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.
Jesus’ story is not of man becoming God, but
rather, God becoming human -
divinity putting on humanity.
Let’s now look at the role of the
father and mother in the conception and birth of every born baby. The father is
the one who is the progenitor, the giver of life, the one who provides the spark of life. We see by the example
of surrogate motherhood that mothers do
not create life – they bear 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.
Yet, NONE of the mother’s actual blood
ever enters the child’s blood system at any point. Their lives are
separate and distinct; since “the life of
the flesh is in the blood” 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” 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; used in various
applications…”
It is the seed of the father that
determines the life in the blood of his offspring and crucial characteristics of
the offspring, while 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 new life of Jesus in her womb. She was not one with Jesus’ life. She
would “surround” and nourish the baby Jesus, but His life was separate and
distinct in life from Mary. She was born of her father Heli, but Jesus was born
of His Father - God. Galatians 4:4
(NIV) …God sent his Son, born of a woman…
Let’s
now look closer to see this by considering “fetal
blood”…versus a “mother’s blood.”
Excerpt taken from the website here noted: Date
updated: October 25, 2007 - Content from Healthwise http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/heart/congenital-heart-disease/understand-overview/fetal-blood-flow
“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 picks up waste products and returns to the
mother through the umbilical cord.”
(See also:
http://www.embryology.ch/anglais/fplacenta/circulplac01.html#ombilicale)
Why is this so significant? This means that
when Jesus shed His blood and sacrificed His life for the mankind on the
cross…the blood that He shed was not human blood – it did not come
from Mary, or sourced in the life of fallen mankind in any way – it was purely
“Divine Royal Blood.”
Only Jesus’ blood is qualified to
redeem mankind since His precious blood was not of or related to a human person
who had sinned. Thus, only Jesus was qualified to redeem mankind, by His Royal
blood.
What
an awesome thought! This
is why the Gift of God given to
mankind that first Christmas in the
person of “Jesus of Nazareth” is so remarkable and
unfathomable. Jesus came as of God the Father’s own life, manifested in
blood and human form. Jesus was
human and yet sinless. He was innocently qualified to die for us, to pay for
our sins. He could then rise from the dead as the Spirit of life and come to indwell those who had
been made clean by His Royal blood.