Amen, all right we are in Exodus 35 and if you know if you go to this church
normally you know that we are going through the book of Exodus in the
evenings and we're doing the Lord's Supper so I figured I would preach
out of the book of Exodus and chapter 35 is where we're at and I'm
going to use Exodus 35 to springboard into the sermon that I'm
preaching about and the sermon I'm preaching is called the scarlet thread
and if you notice in Scripture from the very beginning of course when Adam and
Eve fall there's a blood atonement that is going to be required and it's
prophesied in Genesis that you know that there's going to be this a man
that's born of a woman and she is and he is going to crush the serpent
and that but you know obviously we know that Jesus Christ is prophesied in the
Old Testament to be that blood atonement but we have here in Exodus chapter 35
and obviously there's lots of different portions of Exodus which talk about
this color of scarlet that is used and so the the reason why I'm calling
it the scarlet thread is because obviously they're using scarlet to
thread into all these different like the priest garments and all the
different pieces of the tabernacle there's multiple different parts that
are used and scarlet and purple and all these different colors are supposed
to be used and that scarlet represents the blood of Christ the blood that
needs to be shed for mankind and the blood that Christ did shed for
mankind and so I just figured well it's right here in this chapter so I
always preach about the death of Christ when we do the Lord's Supper usually
the day of so I just figured I would keep to that tradition and so that's
what I'm preaching about this morning let's look down at our Bibles at verse
number six in our text there it says and blue and purple and scarlet and
fine linen and goats hair and ram skin dyed red and badgers skin and
shit and wood now skip down to verse 23 it says and every man with whom
was found blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair and red
skins of Rams and badger skins brought them skip down to verse 25 and all the
women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands and brought that
which they had spun both of blue and a purple and a scarlet and a fine
linen so you know you get these descriptions of all these things
that they're supposed to be bringing for these offerings because we've gone
through and looked at the tabernacle and what all these things mean
symbolically and so this chapter is kind of just saying this is what they
now the people are actually bringing this stuff and the people are actually
going to be making these things that God has told Moses need to be made so
that's why he's picking these special people to give them the spirit of
wisdom to be able to make these things because this is not stuff that
they probably knew how to do just off the top of their head right and these
things are patterns of things that are already in heaven and Moses was
supposed to to tell teach the people how to make things after the pattern that
he showed them the things that are in heaven these things that they're making
here are a pattern and you know there's a lot of symbolism in these
colors now scarlet obviously is that thread that that is to be used in
all these different garments and the tapestries and the in the covering
of the the door of the tabernacle the covering of the veil and all
these different things to be spun and and and to be designed into it so
my like I said my my sermon is to trace this scarlet thread from Genesis to
Revelation and I'm gonna try my best to if I had need to to cut some of
this out so that the sermon doesn't go too long but it is the picture of
the blood without the blood we have no salvation and blood is kind of a
gruesome thing like if you have ever seen somebody really bloody from maybe
get into a fight or you've you know seen something even worse you know that
you know blood is a horrific thing to see in a lot I mean I've just had some
pretty bad bloody noses before that like blood you know if you if you hit
somebody in the nose or somebody hits you in the nose blood just pours out
of your nose really bad so but Christ was beaten so badly and marred so
much that his face was was marred more than any man that's what the
Bible says so when he you know people you know the Catholics like to put
Jesus hanging on a cross with long hair skinny and effeminate looking with
just a couple trickles of blood coming out of him but in the reality
of it is if you saw Jesus on the cross you probably would have turned
your face away from him because it was such a gruesome sight but what
happened to Jesus was necessary for our salvation that is why he came for us
that is what he came to do that is why he was born so let's back up to Genesis
chapter 2 Genesis chapter 2 and we are going to look at a lot of scripture
this morning but I also want to for maybe the people are new or maybe
have never seen this before kind of just back up and and see why we need
to do this so now God in the beginning everything was good there was
no death before Adam and Eve death came because of the sin that they
committed and God made this great creation the earth was just perfect in
every way and when God stopped his creation on the sixth day he said
behold ever everything was very good so if everything's very good there's no
death going on before that right there's nothing wrong animals aren't
eating each other humans aren't killing each other it's only just Adam
and Eve at this point look at Genesis 2 16 it says and the Lord God
commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for
in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die so God just said
there's one thing you can't do and just it kind of seems like we can we
can picture this with our children you know that there's one thing you
