CHRISTIANS MUST TAKE A STAND: Black Pastors Say 'Stay Home' Election Day

Happy Feast Of Trumpets all! Yahshua wants a couple things posted today inspite of the Holy day and so I am listening to His request. 

Black pastors are calling for the people to stay home from the polls in November. They cannot justify voting for Obama who backs same sex marriage AND abortion at ALL stages. They also cannot justify voting for a Mormon who in their theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had a former ban on men of African descent in the priesthood. Well its even worse than that folks!

The Mormons actually believe that ALL black people are cursed and that is why they are black! That is actually NOT the first time I have heard this sick form of thought either. There is a group of New Ager's that secretly believe the same...though you will not find that out UNTIL you are deeply entrenched in their group OR you happen to become friends with one as I did. I still would not have known except that her mother had Alzhiemers in the beginning stages and let it slip one day while I was there...then my friend had to admit that yes, in her beliefs and books by Guy Ballard (Godfrey Ray King) and books on the Violet Flame...that is their belief. So much for your "we judge no-one and love is the ONLY real thing, all else is an illusion" mentality.

Anyways, I digress. There is a MUCH, MUCH better idea out there folks than just staying away from the polls as suggested in this article on NewsMax. I am going to re-print an article and I strongly urge you to join with me in this! I will definitely be going to the polls to cast MY vote for the ONLY one I know that will truly change anything. Join me won't you?:

CHRISTIANS MUST TAKE A STAND AND SAY "NO" TO SATAN THIS NOVEMBER!!!

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"If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God." Deut 8:19,20 "The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them until the Lord removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there." 2 Kings 17:22,23 It is time for Christians, true followers of Jesus Christ, to rise up and say NO to Satan this November! As I prophetically shared last November, if God allowed the upcoming election for President to be between President Obama and Mitt Romney, it would truly be Satan flipping a two-headed coin with his head on both sides!
President Obama has proven by his words and deeds to be a true enemy of God as detailed in James 4:4. He has been the most pro-death President in history, supporting the legalized slaughter of innocent babies here and around the world, he is a staunch advocate of the radical homosexual agenda, and he has been a great friend to the enemies of Israel. On every major spiritual issue of the day, President Obama has proven to be an enemy of God and a true tool of Satan!
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is a 5th generation member and a priest in the satanically inspired Mormon cult. He and others in his cult LIE when they claim to be Christians, since Mormon doctrine is 100% inconsistent with Biblical Christianity and a Mormon is no more a Christian than a Muslim is. He deceives people by saying he believes in "God" and "Jesus" is his savior, when the "god" of Romney's cult is NOT the God of the Bible, and their "Jesus" is NOT the Jesus of the Bible. Romney and those in his cult believe the Bible to be a flawed and incomplete book and look at Biblical Christians as inferior and non-believers for rejecting the beliefs of their cult.
If President Obama is re-elected, his anti-American, socialist policies will continue, as will his attacks on Christianity and Christian churches. He will continue to support abortion, homosexuality, the enemies of Israel. How can a true follower of Christ vote in good conscience for a man who has proven to be a true enemy of God and His Word and will continue to be so in his next term?
If Mitt Romney is elected, he will be the fulfillment of his cult's polygamist, pedophile, racist, con artist, murdering founder Joseph Smith's "White Horse" prophecy that Romney and all Mormon's believe. That prophecy says that the United States will facing great economic and social unrest, a Mormon will be elected President, declare a national emergency and set aside the US Constitution and enact a Mormon theocracy. That may sound impossible, but ever since he was at BYU, Romney was called by his inner circle "the chosen one" to fulfill their cult's prophecy.
Aside from the 'White Horse" prophecy, Romney's cult is very aggressive in seeking converts to their beliefs. They have been preparing for the past year for a Romney Presidency, and conservative estimates are that over 1 million people in this country alone will become part of his cult without him having to ever say a word. Just by being the President, his cult will finally gain the mainstream acceptance they have never been able to attain. For Christians, that means 1 million plus people will buy into the lies of Romney's cult, die, and their souls burn in hell for all eternity! How can a true follower of Christ vote in good conscience for a man whose cult will help send 1 million plus souls to hell?
Sadly, most Christians are so appalled at President Obama's opposition to God on every major spiritual issue of the day, they are willing to put politics above souls. The justification is that Romney is the lesser of two evils. My friend, the lesser of two evils is still EVIL!
The problems in this nation are NOT political, they are spiritual. That is why NO politician can solve the real problems this nation faces! Do we have political problems that need to be addressed? Absolutely! However, until we deal with the spiritual problems this nation faces, nothing will ever change. The only hope is for this nation to have a "Nineveh Moment," where we repent of our sins and turn back to God and His Truth!
This is not about politics, it is about THE ETERNAL SOULS OF MEN! A true Christian will NEVER put politics above souls, so please watch for any so-called Christian leader who endorses and supports either President Obama or Mitt Romney, since they are nothing but "hirelings" and NOT true men or women of God because they obviously don't care about souls!
So who is a Christian to vote for with a clear conscience? The answer is simple...JESUS!!!
I am encouraging true followers of Jesus Christ to say NO to Satan and say YES to Jesus! This November, write in the name JESUS for President! The option will be several third party candidates. Sadly, no candidate outside of the two major parties have any chance at winning the election. So rather than vote for a third party candidate, write in the name of Jesus for President.
Your vote for JESUS is not helping President Obama get re-elected, nor is it helping Mitt Romney get elected, it is telling Satan you will not be responsible for either of his tools becoming our next President! Men need to quit looking to men for answers, but to the Lord!
The fact is, God has taken His hand of blessing and protection from this nation for our gross sins and wickedness. How long could we slaughter 4,000 innocent babies every 24 hours, make a mockery of God's Holy Institution of Marriage and the Family, engage in every kind of sexual perversion, bow down and worship every false god and idol man has dreamed up in rebellion to his Creator, and arrogantly not expect God's wrath and punishment?
God started by allowing the economy to slip in disarray, we have chaos in our streets, and now God has allowed two tools of Satan to face each other to see who would become the next leader of our nation. The great thing is that God is not done with His people! God still has a remnant who won't bow their knee to Baal! It is time for God's people to rise up and take our stand for Him! It is time for our voice to be heard!
We can do that this November, taking a real stand for God and His Truth by writing in the name of JESUS for President. I assure you that if 1 million, 2 million, 10 million Christians make this symbolic statement for our faith, we will no longer be ignored. We have a chance to make a statement for our faith that the world will not be able to ignore! I am tired of satan having his way. It is time to lead our nation back to God and Biblical Truth, while leading the lost and hurting to faith in Jesus Christ!
The broadcast and cable television networks promote each day the agenda of satan whether it is the legalized killing of babies, the radical homosexual agenda, the destruction of God's Holy Institutions of marriage and the family, the false religion of Islam as well as any other cult, false religion, or new age philosophy, while they mock, demean, marginalize, and demonize men and women who believe the Bible to be God's inspired, inerrant Word, representing Absolute Truth and our final authority in all matters and have put their faith in Jesus Christ!
WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED OR SILENT ANY LONGER!!!
Will you pray about making your stand with me this November by writing in the name of JESUS for President???
Please take a minute and go to: I will vote for Jesus this November I love you and care about you so much. Please know that you will be in my prayers. Please be in prayer for whoever is our President as God has instructed us to do. Now is the time, this is the moment. God may be done with this nation, but His people can make our stand for righteousness, say NO to Satan, and help lead this nation back to the Almighty and His Truth!!!

