Since the epoch of Alexander the Great, the city Harran in Mesopotamia has been a famous center of pagan and Hellenistic culture; its’ people were Syrian heathens, star-worshipers versed in astrology and magic. In their temples the planetary powers were propitiated by blood-offerings, and it is probable that human victims were occasionally sacrificed even as late as the 9^th century of our era. Through recorded history it is documented how man has placed importance on the use of blood to somehow appease spirits and thereby bring to himself a more abundant life. Could this be a perversion of a tradition that came from God Himself who is a Spirit?

             Although blood was very unclean in their eyes as a food, they nevertheless partook of it, because they thought it was the food of the spirits; by eating it man has something in common with the spirits, which join him and tell him future events, according to the notion which people generally have of spirits. There were, however, people who objected to eating blood, as a thing naturally disliked by man; they killed a beast, received the blood in a vessel or in a pot, and ate of the flesh of that beast, whilst sitting round the blood. They imagined that in this manner the spirits would come to partake of the blood which was their food, whilst the idolaters were eating the flesh; that love, brotherhood, and friendship with the spirits was established, because they dined with the latter at one place and at the same time; that the spirits would appear to them in dreams, inform them of coming events, and be favorable to them.

             Since all life in this current world depends on blood, it goes without say how important pure disease free blood is for terrestrial life. The bible teaches that life is in the blood! Blood in order to sustain life on earth must be pure from germs and bacteria known to kill. Diseases like cancer and aids start in and are spread throughout the body by the blood.

             Because of the importance of blood man would make vows and use his own blood as a guarantee to fulfill his oath. To the ancient Hebrews a blood covenant was the most binding, sacred agreement one could enter into. The making of blood covenants seems to be a universal concept found among all peoples in even the most remote parts of the world. The custom of making blood covenants can be found among American Indians as well as in the deepest most remote parts of Africa. The origin of the blood covenant custom looms somewhere beyond the horizon of recorded history. As in olden days, even today two people will make a covenant and cut themselves to mingle their blood and seal the covenant. In many cases the persons entering into this type of oath become heir to each others possessions. So too, covenants made by God with those He calls are sealed by Blood according to the dictates of God’s word.

              The first demonstration of blood for atonement was when God provided coats of animal skins to cover Adam and Eve. The coats would give them warmth and protection from an earth that was now cursed because of sin. To provide coats of skin there would be the shedding of the animals blood who gave it and for Adam and Eve to wear the coats there would be water to clean them. Both ideas are a forerunner or a type for the redemption to come. Even in judgement we see mercy and loving care from God. His will is that no man should perish! The coats provided by God gave man a first type of separation from the world. The day was coming when God would provide atonement for his sin sick soul through blood and water and he again would dwell in the Glorious high throne that is the place of our sanctuary from the beginning.

Quote! “Adam received the promise of the Saviour. The first promise and prophecy by One able to deal with satan and sin was given, not to Adam but to the one responsible for Adam’s transgression. In the coats of skins God provided a covering to cover the nakedness of flesh. The covering was a teaching not to lust after the things of the flesh and a protection that would be there from God. Man would now sustain himself by the sweat of his brow. They could now only discern earthly things and not the spiritual heavenly absolutes they were accustomed to when they walked with God. We have a type of the sacrifice of the Cross through this beginning step by God to cover man. In Adam we die, but in Christ we can be made alive. The first man Adam was of the earth earthly, but the Second Man, the last Adam, was from heaven and kept His first estate of sinless perfection.” Adam later found forgiveness for God appointed another seed through Seth so that man in Enos could call upon God again.

Quote: “The earliest tradition regarding Jerusalem states that Adam was created from the place where the Great Alter later stood in the Temple, ‘so that he should be created from the place of his atonement.’ This is more than a mere legend; Maimonides states that the place of the alter was later selected partially on the basis of this tradition.

             If Adam was created out of the ‘dust from the ground,’ it was a very special dust, that of the Alter. The concept of the alter was to allow man to nullify his physical nature and rise above it. Thus, the very physical nature of man - the ‘dust of the ground’ from which he was formed before it was cursed - was taken from the place that would allow him to overcome it and elevate it.

