concludes the value of the blood of the Son of God. We are reminded that the first testament that God made with Israel was dedicated with blood. But we can even look further back to the sons of Jacob when they were still in the land of Egypt as God was preparing to deliver them out of the grip of Pharaoh. God presented blood to them that they would apply the blood of the lamb to their door posts and to the lintels both horizontally and vertically the blood was applied. Then God said when I see the blood, I will pass over you. We can return to the days of Abraham when Abraham went into the land, he built his first altar and there he offered an offering to God. Abraham did not have an altar in the land of Shinar in Ur of Chaldees, nor did he have an altar in Haran. However, when God had placed Abraham safely in the land, then Abraham offered a blood sacrifice to God on an altar. After Noah came through the flood, he built an altar to God and upon that altar he offered up to God a blood sacrifice. Now let us go back to righteous Abel and his blood offering and let go back to first blood in the garden. The two trespassers had thrown themselves under the penalty death. Adam brought sin into the world and death by sin. Sin had corrupted their whole being. They tried to cover themselves and their sin with fig leaves, the attempt of mankind to cover up his trespasses, however, this did not work and could not work for sin had separated them from God with no way of return. What did God do? He prepared two lambs, one for each transgressor, and he covered the trespassers with the skins of these animals. In all the types and shadows of sacrifices through the scriptures, we see a holy and righteous God in the garden offering two lambs for the trespass of Adam and Eve. So, we see the shedding of blood was done by the hand of God because of sin and trespass. What took place in the sin of Adam was irrecoverable. Nothing that man could do would be able to satisfy God’s claims against him. Man was lost forever, and the sentence of death was upon him. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)
These two skins that covered both Adam and Eve did not reconcile the offenders to God. One could say that there were no signs of repentance in both Adam and Eve. In fact, God had to DRIVE them out of the garden into a dry land full of thorns and thistles. The cover upon them was to remind them of their own death since God was not going to immediately claim His Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)
The Holy Spirit does not mention the word blood until Abel, and it is Abel’s blood that is first mentioned. This first blood of man was going to be a shadow of the blood of another man, and that was and is Jesus Christ. Although Abel had offered from his flock, for he was a keeper of sheep, he had shed their blood and had offered them to God. The Holy Spirit wants to show us the blood of man first through the murder of Abel. So, let’s ask the Holy Spirit, Why? The Law of First Mention has identified Genesis 4:10 as the first mention of blood. And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. Even in the sequence of numbers, we have the number of the world (4) and the number of man’s responsibility (10). But what else does the Holy Spirit have for us? And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand. (Genesis 4:11) The earth had opened her mouth. Notice the word her. She (the earth) received Abel’s blood and since that time that man’s blood was first shed and is first mentioned, man’s blood would be shed many times and the earth would drink man’s blood throughout the total history of mankind. This is a part of the mysteries of God. Abel’s blood had a voice in this FIRST mention of the blood of man, it CRIED out to God, and God listened to that cry.
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: (Revelation 6:9)
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? (Revelation 6:10)
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (Revelation 6:11)
We see in Revelation 6:9-11 the measure of blood of the saints and the voice of their blood. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Not only is Genesis 4:10 a number sequence of importance, in the entire book of Genesis, the word blood is mentioned ten (10) times. There is something else that is very important, first mention of blood in the Hebrew is bloods (plural). And this is the only time in the entire Bible, in God’s word, where we have the plurality of blood, thus showing us the foreknowledge of God. That God had already looked over the future of mankind and it would be blood upon blood. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (Isaiah 26:21)
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (Hosea 4:1) By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. (Hosea 4:2)
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children. (Matthew 27:25)
Genesis 4:10 also tells us the responsibility of man which the entire book of Genesis enforces by blood being mentioned ten times. (Genesis 4:10, 11; 9:4,5, 6; 37:22, 26, 31; 42:22; 49:11.) The first thing that we learn is that this is the blood of man, and with Abel’s blood being shed, we have the first two witnesses: the voice of God, and the voice of Abel’s blood. We are not asked to understand this, we are asked to believe that the blood of the first martyr had a voice before God. We also have a third witness, and this witness would continue throughout the entire history of mankind. It is the earth that received Abel’s blood. Meeting the principle of God that in the voice of two or three witnesses every word is established. And the voice of Abel’s blood also shows up in the gospel of Matthew and the gospel of Luke.
