Today I want to finish up my discussion concerning the Torah command to never drink blood under any circumstances AND… …how that jives with Yeshua’s orders to his disciples to symbolically drink his blood as a remembrance of his atoning sacrifice on the cross. The conclusion we came to yesterday is that when drinking the […]
Archives for January 2019
D12-23: Was Yeshua Going Against Torah When He Ordered His Disciples To Symbolically Drink His Blood?
In my last post I finished up by talking about God’s universal law of Blood. This law established through Moses says one is NOT to drink blood under any circumstances because “life is in the blood“. I then further went on to say it is because of this very command that a Hebrew would never ever […]
D12-22: The Wine In A Jewish Ritual Ceremony Does NOT Represent Blood!!!
Among many of the things we’ve learned, the one central doctrine that should be pretty clear to all of us now is that “life is in the blood”. The idea is that all life belongs to God and because of this He possesses the sovereign right to decide what to do with it. To this […]
D12-21: The Real Reason Why God Declared Some Animals CLEAN And Others UNCLEAN
Here’s another key principle that would be good to review. The animals chosen to be sacrificed on the Brazen Altar, in and of themselves, were not HOLY. In other words, they did NOT possess inherent holiness. And conversely, those animals forbidden for sacrifice such as pigs and rabbits were not in and of themselves UNCLEAN. […]
D12-20: The Instruction Manual On The Details Of God’s Holiness Is NOT Found In the New Testament
We are in the midst of reviewing the mechanics of the Torah principles governing God’s Holiness. I finished up my last post by pointing that all created things without exception fall under one of the following four categories: HOLY COMMON CLEAN UNCLEAN. Now it is precisely at this point where I feel modern Orthodox Judaism […]