             God then brought Adam to the Garden of Eden, but Adam sinned and was ejected. He returned to the place where he had been created, and, attempting to atone for his sin, built an alter on the Temple Mount and offered a sacrifice to God. This alter remained as a permanent shrine where all people could worship God, until it was destroyed by the flood in the time of Noah. Adam remained in Jerusalem, ‘immersing in a spring called Gichon as a further atonement for his sin.’ There is evidence from tradition that Adam lived in Jerusalem all of his life. When Cain and Abel brought their offerings to God, they did so on the alter that Adam had built.” End of Quote. Blood and Water have always been prescribed by God to atone for sin and to bring man into harmony with his Creator.

             Because God is holy and righteous He encourages man by His ministers to rise out of a sinful nature and to enter into a Blood sealed covenant. If man does there are gifts that give him strength to live a righteous life and there are eternal rewards because life is in the Blood. If man chooses to stay in his sinful nature, eventually it brings him to death and during his life it is hard. God’s offer to redeem man from his fallen nature is an expression of Love, Grace and Mercy. Should not our creator know what is best for us? God’s desire is to bring man out of his sinful nature (the covenant with death ) that he inherited through the deception of satan. There have been many statutes in God’s covenants that He has required man to fulfill concerning Blood and they all lead to the same conclusion, eternal life to those who obey in faith and do the Word of the Lord in the time they live.

.THE ORAL COVENANT OF PURIFICATION (BLOOD APPLIED).

             We know that at the time of Abraham the law had not yet been written and that all communication between man was oral and only to chosen vessels. Moses was given the ability by God to look backward and record the stories of God’s creation and dealings with man up until his day. God may be known only by His Divine ’footprints’ in human history, by His traces in the human soul. No man can penetrate God’s eternal essence, i.e. see His face.

             Now Abraham found grace in the site of God because of obedience by faith. His faith was not blind for he lived only five generations away from the time of Adam due to the longevity of life. After the flood the scripture teaches that God would dwell in the tents of Shem. Shem was Malchizedek meaning, ‘king of Tzedek, Tzedek meaning righteousness.’ Abraham was a direct descendant of Shem and because he knew the voice of God through the teachings of his forefathers he obeyed when God told him to leave Ur. He was given a promise which could only be realized by faith and patience. God told him he would be a father of many nations and that he would bless them that blessed him and curse them that cursed him. All families of the earth would be blessed in Abraham. In the passage it is said, ‘So Abram departed..’ His faith came from the school of Shem. As a young child he went to Salem and received faith to depart from his country not knowing where he was going.

             He then was given a test of his loyalty. God asked him to offer up his son Isaac as a sacrificial offering. The test had great significance because it would prove his love to be more for God Himself than the blessings that would be obtained from God, i.e. his name great. Abraham passed the test and God said, ‘now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.’ To the words, ‘now I know’ it is said by the Rabbis to mean; ‘now your potential love for God has become actual.’

             God then sealed the covenant between Himself and Abraham with Blood and Water! Through circumcision there is the shedding of blood. To keep disease and impurities from corrupting the seed of Abraham great care was taken to ensure cleanliness. When I had the privilege to go to Nairobi Kenya I noticed one day a great crowd of people around a nude man being walked down the street as he stood on a wagon. He was being taken to the hospital to be circumcised because to many men were becoming sick and even dying due to uncleanness.

             The circumcision in the flesh, that is the penis of the male was the seat of man’s affection. His strength, his offspring and his name would come from his loins. The three gates that satan temps man from is the lust of the flesh, the pride of life an the lust of the eyes. The circumcision would be a reminder of the covenant and that man was to serve God and not the desires of his flesh, therefore the covenant was in his flesh.

             Abraham was not justified by faith alone, but by works! It was the prescribed works by God and not of man lest he would boast. Abraham was to walk in and do the works that were laid down by God. By doing the works of God faith was made perfect and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God. Believing is committing and then doing! We can exercise faith by believing a chair will hold us up if we sit on it, but until we commit ourselves and then sit on the chair we do not know if it will hold us up for no one inspects a chair before they sit on it. Abraham committed himself to God by faith and then walked in His commandments and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. Faith without works is dead! Quote. ‘Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the alter? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? Read Justification, Romans 3:21 - 5:11.

             And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be Circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be Circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be Circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an ‘everlasting covenant.’ And the un-Circumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not Circumcised, ‘that soul shall be cut off’ from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

             What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise. And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. For verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham.

             Cometh this blessedness then upon the Circumcision only, or upon the un-Circumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in Circumcision, or in un-Circumcision? Not in Circumcision, but in un-Circumcision. And he received the sign of Circumcision, a seal (with blood) of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being un-circumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not Circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: and the father of Circumcision to them who are not of the Circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet un-Circumcised.