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (Matthew 23:35)
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; (Luke 11:50) From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. (Luke 11:51)
Let us also follow through other scriptures. Hebrews 11:4, By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (The voice of blood) The voice of Abel yet speaketh, does this not include his blood that speaketh from the earth? And let’s see the finality of this voice. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Hebrew 12:24) All the documentations of Abel, and his blood, brings forth the blood of man, and although God recognizes the blood of Abel it was not adequate, it did not have the power to bring about the atonement for mankind. Yet God recognized Abel’s blood as a foreshadow of the blood of God’s dear Son. God recognized this first blood and as scripture tells us, all the blood of the prophets and also the blood of Zechariah which means ‘Jehovah will remember,’ or “Jehovah remembers.’ (How long, O Lord, holy and true.)
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The Importance of the Blood of Man
Before the Law of Moses was established, God had established laws for all of mankind. The first law was given in the garden. It was The Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17)
With Abel God established The Law of Faith. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (Romans 3:27) After the flood in Genesis 9:6, God gave another law, He is upholding man’s blood. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. In 9:6, the number nine (9) is the number of finality, it is the last single digit; the number six ( 6) is the number of man. Although mankind was starting over in a new world, God established the principle of man’s blood and the importance of blood that NO ONE absolutely NO ONE should shed man’s blood without expecting that his own blood would be shed. Notice that in Chapter 9 it is God personally speaking to Noah and to his sons. That’s right. This Chapter begins with the presence of God to the survivors of the flood. As God came down to see sinful man BEFORE the flood, AFTER the flood He presented Himself and spoke to Noah and to Noah’s sons. The Chapter ends with the finality of Noah, and Noah passed into eternity as a righteous man and a preacher of righteousness.
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Two Separate Bloods
Genesis 9:6 is very important, as was Genesis 4:10, for it shows the importance of the blood of man. And this continued on throughout man’s history. God looked on ALL the blood of the prophets and of just men made perfect in Christ. Why is blood so important to God? We find that answer to this in Revelation 13:8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world is the Lamb of God. God only had ONE Lamb, ONLY ONE SON, and ONLY ONE SACRIFICE. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world presents a division of blood. The blood of the Lamb which taketh away the sin of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ versus the blood of man that cannot redeem man. Two separate bloods: the blood of Abel that cries from the ground and the blood of Jesus Christ that cries out from the cross. Abel’s blood was the blood of man. The blood of the cross from Jesus Christ was God’s blood. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts 20:28)
The Church of the Living God was purchased with His own blood. Again, we see blood in the Lamb slain BEFORE the foundation of the world. BEFORE there was man: BEFORE there was blood. The Lamb slain BEFORE the foundation of the world would bring forth God’s blood in the Lord Jesus Christ: The Lamb slain BEFORE the foundation of the world. Man’s blood could only cry out from the earth, but God’s blood cries out from heaven for it is a better blood than Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Hebrews 12:25) The Lord Jesus not only speaks by His voice from heaven in the word of God, and through His Spirit that the Father has placed within the heart of ALL of the redeemed, but the Lord’s blood on the mercy seat in heaven is a witness, a divine witness above the earth. As the earth received and opened her mouth, and took IN the blood of Abel, so heaven itself received the blood of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, and opened the veil and He placed His own blood on the mercy seat above to be a divine witness through ALL eternity that His blood was more precious than the righteous blood of Abel.
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: (Hebrews 9:24)
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; (Hebrews 9:25)
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Hebrews 9:26)
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God’s Issue with Israel and with Mankind
The Issue of Blood
In Matthew’s gospel where the King has come from heaven to claim His people, the twelve tribes of Israel, the word blood is mentioned twelve times in this gospel. His blood is sufficient for ALL of the tribes of Israel. However, in the first mention of blood in the gospel of Matthew, it is with a woman with the issue of blood which could not be healed by all the physicians, by all the medicines of the world at that time. Only ONE could heal her, as ONLY ONE could heal the nation of Israel. It was the nation of Israel who had slain the prophets that had let their blood flow from the days of ALL the prophets until the time of Christ. So, it is fitting to see how the word blood ends in Matthew’s gospel. His own nation had rejected their King when the people and the leaders of the Jews called for the blood of their Prophet, Priest and King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. (Matthew 27:25) And you would think that this would be enough, but the Holy Spirit has more for us. As the Son of man in Luke’s gospel, in the first mention of blood, we have again the woman with the issue of blood.
