Topic: The Blood Covenant – 2021

For a large part of the material in this study, I would like to acknowledge the following sources:

• The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
• The Blood Covenant by E.W. Kenyon
• The Blood Covenant by H. Clay Trumbull
• The Power of the Blood Covenant by Malcolm Smith

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The five types of sacrifices were:

1. Sin Offering
2. Trespass Offering
3. Burnt Offering
4. Meal Offering
5. Peace Offering

The Sin Offering and the Trespass Offering were mandatory offerings associated with the sins of the nation and the individuals.

The Burnt Offering, Meal Offering and Peace Offering were spontaneous, voluntary offerings of praise and thanksgiving.

1. The Sin Offering (Leviticus 4:1-5,13; 6:24-30)
   • You offered this offering because you were a sinner not because you had sinned.
   • The offering had to be spotless, no defects or blemishes.
   • The priest meets you at the altar and you lean heavily on the head of the animal and kill it. In this way you are personally identifying with the animal. You felt him dying on your behalf and you are grateful for this substitute.
   • The priest catches the blood and sprinkles some on the horns of the altar.
   • The priest takes the fat of the inward part because it was the choicest part and protected all the vital organs and he burns it on the altar. Symbolically you are giving your heart to God.
   • The priest then takes the carcass of the animal outside of the camp away from the presence of God and then the ashes are brought there. The rest of the carcass was then burned away from the camp because it represented sin.
   • You got none of the offering because that would indicate communion with God and God cannot commune where there is sin.
   • Jesus was offered for us outside of the gates of the city.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV (21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2. Trespass Offering (Leviticus 5:14-19; 7:1-10)

• • The Sin Offering deals with your position before God, the Trespass Offering deals with your walk with God. You offer it for the sins you have committed, rather than for sin itself.
  • As you lay your hands on the offering, you confess your particular sin.
  • Confessing your sin removes the burden of guilt.
  • The priest offers the fat of the inward parts to God upon the altar.
  • He sprinkles the blood back and forth on the altar.
  • The priest eats the remainder of the offering.
  • You receive none of this offering.
  • You must make restitution for the wrongs that you committed against others, adding 20% for their loss.
  • God has already forgiven us for all of our sins because all of them, past, present and future, were nailed to the cross of Jesus. Not only has God forgiven us for all of our sins, but He doesn’t even remember them. He blotted them out of His memory. (Isaiah 43:25)
  • We stay free of condemnation and guilt by confessing our sins to God and claiming the forgiveness that is already ours through the blood of Jesus. (1John 1:9)

Through these two offerings you were expressing your desire for God but you must go on. The Christian must move past these two offerings in order to experience the abundant Christian life. Christians that do not experience these things have not moved on to these offerings.

3. The Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1:3-17; 6:8-13)

• • This expresses your readiness to commune with God. You present yourself of your own free will.
  • You bring a bull, lamb or goat, or if you are poor you bring a turtledove or pigeon. These were domesticated pets you have personally raised and must be spotless.
  • As you lay your hands on the animal, you kill it on the north side of the altar.
  • The priest catches the blood and sprinkles it around the altar.
  • The priest skins the animal to expose all of its inward parts. He then checks it for defects. If satisfied with the examination, he burns the entire animal on the altar except for the skin.
  • The offering represents your willingness to give your entire being to God.
  • The smoke then ascends as a sweet smelling aroma to the Lord.
  • Jesus was killed on the north side of Jerusalem.
  • We present ourselves as a living sacrifice by yielding to the Lordship of Jesus over our lives. (Romans 12:1)
  • As a burnt offering, we lay ourselves before the Lord to inspect us and search us.

4. The Meal Offering

• • This represents your communion with God.
  • This was the only offering without blood.
  • The offering consisted of fine flour mingled with oil. Salt was added for seasoning and frankincense for spice. You offer it as raw flour or unleavened cakes and wafers and no leaven or honey is used.
  • You present it to the priest. The priest offers a handful to God and eats the remainder.
  • The handful in God’s eyes represents the whole offering.
  • In the Bible leaven represents sin. Honey when used with leaven represents the pleasures of sin. As the perfect Meal Offering, Jesus knew no sin.
  • There was no leaven or honey in His life. Jesus was filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit.
  • God desires for us to have no leaven or honey but to be filled with the oil of His Spirit.

5. The Peace Offering (Leviticus 3:1-17, 7:11)

• • This is the one you have been looking forward to because you get to keep a portion of this offering. It symbolizes the completion of your union with God.
  • You are now going to celebrate that communion through the peace offering.
  • Through the sin and trespass offering you have expressed a desire for communion with God. You have expressed a readiness for communion through the Burnt Offering and Meal Offering.
  • You are now going to celebrate that communion through the peace offering.
  • This is the one you have been looking forward to because you get to keep a portion of this offering. It symbolizes the completion of your union with God.
  • You lay your animal on the altar placing your hands on it and kill it.
  • The priest catches the blood and sprinkles it around the altar.
  • He takes the fat, places it on the altar and offers it to God.
  • With the help of the priest, you now offer to God the breast and right shoulder of the sacrifice. The breast represents your heart and the shoulder represents your strength. The priest places his hands on yours and together you move the sacrifice up and down, right and left in a waving motion resembling a “T”.
  • God then gives back this portion.
  • The high priest receives the breast portion and the right shoulder goes to the priest that is helping you.
  • Along with the animal sacrifice, you also bring unleavened cakes and wafers mixed with oil plus loaves of unleavened bread. There in the courtyard of the Tabernacle you eat the remainder of the sacrifice along with the loaves, with your family and friends.
  • You are celebrating together the communion of God.
  • Because God returned His portion to you, you are symbolically feeding on His divine nature to become one with Him.
  • Jesus is the true meat and drink that satisfies the cries and longings of man’s heart.
  • The portion of this offering that we get to keep is God’s very own divine nature coming in us by the person of the Holy Spirit.
  • Because of the sacrifice of Christ and through His blood, we now walk and live in communion and fellowship with Him.
  • God’s favor rests on all those who have accepted Jesus as their peace offering.

Romans 5:1 NKJV (1) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

The High Priest

Old Covenant – High Priestly Garments

The central figure of the Old Covenant system was the High Priest.

He was the most important person in the entire nation because he represented the entire nation before God.

He stood above everyone else not just because of his position but also because of what he was required to wear.

As we look at his garments, understand that together they paint a picture of the High Priest that was to come.

