The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

the highest of acceptable sacrifices because in it is the spirit of life. Without blood, clay bodies cease to function and return to the dust. That means the essence of all life is in the blood. The only visible element of the human being that transcends time and space is the blood. There is no part of the body untouched by it, and as the only moving tissue in the body, it is the single feature that communicates to every other part of the body. Thus, the blood serves as the body’s intelligence and alert system. When Cain slaughtered Abel, the Lord said that Abel’s blood still spoke to Him from the earth. Evidently, in the realms of the spirit, blood has both voice and intelligence. God knew Abel was dead because of what his blood once said to its body; it was now crying out from the ground. Because Abel’s blood spoke, it identified itself and showed that the blood somehow is a living memory system, explaining why and how it is the life (and all it involves) of all flesh. The spiritual life contained in that blood continued to cry out to its Maker although Abel’s physical body that contained it was dead. See Genesis 4:8–10. Later in Hebrews 11:4, the writer reiterated that Abel’s blood spilled on the ground still speaks millennia after his physical death, a bloodshed compared to the constant intelligence communiqués of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. From this story that no doubt circulated and traveled down through the ages, pagans are inspired by the same spirit that took Abel’s innocent life, to kill blameless victims and eat and drink their blood. They are motivated by the belief that in so doing, their own lives were somehow energized, empowered, and extended. In response to this, Yahweh told His people to pour their sacrifices’ blood out on the altar to Him to indicate its life force returned to Him. Leviticus stresses the high value the Lord put on the blood in flesh and human blood most of all. People are not to shed human blood, they are not to eat or drink it. The blood, according to Leviticus 17:11–12, atones for the human soul. See also Leviticus 4:25, 7:2, 14, 26–27. It would seem from the Creator’s point of view that the blood communicates to Him everything there is to be known about a human being, its life, and its health (spiritual, emotional, and physical). For all these reasons, blood covenants served divine spirits and were required by the initiation of Israel’s covenant with Yahweh. 209. Blood of Redemption—Consistent with blood covenants, the blood of redemption accomplishes what the phrase implies, “the purchase or buy-back of humans from their originating deity by another, usually a greater one.” Blood