While He Tarries Ministries
The Blood Covenant

The entire Old Testament is a picture of his salvation message in Jesus. What seemed to be meaningless rituals, customs, and happenings was really a shadow of the picture of salvation thru Jesus.

• John 5:39 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
• Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

The Old Testament tells what is going to happen.

The New Testament tells that it did happen.

It is the story of God entering into a blood covenant with man thru the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

A blood covenant between 2 parties is the closest, the most enduring, the most solemn and the most sacred of all contracts. Read the Hebrew ritual below and see how it describes what we acquired through salvation by the blood of Jesus Christ. See how it explains in more detail the extent of our salvation.
The Hebrew ritual of the blood covenant between 2 males:

1. I TAKE OFF MY COAT OR ROBE AND GIVE IT TO YOU. A person's robe represents the person. Symbolically, I'm giving you all of myself. My total being and my life, I pledge to you.
2. I TAKE OFF MY BELT AND GIVE IT TO YOU. My belt holds my armor "together"; my dagger, bow and arrow, and sword. I'm saying here is my strength and all my ability to fight. If anybody attacks you, they are also attacking me. Your battles are my battles and mine are yours. I will fight with you.
3. CUT THE COVENANT Take an animal and split it down the middle. This is only done in a covenant ceremony.
1. We stand in between the 2 bloody halves of flesh with our backs to each other. Then we walk right thru the bloody halves making a figure eight and come back to stop facing each other.
2. In doing this we say we are dying to ourselves, giving up the rights to our own life and beginning a new walk with our covenant partner unto death. Each half of the animal represents us. It says "God, do so to me and more if I ever try to break this covenant."
4. RAISE THE RIGHT ARM AND MIX BLOOD We raise our right arms, cut palms and bring them together and let our blood mix. Then we swear allegiance to each other. As new blood mixes, we believe our lives are intermingling and becoming one life. So we are putting off our old nature and putting on the new nature of our blood covenant partner.
5. EXCHANGE NAMES. I take your last name as part of my name and you do likewise.
6. MAKE A SCAR We rub our blood together and make a scar as a permanent testimony to the covenant. The scar bears witness to the covenant we have made. It is there to remind us of our covenant responsibilities to each other. It is the guarantee of our covenant. It was a reminder to any would be attacker that he would also have to fight the covenant partner.
7. GIVE COVENANT TERMS All my assets are yours. All my money, all my property, and all my possessions are yours. If you need any of them just come and get it. What's mine is yours and what's yours is mine, assets and liabilities.
8. MEMORIAL MEAL Eat the memorial meal of bread and wine, symbolizing being one together in a new nature.
9. PLANT A MEMORIAL We now leave a memorial to the covenant. We do this by planting a tree that we have sprinkled with the blood of the animal. The blood sprinkled tree, along with our scar, will always be a testimony to our covenant.

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