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WHAT MITT ROMNEY, GLENN BECK, AND ALL MORMONS BELIEVE BUT WILL NEVER ADMIT!!!

• Their "god" was once a man like you and I and Mormon men believe they too can become "gods" in the afterlife.
• Their "Jesus" is NOT a deity but a created being from the sexual union of their god/man and Mary, is the brother of Lucifer, and is believed to have come to the US during his lifetime.
• Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon cult 200 years ago, was a convicted con artist, as well as a polygamist, pedophile, racist and murderer.
• The foundation of the Mormon cult were gold tablets an angel named "Moroni" supposedly led Smith to in the Catskill mountains, but were never produced by Smith.
• Polygamy was only stopped in exchange for Utah becoming a state, but is still practiced by many Mormons and is taught to be part of their afterlife.
• For nearly 150 years, the Mormon cult taught that ALL blacks were cursed, hence, a black Mormon male could not hold the highly regarded LDS Priesthood because of his dark skin, and since he could not hold this Priesthood, he could not enter the Mormon Temple.
• Mormons believe Biblical Christians are inferior and lost.
• Mormons believe that they can "baptize the dead" in order to have the lost get to their version of Heaven.
• The Indians on the North American continent are believed to be a lost tribe of Israel who came to this continent on a boat from Israel, despite there being ZERO genetic proof for this absurd belief.
• The Bible is viewed as a flawed and incomplete book, superseded by the writings of Smith, the Book of Mormon, a poor plagiarism of much of the Old Testament, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Doctrines and Covenants.
• Joseph Smith was part of the Masonic cult and most of the Mormon "temple rituals" are identical to the rituals of the Masonic cult.
• Much of true Mormonism is practiced in secret, out of the public eye, unlike Christianity that is practiced in the open with no secrecy involved.
• Mormons blame the "creeds" of the early church for determining the deity of Christ, when in fact it is the Bible, all 66 books complete by 90 a.d., that teaches Christ was, is, and always will be GOD.
• Mormons are taught "lying for the Lord" that enables them to lie to non-Mormons in order to advance the cause of their cult, such as claiming to be a Christian when Mormon doctrine is 100% inconsistent with Biblical Christianity.
• Mormon women are excluded from the priesthood and her prepubescent son is more qualified to advise her than she is to advise him on spiritual matters.
• Without being celestially married to a holder of the priesthood, a Mormon woman cannot be "saved.
• In the temple marriage ceremony, Mormon women are given secret names known only to their husbands, for identification purposes, so their husbands can pull them through to "the other side" after death.
• After death, while their husbands are creating and ruling over planets, Mormon women have the questionable honor of bearing his "spirit children" for eternity, or being an eternal incubator.

For more information on the Mormon cult, visit: www.votingforsatan.com

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Please read these 6 critical messages about what is playing out spiritually in the upcoming Presidential election!

• Satan vs. Satan
• God's Hand of Protection and Blessing is Being Removed from this Nation
• The Forces of Hell are Raining Down on this Nation from the All Sides
• Being a Godly Citizen
• God Allows Men to Rise to Power and Takes Men Out of Power 
• The Time to Create a Nineveh Moment is Now

Please watch these short videos!

• President Obama, God's enemy!
• A video message to Ann Romney
• Mormon "magical underwear"
• Bill Keller interview's ex-Mormon Ed Decker

Blameless Blood, A Mighty Weapon!

Just as our blameless and heroic Lord and Savior Jesus Christ shed His blood for us as a sacrifice, the enemy wants a blood sacrifice too. Why is the blood so important, why was it necessary for Yeshua to become the supreme sacrifice for us to ever be forgiven, to ever stand before God? God is not blood thirsty, He does not do things for no reason...there is always order, meaning and logic to everything He does. He is not the author of confusion or chaos. So why does innocent blood need to be spent to save our souls?

Well lets think back to how this all began. First there was a war in heaven and the angels who sided with and followed Lucifer fell to Earth. Once here the bible says they "took" wives and bred with human women. Which to me implies force...this was no love story they just saw what they wanted and took it. But why? These angels were huge, far to large to ever engage in fornication with human females...their reasons were not carnal, at least not in that sense.

Now there is really no proof of this, but these fallen, supernatural creations were highly intelligent. They knew and know things that we can't even conceive of yet. They were going to engage in a battle against God Himself and ALL of His angels. They needed an army if they were ever going to have half a chance at winning. We, of course, know that they will never win but their ego's will never allow them to admit defeat. So I believe that at this point that they began a genetic research program that continues to this day and was also taught to mankind eventually. They began to play god with God's own handiwork, they began altering our DNA. They impregnated the Earthly females which then gave birth to half breeds-giants that were corrupt, deformed and became more evil and deranged as they aged. That was just the beginning. They began to alter and mix species as well to create dinosaurs that were large enough for these giants to ride and work for them. There is now evidence of pottery with pictures of giants riding the dinosaurs.  This program continued until the flood which set them back a bit and caused them to separate themselves from mankind until they could blend in better. Now I believe they have perfected their genetic program. Now they can fit in and not be noticed if they keep a low profile...till the time is just right.

But of course, Satan coerced Eve into sleeping with him by deceiving her, so we can assume that they had perfected things to some degree. She also slept with her mate, Adam, thereby changing a portion of our DNA into something corrupt and deformed with evil natures. Again, Cain was something unnatural, a half breed at best that would pass on this corrupt DNA into the bloodline of mankind.

So how can God set this right and change our corrupt DNA? God and sin cannot occupy the same space. God's burning love will ignite any unclean thing near Him. So to even work with mankind...as He did with Moses a sacrificial, innocent lamb, ram, bull or whatever had to shed its blood to cover the man so he could approach God and survive. But this was only a temporary fix and would not give us access to the heavenly realms or allow us to be a part of the God family. This was our main reason for being created. We were created for His pleasure...to be His family! Satan had to be thrilled and likewise the other fallen ones. They must have thought that they had stopped God's progress, ruined His chances of having a family and permanently sentenced us all to hell.

