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nephesh. This word is also translated as soul. Yahweh is literally declaring that the soul
of an animal is in its blood. The soul of man is also in His blood. This is why we find Yahweh
declaring to Cain that the blood of his brother Able was crying out to Him from the ground.
Able’s blood had been spilled upon the ground when Cain slew him. The soul is in the blood,
therefore the soul of Able was now crying out from the ground.
What drew my attention to this topic some years ago, causing me to delve into it
further, was the repetition of this prohibition in the New Testament. There are over 600
laws in the Torah delivered to Moses at Mount Sinai. Yet when the early church met to
determine what laws to specifically pass on to the Gentile converts, they gave only four. Out
of these four New Testament instructions to the newly founded churches, two of them focus
specifically on the issue of eating blood.

Acts 15:19-20
Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God
from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain from things
contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and
from blood.

If an animal is killed by strangulation, its blood remains in the meat, therefore such
meat was not to be eaten. The church leaders and apostles further added the instruction
that the Gentile believers were to abstain from consuming all blood.
We see then that the prohibition against partaking of blood is universal. It is not
limited to the Law of Moses. The command to abstain from blood preceded the Law
delivered to Moses, and it continues even to this day to those who have died to the Law
through the body of Christ.

Romans 7:6
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were
bound..

Those who are in Christ “have been released from the Law,” but they have not been
released from the prohibition against eating blood. The mystery of life being in the blood
is so great that the command to abstain from eating it will never be altered.
We live in a very dark hour. We are seeing an ever deepening darkness fall upon the
earth. The greatest and most universal prohibitions given to man by God are being scorned.
Satan is glorifying that which Yahweh has condemned. He is flooding the world
with fantasies of vampires drinking the blood of men, women and children. Many are
familiar with such mega-sellers as the Ann Rice vampire novels, the Twilight books and
movies, and the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One website on the topic lists
over 700 books that contain vampire lore.
What is so important about this subject that Yahweh has forbidden the partaking of
blood through all ages down to this present time? Why has Satan spent so much time
driving men and women to fantasize about doing that which Yahweh expressly forbids?
In the introduction to this teaching series, it was mentioned that the Hebrew word
rendered as “life” is “nephesh.” When spoken of in the New Testament, it is translated from
the Greek word “psuche.” Both nephesh and psuche are words that mean “soul.”