can't touch kids don't touch the stove or you know whatever it is don't touch
that and what do kids like to do they walk up and just like oh really and they
touch it right but this is what this is what happened with with Eve she but
she was beguiled into doing this look at verse 1 in Genesis chapter 3 so
Eve is ends up getting tricked here into doing what she was told not to do
it says that you're gonna if you touch that if you eat of this this tree of
the knowledge of good and evil you're gonna die in the day that you do it
you're gonna die but did they drop dead did their human bodies drop dead no
what died in them was their spirit what died in them was their soul their
soul what that needed atonement after that and so every other human being
after that needed it also so look at verse 1 in Genesis 3 it says now the
serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had
made and he said unto the woman of yay hath God said you should not eat of
every tree of the garden and the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in
the midst of the garden God has said you should not eat of it neither shall
you touch it lest you die so the serpent came to try to kill mankind
through his lies he's the father of lies that's what the Bible teaches and
he's also a murderer so his his his way is to lie to people so that they can be
killed and that's what he does here it says in the serpent said to the woman
ye shall not surely die so he's lying to her because they do die the moment
that they eat of the flesh of that fruit that they eat they die
spiritually for God doth know then the day eat thereof then your eyes
shall be open he should be as gods knowing good and evil and when the
woman sought the tree was good for food and it was pleasant to the eyes and
a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did
eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat and the eyes
of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves aprons so they knew that they had sinned
they knew that they were naked and so they what do they do they try to cover
up themselves so what do they try to do it with they don't do it with with
with animal skins or with leather outfits of any kind they do it with
fig leaves and this is kind of what their son Cain ends up doing he ends
up bringing them a sack got a sacrifice of the fruits and
vegetables the things made after his own hands he planted that stuff and God
that's not what God wants he needs the the blood needs to be shed for the
atonement of sin skip down to verse 14 it says the Lord God said unto the
serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and
above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dost
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life and I will put enmity between
thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head
thou shalt bruise his heel so here we have the prophecy of the Messiah in
verse number 15 and this seed of the woman is gonna rise up one day and who
is that seed of the woman well Jesus didn't have a human father so
that's why it's saying that Jesus's dad or father was God right so the
seed of the woman is gonna rise he's gonna rise up and bruise the head of
the serpent he's gonna bruise the head of the devil and he shall bruise
his heel so obviously that's talking about Jesus dying and getting killed but
skip down to verse 21 it says unto Adam also to his wife did the Lord God
make coats of skins and clothe them so he made coats of skin so here you
have the first death occurring it's the death of an animal and it's pig
it's it's the animal can't atone for sins but it is a picture of what
Christ is later going to do he's gonna have to shed his blood to atone for the
sins of all mankind and so the Bible teaches very clearly that Jesus dies for
the sins of the whole world not just a limited amount of people for everyone
he dies for every single serial killer every single wicked person every
person that's in hell today those people Jesus died for them too
everybody has the ability to be saved it's based upon our own free will just
like Adam and Eve had the choice to be beguiled by you know Eve had the
choice she could have just went to her husband said hey this serpent's
trying to bug me into taking this this fruit but she didn't do that she
fell into his trance or whatever and decided to do that and then Adam
willingly took of it Adam knew better Adam and so Adam is the one that's
blamed throughout Scripture it's not Eve you know we always say well you know
the first woman ate the first man out of house and home or whatever which
you know you know cuz I had to leave the garden or whatever but but in
reality she was beguiled by a very evil and malevolent character in the
Bible Satan or Lucifer a fallen angel very intelligent and powerful being and
Adam is but he gets the blame right so Jesus when he was born he couldn't be
born of man because man is the one that passes the sin nature on down to their
children not it's not the woman because Jesus was born of the Virgin
Mary but just because she was a virgin doesn't mean she was sinless
the sin nature does not get passed on to the to the children it's for
through the through the mom it gets passed on genetically through the dad
so that's why it says the seed of a woman so hopefully that makes sense
hopefully you understand that but this death that occurs this animal you know
obviously God makes some coats of skins and he clothed them this
pictures that that man needs the righteousness of God to cover them so
that they don't have to go to hell and what what is required blood so you
you can you can shear a sheep and put their wool upon you without killing a
sheep but it's pretty hard to take skins of an animal without killing
them so God God had to kill these animals and show that picture to us