Then Jesus the Christ was born of a woman...half God's seed and half womans...a virgin who had never been touched by the world, who took her meals fed to her by Gods angels. Our Kinsman Redeemer! A legal contract to buy us back and make the corrupt, incorruptible. Yeshua brings us back to our complete God nature when we accept Christ as our savior...into our hearts. When we walk the straight and narrow way and accept Christ into our hearts by kicking ourselves off the throne there then we are covered by His blood and His sacrifice for us becomes our perfection in God's eyes.Christ was 100% God while at the same time 100%
human.  The 100% sperm of God united with the 100% egg of Mary to become 100% human with 100% super powers.  As God becomes greater and we become lesser, the more our spirit, mind and body will become like Him.

1st Peter 1:18-19 NIV
You know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20.He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.  21.Through Him you believe in God Who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him, and so
your faith and hope are in God.



This supernatural blood is alleged to have carried God's eternal life within it, being "sinless blood,"32 incorruptible blood and imperishable blood. The imperishability of such blood is further explained by M.R. DeHaan:

flagellator scourged Him; the blood that oozed out under the thorny crown and flowed from His hands, His head, His feet was never destroyed for it was incorruptible blood. Not one drop of that blood
was lost or wasted." 33

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When our lord was crucified on Calvary, God, who knows all things, had already placed the Ark of the Covenant just below the very ground where Jesus was nailed. So all the blood that dripped from Jesus from His head, back, legs, arms, hands, face, feet and the blood and water that gushed forth from His side all penetrated the ground through cracks and fell upon the Mercy Seat in the Ark of the Covenant!

Over 2000 years later Ron Wyatt had that same blood tested in a lab. The results will astound you as they did the scientists that worked in that lab. They are forever changed. I will post the 4 minute video below of the lab results. This is truly one of the most blessed times to be alive and witnessing all that our Lord, our friend, our first love has done for us and continues to do everyday! Prophecy is unfolding literally before our eyes.

Prince, Derek - Blessing or Curse                                     
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Chapter 20  The Climax of the Conflict reminds us that "Satan's main weapon is guilt.  That is why he accuses us before God day and night.  He reminds God of all the sins we have committed...His strategy, therefore, is to paralyze us with a  sense of our guilt, to make us feel totally unworthy and inadequate.  For this purpose he accuses us 'before our God day and night.' (Revelation 12:10)...To every accusation of Satan we can respond that the blood of Jesus shed on the cross has provided a full and perfect propitiation.  Therefore we are NOT guilty!.."Commit...to memory" "each provision made for us through the blood of Jesus." Prince, Derek - War in Heaven

 Jesus shed His blood in 7 places. This is Jesus number.

Luke 22:39 NKJV    39 He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed...

Luke 22:41 NKJV    41 He knelt down and prayed.

Luke 22:44 NKJV    44 His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Matthew 27:24 NKJV  (Governor) Pilate...washed his hands...saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Person.

Matthew 27:26 NIV    When he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.

Matthew 27:29 NIV    When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head.

Matthew 27:30 NIV    They spat on Him and took the reed and struck Him on the head.

Isaiah 53:5 NIV          He was bruised for our iniquities...by His stripes we are healed.

Matthew 27:33 NIV    They had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull.

Matthew 27:35 NIV    Then they crucified Him (by nailing His hands and feet on the cross).

Luke 23:33 NIV          They had come to the place called Calvary; there they crucified Him.

John 19:34 NIV          One of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out.

John 19:36 NIV          These things were done that the Scripture (Exodus 12:46/Numbers 9:12/Psalm 34:20) should be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be broken."
 
John 19:37 NIV          Another Scripture (Zechariah 12:10) says, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced."

Blood is mentioned in the bible over and over again...God only does this when it is a very important subject/lesson He is trying to teach us. Besides Christ literally transfusing us with His own blood and washing us clean in it...I believe it is one of our strongest end time weapons to fight the principalities and powers with. 

Lets look at scripture:

1st Corinthians 11:23-30 (NIV)  The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."  In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of Me."  Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.  Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and the blood of the Lord.  A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.  Anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.  That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep (died).


It is important to recognize that when God adopts us into His family, we are in the genealogy/blood line of Christ!  This is significant.  We can do ALL things through Christ Jesus, our blood relative.  He now lives in our DNA, in our blood, in our spirit.  His blood in us is what operates to do His work in our flesh.  We can do His miracles, signs, and wonders according to His gifts of the Holy Spirit.  Actually, it is He Who can do through us His wonders.  As in human conception, when sperm unites with egg, His Spirit unites with our spirit to become one spirit.  Obviously, we need daily to grow up and mature but God's side of the equation is as it was with Jesus.  That is why God can always operate in/through our imperfect flesh, as we begin to recognize and obey the voice of Abba God. 


Scripture says there is life in the blood and that both the Old Testament Torah Jews as well as the New Testament Jews and converts to Christ are NOT to eat or drink blood of the creatures they killed.  Yet in the New Testament, we are commanded to drink His blood (represented by red wine) and to eat His flesh (represented by unleavened Passover bread/ manna/communion wafers).  Thus we see that there is an invisible spiritual life in the blood of Jesus Christ, the slain lamb from the foundation of the earth and later slain and manifested on the cross.  So when we plead the blood and cover ourselves with the blood of Christ we are enlisting the invisible spiritual life that was in Him and that rose Him from the dead.  We are taught that the human being is a mirror image of the invisible spirit man, not the other way around.  The invisible spirit world is more real than the visible world.  Thus He, not we, spiritually live and operate in these bodies. ANY miracle is of Him and by Him alone.


Remember, there is still slavery in the world today.  Sometimes we can actually still purchase back or redeem these slaves with money.  Likewise, this will help us to remember that Christ Himself purchased us from Satan, with His own blood, a huge cost to Him.  We are THAT precious and valuable to Him.  God sacrificed His Son for us.  His Son sacrificed His life blood for us. Truly no greater love than this can exist!

Other Scripture

Genesis 9:4  "You must not eat meat that has its life blood still in it."

