DEWITT
TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES
THE
BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
VERSES
THE
BLOOD OF A POPE
By
C.W. Wood February
2012
Matthew 11:25, Jesus said, “I
thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.”
This sermon, and others like it, is written to “Catholic babes,”
“Protestant babes,” and any other “babes” who are not already too “wise
and prudent” to learn truth.
On my desk, I have a printout off the Internet that shows pictures of
four Roman Catholic Vatican guards carrying on their shoulders a glass case
containing vials of blood that was drawn from Pope John Paul II as he was dying.
The picture was made at the cathedral in Bogotá
What? What am I looking at? Are my eyes deceiving me? Are these precious
people so misinformed and so spiritually blind as to put confidence in the blood
of a man? Have they never known, or have they completely forgotten, the Bible
teaching about the shed Blood of Jesus Christ being the only thing that can wash
away our sins? For what reason are they carrying the blood of a Pope around? For
what reason are thousands standing in long lines, just to see the blood of a
Pope? Is this not the fulfilling of Scripture that declares that before God
takes his Bride out, some will “count
the blood of the covenant, wherewith we are sanctified, an unholy thing”
(Hebrews 10:29)? This verse also says that to look to the blood of man is “doing
despite to the spirit of grace.” It is turning away from the only way of
Salvation. And that way is not “by the
blood of goats and calves (nor by the blood of some Pope),
but by His own Blood He entered in once into the
I will now quote a Scripture that if it was the only one we had, it would
declare the displaying of a Pope’s blood to be a terrible crime against a
loving Christ, who gave His own Blood (life) for us. It is found in Psalms
49:7, and it says no one else “can
by any means redeem his Brother, nor give a ransom for him.” Here God
directs our thoughts toward the one person, whose name is the Lord Jesus Christ,
who, rather than let us lie in our deserved misery, punished his own bowels to
save us.
Then how dare any church, or any preacher, or any man, or any Devil dare
to set forth any other way of salvation! To do so is to call down the wrath of
God! Jeremiah 44:8, “…ye
provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other
gods…that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a
reproach….” (Verse 27) “Behold
I will watch over them for evil, and not for good…”
To put any kind of confidence in the blood of a man is to bring a
terrible reproach on the Lord Jesus Christ, who is “all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). It is
to deny that Jesus Christ is the only “door to salvation” (John 10:7-9)
“…I am the door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved…” To
put any kind of confidence in the blood of a man, thinking his blood will save
or heal, is to die in your sins (John
Both Catholics and Protestants, upon hearing the true Gospel preached,
are receiving Christ as their personal Savior. To God be all the glory!
We have entered into the time period in which the faith of God’s Elect
Bride is being perfected for the Rapture, and without question, this faith is
bound up in the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross. For those of us who study a
Prophet’s Message, it is evident that there is something peculiar in the death
of Christ, something which unmistakably sets it apart from all other deaths.
Therefore, we are moved by the Holy Ghost to study, and give a reverent
attention to the revelations God has given His Prophet concerning this death.
Many had been crucified, but none like this man had ever died.
What has God one in order to secure the Eternal Salvation of sinners?
What was God’s thought in submitting Jesus Christ to die upon the Cross and
exactly what has been accomplished by it? to attempt to teach on this unique
happening at
In the beginning, we must be warned against trying to understand what
will be said here with human reason and of trying to
bring the world’s wisdom into our discussion. “The preaching of the Cross is to them that perish FOOLISHNESS; but
unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” (I Cor. 1:18) And to this
Word, the Apostle Paul added, “But we
preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks
foolishness, but unto them which are called, both Jew and Greek, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God. (I Cor. 1:23-24) There is a place where
human reasoning must be abandoned, and pure Faith in God’s Word take over. We
are at such a place as we begin to teach on the fact that, “We are saved by
faith in the Blood of God.”
Heb. 9:12, “Neither by
the blood of goats and calves, BUT BY HIS OWN BLOOD he entered in once into the
Col. 1:14-15, “In
whom we have redemption through HIS BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins; Who is
the Image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.”
Rev. 1:5, “And
from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the First Begotten of the
Dead, and the Prince of the Kings of the Earth. Unto Him that loved us, and
washed us from our sins IN HIS OWN BOOD.”
