The Blood Covenant
This is not a stand alone blog. A reader asked a great question in reference to the Passover / Threshold blog. It and the answer are worthy to be shared with all readers.
Q: Why would YHVH use a pagan ritual to covenant with His people?
Excellent question!
He did not.
The threshold covenant was His ritual.
As man forgot his Creator and began to worship other gods, man took the ritual with him.
When YHVH used the threshold covenant with Israel, we see Him reclaiming something that was already His.
1) He is reclaiming a people for Himself (Israel)
2) He is reclaiming His ritual sacrifice (the threshold covenant)
You see, Deuteronomy 4:19-20 tells us that the world had been divided up among the "little g gods." And that YHVH took Israel as His special inheritance. He allowed the seed of Abraham to be isolated in captivity in order to grow them into a nation. At the first Passover, He claimed His inheritance, the newly formed nation of Israel. And with His new nation, He took back His teaching tools and began to teach them how to serve and love Him.
I will leave you with a quote from The Blood Covenant, also by H. Clay Trumbull:
“Not alone those who insist on the belief that there was a gradual development of the race from a barbarous beginning, but those also who believe that man started on a higher plane, and in his degradation retained perverted vestiges of God’s original revelation to him, are finding profit in the study of primitive myths, and of aboriginal religious rites and ceremonies, all the world over. ”
Excerpt From: H. Clay Trumbull. “The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture.” iBooks. (page 19)
Note: There are 3 Trumbull "covenant" books -- All can be found at Project Gutenberg.
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