Exodus 12:7 KJVer    "They shall take of the (lamb's) blood and strike it on the 2 side posts and on the upper door post of the houses
Exodus 12:12-13 KJVer     for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.  Against all the god of Egypt I will execute judgment.  I am the Lord.  The blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are.  When I see the blood, I will pass over you.  The plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt." 
Exodus 12:23 NKJV     "I will not allow the destroyer to enter into you." (The Old Testament lamb represents Jesus, the New Testament lamb of God, Who takes away sin, infirmity and death.)
(The application of the blood of the Lamb makes us invisible to the enemy, per https://www.houseofdavid.us )
Leviticus 3:16-17 NIV    16The priest shall burn them (animal inner parts covered by or connected to fat) on the altar as food, an (fellowship/peace) offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma.  All the fat is the Lord's.  This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.  Wherever you live, you must NOT eat any fat or any blood.
Leviticus 7:26 NIV    Wherever you live, you must NOT eat the blood of ANY bird or animal.  If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 17:10-11 NIV    Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood - I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.  The life of a creature is in the blood.  I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar.  It is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.
Leviticus 18:19 NIV    Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleaness (menstruation/blood flow) of her monthly period.
Leviticus 19:26 NKJV    You shall not eat anything with the blood (remaining/not drained off), nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.
Psalm 107:2 KJVer    Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy.
Ezekiel 33:7-9 Alexander Harkavy  7O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel.  Therefore, thou shalt hear the Word at My mouth, and warn them from Me.  8When I say unto the wicked, "O wicked man, thou shalt surely die", if thou dost not seek to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand.  9Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.
(Commentary.  This could mean one will have premature death as a result of iniquity or disobedience to God.)
Ezekiel 34:4 Alexander Harkavy  The diseased have ye not strengthened; neither have ye healed that which was sick; neither have ye bound up that which was broken; neither have ye sought that which was lost.
Joel 3:21 (KJV)    I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed.
Matthew 26:28 (KJV)    He (Jesus) took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink you all of it, for this is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."
Romans 3:23-25 NKJV    All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified (made righteous/right with God) freely (without deserving it) by  His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, Whom God sent  forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.
Romans 5:8-9 NIV    God demonstrates His own love for us in this - While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him (Jesus).
1st Corinthians 5:7 NIV    Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Cor. 6:19-20
2nd Corinthians 5:17 NIV    If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old one has gone.  The new has come.
2nd Corinthians 10:3-5 KJV    We do not war after the flesh.  (The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.)  Cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.  Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (Spiritual insight = Strongholds, imaginations, high "thing" and "itself", may in fact be demons rather than me, myself and I.  A stronghold may in fact be a strongman, an evil principality.)
Ephesians 1:7 NIV    In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
Ephesians 2:13 KJVer    Now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:18 KJVer    For through Him (Jesus Christ) we both have access by one (Holy) Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 5:30 NIV    We are members of His body.
Hebrews 9:16-18 NIV    In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, because a will is in force only when somebody has died.  It never takes effect while the one who made it is living.  This is why even the 1st covenant was not put into effect without blood.
Hebrews 9:22 NIV    The law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Hebrews 10:19 NKJV    Have boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus.
Hebrews 12:24 NIV    You have come to God, judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that SPEAKS a better word than the blood of Abel.
(Genesis 4:10-12 RSV     9The Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said (lied), "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"  10The Lord said, "What have you done?  The VOICE of your brother's blood is CRYING to Me from the ground.  11Now you are CURSED (have triggered a consequence) from the ground, which as opened its MOUTH to receive your brother's blood from your hand.  12When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.")
Hebrews 13:12 NIV    Therefore Jesus also...might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate."
James 4:7 KJV  Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
1st Peter 1:18-19 NIV    You know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20.He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.  21.Through Him you believe in God Who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
1st John 1:7    The blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanses us from all sin (and all pollution per Wigglesworth).
Revelation 1:5 NAB    Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.  To Him Who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood (transfusion -replacing our old contaminated blood with His new blood).
Revelation 12:11    They overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb (shed 2000 years ago) and by the word of their testimony (believing in/speaking of/confessing the efficacy of His blood + applying His blood to their hearts, door posts and situations); they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death (being murdered/martyred).


How can anyone turn their backs on one who would go to such lengths to save us? Giving His life's blood for us, tortured and dying on a cross, ridiculed and mocked, thrust into hell for 3 days to preach to them and release the prisoners held by Satan and still people say no to Him. That has got to break His heart. I pray to cover every unbeliever in His precious blood so that they may be able to feel and understand true agape` love and want it for themselves. 

P.S. Considering all of the attempts by Satan to alter our DNA, cut down the progression and growth of the God family and basically annihilate mankind to get to God; it comes as no surprise really that homosexuality's popularity has grown significantly. The mating of two of the same sex cannot propagate the species and therefore is considered an abomination unto God. The connection of two of the same sex is not about love as the supporters of such like to point out...it is nothing more than carnal sex. Human love is not Godly love which is agape` love, and is always self serving. Agape` love only comes when the Christ enters the throne of your heart and resides there. It is a gift given by God's presence and totally unnatural to carnal man. It should also then, come as no surprise when looking back at the previous attempts made by Satan that homosexuality was visited with the blood borne plague of HIV.

 

 

    

 

 

The Voice of the Blood of Christ by REV. C. H. Spurgeon

This is an amazing sermon given by a man obviously overflowing with the Holy Spirit! I had to re-print this as a lead in to the following article that I will write. Please read and listen carefully to what this man is saying...he speaks pure truth.

A Sermon (No. 211)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 29, 1858, by the
REV. C. H. Spurgeon
at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens

"The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."—Hebrews 12:24.

