On Wed, 22 May 2013 12:10:05 +0000
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Snow <
snowp...@eck.net.au> wrote:
> When you realize that he had no desire for the blood of lambs,
> Christian theology kind of falls away and makes no sense. To
> understand the mission of the Messiah, one must have a better
> understanding of the linage of his priest hood:
>
> Gen 14:18 And Malkitsedeq sovereign of Shalm brought out
>**bread and wine**. Now he was the priest of the Most High.
>
> He did not have to die to teach you this but it is lost on most
> Christian:
>
> Mat 26:28 For this is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which
> is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins."
>
> It is referred to in scriptures as the "blood of wine".
It's hard to understand some Scriptures unless you
understand symbolism too.
In this instance, the bread is the body and the wine is the blood,
of Jesus Christ.
Symbolism is used here in place of the actual.
We wouldn't literally eat the "Body of Christ" or
drink the "Blood of Christ". This would go against
several Laws or Ordinances, which is forbidden to do.
---
[Matthew 26:26-28]
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it,
and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat;
this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for
many for the remission of sins.
---
The same goes for a lamb, which is symbolism for the sacrifice
of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, for the remission of sins. Not
only sins, but also the curse of the second death.
This particular symbolism goes all the way back to Abel, when
he offered a lamb and it pleased God, over Cains' offering.
All through the Levitical Priesthood, the lamb was the symbol
for Jesus Christ for sin offering. First for the priest and then
for the people.
That symbolism led up to this Actual Event, which was literal...
---
[Matt 16:20-23]
21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples,
how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things
of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and
be raised again the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it
far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of men.
---
Was Peter, Satan? No. It's very likely that Satan used his influence
to cause Peter to say it. So, Jesus Christ was speaking to Satan,
not Peter.
Jesus Christ knew the work which His Father sent Him to do,
which is in verse 21 above.
All the ordinances of the the Old Covenant, concerning
the Levitical Priesthood, was symbolism for Jesus Christ,
which became fulfilled in Him -- the Lamb of God.
There can be no remission of sins without the shedding of blood;
as was the symbolism of the Levitical Priesthood, when they
offered a lamb to be sacrificed.
Jesus Christ took the burden from the Levitical Priesthood,
when He shed His blood, on the cross, for the remission of sins,
once and for all.
To "believe" that He did this for you, so that you would not die
the second death in your sins and from the curse, is by faith.
No man can change a Covenant that was made by God,
except God, through His Son, Jesus Christ.
If one is well studied in the Old and New Covenants,
he will come to the conclusion that Jesus Christ is
the fulfillment of the Old Covenant.
It started with Abel in symbolism, and ended with Jesus Christ,
in the literal event -- which is the Redemption of mankind.