THE COVENANTS AND THE HEBREW RITUALS BLOOD COVENANT

THE COVENANTS AND THE HEBREW RITUALS BLOOD COVENANT RITUAL February 8, 2020

The Meaning of Covenant The word testament may come from the Latin word Testamentum. The more proper name for these two divisions is Covenant. The Bible is a story of the Old Covenant and The Renewed Covenant.

The Meaning of Covenant In the Bible the word covenant means a binding agreement between two parties. The word actually means to “Cut Covenant”. It is an agreement to cut a covenant by the shedding of blood and walking between pieces of flesh. Hebrews 13: 20 -21 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Meaning of Covenant Psalm 25: 14 14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. God wants to show us his covenant. This is the foundational teaching of everything in the bible.

The Meaning of Covenant PSALMs 50: 5 “Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have [a]made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. ” Who’s a saint? Somebody that’s made covenant with god by blood sacrifice. A blood covenant is the most sacred and enduring all compacts. It cannot be broken except by death and even then, it is passed down to the next generation.

The Hebrew Ritual When we look to history all ancient peoples practice some form of covenant. God revealed it to them from the days of Adam. When they were scattered, and Yahweh confused their language at Babel they took the ritual with them and perverted it as they got further away from God.

1. Exchange coats or robes The first step in the ritual with exchange coats or robes. In the Bible and in a blood covenant ritual, the coat or robe represents the person was making the covenant. So the robe or coat represents you. By exchanging the coat or robe, the two parties are symbolically committing their lives to each other. 1 Samuel 18: 2 -4(CJB) 2 That day, Sha’ul took David into his service and would not let him go home to his father’s house any more. 3 Y’honatan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as he did himself. 4 Y’honatan removed the cloak he was wearing and gave it to David, his armor too, including his sword, bow and belt.

2. Exchange Belts The second step is to exchange belts. The belt holds all of our clothes together but The belt also holds the armor together. By exchanging belts, the two parties are pledging their weapons and strength to fight on behalf of the one with whom they are making covenant.

3. Cutting The Covenant The next step is to actually cut the covenant by taking an animal and splitting it down the middle. This one animal is going to represent them and each half is going to represent one of us. After splitting the animal and half, we’re going to do a figure eight walk. When you do the figure eight each person standing between the two bloody halves of the animal with their backs to each other.

3. Cutting The Covenant This action is a visual way of each part next saying that they are dying to themselves, no longer living to please themselves. Since the blood covenant is the most sacred of all compacts, they expect to also be “split down the middle” if they break the compact.

3. Cutting The Covenant Ruth 1: 16 -17 (NKJV) 16 But Ruth said: “Entreat[a] me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me. ”

3. Cutting The Covenant Jeremiah 34: 18 -20 (NKJV) 18 And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it— 19 the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the [a]eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf— 20 I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

4. Cut Our Palms In the next step, we stand in the pool of blood where they split the animal. The covenant parties raise their right arms, cut their palms, then bring them together and rub them together so that their blood intermingled. This is an outwardly act to visually show the relationship that we’re moving into as covenant partners. They then swear allegiance to each other. As their blood intermingling’s, symbolically, their lives are intermingling.

4. Cut Our Palms Isaiah 62: 8 (CJB) 8 Adonai has sworn by his right hand by his mighty arm:

5. Exchange Names Isaiah 62: 8 (CJB) 8 Adonai has sworn by his right hand by his mighty arm: The fifth step is to exchange names. In the Bible come a person named told something about the nature and character of the person. When you heard of persons name, you expected them to think and act according to the meaning of their name. So to do something in the name of someone means to do it like they would do it. Do it like their nature, like their likeness , in their character. In the blood covenant ritual, the two parties take on each others last name. I take your last name and you take my last name. They are then known as the name bearers.

5. Exchange Names Genesis 17: 5 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. 15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

6. Make a Scar In this step, the two parties rub blood together with a substance and make a scar as a permanent testimony to the covenant. It’s the seal of the covenant. The scar will always be there as reminder of their covenant responsibilities to each other. Through it, the parties are reminded that there is another human being in the world that is committed to them and will never leave them.

6. Make a Scar Isaiah 49: 16 (CJB) 16 I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, your walls are always before me. ”

7. The terms of the covenant The seventh step is to give the terms of the covenant. As the two parties stand in the pool of the blood of the animal which represent them, and they read off the terms of the covenant. They pledge their assets and liabilities to each other while reading them before witnesses.