F all substances blood is the most mysterious, and in some senses the most sacred. Scripture teacheth us,—and after all there is very much philosophy in Scripture,—that "the blood is the life thereof,"—that the life lieth in the blood. Blood, therefore, is the mysterious link between matter and spirit. How it is that the soul should in any degree have an alliance with matter through blood, we cannot understand; but certain it is that this is the mysterious link which unites these apparently dissimilar things together, so that the soul can inhabit the body, and the life can rest in the blood. God has attached awful sacredness to the shedding of blood. Under the Jewish dispensation, even the blood of animals was considered as sacred. Blood might never be eaten by the Jews; it was too sacred a thing to become the food of man. The Jew was scarcely allowed to kill his own food: certainly he must not kill it except he poured out the blood as a sacred offering to Almighty God. Blood was accepted by God as the symbol of the. "Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin, because, I take it, blood hath such an affinity with life, that inasmuch as God would accept nought but blood, be signified that there must be a life offered to him, and that his great and glorious Son must surrender his life as a sacrifice for his sheep.
Now, we have in our text "blood" mentioned—two-fold blood. We have the blood of murdered Abel, and the blood of murdered Jesus. We have also two things in the text:—a comparison between the blood of sprinkling, and the blood of Abel; and then a certain condition mentioned. Rather, if we read the whole verse in order to get its meaning, we find that the righteous are spoken of as coming to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than the blood of Abel; so that the condition which will constitute the second part of our discourse, is coming to that blood of sprinkling for our salvation and glory.
I. Without further preface I shall at once introduce to you the CONTRAST AND COMPARISON IMPLIED IN THE TEXT. "The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." I confess I was very much astonished when looking at Dr. Gill and Albert Barnes, and several of the more eminent commentators, while studying this passage, to find that they attach a meaning to this verse which had never occurred to me before. They say that the meaning of the verse is not that the blood of Christ is superior to the blood of murdered Abel, although that is certainly a truth, but that the sacrifice of the blood of Christ is better, and speaketh better things than the sacrifice which Abel offered. Now, although I do not think this is the meaning of the text and I have my reasons for believing that the blood here contrasted with that of the Saviour, is the blood of the murdered man Abel, yet on looking to the original there is so much to be said on both sides of the question, that I think it fair in explaining the passage to give you both the meanings. They are not conflicting interpretations; there is indeed a shade of difference but still they amount to the same idea.
First, then, we may understand here a comparison between the offerings Abel presented, and the offerings Jesus Christ presented, when he gave his blood to be a ransom for the flock.
Let me describe Abel's offering. I have no doubt Adam had from the very first of his expulsion from the garden of Eden offered a sacrifice to God; and we have some dim hint that this sacrifice was of a beast, for we find that the Lord God made Adam and Eve skins of beasts to be their clothing, and it is probable that those skins were procured by the slaughter of victims offered in sacrifice. However, that is but a dim hint: the first absolute record that he have of an oblatory sacrifice is the record of the sacrifice offered by Abel. Now, it appears that very early there was a distinction among men. Cain was the representative of the seed of the serpent, and Abel was the representative of the seed of the woman. Abel was God's elect, and Cain was one of those who rejected the Most High. However, both Cain and Abel united together in the outward service of God. They both of them brought on a certain high day a sacrifice. Cain took a different view of the matter of sacrifice from that which presented itself to the mind of Abel. Cain was proud and haughty: he said "I am ready to confess that the mercies which we receive from the soil are the gift of God, but I am not ready to acknowledge that I am a guilty sinner, deserving God's wrath, therefore," said he, "I will bring nothing but the fruit of the ground." "Ah, but" said Abel, "I feel that while I ought to be grateful for temporal mercies, at the same time I have sins to confess, I have iniquities to be pardoned, and I know that without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin; therefore," said he, "O Cain, I will not be content to bring an offering of the ground, of the ears of corn, or of first ripe fruits, but I will bring of the firstlings of my flock, and I will shed blood upon the altar, because my faith is, that there is to come a great victim who is actually to make atonement for the sins of men, and by the slaughter of this lamb, I express my solemn faith in him." Not so Cain; he cared nothing for Christ; he was not willing to confess his sin; he had no objection to present a thank-offering, but a sin-offering he would not bring. He did not mind bringing to God that which he thought might be acceptable as a return for favors received, but he would not bring to God an acknowledgment of his guilt, or a confession of his inability to make atonement for it, except by the blood of a substitute. Cain, moreover, when he came to the altar, came entirely without faith. He piled the unhewn stones, as Abel did, he laid his sheaves of corn upon the altar, and there he waited, but it was to him a matter of comparative indifference whether God accepted him or not. He believed there was a God, doubtless, but he had no faith in the promises of that God. God had said that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head—that was the gospel as revealed to our first parents; but Cain had no belief in that gospel—whether it were true or not, he cared not—it was sufficient for him that he acquired enough for his own sustenance from the soil; he had no faith. But holy Abel stood by the side of the altar, and while Cain the infidel perhaps laughed and jeered at his sacrifice, he boldly presented there the bleeding lamb as a testimony to all men, both of that time and all future times, that he believed in the seed of the woman—that he looked for him to come who should destroy the serpent, and restore the ruins of the fall. Do you see holy Abel, standing there, ministering as a priest at God's altar? Do you see the flush of joy which comes over his face, when he sees the heavens opened, and the living fire of God descend upon the victims? Do you note with what a grateful expression of confident faith he lifts to heaven his eye which had been before filled with tears, and cries, "I thank thee O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast accepted my sacrifice, inasmuch as I presented it through faith in the blood of thy Son, my Saviour, who is to come."
Abel's sacrifice, being the first on record, and being offered in the teeth of opposition, has very much in it which puts it ahead of many other of the sacrifices of the Jews. Abel is to be greatly honored for his confidence and faith in the coming Messiah. But compare for a moment the sacrifice of Christ with the sacrifice of Abel, and the sacrifice of Abel shrinks into insignificance. What did Abel bring? He brought a sacrifice which showed the necessity of blood-shedding but Christ brought the blood-shedding itself. Abel taught the world by his sacrifice that he looked for a victim, but Christ brought the actual victim. Abel brought but the type and the figure, the Lamb which was but a picture of the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world; but Christ was that Lamb. He was the substance of the shadow, the reality of the type. Abel's sacrifice had no merit in it apart from the faith in the Messiah with which he presented it; but Christ's sacrifice had merit of itself; it was in itself meritorious. What was the blood of Abel's lamb? It was nothing but the blood of a common lamb that might have been shed anywhere, except that he had faith in Christ the blood of the lamb was but as water, a contemptible thing; but the blood of Christ was a sacrifice indeed, richer far than all the blood of beasts that ever were offered upon the altar of Abel, or the altar of all the Jewish high priests. We may say of all the sacrifices that were ever offered, however costly they might be, and however acceptable to God, though they were rivers of oil and tens of thousands of fat beasts, yet they were less than nothing, and contemptible, in comparison with the one sacrifice which our high priest hath offered once for all, whereby he hath eternally perfected them that are sanctified.
We have thus found it very easy to set forth the difference between the blood of Christ's sprinkling and the blood which Abel sprinkled. But now I take it that there is a deeper meaning than this, despite what some commentators have said. I believe that the allusion here is to the blood of murdered Abel. Cain smote Abel, and doubtless his hands and the altar were stained with the blood of him who had acted as a priest. "Now," says our apostle, "that blood of Abel spoke." We have evidence that it did, for God said to Cain, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground," and the apostle's comment upon that in another place is—"By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh," speaketh through his blood, his blood crying unto God from the ground. Now, Christ's blood speaks too. What is the difference between the two voices?—for we are told in the text that it "speaketh better things than that of Abel."
Abel's blood spoke in a threefold manner. It spoke in heaven; it spoke to the sons of men; it spoke to the conscience of Cain. The blood of Christ speaks in a like threefold manner, and it speaks better things.
First, the blood of Abel spoke in heaven. Abel was a holy man, and all that Cain could bring against him was, "His own works were evil, and his brother's were righteous." You see the brothers going to the sacrifice together. You mark the black scowl upon the brow of Cain, when Abel's sacrifice is accepted while his remains untouched by the sacred fire. You note how they begin to talk together—how quietly Abel argues the question, and how ferociously Cain denounces him. You note again how God speaks to Cain, and warns him of the evil which he knew was in his heart; and you see Cain, as he goes from the presence chamber of the Most High, warned and forewarned; but yet with the dreadful thought in his heart that he will imbrue his hands in his brother's blood. He meets his brother; he talks friendly with him: he gives him, as it were, the kiss of Judas; he entices him into the field where he is alone; he takes him unawares; he smites him, and smites him yet again, till there lies the murdered bleeding corpse of his brother. O earth! earth! earth! cover not his blood. This is the first murder thou hast ever seen; the first blood of man that ever stained thy soil. Hark! there is a cry heard in heaven, the angels are astonished; they rise up from their golden seats, and they enquire, "What is that cry?" God looketh upon them, and he saith, "It is the cry of blood, a man hath been slain by his fellow; a brother by him who came from the bowels of the self-same mother has been murdered in cold blood, through malice. One of my saints has been murdered, and here he comes, And Abel entered into heaven blood-red, the first of God's elect who had entered Paradise, and the first of God's children who had worn the blood red crown of martyrdom. And then the cry was heard, loud and clear and strong; and thus it spoke—"Revenge! revenge! revenge!" And God himself, upstarting from his throne, summoned the culprit to his presence, questioned him, condemned him out of his own mouth, and made him henceforth a fugitive and a vagabond, to wander over the surface of the earth, which was to be sterile henceforth to his plough.
And now, beloved, just contrast with this the blood of Christ. That is Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God; he hangs upon a tree; he is murdered—murdered by his own brethren. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not, but his own led him out to death." He bleeds; he dies; and then is heard a cry in heaven. The astonished angels again start from their seats, and they say," What is this? What is this cry that we hear?" And the Mighty Maker answers yet again, "It is the cry of blood; it is the cry of the blood of my only-begotten and well-beloved Son!" And God, uprising from his throne, looks down from heaven and listens to the cry. And what is the cry? It is not revenge; but the voice crieth, "Mercy! mercy! mercy!" Did you not hear it? It said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Herein, the blood of Christ "speaketh better things than that of Abel," for Abel's blood said, "Revenge!" and made the sword of God start from its scabbard; but Christ's blood cried "Mercy!" and sent the sword back again, and bade it sleep for ever.


