Last week I watched a powerful, insightful teaching about the blood by Robin D. Bullock. I took notes and added pieces that Holy Spirit wove into his presentation as I watched. I am sharing these here today because I believe we, as the Body of Christ, have lost sight of these truths. Many of us want, more than any other thing, to be 100% walking out God’s will by the divine power He’s given us. We say we are in Christ, and He is in us, but continue to live our lives as if everything depends on our strength, know-how, and performance. God created us to be fully dependent on Him. Yet, we value our independence and promote others who do the same. To live the abundant life He died to give us, we must receive and live what we’ve already been given. The following, I believe, will bring us more understanding.

In the presentation, the story of the marriage covenant was used to illustrate the key role that the blood played.

Robin began his presentation with this illustration: “When a bride and groom married, there had to be proof that the bride was pure. (Pure: She had never had intimate relationship with another man.) The rabbis tell me that on the night of the wedding, they used to put a veil around the bed of the bride and groom.  They put a cloth on the bed to gather proof if the bride was pure or not. As the couple consummated their marriage, their families would stand around the outside of this veil. When the marriage was consummated, the bridegroom’s father would yell into the veil, “Is she pure?”  Then the groom would take the cloth, and hand it outside the veil to show his father and say, “Yes, see the blood.” Then the bride’s family would take the cloth, fold it, and put it away.  From that point on, the groom could never deny her.

If the bride was not pure, because she’d already had relationship with another man, they would drag her out to the city gate and burn her to the ground.  If the man was lying, because he didn’t want her anymore, they would drag him to the city gate and whip him.  Marriage initiated a blood-covenant between the bride and groom that could not be broken.”

Robin suggested, however, that if the woman was not pure, but the man loved her still, he could have cut his hand or foot and put blood on the cloth and show it to his father.

 Jesus went to the cross to buy for Himself a harlot bride—us.  All of us have cut a covenant with the world and were not pure before salvation.  But Jesus went to the cross and was pierced in His hands and feet.  Blood flowed, and with His blood we were made pure.

·        Romans 5:8-9  “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”

·        1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

·        Revelation 1:5 “and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood”

·        1 Peter 1:18–19 “you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

·        Hebrews 13:12 “And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through His own blood”.

 When we ‘plead the blood of Jesus,’ we are declaring Jesus’ covenant promise with us that cannot be broken.

The boldness we have to go before the throne of grace is because of the blood-covenant we have with Jesus.  We can go boldly, but also in humility, realizing it’s not our perfect performance but His, that enables us. We are IN Him now, and He is in us.  His blood testifies for us.

The word blood in Strong’s Concordance is #1818 – The Hebrew number for life is 18.  

 In John 14:6, Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.”  And in John 10:9, He says, “I am the Door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”

 The word blood is spelled with a Dallet and a Closed Mem.

It comes from <#1826>, spelled with a Dallet, a Mem, and a Closed Mem.

Here are the definitions of the letters.

Dallet  Means: Door, Gate, Impoverished man, to come from indicates a pathway, a place of decision, or an entrance to life or death.  Moving in or out of something, open up, a place where change can take place.

Mem Means Womb, Water from the womb, cleansing water, flowing water that brings life, Mighty, Massive Chaos, destructive tsunami, Humility, taking the low place, hidden relationship with God, Cleansing water, flowing water, Word of God that brings life.

 A Closed Mem Means: Hidden Truth

 It is also interesting to note that the numerical value of Dallet is 4, and 4 represents the world or creation.

John 3:16-17 says that His sacrifice was for the world–open to all who would believe. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

 So, when we put this together, we can say that the word BLOOD is a DOOR for all of us.  It is an entrance to Life, a place to decide.  It represents cleansing, humility, and the WORD of God that brings life.  It is also full of Hidden Truth.

God could have chosen any of the 22 Hebrew letters to write Blood, but He chose these.  And they define the word perfectly.

 In 1876, this hymn was written, but it still speaks today.

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain:
O precious is the flow that makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know; nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Matt Redman wrote another verse in 2004 and added it to the original hymn.

Your blood speaks a better word
Than all the empty claims I’ve heard upon this earth
Speaks righteousness for me
And stands in my defense
Jesus, it’s Your blood, Your blood.

No wonder God told Israel not to eat the blood. It was sacred beyond anything else.

But Jesus told His disciples in John 5:56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

He wasn’t suggesting cannibalism. He was inviting them to fully know Him, receive His teaching, and His character.

I have more to share about the blood and about covenant, but let’s meditate on this for now and let these truths find root in our hearts. We are sealed in covenant with the King of the universe.

Shalom ♥