What do CSI®, Twilight®, Indiana Jones®, Theoretical Physics and The Holy Bible all have in common? . . . According to this book, Blood! From forensic science to vampires to hunting for the Holy Grail, we, as a culture, by necessity and curiosity, are fascinated by this gooey material that flows through our veins! Red, life-giving, and one of the greatest enigmas of science, blood becomes the subject of interest in this thought provoking study of the Bible. Fundamentally, BLOOD is the most important natural element in Christendom because of the Sacrifice of Jesus, His Blood and Its connection to Christian salvation. Drawing from divine inspiration, the etymology (study) of classic Hebrew and Greek words from the Bible and other fields of study, this book attempts to answer two basic questions: What is the Blood of Jesus and how can "It" actually save us? The theoretical answer lies in the title and inside the pages of this book. By detailing connections between Jesus turning water into wine, God allowing Moses to turn the waters of Egypt into blood, Noah's ark, the Ark of the Covenant, the Rapture and other Biblical occurrences, the author invites readers to join him in a dimensional "Crime Scene Investigation" at the foot of that Cross to determine the true nature of Jesus' Blood and the mysterious way It ties together all of these epic events. Like the Virgil in Dante's Epic, you may want to travel with him to discover things you may have never seen before.

THE HOLY GHOST

HE IS THE BLOOD OF JESUSBy Derick Virgil

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Copyright © 2011 Derick Virgil, PhD
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ISBN: 978-1-4490-6551-5

Contents

Preface The Hypothesis...............................................................................xiiiIntroduction The Blood of Flesh Has a Voice!.........................................................xxixChapter 1 Adam's Stain / Our Stain...................................................................1Chapter 2 Water into Wine............................................................................35Chapter 3 The Spirit, The Water, & The Blood: Symbols of the Overcoming Life.........................53Chapter 4 The Witness is The Blood...................................................................75Chapter 5 The Life of Your Flesh is in Your Blood!...................................................97Chapter 6 The Ghost of His Flesh is in Our Blood.....................................................111Chapter 7 The Holy Ghost: The Blood, The Altar, The Sacrifice and The Fire...........................125Chapter 8 The Soul (Mind) of Jesus' Flesh is in the Believer's Blood.................................157Chapter 9 We Must Be Filled to Overflowing!..........................................................205Chapter 10 Jesus Paid It All! His Soul Saved Our Souls!..............................................249Appendix A Books on the Blood:.......................................................................310Appendix B The Meaning of Life.......................................................................312Appendix C An Allegorical Picture of Our Communion with God..........................................314Appendix D A Practical Application: The Apostle's Doctrine of Laying on of Hands.....................322References...........................................................................................332

Chapter One

ADAM'S STAIN / OUR STAIN

"Sin had left a Crimson Stain; He (Jesus) washed it white as snow" ~ From the Hymn Jesus Paid It All by Elvina Hall (1822-1899)

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. ~ Isaiah 1:18

The sin of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, tainted the being and blood of every man and woman, every living soul on earth, according to the Bible. Our entire being, spirit, flesh, and blood, inherited the sin that these two committed and doomed us to a "life" or more accurately stated, "an existence," separated from the True Life and presence of God. This separation meant spiritual death and ultimately physical death. Their transgression was based on their disobeying the first mandate God gave man in the garden, which was ...

Genesis 2:17

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Their disobedient actions produced this final pronouncement to Adam:

Genesis 3:17-19

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

According to scriptural principle, "the soul that sins (disobeys or turns away from God) must die." In other words, when you leave your source of life, you will lose your life as these scriptures detail ...

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Ezekiel 18:19, 20a

19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Because Adam was the first of us, his sin doomed all of us.

Romans 5:17

The sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over us, but all who receive God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.

Because of the seemingly unfair sentence Adam's transgression placed on humankind, God provided a way of redemption for us through His Son's sacrifice. Through faith in His Son, we would be able to be "reborn" (St. John 3:3) and have a new sinless bloodline through Jesus that connected us once again to the Father. According to scripture (Hebrews 10:19-22), Jesus' Blood becomes the payment and contains the sinless prerequisite to get us back into right relationship with God. Jesus' Blood is the Anti –Stain to Adam's stain. It is the life of our flesh as Christians (Genesis 9:4). The Life in His Blood saves our "souls," our blood (Leviticus 17:11).

Now while we consider this revelation, one must remember that because man is more than just spirit, man's salvation would have to be one where his spirit, soul and body would be saved. The nature of man is not celestial (or spiritual) alone but also terrestrial (earthly). In order to save the whole being of man, God's salvation of Mankind would have to be complete, including man's spirit, flesh, and blood.

Because Adam was given authority over the earth and Adam gave this authority over the earth away by disobeying God, all Mankind had to be reconciled with our Creator. In order to "save" man, God, because of His Own just Law, would have to gain entry into the earth through another man that had God's Bloodline and reclaim the authority that was lost through the first man, Adam, by paying the cost for that authority through this "New God –Man." Another "God Man" like Adam would have to give up His Pure Life freely in submission to God to regain the Pure Life that the other lost through rebellion toward God. This would return the lost authority to the New God-Man in a multi-dimensional way and allow Him to help all other lost men (or the other men that were separated from God, even those yet to be born) to return to God. Jesus was this "Second Adam" or New God-Man. Apparently there are universal laws that God created that all creation must abide by and this was a major example.

Now, how man (Adam) existed before his fall from grace can only be assumed, extrapolated and considered from what we can gather from scripture. But however it was, it was the perfect state in which we were meant to exist if Adam had never failed and this "Second Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45) would have to be similar to that perfect state.

What were Adam and His Blood Like Before "the Fall of Man?"

The "First" Adam's Composition on Earth

Based on scripture, before the fall, Adam was able to commune with an invisible God whose nature is Spirit. Adam was also made in this God's image. So, based on this knowledge, we know Adam was made as a spirit being with a flesh body...