that it takes blood to atone for sin now it says in verse 22 and the Lord
God said behold the man is that is become as one of us to no good and
evil and now let us put for what lest he put forth his hand and take also of
the tree of life and eat and live forever therefore the Lord God sent him
forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was
taken so he drove out man and he placed at the east of the Garden of
Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way
of the tree of life so God kicked him out of the garden they're not
allowed to access the tree of life anymore and so they could not live
forever anymore now I'll turn to Genesis chapter 4 verse number 1 so this
is when they begin to have children their first two children that they have
are Cain and Abel everybody knows the story of Cain and Abel Cain rises up
and kills Abel but look what it says in verse 1 it says and Adam knew Eve
his wife and she conceived and bear Cain and said I have gotten a man from the
Lord and she again bear his brother Abel and Abel was a keeper of the sheep
but Cain was a tiller of the ground and in process the time it came to pass
that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord
and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and the fat
thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering why did he
respect the offering of Abel because he brought of the fat now it's pretty
hard to you know bring the fat of an animal without killing it so Abel you
know he kept sheep and he killed that sheep and brought of the firstling of
his flock now Jesus Christ is the firstborn and the only begotten Son of
God and that's what this represents he brought of the firstlings of the
flock and the fat thereof and Jesus is also pictured as a lamb an innocent
lamb without spot or blemish in the Bible so it was a perfect looking lamb
and an innocent you know little who's seen little baby lambs before probably
most people in here and you've seen pictures of them and the last thing
you'd want to do is just beat and batter and kill a baby lamb I mean
most people will be horrified to do something like that right I mean but
that's what was required because that is the picture because Jesus Christ was
innocent in every single way so to punch Jesus in the face to slop him in
the face to rip his beard out to put a crown of thorns upon his head and to
mock him and tease him and spit in his face it's it's worse than
hurting a baby sinless spotless little lamb too and so that is the
picture you have and so also just a just a little quick glimpse about this
also is that Abel is a righteous man Abel is a prophet he's the first
prophet that was ever born but Cain his brother is also a prophet but he's
a different kind of prophet Cain is a false prophet and he's the first man
born upon the face of the earth he's a false prophet so you have a false
prophet and you have a prophet of God righteous and so you also have that
first prophet and a righteous man picturing that the wicked will also
murder Jesus Christ the righteous and what do you see you know what do you
see throughout the Bible wicked false prophets you know killing righteous men
throughout the Bible and obviously that pictures you know what you know if
you're righteous if you're a saved person then the wicked are always
gonna try to persecute us why did they chop off the the head of John the
Baptist because he was a righteous man because he preached what he preached
hard against sin and he preached the truth so when you preach the truth
when you do the truth then you're gonna be persecuted by the world
that's just how it is so now look at well I'm just gonna read for you
Hebrews 9 22 because we're gonna go back to that later but Hebrews 9 22
says and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without
shedding of blood is no remission so we'll revisit that verse later but
without shedding of blood is no remission now you've heard of cancer
obviously a lot of people have died of cancer a lot of people know people
or have loved ones that have cancer and cancer is a disease that in a lot
of and a lot of times kills people but cancer can go into remission and
people can live through it right so when it's talking about there's no
remission well remission means that that that sin curse or that that that
fact that you were gonna die and go to hell because of your sin is
remitted by that blood okay so we'll just keep that in mind as we go
through this now I'm not gonna have you turn to the passage in
Genesis 22 either I had that in there but it's just gonna make it the
sermon take too long so but if you if you know the picture in Genesis
chapter 22 you can write this down and read the story later but Genesis 22
Abraham is asked to slay his only begotten son Isaac now obviously he had
Ishmael before that but that was not the son that was promised so but the
picture is is that Abraham supposed to take a knife put it put him on the
wood bind him on this pile of wood on an altar kill him with a knife drain
his blood and burn him upon the altar and they see this this sheep this
lamb in the thicket and and they actually God tells Abraham not to slay
his son it was a test to see how far Abraham would go obviously God never
intended him to do that but it is a picture for us to see that God will
provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering and so God did provide
himself so Jesus Christ is God and he provided himself he became a man he was
born of the Virgin Mary and he became a man for us and died for the intention
of himself being that lamb for the burnt offering and so now turn to
Genesis chapter 38 and we'll see the first actual piece of thread that I
that I've found in the Bible anyway I'm sure maybe you got hopefully some
people come up to me and say hey you forgot about this thread pastor
because I really want to know if there's anything that I missed but I just kind