PURPOSE OF A COVENANT - SEPARATION & SANCTIFICATION

             Part of the promise to Abraham was that he would be a father of many nations. Many nations meant that one day whole nations would spring up from the seed of Abraham and not only individual Gentile servants would be heirs with Abraham because they were a part of his immediate household. Out of Abraham would also come kings who would rule over these nations. Even today this promise is still in the process of being fulfilled. Out of every nation men and women are becoming heirs to the blessings of Abraham’s promise through Christ Jesus.

             The covenant with Abraham would be an everlasting covenant that would not be broken by God. It was God’s desire to have a people who would walk with Him again as Adam & Eve once did. He wanted a people who would love and appreciate Him that were not forced to serve or programmed to serve Him. Love cannot be created, it requires choice, therefore the choice was given through Abraham and continues to this day. Eventually God would have a people to rule and reign with Him, a kingdom of kings and priests that will continue forever.

             Today there are many religions claiming the promise that God gave to Abraham all over the world. Some are descendants of Ishmael and some are descendants of Isaac. When Jesus came at the time of reformation, or the time when the everlasting kingdom of kings and priests would be set-up as prophesied in Daniel He made a statement to the Jews saying, ‘Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.’

             A glorious high throne was our place with God from the beginning. Man was not meant to grope in the weak and beggarly elements of this world, the knowledge of good and evil, but was to dwell in the absolutes of wisdom and knowledge with God. So, when Jesus He came into the world, He came to reconcile man back to the glorious high throne to rule and reign with Him, but not without a test. Only those who would totally commit their lives out of love would become a part of His bride. The remainder would be rewarded, but in lesser degree for a kingdom has many subjects in it. More than just a King and a Queen, or Bride in this case. Quote. ‘Look to yourselves, that ye destroy not those things which ye have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.’

Chapter 2.         GOD GIVES MAN WRITTEN LAWS TO LIVE BY FOREVER.

             Many unlearned would say that the law of God is finished and that we are no longer accountable to any of the everlasting eternal statutes contained in it. But what does the new testament actually say about the law? Was it fulfilled meaning to end or was it shown to us how we could now fulfill the law through the strength of the risen Christ Jesus living in us?

             Quote: “The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. For without the law sin was dead. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” The law of God is eternal and man must fulfill the part of the law that brings blessings and not penalties. When we abide by the laws of the road we are blessed with safe travel. When we transgress the law of the road we are subject to penalty and even death.

             Jesus when he came, came not to destroy the law but to show us how that through the new birth experience we could have strength from God to fulfill it as He fulfilled it. His fulfilling of the law’s requirements was proven by His resurrection from the dead. In His teachings he therefore said, Quote! “Think not that I am come to destroy the law...I am not come to destroy, (annul, discard) but to fulfill. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments...shall be called least in the kingdom....except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

             When we read the remainder of Matthew chapter 5 we notice that the laws of God are now even more strict. They are pointed to the heart and not just the physical because there is now no excuse. If we lust after a woman we have committed adultery already with her in our heart. To fulfill the law we are given power to become His witnesses by the Holy Ghost and through His Spirit we can have the laws of God in our heart; ‘I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them!’ When we are ‘in’ Christ Jesus there is no more penalty from the law if we walk after the Spirit, that is, the voice of God in us. We will do by instinct the things that are pleasing to the Lord and He will be pleased to call us His children. Through the law death ruled and we had no strength or way to rise above its’ penalties until the Blood of Jesus was shed once for all. The law is spiritual and good because it made us aware of our lust and sin but it had no strength to cleanse our conscience.

             But now, Quote! ‘the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled “in” (in our minds and hearts) us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.’

             The law, or written Word of God is merciful and righteous and given out of love. It makes us aware of our sinful condition! It speaks of the way we can come back to the Glorious High Throne which was ours from the beginning with God. It gives man a true understanding of what must be done to come back to eternal life and not perish. It was given out of mercy even when the hardness or mans’ heart (rebellious nature) should have caused God to turn His back on man as man was doing to his own.

             James writes a reminder by quoting the law that was written in Leviticus concerning the problem of man not loving his neighbour. He even calls the portion that he is referring to the Royal Law! Remember this, when James penned his Holy Ghost inspired words, the New Covenant was not yet in existence. He was positively reminding the recipients of his letter that the law was still in effect and would be forever.