"Blood hath a voice to pierce the skies,
'Revenge!' the blood of Abel cries;
But the rich blood of Jesus slain,
Speaks peace as loud from every vein."
You will note too that Abel's blood cried for revenge upon one man only—upon Cain; it required the death of but one man to satisfy for it, namely. the death of the murderer. "Blood for blood!" The murderer must die the death. But what saith Christ's blood in heaven? Does it speak for only one? Ah! no, beloved; "the free gift hath come upon many." Christ's blood cries mercy! mercy! mercy! not on one, but upon a multitude whom no man can number—ten thousand times ten thousand.
Again: Abel's blood cried to heaven for revenge, for one transgression of Cain that for ought that Cain had done, worthless and vile before, the blood of Abel did not demand any revenge: it was for the one sin that blood clamoured at the throne of God, and not for many sins. Not so the voice of the blood of Christ. It is "for many offenses unto justification." Oh, could ye hear that cry, that all-prevailing cry, as now it comes up from Calvary's summit—"Father, forgive them!" not one, but many. "Father, forgive them." And not only forgive them this offense, but forgive them all their sins, and blot out all their iniquities. Ah! beloved, we might have thought that the blood of Christ would have demanded vengeance at the hands of God. Surely, if Abel be revenged seven fold, then must Christ be revenged seventy times seven. If the earth would not swallow up the blood of Abel, till it had had its fill, surely we might have thought that the earth never would have covered the corpse of Christ, until God had struck the world with fire and sword, and banished all men to destruction. But, O precious blood! thou sayest not one word of vengeance! All that this blood cries is peace! pardon! forgiveness! mercy! acceptance! Truly it "speaketh better things than that of Abel."
Again: Abel's blood had a second voice. It spoke to the whole world. "He being dead yet speaketh"—not only in heaven, but on earth. God's prophets are a speaking people. They speak by their acts and by their words as long as they live, and when they are buried they speak by their example which they have left behind. Abel speaks by his blood to us. And what does it say? When Abel offered up his victim upon the altar he said to us, "I believe in a sacrifice that is to be offered for the sins of men," but when Abel's own blood was sprinkled on the altar he seemed to say, "Here is the ratification of my faith; I seal my testimony with my own blood; you have now the evidence of my sincerity, for I was prepared to die for the defense of this truth which I now witness unto you." It was a great thing for Abel thus to ratify his testimony with his blood. We should not have believed the martyrs half so easily if they had not been ready to die for their profession. The Gospel in ancient times would never have spread at such a marvellous rate, if it had not been that all the preachers of the gospel were ready at any time to attest their message with their own blood. But Christ's blood "speaketh better things than that of Abel." Abel's blood ratified his testimony, and Christ's blood has ratified his testimony too; but Christ's testimony is better than that of Abel. For what is the testimony of Christ? The covenant of grace—that everlasting covenant. He came into this world to tell us that God had from the beginning chosen his people—that he had ordained them to eternal life, and that he had made a covenant with his son Jesus Christ that if he would pay the price they should go free—if he would suffer in their stead they should be delivered. And Christ cried e'er "he bowed his head and gave up the ghost"—"It is finished." The covenant purpose is finished. That purpose was "to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness." Such was the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ, as his own blood gushed from his heart, to be the diestamp, and seal, that the covenant was ratified. When I see Abel die I know that his testimony was true; but when I see Christ die I know that the covenant is true.
"This covenant, O believer, stands
Thy rising fears to quell;
'Tis signed and sealed and ratified,
In all things ordered well."
When he bowed his head and gave up the ghost, he did as much as say, "All things are made sure unto the seed by my giving myself a victim." Come, saint, and see the covenant all blood-bestained, and know that it is sure. He is "the faithful and true witness, the prince of the kings of the earth." First of martyrs, my Lord Jesus, thou hadst a better testimony to witness than they all, for thou hast witnessed to the everlasting covenant; thou hast witnessed that thou art the shepherd and bishop of souls; thou hast witnessed to the putting away of sin by the sacrifice of thyself Again: I say, come, ye people of God, and read over the golden roll. It begins in election—it ends in everlasting life, and all this the blood of Christ crieth in your ears. All this is true; for Christ's blood proves it to be true, and to be sure to all the seed. It "speaketh better things than that of Abel."
Now we come to the third voice, for the blood of Abel had a three-fold sound. It spoke in the conscience of Cain. Hardened though he was, and like a very devil in his sin, yet he was not so deaf in his conscience that he could not hear the voice of blood. The first thing that Abel's blood said to Cain was this: Ah! guilty wretch, to spill thy brother's blood! As he saw it trickling from the wound and flowing down in streams, he looked at it, and as the sun shone on it, and the red glare came into his eye, it seemed to say, "Ah! cursed wretch, for the son of thine own mother thou hast slain. Thy wrath was vile enough, when thy countenance fell, but to rise up against thy brother and take away his life, Oh! how vile!" It seemed to say to him, "What had he done that thou shouldst take his life? Wherein had he offended thee? Was not his conduct blameless, and his conversation pure? If thou hadst smitten a villain or a thief, men might not have blamed thee; but this blood is pure, clean, perfect blood; how couldest thou kill such a man as this?" And Cain put his hand across his brow, and felt there was a sense of guilt there that he had never felt before. And then the blood said to him again, "Why, whither wilt thou go? Thou shalt be a vagabond as long as thou livest." A cold chill ran through him, and he said, "Whosoever findeth me will kill me." And though God promised him he should live, no doubt he was always afraid. If he saw a company of men together, he would hide himself in a thicket, or if in his solitary wanderings he saw a man at a distance, he started back, and sought to bury his head, so that none should observe him. In the stillness of the night he started up in his dreams. It was but his wife that slept by his side; but he thought he felt some one's hands gripping his throat, and about to take away his life. Then he would sit up in his bed and took around at the grim shadows, thinking some fiend was haunting him and seeking after him. Then, as he rose to go about his business, he trembled. He trembled to be alone, he trembled to be in company. When he was alone he seemed not to be alone; the ghost of his brother seemed staring him in his face; and when he was in company he dreaded the voice of men, for he seemed to think every one cursed him, and he thought every one knew the crime he had committed, and no doubt they did, and every man shunned him. No man would take his hand, for it was red with blood, and his very child upon his knee was afraid to look up into his father's face, for there was the mark which God had set upon him. His very wife could scarcely speak to him,—for she was afraid that from the lips of him who had been cursed of God some curse might fall on her. The very earth cursed him. He no sooner put his foot upon the ground, than where it had been a garden before it suddenly turned into a desert, and the fair rich soil became hardened into an arid rock. Guilt, like a grim chamberlain, with fingers bloody red, did draw the curtain of his bed each night. His crime refused him sleep. It spoke in his heart, and the walls of his memory reverberated the dying cry of his murdered brother. And no doubt that blood spoke one more thing to Cain. It said, "Cain, although thou mayest now be spared there is no hope for thee; thou art a man accursed on earth, and accursed for ever, God hath condemned thee here, and he will damn thee hereafter." And so wherever Cain went, he never found hope. Though he searched for it in the mountain top, yet he found it not there. Hope that was left to all men, was denied to him: a hopeless, houseless, helpless vagabond, he wandered up and down the surface of the earth. Oh! Abel's brood had a terrible voice indeed.
But now see the sweet change as ye listen to the blood of Christ. It "speaketh better things than that of Abel." Friend! hast thou ever heard the blood of Christ in thy conscience? I have, and I thank God I ever heard that sweet soft voice.
Once a sinner near despair;
Sought the mercy seat by prayer."