of looked up scarlet obviously there's other things that are read in the Bible
and maybe I just missed that but Genesis chapter 38 you have this clear
picture of thread being used to picture something else picturing the
Messiah and the blood that he's gonna shed so look at Genesis 38 24 now Judah
is the tribe in which the Lord Jesus Christ would come from there's 12
sons of Israel and the tribe of Levi is the priestly tribe that's where Moses
comes from and Aaron and the priest and all that but Judah is where the
kings are going to come from where King David came from when all and all
the kings of Judah came from and then Jesus Christ is going to eventually
come from and so Jude that I don't need I can't go into the whole
backstory but basically Judah's sons die two of his sons are wicked and God it
says that God kills them there they must have been pretty bad if God killed
them and then he promised to give his other son to the wife because she
married the brother because there's this rule about bringing up children of
the first for the firstborn so the second the second son didn't want to
do that and so God killed him because he didn't want to do that and he was
practicing birth control basically so he didn't have to do that so God killed
him and then the other one he didn't give to wife he didn't give Tamar she
promised her that he would give his third son to her and he didn't do it
so she so she dresses up and pretends she's a harlot and then Judah her
father-in-law basically goes in on to her and she isn't really a harlot but
pretends to be she gets pregnant I know it's you know it's a bad story or
whatever but this is what happened so Genesis 38 verse 24 so he's trying to
find her to pay her back because of all this but he had given her these
certain items that she could hold on to and then she they said there's no
harlot in this area what are you talking about so anyway she ends up
becoming pregnant and then people find out about and he's like we need to
burn this lady you know he's he's just he's not doing right obviously but it
says verse 24 and it came to pass about three months after that it was told
Judah saying Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot and also behold
she is with child by Hordom and Judah said bring her forth and let her
be burnt when she was brought forth she sent to her father-in-law saying
by the man who whose these are I am with child and she said discern I pray
thee whose are these the signet and the bracelets and staff and Judah
acknowledged him and said she hath been more righteous than I because that
I gave her not to Sheila my son and he knew her again no more so he
never you know went back to her obviously it says and it came to pass
in the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb and it came
to pass when she travailed that one put out his hand so one of the babies
put out his hand which is not a normal practice in birthing I mean usually the
head comes out and if the head's not coming out first it's a problem right
but obviously this is some kind of you know just not normal birth here
but it says and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread
saying this came out first because with twins it would have mattered who the
firstborn is who gets the you know the benefit of being the firstborn son so
she ties this scarlet thread upon his wrist and saying this came out first
but only his hand came out all right and it says that it came to pass as
he drew back his hand so the hand comes back in all right that's what's
happening here that behold his brother came out so she ties so his wrist came
out first but he didn't he wasn't born first and then the brother came out
like just kind of squeaked past him I guess or whatever and she said how
hast thou broken forth this breach be upon thee therefore his name is called
Ferez now if you know anything about the Bible Ferez is in the line of
Christ and so this this is kind of like a miraculous thing and and God is
showing us here that the line of Ferez is going to be the line of Christ and
but he's not the one that gets the thread tied around his wrist but
what's interesting about that is that you know he you know the the blood the
blood is is the picture there of what's on the wrist but the one that
comes after him is the one that's actually going to shed you know he's
the picture of the one that's actually going to shed that blood for
for mankind so and and the New Testament comes after the Old Testament
so he came first and got the thread on his hand but actually
Ferez was born before he was and I also have pictures that Jesus Christ is
before from everlasting so you know I mean if you're thinking about John the
Baptist John the Baptist was older than Jesus in years you know he was
like six months older or whatever but in reality Jesus Christ has always been
and always will be right now look at verse 30 it says and afterward came
out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and his name was
called Zerah so the one with the scarlet thread upon his hand was
actually not the firstborn it was Ferez I mean his hand came out but it's
like you know came back in I don't I mean that's a weird thing to picture
I've seen childbirth happen I just you know it's just kind of a strange
thing but like that's what the Bible says happened I believe the Bible so
but anyway so there's the first picture of a scarlet thread you have in
the Bible and it's actually you know it's fitting because Jesus came from the
tribe of Judah and his heir you know the where the line came from is Ferez
so genealogy and when it's reckoned by genealogy you see that Ferez is in
the line of Christ now turn to Exodus chapter 12 Exodus chapter 12 now
you're not gonna see a thread in this picture but you will see the
picture of blood being pictured as a token to represent the blood of