Quote! Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit no adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy, to him that hath shewed no mercy: and mercy glorieth against judgment.

             The law was added because of man’s transgressions which he unknowingly was committing due to the influence of an evil spirit being. Man in his knowledge of good an evil was cursed and could not please an absolute God of true and false! They would no longer walk by faith as Abraham did, and began to set their own reason higher than the absolutes of the Creator. Therefore the law was given and was set as a measuring stick or a school master to bring us to Christ. Those who would allow themselves to be taught by God as He required and who would do the will of God in their dispensation of time inherited the promises that were given. The Law is righteous and teaches that all life is precious and that we are in fact our brothers keeper since we are all descendants from Adam. All nations are created of one blood. This fact alone points to One Supreme God who breathed into man that became a living soul in the image of his Creator. Our image is spiritual! We have intellect, reason, conscience and choice because God who is a Spirit has the same. It is not said of the animals that God is mindful of them! Quote! ‘What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit Him every morning and try him (Divine Providence) every moment? The creeping things and fish have no ruler over them!’ On this account it is allowed, even commanded to kill and eat animals: we are permitted by God to use them according to our pleasure.

             Not the hearers of the law but the doers of the law shall be justified! Quote! ‘Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.’ God in his wisdom knew that man was weak through the flesh and that He could not fulfill the law. He could only through obedience hold back the penalties that are contained in the law. It would take the blood of a lamb, the ultimate purifier to cleanse mans’ conscience to serve the living God. Therefore there would be a necessary change in the law because there would be a change in the Priest Hood!

Quote! ‘For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. (Not removal)’

             The misunderstanding and confusion in many believers concerning the law, comes from lack of teaching. What has been changed is the way we approach God for the atonement of our sins! Not any longer through the blood of animals on an alter for the purifying of the flesh, but now in this time of reformation by the Blood of Jesus applied to our soul in Water. It is by being plunged into a living Mikveh by faith in Jesus Christ that our conscience is cleansed by His pure Blood which was shed once for all. Man as a whole must today continue to live by the part of the law that God gave to man for a civil society. There are then the further requirements in the law to those who are called out of the masses of humanity to serve the Living God as Kings and Priests.

             The Law, which is perfect in the eyes of those who know it seeks to cure mankind of the lasting diseases of the blood sacrifices he offered to appease the spirits. It forbade the eating of blood, and emphasized the prohibition exactly in the same terms as it emphasizes idolatry: “I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood.” The same language is employed in reference to him who giveth of his seed unto Molech, that is, offers children to be burned as a sacrifice to appease the spirits. There is, besides idolatry and eating blood, no other sin in reference to which these words are used.

             Quote; ‘Our Law declared the blood as pure, and made it the means of purifying other objects by its touch. “And thou shalt take of the blood...and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him. And he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons,” etc. (Exod. 29:21). Furthermore, the Blood was sprinkled upon the alter, and in the whole service it was insisted upon pouring it out, and not upon collecting it. “You shall not eat around the Blood” (Lev. 19:26).

             As the Israelites were inclined to continue their rebellious conduct, to follow the doctrines in which they had been brought up which were then general and accepted by all peoples, and to assemble round the blood in order to eat there and to meet the spirits, God forbade the Israelites to eat ordinary meat during their stay in the wilderness; they could only partake of the meat of peace offerings. The reason of this precept is distinctly stated, viz., that the blood shall be poured out upon the alter, and the people do not assemble round about. Comp. “To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they bring them unto the Lord.....And the priest shall sprinkle the Blood upon the alter.....and they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto the spirits”

             It is plain and obvious that the statutes of uncleanness [tumah] and cleanness [taharah] are decrees laid down by God in Scripture in both testaments (the two witnesses) and are [gezerat hakatuv] not matters about which human understanding is capable of forming a judgment; for behold, they are included among the Divine Statutes [hukim]. So, too, immersion [in a Mikveh], or by being sprinkled with the watery ashes of the Red Heifer as a means of freeing oneself from ‘uncleanness’ and sin is among the Eternal Divine Statutes. It is imperative that man know how just God is. While bringing to man the awareness of his uncleanness, He also reveals in His Word the solution to the problem in every dispensation of time. Now, uncleanness is not mud or filth, which water can remove, but is a matter of Scriptural decree. Our awareness of our sinful condition is dependent on the intention of the heart. Behold Scripture says, ‘and I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean; from all your uncleanness and from all your idols I will clean you’ Ezekiel 36:25.