• He wore white breeches of fine linen next to his body. Over the linen breeches, he wore a white tunic of fine linen that hung to his feet. This outfit was the same as all of the other priests and therefore was ordinary.
• In the Bible, fine white linen represents perfect righteousness.
• So from within the High Priest was symbolically clothed in perfect righteousness.
• The High Priest wore a blue robe over his coat.
• The color blue speaks of heaven. It represents a heavenly appointment by God Himself Who select Aaron as the High Priest.
• Embroidered on the bottom of the robe were golden bells alternating with pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet. Gold represents deity. The purple and scarlet refer to royalty and blood sacrifice.
• These colors pointed ahead to the time when God Himself would come and establish His Kingdom with His own blood.
• Over his robe the priest wore a short sleeveless jacket called an ephod. The ephod was made of beaten gold that had been cut into thin wires and woven into fine linen of blue, purple and scarlet. It consisted of two pieces, front and back that were joined at the shoulders by two gold chains.
• The ephod reached from the shoulders to below the waist, hanging slightly above the blue robe. A sash of fine linen fastened around the ephod. The sash served as a reminder that the priest was a servant of God and a servant of Israel.
• A gold breastplate, also of blue, purple and scarlet was attached to the ephod. Twelve beautiful stones were attached to the breastplate. The name of one of the twelve tribes was engraved with a seal on each stone. The stones were attached in four rows with three stones to a row.
• As the High Priest interceded for the people, he symbolically carried the entire covenant nation into the presence of God.
• Two onyx stones were set in gold and fastened to the ephod at the shoulders. The names of the 12 tribes were engraved with a seal on these stones, six names on each stone.
• The stones on his shoulders represented his strength and the stones over his heart represented his love.
• The seventh article of clothing was a turban made of fine linen worn as a headpiece. A gold plate was attached to the turban with a blue ribbon. The words, “Holiness To The Lord” were engraved with a seal on the gold plate. This was the crowning piece of the garments of glory and beauty. By wearing it on his forehead, the High Priest would symbolically bear the guilt of any unclean sacrifices made to God, and it also made him acceptable to God.

The High Priest had many responsibilities but his most important was the duties he performed on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). This is the one day of the year, when the High Priest would beyond the veil into the Holy of holies.

The pressure was on him. If he made a mistake, the whole nation would be without forgiveness. So God gave detailed instructions to the High Priest. They not only told the High Priest what to do, but also pointed the nation to a priest who would come as one greater then Aaron. When He came, everyone would be able to recognize Him because He so perfectly would fulfill every detail of the instructions Himself.

Let’s walk through what the High Priest was to do on the Day of Atonement:

• The first thing the High Priest would do is to wash himself. This was symbolic cleansing of any defilement. He was clean so that he could then minister on behalf of the people.
• After washing, he would then get dressed for service. He would put on his white robe, his sash and his turban. These are the clothes that he would wear to represent the people in the presence of God. These are NOT the garments of glory and beauty. He dressed very plainly in his white coat of linen. He looks just like everyone else.
• He then sacrifices a bull for his own sin offering.
• He carries the blood from this sacrifice into the Holy of Holies and sprinkles it on the mercy seat.
• One of the reasons for the cloud of incense that was generated by the golden censer was to shield his eyes from the bright light that emanated from the presence of God that was seated on the Ark of the Covenant.
• Seven times he sprinkles the mercy seat indicating that there was coming a perfect sacrifice that would complete this.
• Each time the priest enters the Holy of Holies, there is no place to sit down. That is because his work was never finished.
• Now that he has offered the sacrifice for his own sin, he can now minister on behalf of the people.
• Two goats were selected as the sin offering for the nation. One goat will be sacrificed to God while the other goat is set free.
• He casts lots to determine which one would be the sacrifice and then carries is to the brazen altar, leans heavily on it and then kills it. The sins of the nation are symbolically transferred to the animal.
• The High Priest takes the blood of this animal into the Holy of Holies.
• There was no place for the priest to sit down in the Holy of Holies because his work was never going to be completed. He had to do this work all over again in a year.

Hebrews 1:3 NKJV (3) who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

• Everyone waits in anticipation to see if the sacrifice is accepted.
• He sprinkles the mercy seat seven times and this place becomes a seat not of judgment but rather one of mercy.

Hebrews 9:20-24 NIV (20) He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.” (21) In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. (22) In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (23) It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. (24) For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.

• Justice has been administered and God’s wrath has been vindicated.
• He then returns from the Holy of Holies and goes to the altar and smears the blood on the horns of the altar. This cleanses the altar from the sins of the people.
• The High Priest now needs some visible way to show you that your sins have been dealt with. He lays his hands on the scapegoat and transfers on it the sins of the nation and he sends it into the wilderness and your sins symbolically go with it.
• The scapegoat did not have to die; it went free. The second goat could go free only after the blood of the first goat had paid the price and the blood had been applied.
• The first goat represented you. Once you see that second goat is set free, you know that your sins are forgiven and separated from you. That was the best news you could hear for that year.
• The High Priest then goes back into the tabernacle and holy place and washes himself again. He then puts on all of his garments including the garment of glory and beauty. He is carrying you on his shoulders and in his heart. As long as you heard the bells, you knew that all was well and he is coming out soon to meet you.
• As he re-appears, in all of his full garments, there are great shouts of joy from the people because they know that the price had been paid for another year.
• He then offers a burnt offering to the Lord as a sacrifice of praise that the price was paid for another year.

Hebrews 13:15 NIV (15) Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise–the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Revelation 1:5-6 NKJV (5) and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, (6) and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

When criminals were put in jail in Rome, their crimes and the number of years penalty were listed and nailed to their cell door. Each year the jailer would go by the cell door and mark off the time served until the debt had been paid. This paper was called a certificate of debt. It stayed nailed to the door until the debt had been paid in full. Then the jailer would take the certificate to the judge who would stamp it “paid in full”. Then the prisoner would be set free.

Colossians 2:13-14 AMP (13) And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions, (14) Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross.

Hebrews 4:14-16 NKJV (14) Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. (15) For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. (16) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

When Jesus rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven His ministry did not end; it really was just beginning.

• Jesus is now our mediator.

Hebrews 8:6 NKJV (6) But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

• Jesus is our Advocate.

Let’s notice something about this courtroom situation. The Judge is your Dad and the defense attorney is your elder Brother, Jesus.

1 John 2:1 NKJV (1) My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

• Jesus is our Intercessor

Hebrews 7:25 NKJV (25) Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

• Jesus is our High Priest.

Everything we send to the Father in prayer, worship, etc. goes through Him and everything we receive from the Father comes through Him.

Philippians 4:19 NKJV (19) And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

 

For a large part of the material in this study, I would like to acknowledge the following sources:

• The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
• The Blood Covenant by E.W. Kenyon
• The Blood Covenant by H. Clay Trumbull
• The Power of the Blood Covenant by Malcolm Smith

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Exodus 19:17-18 NKJV And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. (18) Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

God gives the children of Israel the Ten Commandments while Moses is on the mountain.

God never intended for the Hebrews to approach Him by trying to keep the Ten Commandments.

Blood had to be shed for the forgiveness of sin. What God intended was for the people to know the commandments and the commandments to send His people to the Tabernacle, offer a sacrifice and get to Him that way.

The Hebrew was not to approach God by the Ten Commandments but through the sacrifices offered by the High Priest.

There were three things that God gave specific instructions to Moses to do: construct the Tabernacle, setup the system of sacrifices, and create the priesthood.

God gave the law, not as a part of the blood covenant, but as His way of revealing Himself to the world. It was His calling card to show the world His character.

When the Hebrew looked into the Ten Commandments, he would see God’s holiness and his sinfulness.

He could understand that he had sinned and fallen short of God’s glory and without the shedding of blood, there would be no forgiveness of sins. This revelation would drive the Hebrew to the blood covenant as his means of being reconciled to God.

The same is true for us.