Christ covering us from our sins now Exodus chapter 12 verse 13 the Bible
says and the blood shall be to you for a token so it's a representing
something else it's a picture of the blood of Christ covering us from our
sins remember they had to they had to strike the doorpost of their house
with this blood of the lamb that they sacrificed in the Passover right it says
and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the house is where you are
and when I see the blood I will pass over you so when God the Father sees
the blood of Jesus Christ upon our hearts or upon our lives or however
you want to interpret that the the imputed righteousness of Christ is
that blood that covers us from our sins but it's that picture I will
pass over you so God's not gonna he's not gonna see our sins he's gonna see
the righteousness of Christ when he looks at us if you're saved today then
God's gonna pass over you also it says and the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you so what happened in Egypt that night is the firstborn of
anybody that did not have that blood covering that doorpost of their
house then they were gonna die their firstborn was gonna die it says when I
smite the land of Egypt and this day shall be unto you for a memorial and he
shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations he shall
keep it a feast by an ordinance forever and you know today we're gonna
we're gonna partake of the Lord's Supper the continuation of the Passover
obviously Jesus was the Lamb of God that took away the sins of the world and
so we don't eat a lamb anymore we eat unleavened bread and drink the
pure blood of a grape it's not with alcohol we don't believe that the table
of devils is gonna be partaken of in this house we're not gonna use leaven
bread leaven represents sin we're not gonna use alcoholic wine because that's
poison it's the poison of asps it's something that gets you drunk so we're
not gonna use those things to represent the pure blood of Christ that was
sinless and the pure body of Christ which was also sinless in an ordinance
to be shown unto our children and to our church so now in Exodus 25 26 27 28
35 36 38 and 39 you're gonna see this scarlet color being used to pick
in pictures of the tabernacle the tapestries and all these different
things so it's it's kind of a big theme in the pictures of the tabernacle
and Exodus and the clothes that the priests wore and it's mixed with
purple and blue but the purple of course pictures the bruising of the Lord
Jesus Christ you know the Bible says that he was broken you know we break
the bread because his body was broken but the bones of Christ were not
broken but his body was broken open with the lashes of the whip and with
the punching in his face and with the crown of thorns upon his head the
spear that stabbed into his side after he was already dead and the and
the blood gushes out the side of his of his body so now let's turn to
Leviticus chapter 14 verse 4 Leviticus chapter 14 verse number 4 the Bible
says then the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two
birds alive and clean and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop so this is
something that if the if a if a leper is cleansed of their leprosy then
they're supposed to do this atonement with a bird that's alive and then a
bird that's sacrificed it's dead and they take the blood and then they dip
the live bird and then they use water and it's the it's it's basically a
picture of the atonement here but you know most people did not get cleansed
of leprosy but what is what is the leprosy a picture of it's a it's a
picture of an incurable disease like like sin is an incurable disease it's
not something that we can cure without an atonement without blood
without washing of the water of the Spirit of the Lord coming into us and
and so on and so forth but look at verse 5 it says and the priest shall
command that one of the birds be killed in the earthen vessel over running water
as for the living bird he shall take it and the cedar wood of course the
cedar wood probably represents the cross there and the scarlet of course
the blood and the hiss and the hyssop and shall dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water and
he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven
times and shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird loose into an
open field and so I mean I think that that bird letting loose probably
represents maybe the resurrection but it's just it's an interesting picture
here but that running water of course Jesus said if you if you drink of this
water then you won't be thirsty again basically that living water that's
bubbling up on to everlasting life so you kind of have a lot of those
pictures in here you have the dead bird the bird had to die and the other one
is set free right after it's dipped in the blood so we are set
free from the plague of the leprosy of sin by the blood of Christ and
we are clean and every whit hold just like it like a person that was saved
from leprosy now turn over to Numbers chapter 4 verse 8 numbers chapter 4
verse 8 I'm kind of making it easy here for you I'm not jumping around a
lot you just have to turn to another book that's going forward in the Old
Testament and we'll get to the New Testament here in just a little bit
but numbers 4 verse 8 says and they shall spread upon them a cloth of
scarlet and cover the same with the covering of badger skins and shall put
in the staves thereof so you have another appearance of the scarlet cloth
that covers you know the covering of the tabernacle of the congregation which
the tabernacle represents the body of a believer or the body of Christ
right the body in the inner the inner the holiest place where the other veil
is that's you know obviously represents Christ you know when that veil is