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, (Luke 8:43)
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. (Luke 8:44)
And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? (Luke 8:45)
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. (Luke 8:46)
And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. (Luke 8:47)
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. (Luke 8:48)
This section is full of instruction for us. The woman was smitten for twelve years, again the number of the twelve tribes of Israel. There was no way on earth that she could be healed of her issue. (As Israel could not be healed from the issue that she had with God that centered around the sacrifice of blood.) Notice it was just the Lord’s presence and the touch of His garment that virtue went out of the High Priest and the woman was healed. (Christ’s blue garment represented the power of Melchisedec, the High Priest and Son of God from heaven.) What was before the nation of Israel was THEIR healing in the Lord Jesus Christ. His presence as the Son of man was to redeem His people to Himself, and they refused Him. The LAST MENTION of BLOOD in the gospel of Luke closes with the Savior’s blood and the POWER and the REDEEMING power of the blood. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:44) Again we see the mysteries of God as the Spirit of God reveals our Savior in the garden alone. We see the suffering of His soul before the cross, and the intensity of what was before Him. It was so immense that our beloved Lord literally sweat was as it were great drops of blood. This is the ONLY time that this phrase is used in the entire Bible. Nowhere else does God use this phrase in all of scripture showing us the very depth of agony deep in the Savior’s soul that His flesh would convulse great drops of blood. And we have to connect this to Acts 20:28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. It was God’s own blood, not the blood of man that purchased the church of God. It was God IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. This was not the blood of mankind. This was not the blood of Adam. This was not the blood of Abel. This was the better blood, God’s own blood. It was a great blood as the great drops of blood fell to the ground. How sad when we remember the words of the people, and how horrible are these words of the people, and the rulers and the Pharisees uniting themselves together and crying out His blood [be] on us, and on our children. And from that time forward God has honored their cry; they condemned themselves and their own children for the blood of God has been upon the nation of Israel since that moment. They cursed themselves with Genesis 9:6, and this was to the tenth degree for this was where blood touches blood. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. Do you understand it now? His blood had to remove man’s blood, so much that we have to learn about our Savior and His sacrifice for us. This is where man’s blood touches God’s blood in the great plan of redemption. For ALL was in His blood, His GREAT blood, the blood of God, the blood of Jesus. I’m not going to leave out Mark’s gospel. It also has instruction of ‘The Issue of Blood’ is also first mentioned in this gospel. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years. (Mark 5:25) As the other two witnesses in Matthew and in Luke, Mark also witnesses through the servants’ eyes, and how Christ came to serve Israel as their Savior and Lord, and the LAST mention of blood in the gospel of Mark 14:24. And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Now I saved the jewel of John’s gospel. John’s gospel is the voice of the Spirit of God to all of mankind both Jew and Gentile. We must take this in to understand the revealing of the Son of man as He Himself reveals the Spirit through this gospel. It is the Spirit descending upon Him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. (John 1:33) And the Lord Jesus tells us in John Chapter 3 that it is the Spirit that brings and performs the new birth.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
The Lord Jesus also reveals to us the Spirit of God in FULLNESS in John 4:24, God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. It is the Spirit of God who creates us and gives us a position as the sons of God.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (John 1:12) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)
It is therefore fitting that the FIRST mention of blood in the gospel of John would show the sickness of sin in all men, and that we cannot be born again by man’s blood, or man’s flesh, or by the will of man. We must be born again of the Spirit of God through the great drops of blood that the Lord Jesus shed for our redemption. And the LAST mention of blood in the gospel of John is the Savior’s blood. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. (John 19:34) Blood is connected to a Gentile in this last mention of blood in John’s gospel. It is the spear of the centurion that ruptured the heart of God, and from this heart flowed blood and water. We should also consider 1st John Chapter 5, verses 4-13.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. (1st John 5:4)
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1st John 5:5)
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. (1st John 5:6)
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.(1st John 5:7)
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1st John 5:8)
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. (1st John 5:9)
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. (1st John 5:10)
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1st John 5:11)
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (1st John 5:12)
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1st John 5:13)
In John 1:13 we see the ruin of man, we see the ruin of man’s blood, the ruin of man’s flesh, the ruin of man’s will. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Man is totally lost and cannot find God unless God reveals Himself by God’s Spirit to the heart of man. In all three of the previous gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke it was the woman who had the issue of blood that was and is Israel of Revelation Chapter 12 with the issue of blood that cannot be healed. In John Chapter1, verse 13, we see the complete failure of mankind to save Himself, it must be of God. And now we must return to Hebrews 9:26. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. But ONCE in the end of the world GOD appeared with His own blood to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (2nd Corinthians 5:19)
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Once in the End of the World – Judgment
In the history of the shed blood upon the earth we see a prophetic value in man shedding man’s blood because it is a window into the destitute man full of sin. Many prophetic writings throughout the scriptures are based on the shedding of blood. The gospels and the epistles, and especially the book of the Revelation all speak of The End of the world. This is the fulfillment of God’s determinate counsels according to His perfect will and His good pleasure. Man is going to run out of his own history proving himself as the temple of ALL wickedness. In Revelation Chapter 13 the Beast condemns all who will not take his mark and sheds their blood is shed for they surrender their lives to Christ and not to the Beast.