The law, the Tabernacle, the priesthood and the sacrifice system were of the Old Covenant but they pointed the Hebrew to the New Covenant when God Himself would come in the flesh.

God gives us a preview:

• Man sinned and they covered themselves with leaves and hid from God.

Genesis 3:6-7 NKJV So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. (7) Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

• This was their way of covering their sin.
• God had a better way:

Genesis 3:21 NKJV Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

• God must kill an innocent animal and accept its blood in substitute as a temporary covering of their sin.
• So God killed an animal and showed it to Adam and Eve. Now Adam and Even had never seen death before. We are accustomed to death but they weren’t. It must have sickened them to see life taken away from one of God’s creatures.
• I believe He had Adam watch Him as he killed the animal.
• When God looked at them with those fig leaves on, He still saw their sin. He saw what it looks like when man in his own puny strength tries to cover his own sin.
• When God looked at them with the animal skins on, He knew that blood had been shed and the price to cover their sin had been paid.

Adam teaches his sons about the blood.

• Cain was older and was a farmer.
• Abel was a shepherd.

Genesis 4:1-16 NKJV Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.” (2) Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (3) And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. (4) Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering, (5) but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. (6) So the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? (7) If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” (8) Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. (9) Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” (10) And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. (11) So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. (12) When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.” (13) And Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! (14) Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.” (15) And the LORD said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him. (16) Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

• God approved of Abel’s offering because this was the way that had been established for sinful man to approach Him. Therefore, Abel was acceptable to God, not by his own goodness, but based on the innocent blood sacrifice.
• The blood was the evidence that the penalty for sin had been paid.

Hebrews 11:4 NKJV By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

• Cain rejected God’s way. Instead of bringing an innocent sacrifice, he brought the fruit of his own labor. Cain probably brought his very best but it represented the best of his own good works.
• Cain was trying to approach God with his own self-righteousness.
• There was no evidence that the penalty for sin had been paid.
• It was sinful man trying to approach a holy God on his own good works rather than through the blood of an innocent substitutionary sacrifice.
• We later see that Adam’s son Seth called upon the Name of the Lord and He accepted the sacrifice to cover their sins.
• Noah offered a sacrifice to God as soon as he stepped on dry land following the flood.
• Abraham was willing to sacrifice Isaac. Isaac and Jacob made sacrifices.

The Ten commandments were to serve as a mirror. It was designed to show the people God’s holiness and man’s sinfulness. It was meant to send man running to the blood covenant for any kind of hope in a relationship with God.

It also served to reveal God’s grace to man. No matter how hard man tries, he cannot come to God in anything that he can do and earn a relationship with God.

Then God shows Moses the sacrificial system.

The system has five types of sacrifices. Each sacrifice would uniquely reveal something about the nature of the final sacrifice when God would give Himself on man’s behalf. Taken as a whole they would form a complete picture of the perfect sacrifice.

The system called for 1273 public sacrifices a year. It included sacrifices each morning and evening, each Sabbath, the first day of the month and during special feast days of assembly and celebration. That amounts to almost 2,000,000 public sacrifice ceremonies from the time God established the system to the time that He would show up to be the perfect sacrifice.

In addition to the public offerings, there were millions of individual offerings.

God was making it clear that man can only approach Him through an innocent blood sacrifice.

The five types of sacrifices were:

1. Sin Offering
2. Trespass Offering
3. Burnt Offering
4. Meal Offering
5. Peace Offering

The Sin Offering and the Trespass Offering were mandatory offerings associated with the sins of the nation and the individuals.

The Burnt Offering, Meal Offering and Peace Offering were spontaneous, voluntary offerings of praise and thanksgiving.

1. The Sin Offering (Leviticus 4:1-5,13; 6:24-30)
   • You offered this offering because you were a sinner not because you had sinned.
   • The offering had to be spotless, no defects or blemishes.
   • The priest meets you at the altar and you lean heavily on the head of the animal and kill it. In this way you are personally identifying with the animal. You felt him dying on your behalf and you are grateful for this substitute.
   • The priest catches the blood and sprinkles some on the horns of the altar.
   • The priest takes the fat of the inward part because it was the choicest part and protected all the vital organs and he burns it on the altar. Symbolically you are giving your heart to God.
   • The priest then takes the carcass of the animal outside of the camp away from the presence of God and then the ashes are brought there. The rest of the carcass was then burned away from the camp because it represented sin.
   • You got none of the offering because that would indicate communion with God and God cannot commune where there is sin.
   • Jesus was offered for us outside of the gates of the city.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV (21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2. Trespass Offering (Leviticus 5:14-19; 7:1-10)

• • The Sin Offering deals with your position before God, the Trespass Offering deals with your walk with God. You offer it for the sins you have committed, rather than for sin itself.
  • As you lay your hands on the offering, you confess your particular sin.
  • Confessing your sin removes the burden of guilt.
  • The priest offers the fat of the inward parts to God upon the altar.
  • He sprinkles the blood back and forth on the altar.
  • The priest eats the remainder of the offering.
  • You receive none of this offering.
  • You must make restitution for the wrongs that you committed against others, adding 20% for their loss.
  • God has already forgiven us for all of our sins because all of them, past, present and future, were nailed to the cross of Jesus. Not only has God forgiven us for all of our sins, but He doesn’t even remember them. He blotted them out of His memory. (Isaiah 43:25)
  • We stay free of condemnation and guilt by confessing our sins to God and claiming the forgiveness that is already ours through the blood of Jesus. (1John 1:9)

Through these two offerings you were expressing your desire for God but you must go on. The Christian must move past these two offerings in order to experience the abundant Christian life. Christians that do not experience these things have not moved on to these offerings.

3. The Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1:3-17; 6:8-13)

• • This expresses your readiness to commune with God. You present yourself of your own free will.
  • You bring a bull, lamb or goat, or if you are poor you bring a turtledove or pigeon. These were domesticated pets you have personally raised and must be spotless.
  • As you lay your hands on the animal, you kill it on the north side of the altar.
  • The priest catches the blood and sprinkles it around the altar.
  • The priest skins the animal to expose all of its inward parts. He then checks it for defects. If satisfied with the examination, he burns the entire animal on the altar except for the skin.
  • The offering represents your willingness to give your entire being to God.
  • The smoke then ascends as a sweet smelling aroma to the Lord.
  • Jesus was killed on the north side of Jerusalem.
  • We present ourselves as a living sacrifice by yielding to the Lordship of Jesus over our lives. (Romans 12:1)
  • As a burnt offering, we lay ourselves before the Lord to inspect us and search us.

4. The Meal Offering

• • This represents your communion with God.
  • This was the only offering without blood.
  • The offering consisted of fine flour mingled with oil. Salt was added for seasoning and frankincense for spice. You offer it as raw flour or unleavened cakes and wafers and no leaven or honey is used.
  • You present it to the priest. The priest offers a handful to God and eats the remainder.
  • The handful in God’s eyes represents the whole offering.
  • In the Bible leaven represents sin. Honey when used with leaven represents the pleasures of sin. As the perfect Meal Offering, Jesus knew no sin.
  • There was no leaven or honey in His life. Jesus was filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit.
  • God desires for us to have no leaven or honey but to be filled with the oil of His Spirit.

