RESURRECTION SEASON Day 7 ~~~ Where's the Blood ? ...a blog for our JEWISH friends, those under the Old Covenant.

Resurrection Season ~ ~ ~ Day 7

This is a blog for our JEWISH friends,

those whose hope remains in the Old Covenant,

(which is ineffective without Blood)

instead of the New Covenant...

which is made effective by the HOLY LAMB of GOD,

our Passover LAMB.

Where's the Blood ?

Ah, my friend
… such a plight!
Where’s the BLOOD
this Passover Night?

Where’s the BLOOD
So red and cruel
To cover our sins
… the unchanged rule.

CircumSign marks
HIS people in skin.
HIS Covenant requires
BLOOD for sin.

Where is that BLOOD
When Death doth hover;
It’s written plain:
NO BLOOD--- NO COVER.

Without the BLOOD
Our doom is sealed.
HIS Word is sure;
HIS Judgment real.

Is our GOD on Judgment Day
Unfair ? … But that
Is not HIS way.

Does GOD, our Hope,
Command such pay…
Then let us grope
To find the way?

Has HaSHEM
In Whom we trust
Abandoned us…
In great disgust?

Did our Rock
In desert holes
Water our flesh…
To slay our souls?

GOD forbid!
Yet no-one stands
On Judgment Day
With defiled hands.

No BLOOD in “works”
As we’ve been taught.
This is NOT found
In Torah thought.

Sins are covered
by Moses’ Law?
No… its work
Reveals our flaws.

Meticulous laws,
detailed, GOD taught.
No BLOOD covers
fallen man’s thought.

Unsuffered to hew
Even one altar stone.
That act defiles it.
Man is left alone.

Wait! Is GOD nonchalant?
Has integrity declined?
Are HIS chosen forsaken?
Has GOD changed HIS Mind?

NO! HE provides.
HIS love, undiminished.
HIS Holiness wrought
The Work that HE finished.

Abraham and Isaac
Pointed the Way
HIS Provision would come:
Blood--- HOLY--- would pay.

The blood of bulls
and goats is done.
HaSHEM covered us
In HIS SON.

King David spoke clearly
of THIS ONE+
When he admonished:
Kiss the SON+ !

The HOLY ONE of Israel
Did come down.
HE offered HIMSELF;
HE wore no crown.

But thorns did don
and flesh did wear.
A LAMB HE+ was…
Our sins did bear.

+

The BLOOD requirement
Now is met.
Unblemished Lamb,
HE+ paid our debt.

The Law is kept
By HIM, precise.
MESSIAH’S BLOOD,
HIS sacrifice.

Death could not hold
GOD’s HOLY ONE.
HE+ swallowed up Death.
In Victory, HE+ will come.

No longer a LAMB,
Moshiach now roars.
HIS+ glory the Lion
of Judah restores.

HE+ Who came
To the Ancient of Days,
The Son+ of Man,
Is Judge of man’s ways.

Mene, mene, Tekel …
From hardness depart.
Let not that be etched
On the wall of your heart.

Spirit of Truth
versus Spirit of Error:
Stubbornness yields
Inescapable Terror.

His+ mercy-filled love,
His+ Grace--- do not fear it.
Men hungry for Truth
HE+ will fill with His+ Spirit.

To those under the Old Covenant, may The LORD JESHUA reveal HIMSELF+ to you today that you may be filled with hope... the only hope available for mankind... in believing The Word and Provision of HaSHEM... the Blood sacrifice HaSHEM gave to cover your sins... the TRUE PASSOVER LAMB.

HE+ has Blood aplenty for all.

Poem by Sister Judith Hannah of the Order of The GOOD SHEPHERD, 1998. Hebrew text says: "Where's the Blood?" and "Here's the Blood!" All drawings and photos by The Order of the GOOD SHEPHERD also. The red blossoms are on a Hawthorne bush in the back yard of the hermitage. The Hawthorne bush is also known as the "Crown of Thorns" bush because of its very prominent stout thorns. Legend says HIS+ crown of thorns was taken from this shrub.