7. The terms of the covenant Genesis 21: 23; 31: 51 - 52 Genesis 21: 27 27 Avraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Avimelekh, and the two of them made a covenant.

8. The Memorial Meal Then the two parties have a memorial meal to express their desire to be one with each other. The two become one with the new nature. So they take the animal that they killed, they take the bread and they take the cup, which represents your life and they give it to one another.

8. The Memorial Meal Genesis 31: 44 -54 Genesis 26: 28 -30 28 But they said, “We have certainly seen that the Lord is with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you, 29 that you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord. ’ ” 30 So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

9. Plant a Covenant Tree Last step is to plant a memorial to The Covenant. The participants do this by planting a tree where they made the sacrifice, which they have sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice on the tree. The blood along with the scar and the palm of their hands will be a constant testimony that they have entered into a sacred blood covenant.

9. Plant a Covenant Tree Genesis 21: 33( CJB) 33 Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be’er-Sheva, and there he called on the name of Adonai, the everlasting God. (El Olam) Now you’re known as Covenant Friends Once the ceremony is complete, the two parties are known as friends. They are coming as friends and their unborn children are included in the covenant because they are in the seed of the persons making the covenant. Later, when children are born and come to an age of understanding, they can choose to accept or reject the covenant for themselves.

9. Plant a Covenant Tree The clearest example of a blood covenant in the foundational covenant of the Bible it Is the one between David and Jonathan 1 Samuel 18: 1 -9 (CJB) 18 By the time David had finished speaking to Sha’ul, Y’honatan found himself inwardly drawn by David’s character, so that Y’honatan loved him as he did himself. 2 That day, Sha’ul took David into his service and would not let him go home to his father’s house any more.

9. Plant a Covenant Tree So in eternity past El Shaddai made a covenant within himself, put it down on the earth, and he prepared a body and came in the form of Yeshua of Nazareth. He exchanged names with us. The anointed one, Ha. Moshaich and became Yeshua his human name. the blood of almighty came to cut covenant with us.

9. Plant a Covenant Tree Colossians 2: 9(CJB) 9 For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is. 1 Peter 1: 2 (CJB) 2 chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obeying Yeshua the Messiah and for sprinkling with his blood: Grace and shalom be yours in full measure.

9. Plant a Covenant Tree He was the god– man who came to identify with us in our human condition and cut the covenant for us so that we might be one with God John 17: 21 -26 (CJB) 21 that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are united with me and I with you, I pray that they may be united with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. 22 The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one — 23 I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

The Re-newed Covenant in Yeshua Matthew 26: 26 -28 (CJB) 26 While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, “Take! Eat! This is my body!” 27 Also he took a cup of wine, made the b’rakhah, and gave it to them, saying, “All of you, drink from it! 28 For this is my blood, which ratifies the New Covenant, my blood shed on behalf of many, so that they may have their sins forgiven.

Cutting The Covenant Afterward, Jesus planted a memorial tree and stain it with his own blood. That blood stain tree was the cross. There Jesus paid the judgment of sin for us by “cutting the covenant” with the father on our behalf. He took our sins into his spirit, our sorrows into his soul, and our sickness into his flesh. And return, and gives us the asset and clothes us with his garment Of salvation and robe of righteousness. Through him, we can have right standing with God and become partakers of his divine nature.

Cutting The Covenant 2 Peter 1: 4(CJB) 4 By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world. 2 Corinthians 5: 21(CJB) 21 God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness. ”

Cutting The Covenant Because Yeshua never sinned, death couldn’t hold Him in the grave. Three days later, he was resurrected and the send it back in to heaven where he now sits on the throne of God with all the authority and power over sin, Satan, and death.

Cutting The Covenant Ephesians 1: 20 -23 (CJB) 20 when he worked in the Messiah to raise him from the dead and seat him at his right hand in heaven, 21 far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion or any other name that can be named either in the ‘olam hazeh or in the ‘olam haba. 22 Also, he has put all things under his feet and made him head over everything for the Messianic Community, 23 which is his body, the full expression of him who fills all creation.

Cutting The Covenant Philippians 2: 9 -11 (CJB) 9 Therefore God raised him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name; 10 that in honor of the name given Yeshua, every knee will bow — in heaven, on earth and under the earth — 11 and every tongue will acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai — to the glory of God the Father.

Entering The Covenant We can except this wonderful covenant for ourselves by acknowledging and embracing Yeshua’s death on our behalf. When we make this commitment of entering into Covenant with our Lord Yeshua as our Covenant maker. Then the Holy Spirit will come and apply the blood covenant and exchange benefits to our lives personally. The Holy Spirit will come and live inside us. Through him we can partake of the divine nature of God.