written twain it pictures going through the veil the body of Christ so
numbers 19 numbers 19 so I just kind of basically just looked up scarlet and
kind of just went and just trying to show you all the different the
different appearances of that numbers 19 6 it says in the pre shell takes
cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the
burning of the heifer so this is the offering of the red heifer and so
scarlet is involved in that and the cedar wood and the hyssop so again
representing the cross hyssop is kind of like a picture of cleansing of
the soul and the cedar wood of course is representing the cross now and also
can be used for barbecuing so anyway just a little side note there but now
turn to Joshua chapter 2 we're now we're gonna see another like full-on
picture of this scarlet thread picturing how it saves okay the blood saving so
Joshua chapter 2 and you're probably familiar with the story about the fall
of Jericho so Jericho Falls because they remember they march around Jericho
seven times and blow the trumpets and all that but they sent some spies
and the spies kind of get found out and this woman named Rahab who is a
harlot and so she's you know she's a professional you know she does things
for money but and then it's interesting that that Tamar is also
you know accused of being a harlot and she kind of did play the harlot in
a way she tricked Judah into lying with her but now Joshua you have this
woman named so let's just look at verse number nine it says and she said
unto the men I know that the Lord hath given you the land and that your
terror is fallen upon us and all the inhabitants of the land faint because of
you for we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you so
you know walking through a sea that's called the Red Sea I know it's it
doesn't isn't actually red but there's another picture of going through the
blood and it's pictures baptism but anyway when he's when he came out of
Egypt and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites that you were on
the other side that were on the other side of Jordan Sihon and Og whom
he utterly destroyed and as soon as we heard these things our hearts did
melt neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you for
the Lord your God he is God in heaven above and in earth beneath so this
woman sounds like she's a believer sounds like the fear the Lord came upon
her and the Bible says you know that fear is the beginning of wisdom fear
is the beginning of knowledge so and it says now therefore I pray you
swear unto me by the Lord since I have showed you kindness they will also
show kindness unto my father's house and give me a true token so that
again there's a token what's the token well it says and that he then
that you will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my
sisters and all that that they have and deliver our lives from death because
everybody in this place is supposed to get killed and it says and men and
the men answered her our life for yours if you utter not this our
business and it shall be when the Lord hath given us the land that we
will deal kindly and truly with thee then she let them down by a cord
through the window for her house was upon the town wall and she dwelt upon
the wall and she said unto them get you to the mountain lest the pursuers
meet you and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers be
returned and afterward you may go your way interesting those three days
right and the men said unto her we will be blameless of this thine oath
which thou hast made us swear behold when we come into the land thou shall
bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us
down by and thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother and thy
brethren and all thy father's household home unto thee so what is
the sign that the token sign that remember she said you know give me a
token that you're gonna show kindness unto my family he said this scarlet
thread put that out the window and and then we're and then bring all your
family in so what is that picture is picturing the salvation of her house
the salvation by the blood of Christ by this scarlet thread being out the
window and says it shall be verse 19 that whosoever shall go out of the
doors of thy house into the street his blood shall be upon his head and we
will be guiltless and whosoever shall be with thee in the house his blood
shall be on our head if any hand be upon him so again you got this picture
of the blood covering and it covers and you know sure enough what they
what they said came to pass and her family lives on and it says and if
thou shalt utter this our business then we'll be quite a vine oath which
thou shall which thou hast made us swear she said according unto your
words so be it and she sent them away and they departed and she bound the
scarlet line in the window so and guess what this is a picture this
picture of this thread threaded line Rahab this harlot she is actually in
the genealogy of Christ also she is one of the women that is in the line
of Christ she marries somebody she assimilates herself into the
tribe and her her she's mentioned in the genealogy of Christ so you have
both times when you see this scarlet thread you see that these are it's kind
of earmarking these people as direct descendants of Jesus Christ and and both
of them two of these ladies they're they're called harlots in the Bible
even though Tamar wasn't technically a harlot she didn't really take money
for it but I mean she did she didn't kind of play the harlot but she was
doing it to kind of revenge against Judah because he didn't keep his word but
this lady she just got saved you know what harlots can get saved anybody he
is saved and and here's the thing she she obviously showed that she feared
the Lord and God spared her in her in her house she was genuine but
