John 6:53 – Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.”
The Hebrew idiom, “flesh and blood,” refers to the whole person. Jesus, the disciples and the writer of this gospel are all Jewish. Jesus meant for his words to be taken in neither a literal nor in a sacramental sense. Jesus was merely saying you must believe in him for eternal life. Any Jew would understand immediately this is a metaphorical statement. The Catholic church, on the other hand, took Jesus’ statement literally. Jesus made this statement at the Last Supper and would be shortly crucified and buried so what did the church decide to do? The church made the decision to substitute wine for Jesus’ blood and turn his flesh into a cookie so they could cannibalize Jesus at every mass and drink his blood like a vampire. Of course the Bible prohibits the drinking of blood because life is in the blood.
To make it all work the church gave the Pope the right to supersede the Word of God by establishing church sacraments and interpreting the mind of God. The Popes claim they can forgive sins, decide who goes to heaven or hell and they have the right to give priests the magical power to change wine and cookies to the actual flesh and blood of Christ so he can suffer crucifixion over and over again at every mass. This sacrament of the Catholic church diminishes the crucifixion of our Lord and Savior and turns Jesus into a cookie. It isn’t scriptural and offends Almighty God. Woe to anyone who steals God’s glory and usurps his power. You and I will be there on the last day when these false prophets stand before God for judgment. They will be shocked when the angel of God grabs them and throws them into the lake of fire.
John 8:44 – (Jesus speaking) – You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
The first murder in human history was when Satan incited Cain to kill his brother Abel. Most, if not all, murders throughout history since then have been incited by Satan because he is evil and he hates our guts. Satan laughs in hell every time he convinces someone to take their own life and join him. When God says Satan doesn’t stand in the truth he is referring to Satan sinning in heaven and being expelled as a result because no sin is allowed in heaven. Satan is the father of lies because he spoke the first lie to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden causing their fall.
John 11:17 – So when Jesus came, He found that he (Lazarus) had already been in the tomb four days.
Jesus heard Lazarus was sick in plenty of time to get there but he waited until Lazarus was dead and buried for four days so he could raise him from the dead to the glory of God the Father and the Son. Old Testament Jews believed a person’s spirit could linger around the body for up to three days and reenter the body to bring them back to life. By the fourth day the human body starts to decay and the spirit cannot reenter it. After four days the Jews believed only God could raise someone from the dead therefore Jesus waited four days before raising Lazarus from the dead to prove he was God in the flesh.
Psalm 34:15 – The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their cry.
Psalm 145:19 – He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them.
God doesn’t listen to sinners. If you want God’s help with anything your requests are falling on deaf ears until you become a child of the Most High God by putting your faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. God makes it very simple to enter heaven but you must believe and you must act of your own free will. The eternal destination of your soul hangs in the balance. Don’t blow it!