Bible students know that Baal worship, from its inception in Genesis, has always been associated with drinking human blood, something strictly forbidden by God.
What’s
so fascinating given today’s obsession with vampire entertainment is that the
act of consuming blood is literally a re-enactment of the Original Sin in the
Garden of Eden.
In
author Arthur C. Custance’s 1980 magnus opus “The Seed of the Woman,” he lays
out in exhaustive fashion just how the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil was a grape and that the
swallowing of grape juice by Adam and Eve is comparable to eating blood.
Jordan
explains, “Custance has got some
fascinating things about how fermented grape juice—alcohol—effects the physical
body and that’s why there are two great sins in the Old Testament that are
forbidden over and over. One is drunkenness and the other is nakedness.”
*****
Genesis
3:6-7 plainly reports, “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
[7] And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
[7] And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
Likewise,
Habakkuk 2:15 warns, “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that
puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look
on their nakedness!"
*****
Jordan
says, “All of it replicates what happened in the Garden, and when Adam and Eve took
that grape it literally induced into their physical frame a physical defect
that caused a genetic defect that we call death. It brought about physical
death.
“There’s
a great deal of study in our day about longevity and scientists are looking for
the DNA formula that produces death. The problem is, if they ever found it they
wouldn’t know what to do about it because it’s something beyond what they’re
able to have a capacity to rectify.
“Now,
when Adam watched Eve—‘she did eat’—with that grape . . . well, what’d God tell
them would happen in they ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? That
they would die. Adam saw her die. ‘And she gave it to him and he did eat.’ He died
with her.”
*****
As
Paul informs in I Timothy 2, “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was
not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
Jordan explains, “Eve was deceived into eating the grape but, you see, Adam was not deceived. When she gave that thing to Adam, he knew exactly what he was doing.
“Now,
the parallel passage in Ephesians 5 is, ‘Husbands love your wives, even as
Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.’ In other words, the Lord Jesus
Christ chose to die for the church. The wife is told to ‘be subject to your
husband as unto the Lord.’
“There’s
this connection in the marriage relationship back there (in Genesis 3). If you
think a little on what’s going on, Adam and Eve are standing there and their in
this coat of many colors—they didn’t have their own clothing but they had this
multi-colored garment of light that God gave them.
“And
when the Lord Jesus Christ walked with them in the cool of the day, Adam had
that same light of the glory of God. It was obvious they were His agents in the
earth.
“But
when Eve takes that fruit and eats of it, now she’s naked. That’s when the
light went out and that garment went away. But not only that, that fruit
affected her physically!
“Adam,
of course, saw it, and rather than trusting the wisdom and love of God to fix
the thing, when it says there in that verse ‘that she gave unto her husband
WITH her,’ Adam’s there watching it take place.
“Now,
if Adam had done what an instructed man of God ought to have done—he’d have
done what’s over in Numbers 30. It says that when a man has a wife, and the
wife is talked into making a contract, if the husband comes along and says, ‘No,
that’s a bad deal, we’re not gonna have that—you deceived my wife,’ he can
negate the whole thing!
“Go
over to Numbers 30 and read it. What Adam
should have done was say, ‘Wait a minute! This is a mistake! My wife’s messed
up!’
"Instead of trusting God’s love and wisdom to straighten things out, Adam made a choice. He said, ‘I love her so much I’m not willing to live without her,’ and in rebellion against God, he took the fruit.
"Instead of trusting God’s love and wisdom to straighten things out, Adam made a choice. He said, ‘I love her so much I’m not willing to live without her,’ and in rebellion against God, he took the fruit.
“He was not deceived into it;
he wasn’t tricked into it. He did it in conscious rebellion, choosing to love
his wife more than God Himself. And so he fell into sin. And something happened
to Adam and Eve when they ate that grape.
*****
“Something
happened with regard to their blood. Because God’s Word says the ‘life of the
flesh’ is in the what? The blood.
“You
see, they were created just like you and I are in the sense they had a
cardiovascular system and a circulatory system and all, and they had blood, but
it wasn’t contaminated blood. It wasn’t sin-cursed blood.
"Remember,
Jesus Christ had blood, but He didn’t have a sin-contaminated blood. He had
God’s blood. Well, Adam and Eve they got—the old-timers used to call it ‘blood
poisoning,’ and I guess that’s as good a thing as any to call it. And they got
it by eating that grape.”
*****
Just
after Noah and his family got off the ark post-Flood, God instructed, “But
flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
Similarly,
God warns in Leviticus 17:10, “And whatsoever man there be of the house of
Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of
blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will
cut him off from among his people.”
In
Acts 15, when Paul meets with the Jerusalem apostles and the Christian church
there, he says, “For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon
you no greater burden than these necessary things;
[29] That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”
[29] That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”
*****
Jordan
summarizes, “Folks, eating blood in the Bible is something you’re not to do. Moses
commanded that you don’t eat blood. God told Noah don’t eat blood. And again,
the reason is it’s a type of what Adam and Eve did in the Garden. When Eve took
that grape . . .
“By
the way, if you go down to the drug store or Macy’s they have lipstick counters
with 60 different shades of lipstick. A (cosmetic
salesman) once told me that between 60-75 percent of all lipstick sold is red
and they have all these other colors just to placate people so they’ll buy the red
too.
“Did
you ever eat grapes? Drink grape juice? Could you maybe guess why people put
red lipstick on? You say, ‘Aghh, Brother Rick, now c’mon, you’re pulling our
leg!’ but your (Bible-believing) grandparents knew exactly what I’m talking
about!”
(new article tomorrow)
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