Would You Like to Eat my Flesh and Drink My Blood?
Yahshuah said," my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." (John 6:55) "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." (John 6:53)
Are Christians cannibals? Apparently, some are for they take his words literally and some teach that when they perform the ritual of the Eucharist, the wine and bread become the actual body and blood of Yahshuah. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05572c.htm
How disgusting. I know Yahshuah is revolted because the Torah forbids cannibalism and forbids any child of Yah to drink blood, we are not even allowed to eat, or drink animal blood.
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"It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood."
(Leviticus 3:17 & Acts 15:19)
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"For in the hand of Yah there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same (to the righteous): but the dregs
thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them." (Psalm 75:8)
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"Babylon hath been a golden cup in Yah's hand that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore,
the nations are mad." ( Jeremiah 51:7)
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"Wisdom hath builded her house...she saith, "Come and eat my bread and drink my wine." (Proverbs 9:1-5)
The intelligent and diligent students of the Torah in Yahshuah's audience would have known that God pours out wisdom for those who love him and madness for those who resist him. They would have understood that when Yahshuah was inviting the audience to eat his flesh, it was the "Bread of Wisdom" he was referring to,
Yahshuah said, "I am the living bread, which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever." (John 6:51)
And the invitation to drink his blood was the "Wine of Wisdom" pouring from Yah's cup in heaven. Later Yahshuah would clarify by saying
"the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63)
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood"( Leviticus 17:11). So the words that Yahshuah spoke, are the blood that gives life. "If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death." (John 8:52) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:54)
The bright listener would also have made the connection of bread and wine with the idea of a Covenant. Yahshuah was bringing something new and better . He was ushering in the age of the New Covenant, the beginning of Yah's Kingdom on the earth, with a new Prince, with new Ordinances, new and better Promises, where the new citizens would have new hearts, and new, spirits (Yah's own spirit). He made it clear that the new and old cannot mix. There has to be a clean break with the old.
And no man putteth new wine into old wineskins: else the new wine doth burst the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins will be marred: but new wine must be put into new wineskins." (Mark 2:22)
The night before he died he lifted his wine cup and compared it to blood (life) he said
"this is my blood of the new Covenant." (Mt.26:28)
So in conclusion
- So wisdom is the blood of the New Covenant
- You get life by drinking of the Wine of Wisdom
- You get life by eating the Bread of Wisdom
- Wisdom flows from the cup in Yah's hand
- Wisdom comes like heavenly Manna from Yahshuah's mouth
- The Wisdom that leads to life is found only in the Words that Yahshuha directly spoke
- You build your house on the rock by doing what Yahshuh said to do, and thus you will live for ever. This is the path of wisdom.
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