The circular path of the Blood began in Heaven “before the foundation of the world” (1 Peter 1:18-20). The blood of Jesus was not an afterthought of the Creator taken in surprise at the fall of man. God never plays catch-up to Satan. If He did, Satan could lead God.
No. Before God created man He knew he would fall. Before God formed man He foreordained his redemption with “precious Blood.” Divine plans originate in the Father.
Somewhere—in the divine council rooms of Heaven, perhaps—the Father must have put forth His plan for man. Man would be spirit. In God’s image. On God’s order and kind. Therefore, man would be able to fellowship with God. Man would be able to love God. Man would be created to work with God—to have dominion over the works of God’s hands.
For such high eternal purpose man could not be a robot. Spirit man would be given a soul—a mind, a will, and emotions. Fallen Lucifer would tempt man’s will. Man would fall into the tempter’s hand.
But God would redeem man. God would design man for redemption in his creation. God would make man a creature of blood.
(God was not restricted to create creatures of blood. Angels were not created with blood. Lucifer was not created with blood.)
God would call man Adam, connecting him in the wonderfully revealing Hebrew language to blood (dam) and to the ground (adamah). Both blood and ground are red (adom).
God would put spirit man and his soul into a body of flesh made of the dust of the ground (see 1 Thess. 5:23).
The life of the flesh would be in the blood (Lev. 17:11,14). Man’s body—an earthen vessel—could be broken and the blood poured out, a life for a life.
If a Divine One would go to earth Incarnate and live without sin in “a body prepared,” His vessel could be broken and His perfect Life poured out in His Blood for the remission of all sin.
In some eternal moment, in some heavenly place, the One we call Savior agreed to fulfill the Father’s great plan of redemption. First in Heaven, and eventually at Calvary, our Lord Jesus offered Himself through the Eternal Spirit, without spot to God (Heb. 9:14).
The Psalmist records Jesus’ words, in glorious contrast to the rebellious words of Lucifer, “Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God…” (Ps. 40:7-8). (See also Heb. 10:5-10)
In what is a great mystery, God the Son became, “…the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8).
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold…But with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
(1 Peter 1:18-20)
The Circular Blood Line
The Blood line began in Heaven.
It circled earthward first in revelation through types and shadows. For God had to reveal to fallen man the place and the power of the Blood of the Lamb to redeem him.
God Himself shed the first blood in type when He made coats of animal skins to cover man. Blood would cover man until he was again fit for glory.
The blood of every animal on every legitimate altar of Old Testament times was to reveal the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
(Lev. 17:11)
The precious Blood was manifested in the earth when Jesus came. John the Baptist looked upon Jesus and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
The earthly part of the Blood’s path was consummated when the manifested Lamb poured out His life in His Blood on Calvary’s altar.
The circle of the Blood turned upward again on the third day. Our Lord Jesus Christ arose—triumphant over death, hell, and the grave—and carried His own precious Blood into the Heavenly Holy of Holies where it was accepted for man.
The resurrected Lamb closed the circle giving glory to God the Father. The powerful, redemptive Blood is returned to its Heavenly Terminal. There before the throne of the Living God, the Blood ever speaks “mercy” for man (Heb. 12:24).
Source: The Blood and the Glory by Billye Brim
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Billye Brim's Christian heritage is rich. She sensed the call of God in early childhood. However, it was only after an encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1967, that she as a young wife and mother of four began to follow Him to walk out her call. For almost ten years she served as Editor of Publications for Kenneth E. Hagin Ministries where she also taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.
Immediately after ordination in 1980, she traveled to Soviet Russia in what proved to be ongoing ministry there. Since then she has literally ministered around the world several times over.
Kent and Billye Brim with Lee and Jan Morgans founded a local church in Collinsville, Oklahoma. A Glorious Church Fellowship is the foundation of Billye Brim Ministries and Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri, and the soon-to-be-built Migdal Arbel Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
When Kent passed away in 1986, Billye was led to "study Hebrew in the Land." Studying at Ulpan Akiva in Israel led to the unique Seminar Tours she has guided in the Land from 1986 to now. It also provided a pattern for the Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
"Helping Pray-ers" is a God-given directive in her life. One place this happens is at Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. On 200 plus acres log cabins provide places for individual prayer or small prayer groups. Corporate prayer meetings are held twice a week in the chapel.
On Wednesdays at 12 Noon Central Time, the meeting is streamed live. Pray-ers (who have named themselves World-Wide Pray-ers) join in united prayer via thousands of computers in more than 60 nations. This prayer is focused primarily on an Awakening to God. For in a corporate prayer meeting in June 2008, Billye Brim and the pray-ers were impressed with these words: One thing will save America…an Awakening to God. One thing will avail for Israel and the nations, An Awakening to God. Several thousand pray-ers from around the world gather in Branson for an Autumn Assembly of Prayer she hosts.
Billye Brim is blessed to work with others across the Body of Christ. She strongly believes in walking out what Scripture teaches that we are one Body, with one Head, one Spirit, one Lord.
First Corinthians 10:32 is foundational in Billye Brim's ministry. The "good works that He has ordained that she should walk in" involve activity among the Jews, the Nations, and the Church-all to the Glory of God.