5. The Peace Offering

(TBD Next Week)

 

For a large part of the material in this study, I would like to acknowledge the following sources:

• The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
• The Blood Covenant by E.W. Kenyon
• The Blood Covenant by H. Clay Trumbull
• The Power of the Blood Covenant by Malcolm Smith

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The Passover

Exodus 12:1-14 NKJV (1) Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, (2) “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. (3) Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. (4) And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. (5) Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. (6) Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. (7) And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. (8) Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. (9) Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire–its head with its legs and its entrails. (10) You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. (11) And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover. (12) ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. (13) Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. (14) ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.

God instructs every man to select for his household a lamb without spot or blemish on the 10^th day of the first month of the year. He is to observe the lamb for five days to make sure there is nothing wrong with him.

On the 14^th day of the month, he is to bring the lamb to the doorstep and kill it. As he kills the animal, and he catches the blood in a basin at the foot of the doorstep.

He then takes a hyssop bush, dip it into the blood, and sprinkle the blood on both sides of the doorpost and then above the doorpost. There will be blood at the foot of the door, both sides of the door, and at the top of the door. The entire entrance to the house will be covered by blood.

This is to be done on the evening of the 14^th. The Hebrew day ends at 6:00 in the evening. So, they had to kill the lambs around 3:00 in the afternoon of the 14^th day in order to eat the meal by 6:00. When 3:00 arrives, Hebrew knives flash against the Egyptian sun, as the lambs are killed, and the blood applied. The family then enters the house through the blood-stained door. Safe inside, they roast the lamb and eat it as they wait for the final plague of death to move through the land.

Remember, there are literally tens of thousands of people killing lambs and sprinkling the blood, ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

Can you imagine what it would be like and smell like if all of the residents of a city with a population of approximately 2 million people decided to go out in the back yard and grill steaks. You could smell the steaks and see the smoke for miles.

As the scent of the smoke ascended up, it reached the very nostrils of God. It was the evidence to God that the blood, representing the covenant relationship with Abraham’s descendants, had been applied.

Then the covenant meal was consumed to celebrate the communion of that covenant.

Exodus 12:46 NKJV (46) In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.

In preparing the meal, not one bone of the lamb was to be broken and the whole lamb was to be consumed. Nothing could be left over until the next day. Anything that the family could not eat was to be burned immediately.

Along with the lamb, the family also ate bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The bitter herbs were to remind them of their bitter times in bondage under Pharaoh. The unleavened bread would remind them they were eating on the run and did not have time to properly prepare the bread with all of the ingredients.

They ate the meal fully clothed with staff in hand ready to depart.

While the family was in the house, they could not see the blood covering but they had the faith that God would save them because of it.

As they ate their meal, the angel of death swept through the land. As he passed from house to house and door to door, he sought to enter the house. If the entrance was covered by the blood, the death angel could not get in but had to pass over that house. The blood was a seal protecting the people inside. If the entrance was not covered by blood, judgment would come upon that house and the first-born died.

As the Hebrew nation walked out of Egypt, each family had in them a whole lamb. Every individual family member had feasted on the same lamb and he was in each of them.

When the Hebrews offered up the blood of the lamb to God, they believed they were symbolically offering their own life to God. They knew the life of the flesh was in the blood. In this time of deliverance, the blood-sprinkled doorpost became their altar, and the lamb took their place.

The Covenant Meal

God established the Passover Meal as an ordinance to be kept year after year, from generation to generation. It would be an everlasting memorial to their deliverance from bondage in Egypt.

The House Cleaning

Before the Passover could begin, all the leaven was to be removed from the Hebrew’s house. The leaven represented their old life in Egypt. Their house had to be purged of the leaven because there could be no leaven present as they communed with God.

The Head of the House would take a lighted candle and diligently search through every nook and cranny of the house looking for the leaven. If they found any it must be removed from the house immediately.

The modern Hebrew practices this same tradition as someone spreads crumbs of unleavened bread around the house. The Head of the Household then takes a candle and searches the house for the leaven. When he finds it, he is careful not to touch it. He has a feather and brushes it into a wooden spoon. Once all of the leaven is found, he puts the spoon, feather and candle in a cloth bound by string and burns it. Now the household is purged from all of the leaven.

Partaking of the meal

The family reclines at the table seated in order around the head of the house. The Head is responsible for explaining the meaning of the Passover to the children. When they ask, he replies,

Exodus 12:27 NKJV (27) that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Cup #1 – The Cup of Sanctification – the head of the household would hold up this cup and bless it.

Bitter Herbs Dipped in Salt Water – reminded them of their bitter suffering and tears in Egypt.

Cup #2 – The cup of plagues – then the telling of the story of the plagues and judgments on Egypt

The Bread

Instead of putting unleavened bread on the plate, they began to put it in a small bag embroidered with gold thread. Three pieces of unleavened bread were placed in three compartments in the bag, one in each compartment. During the meal, the host would take out the middle piece of bread, break it and pass it around the table. Each member would then break off a piece and eat it. They believed that this center piece symbolized Isaac who was sacrificed although they never fully understood it because he was never sacrificed.

Cup #3 – The cup of Redemption

Cup #4 – The cup of Praise

When God made His covenant with Abraham, He made three promises:

1. 1. There would be many descendants
   2. His Descendants would possess the land
   3. There was a seed of Abraham that was coming who would be a blessing to whole world

The “coming one” would not only be their king, but somehow in a way that they did not fully understand, he would be “God living among them.” He would be their God and they would be His people.

After they possessed the land, they began to look for the fulfillment of that last promise.

They anticipated His coming.

They placed a cup at the end of the table called the “cup of blessing.” According to tradition, when he would come, he would drink of “the cup” and cut a new covenant with is people. So they left a place looking forward to this time.

They also set aside a cup for Elijah. They believed Elijah would come and announce the coming of the king. He would prepare the people for the coming of the king. At the beginning of the covenant meal, the youngest of the family would open the door and invite Elijah to come in and join them in the meal. The entire family would stand and say, “Blessed is he that cometh.” But he does not come. So the youngest returns to his place at the table.

The family would then recite the following prayer: “How long, O Lord, how long wilt your anger not be turned away from your people Israel and will you have mercy and restore us again to your favor? Behold our sufferings: we are scattered among the heathen and they mock us saying: ‘Where is your God, and where is the promise of his coming?’
We grow faint, yet we hope…”

Temple Passover

Later when the temple was built, instead of killing the lambs at the doorpost, they would bring them to Jerusalem and kill them at the temple. It became a time of great joy and celebration.

The Levites would lead the people in singing as they sacrificed at the Temple.

When the Hebrew came to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, he could buy a lamb already set aside for sacrifice. It was a lamb that had been closely inspected and without spot or blemish. It was a lamb that they found no fault in because it was born to die as a Passover Lamb.

Arriving for Passover the Killing of the Lambs

You arrive at Jerusalem and you see the temple off in the distance.

There is a lot of activity as people are preparing for the Passover.

Josephus the Jewish historian recorded that there would be about 265,000 Passover lambs that would be sacrificed.

Imagine at 3:00 on the 14^th day, all of those lambs being killed at for the next couple of hours.