             ALL BLOOD IS PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD! LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD AND GOD HOLDETH OUR SOUL IN LIFE.. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and [him] that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

WE MUST NOT HAVE BLOOD ON OUR HANDS!

Psalms 51:14 KJV

Deliver me from Blood guiltiness (cried David because of the blood of Uriah), O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Psalms 55:23 KJV

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Genesis 9:5-6 KJV

And surely your Blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's Blood, by man shall his Blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Numbers 35:33 KJV

              So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for Blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the Blood that is shed therein, but by the Blood of him that shed it.

Leviticus 19:16 KJV

              Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the Blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Revelations 18:24

             And in her (Babylon) was found the Blood of prophets, and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.

BIBLE INTERPRETS BIBLE. EVERY WORD IS ESTABLISHED BY WITNESSES.

             To have sufficient faith in God’s word and be a doer of it, that is, respond to and obey His commandments we must learn how the Bible interprets itself.

Quote!  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

             Even after men have become blameless according to the law by the letter, they are still not wise to the things that God has prepared for them that love Him. There are certain things that cannot be found out by mere study and intellect. Even comparing scripture with scripture can be misunderstood, that is, the spiritual meanings because much of the Bible was written in allegories, parables and the local idioms of the day. Jesus made a statement saying, ‘...these things are hidden from the wise and the prudent.’ But the things that are revealed belong to us that we may do the word of God. God has always been directly involved with His people. The matters that were to hard for the wise of Moses’s day would come to him and he would go to God for the answer. Through the Urim and the Thummim the high Priest would receive wisdom and judgement from God in matters that man could not perceive. Today we can have the Spirit of God dwelling in us and each one can go before God and get direction on matters to hard for man. The Spirit of the Lord will also show us things to come as promised in His word. His ears are open to the cry of the righteous.

Quote!  Whom will He teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. Nay, but by men of stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people: To whom he said, this is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary: and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Therefore shall word of the LORD be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

             Are you hearing the teachings of God by those who are full of the Holy Ghost and listening for what sayeth the Lord to you through them? Many claim to be but yet they have no revelation of the true teachings that Jesus stated we could have after that the Holy Ghost was come. Still many follow their own ways and do not yield themselves to the Spirit of God. The Lord will never force anyone to follow, love and obey Him. We must present our bodies to Him, a living sacrifice.

Chapter 3. BLOOD & WATER, A WRITTEN COVENANT OF PURIFICATION FOREVER.

             When statutes or ordinances are prescribed by God for man, they become Divine, that is, prescribed by Divinity or the Divine One. They are doctrines that man ought to pay attention to, especially if they are written to be in force forever. Man ought to obey them, not only for his own benefit, but also that he may please God, his Creator who knows what we have need of. The Divine Statute given to us in Numbers 19 concerning purification is a Divine Statute Forever. Quote ‘and it shall be unto the children of Israel and unto the stranger [gentile] that sojourneth among them, fora statute forever.’

THE WATER OF SEPARATION, A STATUTE FOREVER

             To fully understand the context of this statute, read Leviticus chapters 15 to 17 and Numbers chapter 19.

Quote!  This is the ordinance of the law......that they bring thee a red heifer...wherein is no blemish...that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face.....and a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer....and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.....unto all the children of Israel and unto the stranger [gentile] that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

Ordinance =      to order, ordain, that which God has decreed, an established law or statute, a religious rite or ceremony, i.e., instruction or command.

Statute =           an ordinance or law passed by a duly authorized lawmaking body; written law as distinguished from unwritten law; hence, any rule regarded as established by authority, as divine law.

We see Waters of Separation when we see Noah in the ark and the people who drowned.

We see Waters of Separation on those who could eat of the Alter and those who could not.

We see Waters of Separation when we see the Baptism of John for the manifestation of Jesus Christ.

             The one Gospel that the Bible speaks of started when God preached the Gospel to Adam and then to Abraham. It is a Gospel that uses the seal (application ) of Blood to cover. It was a Gospel for all peoples who would take on a covenant by faith in the true God of Heaven. All nations would be blessed through Adam’s repentance and blood sacrifice, and then through Seth and Enos and then through the seven Noahide laws which were for all of mankind to live by. In Abraham’s day it was an act of faith to be Circumcised and separated from those without the presence of God. Circumcision was painful, affecting not only the most sensitive part of the body, but also the whole family. Today the Gospel of Circumcision is still painful. Those who partake of it must rend their heart for Godly sorrow worketh repentance that is acceptable to God.