We have in the Beast a man embracing all that is of Satan. And today, we have seen how close we have come to this by the orders of men, the world has suffered a lock down, and those who refused to obey the plandemic lock down or to receive the dubious, unproven and unreliable vaccine was and are shunned and pronounced as enemies of the world. This is how far we have come in the last fifty years. Man has been on a roller coaster of sin denying God so he can roll in the feathers of his sin and embrace all wickedness.
Sin beginning with Adam demands judgment whether it is biblical history or contemporary history we see that judgment has been upon mankind because man has refused to obey God in all that God has proposed for man. The judgment on the earth today whether it is a plague, famine or war or disease of all kinds, man has become so desperate in denying God that he brings upon himself the curtain of death through his own wickedness. Man destroys himself as was in the days of Noah. The whole world then went past the point of no return, as we in our age have gone past that point. Even the old world that was under the judgment of God knew the difference between men and women. We have heaped up the sins of Genesis Chapter 6 and the sins of Sodom and the five cities of the plains. The world is now covered in the cloud of evil and Satan sits above that cloud with great joy deceiving mankind, deceiving governments, deceiving religions and deceiving the peoples of the world. Many through their sin, pledge their allegiance to the Apollyons of this world. And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon. (Revelation 9:11)
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (2nd Thessalonians 2:1) That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (2nd Thessalonians 2:2)
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, this is a preliminary of the Spirit of God before the world is engulfed and Christ comes to destroy the wicked nations and to set up His own divine government that will reign for a thousand years. In 2nd Thessalonians we see the fast-approaching storm when nations will be against nations, and sin will reign overall. The child of God is encouraged not to fret nor worry for God has our time in His hand, and He will not surrender us to this present evil world for the day of Christ is at hand. At any moment the Lord will take His Church, His heavenly people to Himself, and we will be translated out of this world. As the apostle told us that there would be a great falling away. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. (2nd Thessalonians 2:2) This is the falling away of truth, however, the world both politically and religiously are under the spell of fantasy, the fantasies of Satan by denying the word of God. One of the tell-tale signs of the end of the world is the unity of people believing a lie over the truth. Man and Satan are both great counterfeiters and Satan is the father of all lies. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44) The governments of this world, have for a long period of history, used the word patriotism and loyalty to hide their lies, their murders, their tyranny and their wars of unjust men. Under the smoke and mirrors of wickedness they have covered their own thirst for blood. They lie, cheat, impoverish and kill to keep their power over the souls of men. This is where we live today in our age of confusion in a world of nations FULL of every sin and unclean beasts. People march for freedom, but they refuse to kneel in repentance toward God. They worship their own sin. They worship men and women of questionable celebrity influence as though they were gods, and those who are worshiped love to have it so. No matter how unclean the beast is, they worship it embracing their sin.
When the fullness of time had come, and God sent His Son into the world, this was a ONE-TIME occasion. It was the fulfillment of God’s will that Christ would be the Redeemer of man. That Christ would shed His blood and ascend up to heaven and enter into the Holy of Holies above where He placed His own blood, God’s blood on the mercy seat above. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: (Hebrews 9:24) I will once again attempt to instill in you (as children of God) that we are a heavenly people, we are not of this earth, we are of another language, we are of another race, and we have another home that is separated from this earth. There has only been one people as a nation that God made a covenant with and that was and is Israel. All the other nations that claim God’s favor or God’s blessing is in the minds of men and the propaganda of Satan to uplift a nation in deception while that nation continues in the lowest of sins. There are nations that even have claimed that they are the true Israel of God. Religionists have also claimed this title. They are all deceivers, and they are full of the lies of nations, and they believe the lies of their father the devil.
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Once in the End of the World
Once in the end of the world God provided His Lamb from the foundations of the world. Once in the end of the world God provided Himself as a sacrifice for sin. Once in the end of the world God provided His own blood, unique blood of righteousness that is beyond the blood of mankind, for it is the precious blood of Jesus. Once in the end of the world God provided His salvation. How great salvation which at first began to be spoken by the Lord. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. (Hebrews 2:3) Once in the end of the world the sacred words of Christ from the cross victoriously proclaimed, IT IS FINISHED. God has completed ALL. There is nothing left undone. The door of belief is wide open for every person. So therefore, once in the end of the world do YOU (in your heart) believe in God’s Christ, the Lord of glory, Christ, the Creator, Christ the Word, Christ the prophet, Christ the Priest after the oath of Melchisedec, Christ the sacrifice for sin, Christ the redeemer and power over sin, Christ the King the fulfiller of all righteousness, and Christ made higher than the heavens. Once in the end of the world God sent His Son to be the Savior of man.
Shalom and Amen and Amen.
© Copyright 2022, Michael Haigh
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All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJB)