Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

a covenant pact in July 1854 with Queen Manenko of the Balonda tribes. In some instances, incisions were made in the wrist and afterward rubbed in gunpowder. The tribal chief pronounced curses if the covenant was broken, and both parties exchanged gifts, which was a common aspect of the ancient covenant rites.6 In 1871, Henry Stanley traveled to Africa looking for Livingstone. He encountered the most feared tribal leader who controlled ninety thousand square miles. Stanley was warned to avoid the leader, named Mirambo. Stanley eventually encountered the chieftain on April 22, 1876. They agreed to make a “strong friendship.” Once a covenant was ratified, the entire tribe became friends with the chieftain’s new covenant partner, and every inch of land controlled by the chieftains was now open for travel without danger to the chieftain’s new friend (Stanley) as a result of the covenant. Stanley wrote that his arm was used to draw blood fifty times to cut covenant with tribal leaders in Africa!7 Often a tribal leader would send his chief representative to shed his blood on behalf of the chief. This is the imagery of the new covenant, in which: “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son” (John 3:16, KJV). Christ was God’s representative, using His own blood to redeem mankind, thereby giving redeemed man access to God. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. —Hebrews 9:12