He prayed: he thought he was praying in vain. The tears gushed from his eyes; his heart was heavy within him; he sought, but he found no mercy. Again, again, and yet again, he besieged the throne of the heavenly grace and knocked at mercy's door Oh! who can tell the mill-stone that lay upon his beating heart, and the iron that did eat into his soul. He was a prisoner in sore bondage; deep, as he thought, in the bondage of despair was he chained, to perish for ever. That prisoner one day heard a voice, which said to him, "Away, away to Calvary!" Yet he trembled at the voice, for he said, "Why should I go thither, for there my blackest sin was committed; there I murdered the Saviour by my trangressions? Why should I go to see the murdered corpse of him who became my brother born for adversity?" But mercy beckoned, and she said, "Come, come away, sinner!" And the sinner followed. The chains were on his legs and on his hands, and he could scarcely creep along. Still the black vulture Destruction seemed hovering in the air. But he crept as best he could, till he came to the foot of the hill of Calvary. On the summit he saw a cross; blood was distilling from the hands, and from the feet, and from the side, and mercy touched his ears and said, "Listen!" and he heard that blood speak; and as it spoke the first thing it said was, "Love!" And the second thing it said was, "Mercy!" The third thing it said was, "Pardon." The next thing it said was, "Acceptance." The next thing it said was, "Adoption." The next thing it said was, "Security." And the last thing it whispered was, "Heaven." And as the sinner heard that voice, he said within himself, "And does that blood speak to me?" And the Spirit said, "To thee—to thee it speaks." And he listened, and oh what music did it seem to his poor troubled heart, for in a moment all his doubts were gone. He had no sense of guilt. He knew that he was vile, but he saw that his vileness was all washed away; he knew that he was guilty, but he saw his guilt all atoned for, through the precious blood that was flowing there. He had been full of dread before; he dreaded life, he dreaded death; but now he had no dread at all; a joyous confidence took possession of his heart. He looked to Christ, and he said, "I know that my Redeemer liveth;" he clasped the Saviour in his arms, and he began to sing:—"Oh! confident am I; for this blest blood was shed for me." And then Despair fled and Destruction was driven clean away. and instead thereof came the bright white-winged angel of Assurance, and she dwelt in his bosom, saying evermore to him, "Thou art accepted in the Beloved: thou art chosen of God and precious: thou art his child now, and thou shalt be his favourite throughout eternity." "The blood of Christ speaketh better things than that of Abel."
And now I must have you notice that the blood of Christ bears a comparison with the blood of Abel in one or two respects, but it excelleth in them all.
The blood of Abel cried "Justice!" It was but right that the blood should be revenged. Abel had no private pique against Cain; doubtless could Abel have done so, he would have forgiven his brother; but the blood spoke justly, and only asked its due when it shouted "Vengeance! vengeance! vengeance!" And Christ's blood speaketh justly, when it saith, "Mercy!" Christ has as much right to demand mercy upon sinners, as Abel's blood had to cry vengeance against Cain. When Christ saves a sinner, he does not save him on the sly, or against law or justice, but he saves him justly. Christ has a right to save whom he will save, to have mercy on whom he will have mercy, for he can do it justly, he can be just, and yet be the justifier of the ungodly.
Again, Abel's blood cried effectively. It did not cry in vain. It said, "Revenge!" and revenge it had. And Christ's blood, blessed be his name, never cries in vain. It saith, "Pardon;" and pardon every believer shall have it saith, "Acceptance," and every penitent is accepted in the Beloved. If that blood cry for me, I know it cannot cry in vain. That all-prevailing blood of Christ shall never miss its due; it must, it shall be heard. Shall Abel's blood startle heaven, and shall not the blood of Christ reach the ears of the Lord God of Sabaoth?
And again, Abel's blood cries continually, there is the mercy-seat, and there is the cross, and the blood is dropping on the mercy-seat. I have sinned a sin. Christ says, "Father, forgive him." There is one drop. I sin again: Christ intercedes again. There is another drop. In fact, it is the drop that intercedes, Christ need not speak with his mouth; the drops of blood as they fall upon the mercy-seat, each seemeth to say, "Forgive him! forgive him! forgive him!"
Dear friend, when thou hearest the voice of conscience, stop and try to hear the voice of the blood too. Oh! what a precious thing it is to hear the voice of the blood of Christ. You who do not know what that means, do not know the very essence and joy of life; but you who understand that, can say, "The dropping of the blood is like the music of heaven upon earth." Poor sinner! I would ask thee to come and listen to that voice that distils upon thy ears and thy heart to-day. Thou art full of sin; the Saviour bids thee lift thine eyes to him. See, there, his blood is flowing from his head, his hands, his feet, and every drop that falls, still cries, "Father, O forgive them! Father, O forgive them." And each drop seems to cry also as it falls, "It is finished: I have made an end of sin, I have brought in everlasting righteousness." Oh! sweet, sweet language of the dropping of the blood of Christ" It "speaketh better things than that of Abel."
II. Having thus, I trust, sufficiently enlarged upon this subject I shall now close by addressing you with a few earnest words concerning the second point.—The CONDITION INTO WHICH EVERY CHRISTIAN IS BROUGHT. He is said to be "come to the blood of sprinkling." I shall make this a very brief matter, but a very solemn and pointed one. My hearers, have you come to the blood of Christ? I do not ask you whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or of an observance of ceremonies, or of a certain form of experience; but I ask you if you have come to the blood of Christ. If you have, I know how you come. You must come to the blood of Christ with no merits of your own. Guilty, lost, and helpless, you must come to that blood, and to that blood alone, for your hopes; you come to the cross of Christ and to that blood too, I know, with a trembling and an aching heart. Some of you remember how you first came, cast down and full of despair; but that blood recovered you. And this one thing I know: if you have come to that blood once, you will come to it every day. Your life will be just this—"Looking unto Jesus." And your whole conduct will be epitomized in this—"To whom coming as unto a living stone." Not to whom I have come, but to whom I am always coming. If thou hast ever come to the blood of Christ thou wilt feel thy need of coming to it every day. He that does not desire to wash in that fountain every day, has never washed in it at all. I feel it every day to be my joy and my privilege that there is still a fountain opened. I trust I came to Christ years ago but ah! I could not trust to that, unless I could come again to-day. Past experiences are doubtful things to a Christian; it is present coming to Christ that must give us joy and comfort. Did you not, some of you, sing twenty years age that hymn,
"My faith doth lay her hand
On that dear head of thine
While like a penitent I stand,
And there confess my sin."
Why, beloved you can sing it as well to-day as you did then. I was reading the other day some book, in which the author states, that we are not to come to Christ as sinners as long as we live; he says we are to grow into saints. Ah! he did not know much, I am sure; for saints are sinners still, and they have always to come to Christ as sinners. If ever I go to the throne of God as a saint, I get repulsed; but when I go just as a poor humble seeking sinner, relying upon nothing but thy blood, O Jesus, I never can get a repulse, I am sure. To whom coming as unto "blood that speaketh better things than that of Abel." Let this be our experience every day.
But there are some here who confess that they never did come. I cannot exhort you, then, to come every day, but I exhort you to come now for the first time. But you say, "May I come?" Yes, if thou art wishing to come thou mayest come; if thou feelest that thou hast need to come thou mayest come.
"All the fitness he requireth,
Is to feel your need of him;"
And even
This he gives you,
'Tis his Spirit's rising beam."
But you say, "I must bring some merits." Hark to the blood that speaks! It says, "Sinner, I am full of merit: why bring thy merits here?" "Ah! but," thou sayest "I have too much sin." Hark to the blood: as it falls, it cries, "Of many offenses unto justification of life." "Ah! but," thou sayest, "I know I am too guilty." Hark to the blood! "Though your sins be as scarlet I will make them as wool; though they be red like crimson they shall be whiter than snow." "Nay," says one, "but I have such a poor desire, I have such a little faith." Hark to the blood! "The bruised reed I will not break, and smoking flax I will not quench." "Nay, but," thou sayest, "I know he will cast me out, if I do come." Hark to the blood! "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." "Nay, but," sayest thou, "I know I have so many sins that I cannot be forgiven." Now, hear the blood once more, and I have done. "The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin." That is the blood's testimony, and its testimony to thee. "There are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood;" and behold the blood's witness is—"The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin." Come, poor sinner, cast thyself simply on that truth. Away with your good works and all your trustings! Lie simply flat on that sweet word of Christ. Trust his blood; and if thou canst put thy trust alone in Jesus, in his sprinkled blood, it shall speak in thy conscience better things than that of Abel.
I am afraid there are many that do not know what we mean by believing. Good Dr. Chalmers once visiting a poor old woman, told her to believe in Christ, and she said, "But that is just the thing I do not know what you mean by." So Dr. Chalmers said, "Trust Christ." Now, that is just the meaning of believing. Trust him with your soul; trust him with your sins; trust him with the future; trust him with the past; trust him with everything. Say,
"A guilty, weak, and worthless worm,
On Christ's kind arms I fall
Be thou my strength and righteousness,
My Jesus and my all."
May the Lord now give you his blessing; for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