WATERS OF SEPARATION

             The Hebrew even today uses a Mikveh for ritual bathing in fulfillment of the laws pertaining to cleansing one self. The definition of a mikveh is; ‘A PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENT FOR RITUAL BATHING BY ORTHODOX JEWS. The Mikveh is Kosher if rainwater, still or running spring water or melted snow is used. It consists of 40 seah or 87 U.S. gallons of water, sufficient to immerse “into.” To become ritually pure, total immersion into a mikveh of kosher water was needed to purify a person from ritual uncleanness.

             To be ritually unclean means that a person could not go near the Temple Mount nor enter into the Temple or perform any religious ritual to attain the favor of God. He was separated from Gods dwelling place.

             The Sanctity of the Temple Mount was such that entry to it was forbidden to people rendered ritually impure by: Gonorrheal or uterine discharges, menstrual Blood, or childbirth.

             The rampart within the Temple Mount was of a higher degree of sanctity so that non-Jews and those ritually impure by contact with a corpse were forbidden to enter. The women's courtyard, which was within the Temple itself, could not be entered by someone who had immersed them self in a MIKVEH to regain ritual purity because they remained impure until the evening.

             The Israelites' courtyard was even forbidden to someone who had completed all the other stages of regaining ritual purity and who only needed to bring a sacrifice to complete purification. If anyone entered it while ritually impure they had to bring a sin offering.

             The priests courtyard had a higher degree of holiness, and Israelites could only enter it to bring a sacrifice. The area between the alter and the Sanctuary had an even higher degree of holiness, and priests who were blemished could not enter it.

             The Sanctuary could only be entered by priests who followed the ritual cleansing of washing hands and feet in the basin. The High Priest could only enter the Holy of Hollies on the day of atonement and then only to perform the service of atonement.

SOME TYPES OF IMPURITIES REQUIRING MIKVEH

1.          Mikveh after seven days of no body emissions from an illness. Lev. 15:16-18.

2.          Mikveh to purify a leper after he was healed consisted of, two baths, shaving of the body, and the offering of a lamb and or a goat. Lev. 13:47-59. Jesus sent the leper to the Priest to fulfill the law!

3.      A woman giving birth is unclean for seven days if birth was given to a boy and 14 days if birth was given to a girl. After mikveh she is not clean for 30 & 60 days respectfully. Lev. 12:1-8.

4.          Earthen vessels must be immersed in a mikveh, also glass, wooden and metal. Lev. 11:33

5.      A menstruating woman is considered unclean and must take mikveh after she stops her flowing.

6.        A Cannanite slave after freedom through purchase or emancipation has all the rights of a Jew after mikveh and takes the status of a convert.

7.         A woman who lost her husband must take mikveh before marrying another man.

             During the time the ceremonial law of Moses was in effect, a non-Jew who accepts Judaism (A righteous convert) was Circumcised and had to have total immersion in a MIKVEH for the sake of conversion, and must accept the law (mitzvot) of the Bible (Torah) in the presence of a Bet Din (Priest).

             Quote!  ‘Wash [07364] you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; And when a stranger [01616] shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born [0249] in the land: for no un-circumcised person shall eat thereof. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love [0157] him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;’

07364 = To Wash         Wash away, wash off, bathe, that is to immerse.

01616 = Stranger          Sojourner, a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights.

0157 = Love                  Human love for/to God, act of being a friend.

0249 = Born               In the sense of springing up, to rise, come forth, break out, arise, rise up, shine.

GENTILE CONVERSIONS INTO THE PROMISES ABRAHAM

             The Torah specifically commands the Jew to show a convert Love, not to cause them distress by reminding them of their past, and to support them in all their needs. After Circumcision, immersion in a mikveh for the sake of conversion and the acceptance of the mitzvot, according to Torah law, "a convert is like a newborn child." They are considered to have no ties to their natural parents or relatives. Nevertheless, the Sages forbade a convert from marrying relatives of who themselves converted. They allowed a convert to inherit their gentile father's estate. The Stranger (Gentile) shall be as one born among you. Born as if they were a home born Jew, not to b