Mark 14 | Christ Anointed, The Last Supper, Gethsemane, Jesus' Betrayal & Judgment

[@patti2969]

Amen.. I believe that Jesus is coming soon 🙏🏻

[@drawinsscribblins5326]

Thank you, Jan. Blessings to you ❤

[@sendiesel23]

Sir, please help me understand the verses where Jesus instructs his disciples to "symbolically" drink his blood. Consuming any blood is strictly forbidden in Gods law (Leviticus 3:17, 17:10-14...)! Is there any place in the Hebrew scriptures where Gods people are ever told to symbolically disobey Gods commands? What would have been the purpose of consuming his blood? The passover in the Torah involved putting blood on the door posts and not drinking it! Are you aware of any first century Greco-Roman rituals that involved consuming blood and human flesh? I ask with love and humility and not to challenge or debate your beliefs! There are many christian concepts that are just so foreign to judaism and many christians are unable to answer many questions that I have. With love, I thank you!

[@janmckenzie]

Those are good questions. Let me see if I can connect the theology for you between the Old Covenant blood and the New Covenant. I won't go into all aspects of the covenant with Abraham, but it sounds like you would be familiar with it enough to know that it was a covenant ratified by blood. And that the New covenant in Jeremiah 31 relates to what I'm going to say below as writing the Torah on the heart along with the forgiveness of sin. I believe the basic principle that underlies the blood sacrifices of the tabernacle service in the Old Testament as well as prohibitions against consuming blood is this: The life of a person or animal is in the blood. The blood equals life. So while it is true that blood should not be consumed, it is also true that it serves to make atonement for sin. Here are the relevant passages Leviticus. And I'll add a comment after them: “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. - Leviticus 17:10-11 For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. - Leviticus 17:14 Regarding the use of blood for atonement I recommend reading Leviticus 16 for the day of atonement service, although there was also blood used in the daily "tamid" service. After reading Leviticus 16 I would then look at how Paul, a Jew and Christian scholar, refer to the blood in the book of Hebrews, chapters 8-10 (Not all consider Paul the author of Hebrews but I do). Jesus did make a very strong statement in the gospel of John chapter 6, where he pushed the statement that he is the bread of life, to mean "eating his flesh and drinking his blood". He makes it clear in John 6: 63, that he was speaking metaphorically. He said there that the flesh profits nothing (for giving spiritual life), but that his words were spirit and life. Jesus is introduced to us in the gospel of John as the Word of God, Yahweh of the Old Testament who is come in the flesh. John 1:1-5; 18. The theology is this, you also find in Psalm 1, 19, 119. That the word of God, all of his instruction, the Torah, is life for those whom God has created. His Word is creative, from the beginning, and redemptive, as the Word, incarnate in the flesh, was crucified. Jesus is the Word of God, our Passover, who is sacrificed for us. It is the sacrifice, typified in the tabernacle service, and fulfilled at the cross, that connects the consuming of the Torah with the symbolic consuming of the blood. We have the life of God when we digest his Torah, his instruction, and the Torah comes to us as an act of grace when the blood of Christ atones for our sin, as typified in Leviticus 16 in the cleansing of the sanctuary on the day of atonement. Again, I recommend reading Leviticus 16, then Hebrews 8 through 10, and hopefully this will clarify things for you. God bless you in your studies and thank you for your sincere faith. Your questions are welcomed.