IV: Tabernacle, Priesthood and Feasts

Drunk with the Blood of the Saints Counterfeit court

the persecuting system feeding on the faithful

Root
Lev 17:10-14 · dam (H1818)
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 4:10
  2. Gen 9:4-5
  3. Lev 17:10-14
  4. Num 35:33
  5. Deut 32:43
  6. 2 Kgs 9:7
  7. Ps 79:10
  8. Jer 51:49
  9. Rev 18:24
New Testament
Rev 17:6; Rev 18:24

Blood first cries from the ground in Abel's case (Gen 4:10), and the oldest boundary follows: flesh "with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat" (Gen 9:4). Priestly law fixes it, "the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Lev 17:11), and shed blood defiles the land until it is answered (Num 35:33). The Prophets promise that answer against Jezebel's house and against Babylon (2 Kgs 9:7; Jer 51:49). The book reads the harlot as sustained by the blood of the saints and delighting in it, priestly language turned upside down. The blood of the prophets found in her is testimony filed and never addressed, left on the record until the Judge acts.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 279–281, 314–315