The Levites would line up in rows with a basin in his hand to catch the blood, just like the threshold in the original Passover.

You would then prepare the Passover meal as instructed and receive it.

The New Covenant

John 1:26-29 NKJV (26) John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know. (27) It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.” (28) These things were done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. (29) The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! On the 10^th day of the Passover month, Jesus makes His entrance into Jerusalem.

John 12:12-15 NKJV (12) The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, (13) took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!’ The King of Israel!” (14) Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written: (15) “FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SITTING ON A DONKEY’S COLT.”

For five days, the religious leaders observe Him and find nothing wrong with Him. He is spotless and without blemish. They find no fault because He was born to die as the Passover Lamb.

On the evening of the 14^th, a room is prepared, and Jesus and His disciples receive the Passover meal together.

Jesus picks up the bag with the bread in it and pulls out the middle piece and breaks it and gives it to His disciples.

Luke 22:13-20 NKJV (13) So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. (14) When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. (15) Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; (16) for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” (17) Then He took the cup (Cup of redemption), and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; (18) for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” (19) And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” (20) Likewise He also took the cup (cup of blessing) after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

The bread does not represent Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as originally thought, but rather for God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Jesus reaches in and takes out the bread in the center compartment of the bag and breaks it and gives it to the disciples.

Jesus then reaches over and takes “the cup” (The cup of blessing) and drinks of it and serves the disciples from it.

Luke 22:20 NKJV (20) Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

At 9:00 that morning, as the lambs were being prepared for the sacrifice, Jesus was nailed to a cross. The third hour was 9:00 in the morning.

At 3:00 as the people sang praises to God, the lambs are slaughtered. As the shouts of hallelujah and praise the lord ring out, on Calvary Jesus died. Just like the doorpost back in Egypt, the blood of the lamb covered the cross.

Not one bone of His body was broken just as the instructions were in the Passover.

The entire lamb was consumed in the fires of judgment of God as He was our sin substitute.

The Jews, not knowing that they were fulfilling another prophecy, hurriedly took down His body before 6:00, so that there would be nothing left the next day.

The hyssop bush carries water though its stem. When the blood was applied, water and blood would flow together so the entrance of the house was actually sealed with blood and water.

The High Priest would have to pass by the blood of the altar and the water of the laver.

When the Temple was built, blood drained in basins underneath the altar. Water flowed through these basins carrying the blood outside the Temple so that the people could see that their sacrifice had been accepted.

When they pierced Jesus’ side, water and blood flowed out.

Remember, just as in days of old, the Passover was a time of celebration. Our Communion remembrance should be a time of celebration and examination – not a like a funeral!

Just as the lamb had to be consumed and the remains burned, Jesus’ body could not remain on the Cross as the Sabbath approached. They must take His body down. That is why there was such a hurry to find a tomb and place His body there.

For a large part of the material in this study, I would like to acknowledge the following sources:

• The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
• The Blood Covenant by E.W Kenyon
• The Blood Covenant by H. Clay Trumbull
• The Power of the Blood Covenant by Malcolm Smith

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Four times the Scripture says that Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15:5-6 NKJV (5) Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” (6) And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Romans 4:3 NKJV (3) For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

Galatians 3:6 NKJV (6) just as Abraham “BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

James 2:23 NKJV (23) And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” And he was called the friend of God.

What was it Abraham believed?

500 years after the flood, the people of the earth have once again become idol worshippers and have strayed away from God.

So God shows up in Abram’s life and declares that he was to leave his family and the heathen nation he was in and go to a place that God would show him. There God would bless him and make of him a great nation.

Genesis 12:1-5 NKJV (1) Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. (2) I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. (3) I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (4) So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

God later shows up to cut a covenant with Abram and we see the ceremony described here:

Genesis 15:1 NKJV (1) After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

• God says to Abram, “I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.” With this statement God is taking the initiative by offering his robe and belt to Abram. God does not have a physical robe to give him, so God just simply offers Himself.
• God is saying, “Abram, here is Myself. I offer you me. I am your reward. I am holy; I give you my holiness. I am righteous; I give you my righteousness. I give you My life, pledging to lay it down on your behalf if you will accept this covenant and enter into it with Me.”
• God then says, “I am your shield. I don’t give you a shield, I will be your shield. I will protect you and fight your battles for you. I will be your strength. If anyone attacks you, they are really attacking me.”
• “Out of your seed shall come a blessing to the whole world. But I want you to know that I am not making this covenant with you because you deserve it because you don’t. I’m taking the initiative with this covenant because I love you and for no other reason.

Abram then responds,

Genesis 15:8 NLT (8) But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?”

God then has him go through the entire procedure of the cutting of the covenant with the animals. All of these animals were considered “clean” by the Lord.

Just because of the instructions that God gives him, Abram KNOWS that this is going to be a covenant. It absolutely cannot be broken under any circumstances.

Genesis 15:9-17 NKJV (9) So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” (10) Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. (11) And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. (12) Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. (13) Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. (14) And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. (15) Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. (16) But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” (17) And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.

There is only one problem. How can the Creator enter into a covenant with the creation? How can weak, sinful man enter into a covenant with the Holy, mighty all-powerful God? What does Abram possibly have to offer God? If every human being could offer all of their possessions to God, it still would never merit a covenant with Him. The Creator is beyond reach of the creation’s ability to reach out to Him in their own capacity. There is just no common ground on which man can approach God.

Because there was no one else that swear in the covenant, He decided that He was going to swear by Himself.

Hebrews 6:13-14 NKJV (13) For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, (14) saying, “SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS YOU, AND MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY YOU.”

God caused a deep sleep to fall on Abram and there was great darkness. Then Abram witnessed someone taking his place, passing between the halves of the animals. Someone else was saying, “I’m dying to myself. I’m giving up my rights to my own life. I’m beginning a new walk with my covenant partner. Not my will, God but Yours be done.”

It was such a bright, brilliant glow that Abram saw. Who did He see?

Matthew 17:1-2 NKJV (1) Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; (2) and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

Revelation 1:13-15 NKJV (13) and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. (14) His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; (15) His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;

Revelation 21:23 NKJV (23) The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

The eternal Son of God, in His pre-existing glory, stood in for Abram. He is the only one that was qualified to stand in for him. All of Abram’s unborn seed were included in the covenant because they were in Abram.

Remember, Jesus was to be the sacrifice. He, Himself would, sometime in the future, come as the “Lamb of God” to take away the sins of the world. The blood of animals could only cover sins. The blood of Jesus takes them away.

Seal of Circumcision

In Genesis 17, God instructs Abram to seal the covenant so that there would be a scar to be the testimony of the covenant. The scar would be a result of circumcision. Abram would wear in his flesh, the evidence that he had entered into a blood covenant with God through Christ. All of Abram’s descendants would bear this scar so that the reminder or testimony would be passed down from generation to generation.

Change of Names

According to the covenant ritual, God and Abram changed names. God Who is called YHWH in the Hebrew, took the “H” out of His name and put it into Abram’s name. Abram’s name was then changed to Abraham. Likewise, Sara’s name became Sarah. God took on Abraham’s name because from that point on, He was known as the God of Abraham. Abraham is then called the “friend of God.”