without the blood you can't be saved and that's what the picture is here in
Joshua 20 and she bound the scarlet line in the window she put it in the
window and her whole house if you read further on which we don't have time
for but if you read further on you'll see that her and her house were
spared and then she's in the line of Christ so I'm gonna read go ahead and
turn to Proverbs 31 24 excuse me 21 I'm gonna read 2nd Samuel 1 24 2nd Samuel
1 24 says he daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet
with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel so
you know Saul when he was in his right mind and doing right one of the
things he did is he clothed these these women in scarlet so obviously
picturing the blood Proverbs 31 21 she is not afraid of snow this is
talking about the virtuous woman this whole prophecy of the virtuous woman
talking about a good woman a good mother a good spouse to her husband she
is not afraid of the snow for her household for all her household are
clothed with scarlet obviously spiritually speaking you know a good
woman will make sure that her kids are saved will try everything in her
ability to make sure her children are clothed in scarlet clothed in the
righteousness of Christ Song of Solomon 4 3 says thy lips are like a
thread of scarlet I mean I don't think that's accidental here the lips
are like a thread of scarlet and thy speech is calmly thy temples are like a
piece of pomegranate within thy locks Isaiah chapter 1 verse 18 I'll have
you turn to Isaiah 1 18 Isaiah chapter 1 18 and then so you have here Isaiah
using the the color red and actually the actual color of scarlet and
liking in it to sin that needs to be cleaned up Isaiah 1 18 says come now
let us reason together sayeth the Lord though your sins be as scarlet
they shall be white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall
be as wool and and how does that get accomplished well you know blood is a
really big staining agent if you get a blood stain on your white clothes or
or on anything it's really difficult to get out blood stains but Christ's blood
which this doesn't make sense logically but Christ's blood if it's
applied to those stains those sin stains of the blood that you have in
your life it'll make them white as snow so Jesus's blood is like this
cleansing agent that makes you your sins white as snow white as wool and so
it doesn't really make sense it's kind of a paradox but but it is true
nonetheless that even though our sins are like the blood that you can't get
out a stain that you can't get out they're red like crimson his blood will
clean up that sin in your life and that's that sin is covered by his blood
that makes you white as snow Lamentations 4 5 says they that did
feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in
scarlet embrace dung hills obviously he's talking about the fall of Jerusalem
but there was a time when there was a lot of people that were saved you
know but the fall of Jerusalem there was a lot of people that were killed by
Nebuchadnezzar and by the Babylonian army and you know these people are
brought up in scarlet are embracing dung hills I mean they're delicately
cold and obviously scarlet can represent royalty and you know
obviously it's very you know it's a decadent type of a color to be
clothed in it's it's it does represent you know royalty and that you have
money and things like that but obviously the spiritual obligation is
that you know what they had they had they had the blood covering them and
now they're embracing dung hills and that's kind of what the children of
Israel did they forsook all the things that they had the spiritual
heritage that they had and by the time the Babylonian Empire got there
even their king refused to just bend to the Word of God I mean Jeremiah is
begging the king to just give up and said just I you know he's I beseech the
king to to you know to just give up and let the Babylonians take over and
he's gonna spare your lives and to spare the lives of your children and
he was so worried about the peer pressure he was getting concerning the
princes of the land that he died for peer pressure basically his
children died because of peer pressure I mean what a stupid thing to die what a
prideful idiotic thing to let your children die for go ahead and turn to now
let's get let's get to the New Testament here Matthew chapter 27
Matthew chapter 27 so here we have the the first time that the word scarlet
is actually used in the New Testament and it's in Matthew 27 of course it's
when Jesus Christ is being crucified Matthew chapter 27 verse 24 the Bible
says when Pilate saw that he can prevail nothing but that rather a
tumult was made he took water and washed his hands before the multitude
saying I am innocent of the blood of this just person see to it so he
realizes Pilate realizes that Jesus Christ is innocent there's nothing that
he should put him to death for and just but just because he washed his
hands and did that as a symbolic gesture he still allowed it to happen he
still just said go ahead and crucify him or whatever but he just says I'm
innocent just because you say you're innocent of something doesn't mean you
actually are it says then answered all the people and said and this is
the Jews then answer all the people and said his blood be on us and on our
children I mean just cursing themselves for murdering their Messiah murdering
their Savior it says in verse 26 then release he Barabbas unto them and when
he had scourged Jesus he delivered him to be crucified then the soldiers of
the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the
whole band of soldiers and they stripped him and put on him a scarlet
robe now obviously they're doing this to mock him they're putting it and this
is the only time by the way that Jesus ever wears a robe in Scripture you know
people are like oh Jesus wore a robe and it was this long dress looking