Now, the great question! Who was Jesus Christ? Was He another PERSON
separate from God the Creator? Was He the second PERSON of the Godhead having
all the attributes that make up another person? Was He another Person, sent by
the Father to die for the sins of the people? What does the Scripture and the
Prophet say? Is there one God, two Gods, three Gods? If there is more than one
God, then which one are we suppose to love the most, and which one is the most
powerful? Are we to have a divided loyalty? Let the Scripture settle these
questions forever. They teach ONE God.
Zech. 14:9, “And the Lord
shall be King over all the earth; in that day shall there be ONE Lord, AND HIS
NAME ONE.”
Deut. 6:4, “Hear
O
I Cor. 8:4, “As
concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice
unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, AND THERE IS NONE
OTHER GOD BUT ONE.”
Eph. 4:5-6, “There
is one body and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism; ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL,
AND THROUGH ALL, AND IN YOUALL.”
Gal. 3:20, “Now
a mediator is not a mediator of one, BUT God IS ONE.”
Mark 12:32, “And
the Scribe said unto Him, well Master, Thou hast said the truth; FOR THERE IS
ONE GOD; AND THERE IS NONE OTHER BUT HE….(Verse 34)
“And when Jesus saw that he had answered discreetly He said unto him, thou art
not far from the Kingdom of God…”
James 2:19, “Thou
believest that there is ONE God; Thou doest well: the devils also believe and
tremble.”
John 10:30, “I
and my Father are one.”
Other Scripture could be given, but now let us hear what God’s
End-Time Prophet said concerning one God. We have asked the question, “Who was
this Jesus Christ? Was He another person, separate from God the Father? Are
there two personalities or three personalities involved in the Godhead? We want
to discover WHO IT WAS THAT DIED FOR US! Did God the Father send someone in His
place to suffer the agony of the Cross or did HE COME HIMSELF?
QUOTE: THE DIETY OF JESUS CHRIST, PAGE 7-8, “And so then the
picture was painted out, back there through our first Father and Mother, and
they fell. And that broke off relationship with God….And then the only way
that God then, could ever redeem him would have to be to come down and redeem
him HIMSELF; NOT IN ANOTHER, NOT SEND SOMEONE ELSE. He couldn’t send an angel,
that wouldn’t be right. But, the only way God could redeem the man, was COME
DOWN HIMSELF TO REDEEM IT. If somebody sins here, and I was the Judge of this
group of people, and I had the jurisdiction over you all, and if somebody sinned
and I said now Brother Graham, I want you to pay the price. That wouldn’t be
just. If I said for my own boys to pay the price, that still wouldn’t be just.
The only way that I could be just, is for me, myself to take his place. And
what? I was the one (who) passed the judgment, and then if I want to redeem the
man, I’ve got to take his place myself…”
CONT. QUOTE PAGE 8, “Now look, I want you to notice something.
Then the only way that God Himself could ever redeem this man was to come down
and take his place. And that was a Law that was given by Moses, of redemption,
that it had to be through a Kinsman Redeemer; a man first who was worthy, a man
who was worth the price, a man then who would make his public testimony, and
redeem the lost estate of somebody that had fallen. And then GOD WAS WORTHY. He
came down some 1900 years ago, in the form of a baby. Born in a manger,
overshadowed by the Holy Ghost, not born by sexual desire. HE WAS GOD.
GOD’S BLOOD WAS IN HIM.” (End of quote)
But, someone may reason that God is a spirit, and that a spirit has no
blood in it, and they may question how God’s Blood came to be in Jesus Christ.
Dear Friend, the answer to this question is the fact upon which Christianity
rests. The true answer to this question is the only ground of hope for the
guilty; it is the only source of peace and consolation for the sinner. The Blood
shed by Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, is the beginning of the saved sinner’s
hope, and will be the theme of his praise when he casts his crown before the
Throne on that day. Now, may we pay prayerful and reverent attention as we read
the following answer to the question as given by God’s Prophet, William
Branham. He points out that the answer in found in the Virgin Birth!
QUOTE: THE DIETY OF JESUS CHRIST, PAGE 8, “The baby is always
the blood of its father, never of its mother. We all know that…and you know
that the baby has not one speck of its mother’s blood in it, not a bit.
