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Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Tag: sacrifice
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https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible Tabula publicata pro requie animae Oliveri Medhurstensis mortui MMXXV anno aetatis quinquagesimo primo
Image | Aug 15, 2016
https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible Tabula publicata pro requie animae Oliveri Medhurstensis mortui MMXXV anno aetatis quinquagesimo primo
Image | Aug 15, 2016
https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible Tabula publicata pro requie animae Oliveri Medhurstensis mortui MMXXV anno aetatis quinquagesimo primo
Jul 13, 2016
The Apocalypse Revealed 14
As in the case of Abraham, faith – in a promise of immortality as yet visibly unfulfilled – is superior to obedience to the Law. While access to the Commandments was through the procreative line of Israel, faith involved a renunciation of all rights proceeding from membership of that procreative line – as in Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac and his faith in an implied promise of resurrection. The New Israel of the 144,000 sealed in Revelation are described symbolically as virgins undefiled by women. That is, they have renounced salvation by means of the procreative line. It is these who will reign with Christ on earth for 1000 years – that is, for a time equivalent to the post-lapsarian life-span of Adam, thereby putting right his flawed dominion.
Jul 13, 2016
The Apocalypse Revealed 10
The six periods of sin-induced catastrophe on the earth are punctuated by six covenants which are part of God’s salvage-operation: through Noah, through Abraham, through Moses, through Joshua, through David, and through Jesus. Each covenant is an agreement by means of which a faithful remnant is defined by its commitment to Higher Truth and sets itself apart from the world, so that it may not only be spared the second death in the lake of fire, but be re-admitted to Paradise and access to the Tree of Life (Revelation 20:11-15). In each case in the Biblical account the spiritual movement towards God is symbolised by a geographical movement, and each covenant is sealed by the blood of sacrifice.
Feb 9, 2016
The Sacrifice
A sacrifice like Abel’s is required:
No shrieking root torn up,
Or apple plucked and dashed,
But some born thing, with sentience,
Whose face, bewildered by the knife
Will stare as life flows out.
That way our God is satisfied,
Reclaiming what he once bestowed,
Maybe, heartless, envying
This creature-kind who lived
And loved the crimson blood too much –
As though it were its own.
Feb 9, 2016
The Scapegoat
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