“Eat my flesh and drink my blood.” We’re told the life is in the blood. Nothing could be more repulsive to the Jew who heard him make that statement than the drinking of blood. After all, he was only talking to Jews. So let us get the whole thing in its proper frame. Here was one born in the Jewish family talking to Jews, and he tells them how Messiah comes. They didn’t expect Messiah to come in that way. He isn’t talking to anyone else, he’s talking to Jews. And here the Jew…the most repulsive thing to a Jew would be to drink blood, for he’s sworn against taking blood because the life is in the blood. To this day, in 1965, they always drain the blood from the animal, always drain all the blood out. So my old friend Abdullah, he didn’t want any kosher meat, and he was born and raised a Jew. He said, “My teeth can’t stand it any longer, it’s too tough. I want nice ripe aged meat that’s been hanging for awhile.” But he wouldn’t eat any other kind of liver than kosher liver, fresh calves’ liver, this day’s liver, and he wouldn’t take any other chicken than kosher chicken. He wanted it killed the way the kosher butcher would kill the chicken, and they drained the blood, but fresh, not frozen chicken for him. That was my old friend Ab. But when it came to meat, he would go goyim up to a nice ripened piece of meat that can only come when you hang it. But, when it comes to blood, the life is in the blood, and so, you must actually absorb my life. Not just the words that I say, but extract the meaning, and make it a part of your thinking so that you live by it. So, when you actually live by the Christian doctrine, well then, you are reducing Christ, his flesh, to dust, and you are drinking his blood. You are taking the very essence of his being. Then at the end, suddenly when you least expect it, he’s becoming alive in you…the mystery of life through death. And suddenly these things precede his birth. The walking on the water comes before, yet in the Bible the birth seems to come first. It doesn’t. You walk on water; you taste of the power of the age to come; you feed thousands before you are even born from above. All these things happen first. Then comes the resurrection…that comes first. In the real grand acts, that’s God’s first mighty act: he resurrects the one that had died. And then, after that act, then comes the birth, and the symbol of the birth is the little child wrapped in swaddling clothes. Then comes the discovery of David, God’s only begotten son, and he calls you “Father.” “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee”. David stands before you and calls you “Father” and you know it. Then comes the ascent of yourself after having your whole body split in two from top to bottom. Then you see the whole body split in two, for it is in this body that I carry the death of Christ; therefore, this body must be split that he could escape. So you’re told in the 10th chapter of the Book of Hebrews, “…through the curtain of his body”—-not some other curtain but the curtain of his body—-then he moves up into Zion, into the New Jerusalem. Then comes the dove. Now the dove appears in the very first chapter of Mark, and you will think that’s the first if you take a chronological basis. It doesn’t come there at all. But I’m not going to quarrel with the evangelist who wrote that book. But it doesn’t come in that position; it comes at the end. The very last thing is the descent of the Holy Spirit in bodily form as a dove; and that’s the seal of his promise, the Holy Spirit, the promise of his inheritance, your inheritance. So that’s the very last act. But the walking on water and all these things, they come before you are born from above. These are all the awakening, and you feel the power that’s moving in you, and these things happen. But these four mighty acts…which is simply, the resurrection and birth are one; then comes the discovery of David, that’s the second; then comes the splitting of the temple of your body and the ascent of yourself in serpentine form, that’s the third; then the descent of the dove upon you, all of these are supernaturally experienced. So I tell everyone here, you’re going to have it because you must have it. The must of scripture is a must. He said, “You must be born again.” If you must be, you will be…no escaping. If you don’t accept it today, you will tomorrow. Everyone will hear it and everyone eventually will accept it, and everyone will resurrect within himself Jesus Christ. Everyone will be Jesus Christ.269 ¶29