Entering The Covenant John 3: 1 -7(CJB) 3 There was a man among the P’rushim, named Nakdimon, who was a ruler of the Judeans. 2 This man came to Yeshua by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do these miracles you perform unless God is with him. ” 3 “Yes, indeed, ” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. ” 4 Nakdimon said to him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born a second time? ” 5 Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 6 What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit. 7 Stop being amazed at my telling you that you must be born again from above!

Entering The Covenant John 6: 53 -58 (CJB) 53 Then Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life — that is, I will raise him up on the Last Day.

Entering The Covenant The Holy Spirit is the heavenly scar on our heart that is Yahweh’s personal guarantee that Yeshua will never leave us or forsake us. He is the scar or the seal that Paul writes about in Ephesians and Corinthians. Ephesians 1: 13(CJB) 13 Furthermore, you who heard the message of the truth, the Good News offering you deliverance, and put your trust in the Messiah were sealed by him with the promised Ruach Ha. Kodesh,

Entering The Covenant Ephesians 4: 30 (CJB) 30 Don’t cause grief to God’s Ruach Ha. Kodesh, for he has stamped you as his property until the day of final redemption. 2 Corinthians 1: 22(CJB) 22 put his seal on us, and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee for the future. Hey joins us to Jesus and spiritual union, filling us with his own glorious life. The Holy Spirit will fight our battles for us and give us the victory over sin, Satan, and death itself. This is how we can read greater is he who is in me than he was in the world.

Covenant Terms If we will accept the covenant for ourselves personally, Yahweh will give us his very own divine life. That’s what he’s talking about in John 10: 10. He wants to exchange natures with us and take our old carnal nature that’s killing us. He will forgive us our sins and restore us to write relationship with Himself. He will give us authority and power over sin and Satanic strongholds which would destroy us.

Covenant Terms Yahweh will fill us with his own wonderful life of joy, love, and peace. He will renew our minds, stabilize our emotions and empower our will energize us. He will give real meaning and purpose to our life. And finally, he will resurrect us from the dead so that we may live with him forever. This is the heart of the Bible this is the thing that you need to know more than anything else in your walk with Yahweh.

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The Covenant and Yeshua ■ Genesis- the seed of woman ■ Exodus – the Passover lamb ■ Leviticus – the perfect sacrifice ■ Numbers – lifted up one ■ Deuteronomy – the prophet greater than Moses ■ Joshua– The captain of our salvation ■ Judges – the deliverer ■ Ruth – the near kinsman ■ Samuel– the judge

The Covenant and Yeshua ■ Kings and Chronicles– the king ■ Ezra – the faithful Scribe ■ Nehemiah – the restorer Of our soul ■ Esther – the advocate ■ Job– the ever living redeemer ■ Psalms – the new song ■ Proverbs – the wisdom of God ■ Ecclesiastes – the goal of life ■ Song of Solomon– the lover of our soul

The Covenant and Yeshua ■ Isaiah – the suffering servant ■ Jeremiah – the righteous branch of David ■ Lamentation – the weeping profit ■ Ezekiel– the glory of God ■ Daniel – the smiting stone ■ Hosea – the forgiving bridegroom ■ Joel – the giver of the Holy Spirit ■ Amos – the builder of the city of God ■ Obadiah – the Savior

The Covenant and Yeshua ■ Jonah – the first born from the dead ■ Mika – the ruler of all ages ■ Nahum– the avenger ■ Habakkuk– The God of our salvation ■ Zephaniah – the one in our midst ■ Haggai– the restore of the kingdom ■ Zachariah – the priest on the throne ■ Malachi – the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings ■ Matthew – the king of the Jews

The Covenant and Yeshua ■ Mark – the servant ■ Luke – the Son of Man ■ John – the son of God ■ Acts– The giver of the Holy Spirit ■ Romans – the justifier of sinners ■ Corinthians – the giver of gifts ■ Galatians – the liberator of our soul ■ Ephesians – the exalted one ■ Philippians – our joy

The Covenant and Yeshua ■ Colossians – the head of all things ■ Thessalonians– the hope of mankind ■ Philemon– Our covenant friend ■ Hebrews – the messenger of the covenant ■ James – the great physician ■ Peter – the cornerstone ■ John – love and light ■ Jude –the one who was able to keep us and present us ■ Revelation– The coming King of Kings and Lord of lords