Abraham Has No Son

According to the promise, Abraham was to have a son. If this is going to happen, it will definitely take a supernatural miracle of God. Abraham has never had a covenant partner like God with so many promises but the one thing he does know is that God cannot break the covenant. This gives him complete confidence and assurance in his Partner and his willingness and ability to bring the promise to pass.

God is capable of delivering and Abraham and Sarah have a son.

Genesis 21:5 NKJV (5) Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

The Proving of the Covenant

Remember, when the covenant is cut, each party completely surrenders himself in loving trust to his covenant partner. He must be willing to give his total life, his being, and his heart to the one he is in covenant with. The covenant is a total surrender of yourself to the one you are in covenant with.

The blood covenant is not a mere intellectual understanding between Abraham and God, or you and God.

The only way to totally prove Abraham’s heart in the covenant was to find out would he be willing to give up that which is most dear to him – his son.

This was a common practice among heathen nations.

Would Abraham do the same for his God?

God is asking, “Do you love me as much as heathens love their idols? Are you willing to surrender that which is most dear to you to prove that love Me, or was all of this just talk? Have you really given me your heart?”

Genesis 22:1-2 NLT (1) Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.” (2) “Take your son, your only son–yes, Isaac, whom you love so much–and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

You must understand Abraham’s position in this matter. He was already 100 years old. For a middle-easterner, to offer his only son’s life was a greater sacrifice than offering his own life. If God had asked for Abraham’s life, a worn-out old man of 100, it would not have been a true test of Abraham’s faithfulness to the covenant. But for Abraham to offer his only son and once again become child-less at such an old age – this is the ultimate sacrifice.

To the middle-eastern mind, to die without a son was the most terrible thing in life. Your whole life would be considered a failure. So in offering his son, Abraham would prove in the most supreme way that he loved God and would be faithful to the covenant.

Abraham Offers Isaac

Genesis 22:5 NLT (5) “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”

Mr. Booker, who wrote The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread, says this about the age of Isaac.

“Although I cannot prove it in the scripture, I believe that at this time Isaac is a young man in his thirties, (probably 33). The Jewish age of maturity is 30. Isaac did not marry until he was 40 and no children until he was 60. So even at 33, he would have been considered a young man. So Isaac had 3 years of manhood before he was to be offered as a sacrifice.”

Genesis 22:6-8 NLT So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, (7) Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” (8) “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.

Hebrews 11:17-19 AMP (17) By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test [while the testing of his faith was still in progress], had already brought Isaac for an offering; he who had gladly received and welcomed [God’s] promises was ready to sacrifice his only son, [Gen. 22:1-10.] (18) Of whom it was said, Through Isaac shall your descendants be reckoned. [Gen. 21:12.] (19) For he reasoned that God was able to raise [him] up even from among the dead. Indeed in the sense that Isaac was figuratively dead [potentially sacrificed], he did [actually] receive him back from the dead.

What Did Abraham Believe?

1. First of all, he believed in a supernatural birth. He believed that God would supernaturally bring Isaac into the earth.
2. He believed God enough to offer his only son as a sacrifice; and he did.
3. He believed for three days that his son was as good as dead. And he was.
4. He believed God would provide a substitutionary sacrifice on that very mountain and He did
5. He believed that God would raise his son from the dead.

Because Abraham believed these things in his heart, God gave Abraham His own robe of righteousness. Because of Abraham’s faith, God was his shield, his protection. The righteousness of God was imputed or counted to Abraham’s behalf because he believed.

What Are We Asked to Believe?

1. The supernatural birth of Jesus.
2. That God provided His only Son as a sacrifice for us.
3. That He died and was buried.
4. That God raised Him from the dead on the third day and now He is Lord!

For a large part of the material in this study, I would like to acknowledge the following sources:

• The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
• The Blood Covenant by E.W Kenyon
• The Blood Covenant by H. Clay Trumbull
• The Power of the Blood Covenant by Malcolm Smith

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• Leviticus 17:11 NKJV  For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

• When we are talking about the Blood of Jesus, we are talking about the life of Jesus. Jesus shed His life for us!When we receive Jesus, our blood and His are not literally mingled together in covenant, but our LIVES are.The Bible is divided into two divisions: the Old Testament and the New Testament. The word Testament comes from the Latin word, “testamentum”. The more proper name for these divisions is “covenant”.

• Hebrews 8:6-7 NKJV  But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.  (7)  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

• In the Old Testament the Hebrew word is:  b^eri yth (ber-eeth’) to cut until blood flowsIn the New Testament Greek the word is: Diatheke (dee-ath-ay’-kay) contract, will or testament

• The covenant is the very foundation of our contact with God and His contact with us.

• A Blood Covenant between two parties is the most solemn and sacred of all contracts. It absolutely cannot be broken.

• When you enter in blood covenant with someone, you promise to give them your life, your love and your protection forever… till death do you part. Marriage is a blood covenant.

• Let’s look at the Hebrew ritual of the covenant. All nations practiced blood covenant because even apart from God, man instinctively looks for this relationship. The practice of blood covenant is not unique to the Hebrews. When two Hebrew males entered into a blood covenant, they went through a very specific ceremony.

There could be nine steps to the ceremony:

1. Take off Coat or Robe

The first thing that I do is to take off my coat or robe and give it to you. To the Hebrew, the robe represents the person.

By taking off my robe and giving it to you, I’m symbolically saying, “I’m giving you all of myself. My total being and my life, I pledge to you.” Then you would do the same to me.

2. Take Off the Belt

The next thing I do is to take off my belt and give it to you. Belts did not hold up their pants but they did hold their weapons. My belt holds my armor together: my dagger, my bow and arrow, my sword.

Symbolically, in doing this, I’m giving you all my strength and pledging to you all of my support. As I give you my belt, I’m saying, “Here is my strength and all my ability to fight. If anybody attacks you, they are also attacking me. Your battles are my battles and mine are yours. I will fight with you. I will help defend and protect you.”

3. Cut the Covenant

We would then “cut the covenant” by taking an animal and splitting it right down the middle. In the Bible this only happens during a covenant ceremony. After we split the animal, we lay each half to the side of us and stand in between the two bloody halves of flesh, with our backs to each other. Then we walk right through the bloody halves, making a figure eight, and come back to stop and face one another.

In doing so, we are saying two things: First, we are saying that we are dying to ourselves, giving up our rights to our own life and beginning a new walk with our covenant partner unto death. You see, in this covenant, each half of the dead animal represents each of us. Second, since the blood covenant is the most solemn pact, we each point down to the bloody animal split in two and say, “God, do so to me and more if I ever try to break this covenant. Just split me right down the middle and feed me to the vultures because I tried to break the most sacred of all pacts.”

Genesis 15:8-12 NKJV (8) And he said, “Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” (9) So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” (10) Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. (11) And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. (12) Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:17 NKJV (17) And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.

4. Raise the Right Arm and Mix Blood

Then we raise our right arms, cut our palms and bring the together. As we do, our blood intermingles. Then we swear allegiance to each other. As the blood intermingles, we believe our lives are intermingling and becoming one life. Remember, the life is in the blood. (Leviticus 17:11)

So we are putting off our old nature and putting on the nature of our blood covenant partner. We two are becoming one.

