spoken, with a gas tank within us nor with a means of storage like a rechargeable battery. But that’s exactly what we would like to have because then we could act as gods in an absolutely autonomous way. But in this case God would be for us exactly that which the devil has tried to make out of Him from the very beginning – an everlasting, abundant and fully neutral energy supply, which you could tap freely and abuse without having to give any account. But like a wall socket connects its electrical appliance with a power cable, so God is connecting us to Himself through Jesus Christ, as He has said in John 15:5-6: “I am the vine, you are the branches; He who abides in Me, and I in Him, He bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up …” What exactly do you have to do to be connected? John 6:53: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.” Why does Jesus suddenly talk here in a religious “temple-language”? Because with the Old Testament temple and sacrifice service, this point of joining to God has incessantly been symbolically pre-shadowed for centuries (More about this in my other books, especially in “Israel - Shadow or Reality? “ or “The Knowledge of God”). Had the man alienated from God acknowledged that he was living separated from the “power force” of God (the Bible calls this fall of man), then he had to bring a sin offering among other things, for the “reconnection”. The secret for every “new connection” was to be found in the blood of the sacrifice. Maybe you now think: “This is creepy, indeed! How can a loving Creator God demand blood sacrifices?“ God tells us the reason in the “instruction manual” in Leviticus 17:11: “For the life (or person) of the flesh is in 68
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