Part 2 of
5 –
God’s
Gift of His Son’s Innocent Royal Blood
It is
important to realize that Jesus was not man’s invention – no human
Father’s genes and no human genius or effort developed Jesus. Jesus of
Nazareth, the Son of God, was and is the Gift of God the Father, come
to earth… as “the Son of
Man.
” In fact, all those who trust in Christ unto salvation are born of
God. Believers are those “WHO OWE THEIR BIRTH neither to bloods (of man)
nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man
[that of a natural father], but to God. [THEY ARE BORN OF GOD!]” (John
1:13 (AMP)
Jesus’ story
is not of man becoming God, but rather, God becoming human
– divine life putting on or being clothed with human life.
Let’s now
look at the role of the father and mother in the conception and birth of every
born human baby. The father is the one who is the progenitor, the giver of life,
the one who provides the spark of life to the woman’s
egg. We see the woman’s role by the example of surrogate motherhood whereby the
mother does not create life – the surrogate mother simply bears the
life implanted in their womb. A mother carries the child for nine months,
contributing some genetic material as to the physical body as it develops; she
nourishes the unborn baby, and gives birth to the new life.
A
mother’s own blood never enters the child’s blood system at any point. The
lives of mother and child are separate and distinct because the life is in the
blood. Since “the life of the flesh is in the blood” and their
bloods do not touch, they are different individual persons.
Jeremiah
31:22b (NIV)…The LORD will create a new thing on earth -- a
woman will surround a man.”
The word
“surround” here above is “compass” in the KJV, which in the
Hebrew is “sabab.” This is defined by Strong’s Greek &
Hebrew Dictionary as a primitive root; “to
revolve, surround or border.” The
mother’s life is not the child’s life “per se,” not intrinsically:
with respect to its inherent life and nature.
It is the
life of the father that determines the life that is in the blood of his
offspring. It is the woman who bears, surrounds, and nurtures that life
to its birth. Prophetically, Jeremiah 31:22 was a
foretelling of Mary who would surround the Father’s life in Jesus, in her
womb. Life Mary’s was not Jesus’ life. She would
“surround” and nourish the baby Jesus, while the life in His blood was
separate and distinct from Mary’s life. Mary was conceived of her father
Heli, but Jesus was conceived of His Father God and then “born of a
woman.” Galatians 4:4 (NIV) …God sent HIS SON,
born of a woman…
Let’s
now look closer to see this matter by considering
“fetal blood”…versus a “mother’s blood.”
The
excerpt below is taken from Revolutionhealth.com, drawing this information
from “Healthwise”; Date
updated: October 25, 2007.
“Fetal
Blood Flow”
“A
fetus (a baby) is fed, or nourished, by the mother through the
placenta, which is attached to the umbilical cord. In the
placenta, the mother’s blood and the fetal blood both flow through
vessels that are VERY CLOSE TOGETHER. But THE
MOTHER’S BLOOD DOES NOT MIX WITH THE FETAL BLOOD. When the
mother’s blood is close to the fetal blood, oxygen and nutrients
move from the mother’s blood into the fetal blood.”
…
As the (fetal) blood flows through the fetus, it (the mother’s blood) picks
up waste products and returns to the mother through the umbilical cord. The
blood (with waste products from the fetus) goes through the mother's lungs and
liver, where waste products are removed.”
“Fetal
and maternal blood circulation systems”
http://www.embryology.ch/anglais/fplacenta/circulplac01.html#ombilicale.
This diagram depicts the close
proximity of the mother blood vessels with the blood vessels of the fetus (the
baby). “These are the villus capillaries, which that are branches of the
umbilical vessels within the placenta. Fetal blood comes via the two Aa
umbilicales in the villi and leaves the placenta through a single navel vein,
the vena umbilicalis. Their supply amounts to approximately 40% of the fetal
heart blood volume per minute. Note that the mother’s blood vessels are only
intertwined with the blood vessels for the baby so as to permit the walls of
the blood vessels to transfer her nutrients to the baby and the baby’s waste
products back to the mother. The mother’s actual blood and life is never
transferred to the baby.”
Thus, JESUS’
BLOOD WAS NEVER TOUCHED BY MARY’S BLOOD.
Why is
this significant?
This means when
Jesus shed His blood and sacrificed His life for the mankind on the
cross…the blood that He shed was not simple human blood – it did not
come from His human mother Mary at all. His blood was not sourced in the life
of fallen sinful mankind in any way – His blood was purely the “Divine
Royal Blood,” as conceived of God His Father via the Holy Spirit who
came upon Mary.
Only the Royal
blood of the man, Jesus of Nazareth, was qualified to redeem mankind since His
precious blood was not of or related to any human person who had sinned. Only
Jesus could redeem mankind and that by His Royal blood.
What an
awesome thought! This is why “the Gift of God” (John 4:10) given
to mankind that first Christmas in the person of “Jesus of
Nazareth
” is so remarkable and unfathomable. Jesus came bearing the life of God
the Father manifested in His blood and contained in His human form.
Jesus was absolutely
divine by the Father’s life within His blood, and yet genuinely human in His
body. Being without any act of Sin, He was innocently qualified to die for us,
to pay for our sins. He was then resurrected from the dead as “the
Spirit of life” (God’s Life), then coming and
indwell all those who He have “received Him” (John 1:12) being
washed clean of the sins by His Royal blood (Rev 1:5, 7:4).