5. Exchange Names

Then as we stand there with our blood intermingling, we exchange names. I take your last name as part of my name, and you take my last name as part of your name.

Genesis 17:1-8 NKJV  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.  (2)  And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”  (3)  Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying:  (4)  “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.  (5)  No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.  (6)  I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.  (7)  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.  (8)  Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

6. Make A Scar

The next step is to rub our blood together and make a scar as a permanent testimony to the covenant. The scar will bear witness to the covenant we have made. It will always be there to remind us of our covenant responsibilities to each other. It is the guarantee of the covenant. Sometimes, they would take small amounts of dirt or gravel and rub it into the wound to ensure that it made a visible scar.

If anyone tries to harm us, all we have to do is to raise up that right arm and show our scar. By that we are saying, “There’s more to me than meets the eye. If you are coming after me, you’re also going to have to fight my blood covenant partner. And you don’t know how big he is. So what are you going to do? Are you going to take your chances or back off?”

Henry Stanley, on his explorations through Africa, cut covenant 50 times with various chiefs. Anytime he would come across an unfriendly tribe, he would just hold up that right arm with those 50 scars on it and any would-be attacker would take off running in the other direction.

7. Give the Terms of the Covenant

Then we would stand before all of the witnesses and give the terms of the covenant. I say, “All of my assets are yours. All my money, all my property, and all my possessions are yours. If you need any of them, you don’t even have to ask. Just come and get what you need. What’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine. If I die, all my children are yours by adoption and you are responsible for my family.

But at the same time you get all my liabilities. If I ever get into trouble financially, I don’t come and ask you for money. I come to you and say, ‘Where’s your checkbook?’ We are in covenant. Everything I have is yours and yours is mine, both assets and liabilities.”

8. Eat A Memorial Meal

Then we eat a memorial meal to complete the covenant union. In place of the animal and blood, we have bread and wine. We take a loaf of bread and break it in two and feed it to each other saying, “This is symbolic of my body and I’m now putting it in you. Then we serve each other the wine and say, “This is symbolic of my life blood which is now your blood. I’m in you and you’re in me. We are now one together with a new nature.

9. Plant A Memorial Tree

We now leave a memorial to the covenant. We want to always remember it. We do this by planting a tree that we have sprinkled with the blood of the animal. The blood sprinkled tree, along with our scar, will always be a testimony to our covenant.

This completes the ceremony. From now on we are known as friends. In Bible times, one didn’t use the word friend loosely as we do today. You became friends only after you had cut covenant.

James 2:23 NKJV (23) And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” And he was called the friend of God.

John 15:12-15 NIV (12) My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (13) Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (14) You are my friends if you do what I command. (15) I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Anytime you see these happenings or these words referenced in the Bible, either actually or symbolically, you know the parties are entering into blood covenant. You won’t find all the details spelled out step by step as we have now, because in Bible Days, everyone knew all the details and it wasn’t necessary to record it all.

Let’s look at one example of many of the covenants from the Bible:

1 Samuel 18:1-9 NLT (1) After David had finished talking with Saul, he met Jonathan, the king’s son. There was an immediate bond between them, for Jonathan loved David. (2) From that day on Saul kept David with him and wouldn’t let him return home. (3) And Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, because he loved him as he loved himself. (4) Jonathan sealed the pact by taking off his robe and giving it to David, together with his tunic, sword, bow, and belt. (5) Whatever Saul asked David to do, David did it successfully. So Saul made him a commander over the men of war, an appointment that was welcomed by the people and Saul’s officers alike. (6) When the victorious Israelite army was returning home after David had killed the Philistine, women from all the towns of Israel came out to meet King Saul. They sang and danced for joy with tambourines and cymbals. (7) This was their song: “Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands!” (8) This made Saul very angry. “What’s this?” he said. “They credit David with ten thousands and me with only thousands. Next they’ll be making him their king!” (9) So from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Let’s review the characters in the story:

• David

David is the giant killer. He is the great warrior who could crush all his foes and all the enemies of Saul. David loves Saul and has Saul’s best interests at heart. David could have killed Saul on several occasions, but he kept forgiving him. David wants to show love to Saul but Saul won’t let him.

• Saul

Saul is just the opposite of David. He has a knack for being outside the will of God. He is rebellious and seeks to do his own thing rather than God’s thing. This rebellion continuously brings grief and sorrow to Saul.

Saul is afraid of David. This soon becomes an obsession to him so he hunts David down and tries to kill him. Saul makes everyone in his family believe that David is out to get them. “Don’t get too close to David or he’ll kill you. He’s mean and unjust and he’ll destroy you if he gets the chance.” The truth is that David is just the opposite of everything they are told to believe.

• Jonathan

This is Saul’s son. Jonathan is just the opposite of Saul and his family. He is actually more like David. Jonathan loves David as his own self and he and David entered into a blood covenant.

Jonathan is always trying to bring peace between Saul and David. But the harder he tries, the angrier Saul becomes.

• Mephibosheth

Jonathan later marries and has a son named Mephibosheth. When Mephibosheth is just 5 years old, Saul and Jonathan are killed in battle. When the news of their deaths reaches Jerusalem, out of fear of David, the nurse grabs up Mephibosheth and flees. In her haste, she falls and both of his feet are crushed. The nurse then takes him to hid out east of the Jordan River in a town called Lodebar.

While in Lodebar, his heart hardens more and more towards David. His lame feet are a constant reminder of the belief that David is out to get them and even kill them. The sad truth is he does not know that he is in covenant with the king through his father, Jonathan.

David begins his reign as king. In 2 Samuel 9, he begins to wonder of any of the family of Saul are still alive. He wants to show them kindness because of his covenant with Jonathan but out of fear, no one tells him the truth. Finally a former servant of Saul confides in David that there is a relative still alive down in Lodebar.

David searches out Mephibosheth and finds him and brings him to the palace.

Mephibosheth must choose whether to believe that all of David’s goodness is true and to receive it. He does choose and he chooses to receive it. He chooses to throw away all that he has always believed about David and to receive his goodness and mercy.

• • • David represents God.
    • We are in the family of Saul.
    • Jonathan was in the family of Saul but was just like David (humanity). This is Jesus – born into our family (humanity) but just like God.
    • Jesus was born of the seed of the woman and not of man so His blood was not contaminated with the defiled blood of man.
    • Jesus cuts the covenant in His own blood. He ate the meal. He planted a tree sprinkled with His own blood.
    • Jesus remembers the covenant and seeks you out.
    • You and I must choose to receive it.

Covenant Terms:

God says, “Here are the terms of the covenant. I’ll take your liabilities, all your sins, on Myself and become sin for you. I’ll forgive your iniquities and remember them no more. I’ll take your self-righteousness and give you My own righteousness, which is pure and holy. You clothe Me with your robe of sin and I’ll clothe you with My garment of salvation and righteousness. You’ll take of My own nature by the intermingling of our blood. You can become a part of me and I’ll live in your heart. My house will be your house. You can feast at My table. I’ll be a Father to you and adopt you as my own son. You will reign with Me and have eternal life with Me.

