JESUS - Oil, Wine, & Bread
Well, sit down kiddos, as I have some news. I've been straight with you about my health. I shall be hospitalized soon with testing. The process has begun to figure it it's my brain, my nervous system, muscles or something else. YEAH! I'm not afraid, just irked. JESUS - OUR OIL, BREAD, & WINE While studying my Bible, I got to reading about last week's lesson and olive oil. Then it struck me that the olive oil process and Jesus were connected because "bruised" was used for both of them. So, let me explain and hopefully, you will then understand the great price Jesus paid and His great love for you!
God has always made sure that His people had oil, bread & wine. It could be used as an offering in the Temple as well.Olives go through 3 pressings. They are harvested from trees by sticks to beat the olive tree so the ripe fruit falls, sifted between each pressing and then the remains thrown in the ground. Now, when Adam & Eve sinned, they gave away their WILL, their BODIES, and SOULS over to Satan and lost the Garden of Eden. Forever having to earn their keep by the sweat of their brow.
1st pressing of olives is for God's use only and is Extra Extra Virgin Olive Oil. It is used to anoint priests, kings, prophets, the Temple and the holy items in the Temple. Imagine with me, that we are there, in the darkness watching Jesus as He goes through His first pressing. The 1st pressing of Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, an olive garden and olive press, Gethsemane means olive press. Jesus prayed for God's WILL unlike Adam & Eve who followed their own will. His pressure so intense, with Satan taunting Him to give up, the price was too great, the pain too unbearable, yet Jesus prayed on until He sweat great drops of blood. Our wills were now blood bought.
2nd pressing of olives is Extra Virgin Olive Oil. His body was taken to the scourging post. This is the place where He is beaten beyond human recognition. This seems harsh and it is. He was "bruised" for our iniquities. This blood is the 2nd pressing and Jesus' blood is buying back our BODIES from the authority that Satan placed over us. See government and other "men" had control while Jesus was at the scourging post. Law bound us and no matter how hard we worked, Law of Moses couldn't be kept and therefore, we could never be good enough in our bodies to reach God & heaven.
3rd pressing of olives is Virgin Olive Oil. It is used for medicine, cooking, lighting, and to put on the body & hair to help it keep safe from the dry conditions of Judea. It is used for burning as lights, medicine, to be rub into the hair & on the skin to protect the hair & skin from the dry harsh conditions of Judea. Jesus would have done the same thing. Jesus now is ready to give us the bread & wine from His own body. Jesus, on the cross, said, "IT IS FINISHED. Into thy hands (God the Father) I commit my spirit." This is where the Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side and water & blood flowed together purchasing our SOULS. Now there truly was nothing left to be redeemed because Jesus had His blood put on all the things we had given up through Adam & Eve.
Finally, my beloved Jesus, is taken down and placed in the ground as were olives that were no more able to be recognized as olives.....
Take time and think on this. Try to put yourself in these places at these events and KNOW that you and I are the reason Jesus is doing this so we can with a free will and a free body accept Him as our Lord and have our souls freed as well. THINK OF IT!
Jesus did this before you were ever born knowing that at some time you would need to be free to make a choice of who you'd live for...Him or yourself. He paid dearly for our lives. We were bought with a price the Bible states and what a price! Too high to imagine!
God has always made sure that His people had oil, bread & wine. It could be used as an offering in the Temple as well.Olives go through 3 pressings. They are harvested from trees by sticks to beat the olive tree so the ripe fruit falls, sifted between each pressing and then the remains thrown in the ground. Now, when Adam & Eve sinned, they gave away their WILL, their BODIES, and SOULS over to Satan and lost the Garden of Eden. Forever having to earn their keep by the sweat of their brow.
1st pressing of olives is for God's use only and is Extra Extra Virgin Olive Oil. It is used to anoint priests, kings, prophets, the Temple and the holy items in the Temple. Imagine with me, that we are there, in the darkness watching Jesus as He goes through His first pressing. The 1st pressing of Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, an olive garden and olive press, Gethsemane means olive press. Jesus prayed for God's WILL unlike Adam & Eve who followed their own will. His pressure so intense, with Satan taunting Him to give up, the price was too great, the pain too unbearable, yet Jesus prayed on until He sweat great drops of blood. Our wills were now blood bought.
2nd pressing of olives is Extra Virgin Olive Oil. His body was taken to the scourging post. This is the place where He is beaten beyond human recognition. This seems harsh and it is. He was "bruised" for our iniquities. This blood is the 2nd pressing and Jesus' blood is buying back our BODIES from the authority that Satan placed over us. See government and other "men" had control while Jesus was at the scourging post. Law bound us and no matter how hard we worked, Law of Moses couldn't be kept and therefore, we could never be good enough in our bodies to reach God & heaven.
3rd pressing of olives is Virgin Olive Oil. It is used for medicine, cooking, lighting, and to put on the body & hair to help it keep safe from the dry conditions of Judea. It is used for burning as lights, medicine, to be rub into the hair & on the skin to protect the hair & skin from the dry harsh conditions of Judea. Jesus would have done the same thing. Jesus now is ready to give us the bread & wine from His own body. Jesus, on the cross, said, "IT IS FINISHED. Into thy hands (God the Father) I commit my spirit." This is where the Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side and water & blood flowed together purchasing our SOULS. Now there truly was nothing left to be redeemed because Jesus had His blood put on all the things we had given up through Adam & Eve.
Finally, my beloved Jesus, is taken down and placed in the ground as were olives that were no more able to be recognized as olives.....
Take time and think on this. Try to put yourself in these places at these events and KNOW that you and I are the reason Jesus is doing this so we can with a free will and a free body accept Him as our Lord and have our souls freed as well. THINK OF IT!
Jesus did this before you were ever born knowing that at some time you would need to be free to make a choice of who you'd live for...Him or yourself. He paid dearly for our lives. We were bought with a price the Bible states and what a price! Too high to imagine!
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