1. THE SANCTITY OF BLOOD

(Leviticus 17:11)
"Since the life of the flesh is in the blood
And I have Given it... to make atonement on the altar for yourselves
because it is the blood as life that makes atonement"

For the breath of life is in the blood
How scared this mystery!
Distant cultures performing sacrifice
Shared memory of separate nations
An attempt to cleanse the soul
Purify the evils of the flesh
But what if God became man?
What powers lie in his blood?

A spiritual hemoglobic transfer
Mysteriously immune to iron toxicity
Subjecting all cosmic principality
Vaccination for corrupting ancient mutation.

For the breath of life is in the blood
How sacred this mystery!
Distant cultures performing sacrifice
Shared memory of separate nations
An attempt to cleanse the soul
Purify the evils of the flesh
But what if God became man?
What powers lie in his blood?

What does it mean to drink the blood of God?

For the breath of life is in the blood
How sacred this mystery!
Distant cultures performing sacrifice
Shared memory of separate nations
An attempt to cleanse the soul
Purify the evils of the flesh
But what if God became man?
What powers lie in his blood?

(Luke 22:20)
"hic est calix novum testamentum
in sanguine meo "
Pactum Sanguine Novo....

For if the blood of goats
Can sanctify those who are defiled.
How much more will the blood of Christ
Cleanse our consciences from dead works?


2. RITUAL OF PURIFICATION

(Leviticus 14:19)
"The priest shall next offer the purification offering,
making atonement on behalf of the one being purified from the uncleanness.
After this the burnt offering shall be slaughtered."

Pull the guts from the innards
Splash the blood on the altar
Burn the dismembered corpse
Analogies of the grotesqueness of sin!

Nauseating foul aroma
Of the sin that burns within!

Disturbing sacrificial bloodshed
For the malicious deeds I've done!

I look upon your wounds
Wounds I've inflicted
You suffered immensely despite seeing
All the evil I would do

For you looked into the future
And saw the fulness of mankind’s sin
And still you chose
To bear their punishment...

I look upon your wounds
Wounds I've inflicted
You suffered immensely despite seeing
All the evil I would do


3. SACRIFICE OF THE ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST

(Hebrews 8:1)
"...We have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand
of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister of the sanctuary
of the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, has set up."

Fully God and Fully man
An offering of hybrid blood
Pactum Sanguine Novo
A new pact sealed in God's blood

Your blood has cleansed me
Of such atrocious wickedness
The foulest sins washed
In the sea of your forgetfulness

The ancients prophets wrote
Of a high priest of the greatest order
The order of the King of Salem
In Holy order of Melchizadek
A distant ancestor of David
Who will sit at God's right hand
To reign for all eternity
And bring the cosmos into subjection

Fully God and Fully man
An offering of hybrid blood
Pactum Sanguine Novo
A new pact sealed in God's blood

An eternal offering
An Empire of Blood
A high priest forever
One sacrifice for all!

Both priest and offering
Ordained immortally!

A new covenant
Sealed in his most precious blood
Sanctifies the unworthy
Made holy the most sinful heart
By the sacrifice
Of the Eternal High priest!

An eternal offering
An Empire of Blood
A high priest forever
One sacrifice for all!


4. FREED FROM THE CURSE OF LAW

(Hebrews 9:13)
"For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of ashes
can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed,
how much more will the blood of Christ"

No longer in need of rituals
Of slaughter and sacrifice
Washed with the blood from above
Freed from the curse of law

Hail to thee, redeemer!
Who subjects all of cosmic might!
You freed us of the evil
And given us your light
All hail to thee, redeemer!
Who conquered death and hell
Who sanctified our souls
So with you we eternally dwell!

(Colossians 2:14)
Obliterating the Bond against us
Nailing our condemnation to the cross!

Hail to thee, redeemer!
Who subjects all of cosmic might!
You freed us of the evil
And given us your light
All hail to thee, redeemer!
Who conquered death and hell
Who sanctified our souls
So with you we eternally dwell!


5. SCEPTER OF APOCALYPTIC MIGHT

(Psalm 110)
The Lord says to my lord
“Sit at my right hand,
While I make your enemies
Your footstool.”

The scepter of your might!

Yours is princely power from the day of your birth.
In holy splendor before the daystar,
Like dew I begot you.

The Lord extends your strong scepter
Have dominion over your enemies!

The Lord has sworn and will not waver:
“You are a priest forever
In the manner of Melchizedek.”
At your right hand is the Lord

Who crushes kings on the day
Of his wrath,
Who judges nations, heaps up corpses,
Crushes heads across the wide earth

The Lord says to my lord
“Sit at my right hand,
While I make your enemies
Your footstool.”


6. INTERCESSION OF LIVING DEAD

(2 Maccabees 15:13)
Then in the same way another man appeared
Distinguished by his white hair and dignity
And with an air of wondrous and majestic authority
Onias then said of him,

“This is a man who fervently prays
for the people and the holy city—
the prophet of God, Jeremiah.
Stretching out his right hand,
Jeremiah presented a gold sword to Judas.
As he gave it to him he said,
Accept this holy sword as a gift from God;
with it you shall shatter your adversaries.”


7. ADORATION OF HOLY HOST

(John 6:53)
Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you
Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
And drink his blood, you do not have life within you."

A symbol of raw divinity
A Seal of eternity's gateway
Visceral carnal focal point
Mental images of the most holy deity

The apostles quarreled at eating flesh
The early church cast as a cannibal cult
The ancients wrote of drinking God's blood
For over a thousand years all believed
That he was there...

A symbol of raw divinity
A Seal of eternity's gateway

Is a symbolic view the milk of babes?
A necessary concession of an "enlightened" age?
Did the apostles mis-train their disciples?
Or has half the church been deceived?

If you are there shall I not bow before you?
If I chew your flesh should I not kneel before it?
Will you have compassion towards our need for carnal symbols?
Will you lead the faithful away from that which you hate?


8. CLOAKED IN A ROBE OF THE SUN

(Revelation 11:19)
Then God's temple in heaven was opened
And the ark of his covenant could be seen
There were flashes of lightning,
Rumblings, and peals of thunder

(Revelation 12:1)
"A great sign appeared in the sky
A woman, clothed with the sun
With the moon under her feet
And on her head a crown of twelve stars"

Her image converted
An entire nation
Her ghost dethroning
An entire pagan pantheon!

Venerated above any woman to ever live
Immaculate vessel of the everlasting covenant!
Preserved from all Earthly corruption
Gloriously assumed to the highest of heavens!

Hail favored one, full of grace!
Ark of the holy blood – the new covenant of life!

(Revelation 12:1)
"A great sign appeared in the sky
A woman, clothed with the sun
With the moon under her feet
And on her head a crown of twelve stars"

Deliverer of the universe's redeemer!
Theotokos - mother of God!

(Luke 1:42)
"Blessed art thou among women
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb..."

Jesus…..