John 6:53-58 NLT 53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. 54 But anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day. 55 For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56 Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him. 57 I live because of the living Father who sent Me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”

Supernatural Scar:

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NIV (21) Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, (22) set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Ephesians 1:13 NIV (13) And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

We have exchanged names!

Ephesians 1:17-23 NKJV (17) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, (18) the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, (19) and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power (20) which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, (21) far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. (22) And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, (23) which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Philippians 2:9-11 NKJV (9) Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, (10) that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, (11) and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

 

For a large part of the material in this study, I would like to acknowledge the following sources:

• The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
• The Blood Covenant by E.W Kenyon
• The Blood Covenant by H. Clay Trumbull
• The Power of the Blood Covenant by Malcolm Smith

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• Have you ever found yourself reading the Bible and it did not make sense to you?
• Have you ever felt like the Bible seems like two different books with one cover?
• Have you ever wondered what the connection was, if any, between the Old Testament and the New Testament?
• You know you are a New Testament believer or follower of Christ, but really what does the Old Testament have to do with me now in today’s time?

If you have ever felt this way, you are not alone.

Luke 24:13-32 NKJV Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.  (14)  And they talked together of all these things which had happened.  (15)  So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.  (16)  But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.  (17)  And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?”  (18)  Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?”  (19)  And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,  (20)  and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.  (21)  But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.  (22)  Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.  (23)  When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.  (24)  And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.”  (25)  Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!  (26)  Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”  (27)  And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.  (28)  Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.  (29)  But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them.  (30)  Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.  (31)  Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.  (32)  And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”

Acts 8:26-40 NKJV Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert.  (27)  So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,  (28)  was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.  (29)  Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.”  (30)  So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”  (31)  And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.  (32)  The place in the Scripture which he read was this: “HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER; AND AS A LAMB BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT, SO HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH.  (33)  IN HIS HUMILIATION HIS JUSTICE WAS TAKEN AWAY, AND WHO WILL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR HIS LIFE IS TAKEN FROM THE EARTH.”  (34)  So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?”  (35)  Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.  (36)  Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?”  (37)  Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”  (38)  So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.  (39)  Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.  (40)  But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.

John 5:39 NLT (39)  “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

We are going to begin our Bible Study by grasping the most foundational truth of the entire Bible.

• We must realize that the Bible is not a western book.

It is based upon the eastern culture. You must take that into account when you are interpreting scripture.

• The purpose of the Old Testament is to reveal the Lord Jesus Christ in God’s great Plan of Redemption.

The Old Testament is based upon types and shadows and works similar to a shadow picture that many of us had done when we were children. It bears the shape and resemblance of the real thing but it is not the real thing.

Because God has already been in eternity future as well as eternity past, He was able to lay this foundation in the Old Testament with the purpose that the shadow would highlight the real thing when He did arrive.

• This is how the Old Testament and the New Testament are tied together: they both tell the same story.

The Old Testament tells that it is going to happen. The New Testament tells that it did happen.

Let’s be mindful of some things that will help us in Bible interpretation:

1. You must always be aware of who is doing the talking and how credible they are as a source of information.

The Bible is not literally true in the sense that every statement is a statement of truth.

The Bible is inspired by God and is truly stated but it is not a book where every statement in it is truth. You must consider the source.

Example: The Pharisees said that Jesus was a blasphemer; Satan’s throne will be exalted above God’s throne.

2. Understand the rule of first mentions in the Scripture. God always has the best idea the first time around.

When you can establish a principle of truth in the Bible, it will remain throughout the rest of the Bible. It will not change as the Dispensations change. It is based on the immutability of God.

However, there is a danger in this:

3. You cannot use marginal revelation to interpret a greater revelation.

You may begin interpreting the New Testament in light of the Old Testament.

When you interpret the Scripture, you always use the greatest light you have to illuminate that particular subject.

The key to understanding the scripture was well said by St. Augustine: “The New is in the Old Testament contained, but the Old is by the New explained.”

The Old Testament is not a record of meaningless rituals, customs, places, names and unrelated events.

The Old Testament is an orderly, progressive, unfolding revelation from God, of the blood covenant He entered into with man through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Booker – “You see, God has planned, that in His own appointed time, He would prepare for Himself a body just like ours and become one of us. Since He is God, He naturally knew everything He would do when He became one of us. He knew where He would be born. He knew by what name He would be called. He knew everything about the details of His life. He even knew that He would die. Therefore, He painted this shadow of Himself in the Old Testament so that everybody would recognize Him when He arrived on the scene. This is how the entire Old Testament points to Jesus. It is a picture of a person.

Isn’t this what we would do if we were going to meet someone who had never seen us before? Why, we would describe ourselves in great detail and even decide beforehand where we would meet. That way the person looking for our coming would recognize us when we show up.”

In order to understand the Scriptures, one must always look for the Blood Covenant as it is woven throughout the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

The Blood Covenant is the common thread that runs throughout both Testaments and it is a covenant established in His blood.

Any time after the Fall of Man that you see God getting involved in the lives of men, the shedding of blood is always involved. Why?

Leviticus 17:11 NLT (11) for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the LORD. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.

Because of man’s sin, a holy God could not have any interaction with him unless there was life that was shed or spilled out because the penalty for man’s sin required it.

Without the shedding of blood, there is no payment, pardon or forgiveness for sin.

Hebrews 9:20-22 NIV (20) He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.” (21) In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. (22) In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

The Holy One cannot dwell in the same place as sin and therefore blood must be shed to forgive or wipe away sin so that His presence can show up.

There is more to this than just the shedding of blood. God has a greater purpose in this because of His desire and need to be in contact with man.

God is a covenant God.

Covenant: (Hebrew Dictionary) b^erîyth ber-eeth’’ (To cut until blood flows)

The covenant is the very foundation of our contact with God and His contact with us.

Blood covenant is an ancient rite. God instituted the covenant almost immediately after the fall of man.

Genesis 3:1-7 NKJV  Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”  (2)  And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;  (3)  but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”  (4)  Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.  (5)  For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  (6)  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.  (7)  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Genesis 3:20-21 NLT Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.  (21)  And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.

Adam was ashamed and afraid after he sinned. He no longer possessed the faith and confidence to stand before God because of sin. When sin is present, shame, guilt and condemnation always accompany it.

• What does man do? He tries in his own strength and ability to cover for his sin and shame.
• What did God do? He sacrificed and shed the blood of innocent animals in order to clothe or cover the nakedness of man.

God’s plan was that man always be clothed with the Glory of God and he once was. After the fall, that clothing was lost and for the first time, man was truly naked before God. God shed blood in order to provide a covering for Adam and Eve.

A covenant is simply a contract between two parties. A Blood Covenant goes much deeper than just a contract or simple agreement.

A Blood Covenant is the means by which two persons enter into the closest, most enduring, and most sacred of pacts. Only death can terminate the pact.

God wants that kind of relationship with man!

In this study, we will cover the following:

• We will see the covenant in shadow form as it is spelled out in the Old Testament and how Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament and how we relate to Him in the New Testament.
• We will learn exactly what the Blood Covenant is and walk through what a Blood Covenant ceremony would have been like in the Old Testament as we see for example in David and Jonathan.
• We will see how the covenant affected Abraham’s relationship with God because his whole relationship was based upon was the covenant.