Therefore when Mary, knowing not a man, she was with THE MALE. THE ALMIGHTY
JEHOVAH, and He overshadowed her, and God is the Creator that created a blood
cell in the womb of Mary, (her) knowing not a man at all. AND THAT BROUGHT FORTH
THE VERY CREATIVE BLOOD OF GOD, to redeem us from our life, coming in here (into
the world) being born by sexual desire…And then that Blood was drawn out of
IMMANUEL’S VEINS on Calvary’s Cross, and today has the same saving,
redeeming power that it did the day the transfusion was made out at Calvary. Do
you believe it? Amen! Now, that’s right, we are redeemed by the Blood of God.
The Bible says we are bought by the Blood, and redeemed by God. God’s own
Blood.”
CONT. QUOTE: “How was it God’s Blood? God has no blood. How
could it be? Because it was GOD’S CREATIVE BLOOD that He created in order to
redeem us, and came and lived in the SAME BODY HE CREATED.
PAGE 9, “And God Himself, coming out of Spirit, went into Jesus
Christ. And the Bible said that, “God
was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself”...God Himself. Jehovah,
lived in Christ and was made a kinsman to us, because He was born in human flesh
like we are….The blood cells were developed by God, and the flesh cells
were developed in the womb of Mary, that brought forth the child. And God
came down and lived in human flesh, and was tempted in every manner just like we
are. Do you believe that?” (End of quote)
Now, we have said that the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross was
PECULIAR, and it was more than just peculiar, it was the greatest mystery the
world has ever seen. The Creator God, groaning in unbearable pain on the Cross,
God the Creator, who created all the water of the earth, crying out, “I
thirst.” God, the Creator, who created all life, dying by degrees until He
gave up the Ghost. God, the Creator who is Love itself, made a spectacle of
satanic hatred. God died, What a Mystery!
But how is spiritually ignorant man to see these deep things? Since a man
can receive nothing except it be given him from Heaven (John
We find our answer in the scriptures, as usual. Amos 3:7, “Surely
the Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the
Prophets.” What did the One, whose Mind controlled the sacred writers,
intend for us to believe? Thanks be to God He has revealed it to His Prophet
that has been here and gone, our precious Brother, William Branham. In this
Prophet’s simple way, he has taught us that, “Only God can produce that
which satisfies Himself.” He taught us that the work that was to be
accomplished on the Cross was so drastically important that, it could not be
trusted to another. God must see to it Himself. We were taught that since He
came Himself, He is now totally, and completely, and eternally satisfied with
the payment that was made. No sin is charged to the true Believer! (Rom. 4:8)
Now, we can look at the Scripture in Rom.
And so our thoughts are directed toward the ONE PERSON in the Godhead,
whose Name is “The Lord Jesus Christ” who rather than let us lie in our
deserved misery, punished His own bowels to save us from it. God could not
remain God and ignore sin. He could not let the sinner off without any
satisfaction to His Divine Justice. The Love of God is not “Lawless” so that
He is free to exercise it by the breaking of His own Laws! No! God could not do
away with our sins without a payment being made that satisfied Himself. What the
anxious heart of the Elect Bride member longs for today is the knowledge of the
total REMISSION (doing away with) of all his sins, past, present, and future.
And what is this REMISSION? What does it consist of? It is the
announcement of God Himself to us of NOT GUILTY. It is to be removed from being
under His wrath. It is to have our debt paid by the One who knew what degree of
suffering was required to remove our guilt, and then suffering it Himself.
Therefore, when we think about the work of redemption, we need to trace it to
its source, the One Person in the Godhead, Jesus Christ, on whom the whole Plan
of Grace to fallen man is founded.
He would be a God-MAN, born with the created Blood of God flowing in His
veins. This blood would make it possible for Him to live a life totally above
all sin. This He did for 33 years. (You and I can never accomplish this. Our
blood was from the lineage of Adam, and contaminated because of Adam’s sin.)
When the full revelation of God’s Plan of Salvation comes into view, we see
the infinite Wisdom of God, which wisdom never acts aimlessly. When the fullness
of His Plan is revealed to us, we fall on our faces, and faith declares that, “He
hath done all things well.” (Mark