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The Real Presence of Jesus Christ

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August 20, 2021

Many people since Jesus spoke these words have had trouble with them. “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” (John 6:53) On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. (John 6:60) Who can accept it?” From this time, many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. (John 6:66) Many Christians have difficulty with Jesus Christ’s words of eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Since 1500 many claimed that Roman Catholics are cannibals, Yet, the early Christian fathers believed that the Eucharist contained the Body and Blond of Jesus Christ just as He claimed. I will provide some insights as to why the idea of eating his body and drinking his blood is unacceptable by the Jews and later by Protestant Churches.

First, it is the drinking of the blood that the Israelite believer found offensive because God had instructed them through Moses not to do so; this is found in Deuteronomy 12:16 “But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.” The reason for this was that the life of the animal was in the blood. Leviticus 17:11 states, “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.” The Israelites also did not practice human sacrifice. Many today reading the Bible would come to the same conclusion as the Jews.

Why not drink the blood of animals or humans? From God’s point of view. If the life of the animal is in the blood, then its drinking would make you more like the animal and not like the human that God intense. Now, what of drinking the blood of a human? There we have the same effect. You would become more like the person whose blood you drink.

For this reason, virgins and infants would be sacrificed for their blood for purity, health, and youth. Warriors would drink the blood of a mighty hero to become like him. Since man had fallen from grace, drinking animal or human blood would not return a person to life before the fall. 

Now we come to Jesus Christ, who is not like other humans. He is sinless and divine. He does not even possess male DNA from a human father. Keep in mind that you would have the donor’s characteristics by drinking the blood with life and the donor’s soul, then drinking Christ’s blood would make you like Him. Now we come to a problem how millions of people every year for two thousand years drink blood from a body containing only 1.2-1.5 gallons. That would be impossible, but not for God since Jesus is also God, the Word that created the Heavens and the earth and all living creatures. He created a new covenant whereby you could eat His flesh and drink His blood. “In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.” (Luke 22:20) 

I find it interesting that the same people who claim that the Bible is the Word of God don’t believe in His word when it comes to the Eucharist. I will close with one example of something from 2003, Dr. Frederick Zugile of New York at Columbia University. He was examining a piece of flesh. He had this to say. “The sample you brought me is heart muscle, of the myocardium. To be precise, it is the left ventricle.” He also stated that the patient had suffered greatly and had some thrombi; at a specific moment, he could not breathe, oxygen did not reach him; he labored and suffered much because every breath was painful. Dr. Zugile went on to say, “We found some intact white blood cells, and white blood cells are transported only by blood, so if white blood cells are present it is because at the moment you brought me the sample, it was pulsating.” The doctor asked where the sample came from, and he was amazed to hear a sample was from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Eucharist from August 15, 1996. A Eucharist with AB blood type has been discovered hundreds of times since 750 AD. The most recent was on October 12, 2013, in Tixtla, Mexico. 

Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” Remember, God can do anything, including providing away to eat and drink Christ’s body and blood. Therefore, go to Mass and eat so you may have eternal life.

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Bread of Life

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January 28, 2019

Since the Reformation, the majority of those reformers who were so enthusiastic to prove the Catholic Church wrong in its teaching by teaching the literal meaning of the words of the Bible and claiming the Catholic Church wrong in its oral tradition have unknowingly begun distorting God’s word. For example, many Christian denominations teach that Jesus is not present in the Eucharist as the Catholics teach and perform the rite at each Mass. There are those who claim that they instruct some form of cannibalism. Or others show it is only a form of remembrance. When the non-Catholic Christian want to argue in the literal word of the Bible they seem to want to ignore “Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.’” (John 6:53 NIV) Oh! They have all types of explanation for what Jesus said. In this short blog, I will present what took place at the Last Supper on that Passover Night. To understand, we must go back to the Old Testament to view what non-Catholic ignore.

So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” 9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank. Here we have 74 men having a meal with God. (Exodus 24:9-11) Now I am guessing that you’re surprised to read that they had a meal with God. Notice that the verse begins with Mose saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you.”

Before we fast forward to the Passover Last Supper with God as Jesus Christ having a meal this time with 12 men, let’s exam another bread, ‘The Bread of Presence.’ It is very significant and the root of the Catholic Churches position of tradition. “And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.” (Exodus 25:30 NIV ) You may be wondering what is or was this bread.

The bread of the Presence also called the showbread or shewbread in some translations and was a special bread always present on a table in the tabernacle. (Leviticus 24:5–7) The Lord provides instructions on how to prepare. The bread is to be a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. This bread could only be eaten by Aaron and his sons in a holy place and was set out every Sabbath day (Leviticus 24:8–9). The fact that only Aaron and his sons could only eat of the sacred bread was because it contained the presence of God. It was Holy Bread. Therefore we have a tradition of priests eating a Holy Bread.

Now we shall fast forward to a Passover Meal we call the Last Supper. God in the physical form as a man Jesus Christ takes the Bread in Hand. “And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19 NIV) There are several things taking place in the one simple action. The first act is the breaking of the bread. The Bread of Presence was not broken and eaten by a priest in memory of what God had done during the first Passover. At this Passover, the Lord’s Supper the Bread is broken to symbolize that God’s Presences, God Himself is to be broken for humanity. The next important factor in the transformation of the Old Covenant with the New Covenant is that 12 men who are not priest are to eat of this Bread. No more will only a Priest eat of the Bread of Presences, but now everyone could eat of it. Therefore for nearly 1395, the only person that could eat Bread with God’s Presences was a Priest. Now all men and women who accepted Jesus Christ could enjoy eating the Bread of Presence, the Bread of Life. Therefore, “Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” (John 6:53 NIV) Therefore be sure to eat the Eucharist often. 

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