Spiritual Warfare

Just a word to my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. You are NOT alone. Attacks are coming out of the woodwork against God's people everywhere. I am getting attacked by family and strangers alike and even my computer is on the attack. Satan is the prince of the power of the air and of this world...he can use his own people who are pagans at heart, electronics, the weather, animal...and a host of other things to drive another stake into our hearts.

He does this to hopefully get a rise out of us and cause us to fall into sin and at the very least to cause chaos and hurt feelings, to wound us and those we care about...to feed his lust for pain, anguish and hatred for God. His hatred of us is only paled by his hatred of God. But what he does not grasp is that even IF we do fall...our loving and gracious God will forgive us as long as we repent and try never to do it again...though He knows we will. Its our determination to TRY not to that matters most to Him. Satans ego will not allow him to repent...there is no room for anything in his heart but hate. His every move and intention has hate at its root.

We must remember that we are caught in the middle of a spiritual war between principalities and powers and God Almighty. The only reason that the principalities and powers are battling for OUR souls is to hurt God, while God's ultimate purpose is to save our souls from eternal damnation and slavery under those most evil of beings.

We must remember daily to put on our Armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-20) and command the evil spirits (out loud...because they cannot read your mind...praise God) to STAND DOWN in Yashua's  name. I have personally found that this works very well as long as you remember to do it daily. I have also found that IF I, per chance, forget, they are waiting and lurking to hit me with their best shot. This does serve to remind you well...I must admit. 

We must remember to pray for ALL of God's people and Israel daily. Because just as we are under attack and our enemy is working through all those whom they can control, so too it is with Israel. Like us, regardless of what her sins of the past or present are, God still loves her dearly. She will be the most blessed nation of all when this is over. The evil that exists knows this and is sitting crouched and drooling with hatred on all sides of her. She needs our prayers.

We must not forget to pray for God's angels who are on the front lines doing battle daily to keep us safe and defend the Lord. We forget sometimes that they too are created beings because they are so above us and help us. Manna from heaven is angel food, so they also eat and the same food that sustains them also sustains us. Though they do not die and are immortal, they have free will, also like us. I do not believe that the ones who are now defending God would ever defect to the other side but I do believe that they need our prayers to give them even more strength, courage and encouragement. We created beings all need that.

Finally, we must remember the most important thing of all, as I said in the beginning, we are NOT alone. No matter how dark things appear to be, no matter who or what is coming against us, there is one that is above all of creation and has counted every hair on our heads because we mean that much to him. He is always with us, He was with us before we were born, He was with us in the womb, He is with us throughout all life and sustains us in all we do. He has legions and I mean LEGIONS of angels at His beckon call to help us and guide our steps lest we fall. All of God's people literally fill any room that they enter into with the Holy Spirit and His angels...if we could only see what is following us we would never worry about another thing...ever. Anything that satan or his cohorts does to us is being allowed by God to teach us this very thing. To rely on God for everything with the faith OF Yashua.

May God bless and strengthen us all in faith.