Posted on 07/04/2021 4:46:42 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence" (Proverbs 4:17).
In the Bible, a lot of times the wine is likened unto blood. Here we have some people that eat the sacrifices of the dead. Here you have somebody that's been brought to a piece of bread and the adulteress hunts for the precious life. Here you have somebody making drink offerings of blood. Somebody's drinking blood.
The Roman Catholic church does this thing all the time and they call it the mystery of the bread and the mystery of the wine. I’ve got news for you. There was a time in the past and probably still in the present that this is not all that mysterious because there are people that are making these sacrifices and literally drinking blood.
The average Roman Catholic would be utterly horrified to even think that we were thinking something like this because they don't think like that. They just don't realize that in the scriptures, witness is borne to this kind of thing going on all the time. It's just not that unusual.
“And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD. And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring . . ." (Leviticus 17:6-7a).
In other words, those people that were sacrificing back there all those times; when the Lord finally established that there was to be only one altar and one sacrifice in one place, with one priesthood, and one set of rituals by which a sacrifice was to be offered had to end their personal sacrifices. What you learn then is that those folks that we're doing it the other way were sacrificing to devils the whole time.
Now, you say, “What's that supposed to mean to me?” It means that it ought to be a blessing to you that the Lord has directed you to the truth; that what you have is not a religion, so much as it is a relationship with God. These people were all playing the ritualistic game where they were doing these symbolic things, and those symbolic things were glorifying the devil or devils; and that what we have is the real thing. Jesus said, “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). What you have when you come to the Bible and find the God of the Bible and worship the Jesus Christ of the Bible: you have the real thing.
So, you understand that when we become critical about what these other folks are doing; it's necessary. It's worthwhile, because they are serving devils: “They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not" (Deuteronomy 32:16-17). Do you see the connection there? They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods (little g) whom they knew not. Those gods (small g) are devils. It’s amazing what you learn from a Bible. It says there, “. . . to new gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your father's feared not.”
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