robe no this is the only time that in the whole Bible where you can see
that Jesus wore a robe so I mean maybe in the other Gospels but I'm
just saying this specific time a scarlet robe and when they had
platted a crown of thorns they put it upon his head now you know to read
into this though if they scourge Jesus they're whipping him with a whip
and tearing open the flesh of his back so it's not just some oh they just
kind of gave him a spanking or something no they they opened up his
flesh with this whip and it says and then so then they put they plated a
crown of thorns and they put it upon his head and if anybody knows
anything about head wounds they bleed really bad so when they put this
crown of thorns upon his head he just probably started bleeding everywhere
just a bloody probably just blood dripping all down his body you're like
well Pastor Thompson you're kind of getting gross with this hey but you
know the ugly truth is is that that's what it took that is what it took for
our Savior to atone for our sins and that's what the reason why I'm
preaching about this because it's important for us to look back and see
you know why are we remembering what he did for us today this afternoon
because the price he paid was a big price what he did for us was bigger
than we can probably ever imagine or think about and we have to get the
right picture here because it was a bloody sacrifice it says they put it
on his head and a read in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him
and mocked him saying hail king of the Jews and they spit upon him and took
the read and smote him in the head so they're hitting him in the head with
it and after that they had mocked him they took the robe off him and put
on put his own raiment on him so put his clothes back on him and led him
away to crucify him and just so you know when someone gets crucified you
know they're nailing both of his hands onto this cross and then taking
both feet putting them together and nailing a nail between into both of
those feet I mean I feel like this part would hurt pretty bad but through
both feet I mean that is excruciating pain both all three of those nails
excruciating pain now the Bible in the law has this interesting passage I'm
gonna have you go ahead and turn to Deuteronomy chapter 21 in verse 22 and
God when he's talking about people being put to death because the death
penalty is a reality in the Bible people think that all in the New
Testament nobody's supposed to be put to death well that's not really true I
mean mass murders should still go and be put to death I mean if someone
lives through an electric chair or you know they do that like in lethal
injection somebody just lived through one or something apparently but you know
you know what they're not gonna live through a bullet through their brain
they're not gonna live through that I mean at least I don't think they
will people can get shot in the head and still live but you know I mean
maybe multiple I mean a firing squad you're not gonna you're not gonna walk
away from that one you're not gonna accidentally live through that so
anyway Deuteronomy chapter 21 verse 22 says and if a man have committed a sin
worthy of death and he to be and he be to be put to death and thou hang him on
a tree his body shall not remain all night upon the tree but thou shalt in
any wise bury him that day so this is something in the Bible that if
someone's hung on a tree and you know guess what a cross is made out of
wood so it's made out of a tree right and so but but it says if any man
committed a sin worthy of death did Jesus deserve to be put on that tree
no Jesus did not deserve and he didn't do a sin worthy of death so he's dying a
death that he doesn't deserve but in any wise if if they do that his body
shall not remain all night upon the tree but thou shalt in any wise bury
him that day for he that is hanged is accursed of God so and it says
that thy hand oh excuse me that thy land be not defiled which the Lord thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance so but you know they thought that they
might be getting around this some way by allowing Jesus to be buried
before the high Sabbath day which I'm gonna get to in just a second but
he's hanged he's accursed of God Jesus Christ became a curse for us he was a
curse of God for us because it is written here that if someone's hanged
on a tree that they're accursed of God so even though Jesus wasn't a sinner he
still was hung on that tree and he was all the sins of mankind were placed
upon him so he died for each and every single person that from from
Cain's first you know from Adam Neeves first sin until the very last sin
that's that's done on this earth Jesus Christ all that stuff was poured
upon him on the cross he was not he was not a sinner but he was made sin he
was he was made a curse and so that provision there in the law that he
wasn't allowed you know they weren't allowed to hang him all night on the
tree you know that was fulfilled in the Bible but before we get to that
fulfillment let's look at Galatians chapter 3 Galatians chapter 3 in the
New Testament it gives us some commentary on that specific verse those
specific verses in Deuteronomy chapter 21 so Jesus Christ was hung on a tree
but he didn't deserve it in verse 13 in Galatians chapter 3 it says Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for
it is written where is it written Deuteronomy chapter 21 curse is
everyone that hangeth on a tree so Christ has made a curse for us he
redeemed us from the curse by being made a curse for us now what it says
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles that's us through
Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith
and you know what Abraham was promised that he would be the father of many
nations and that that that seed of Christ you know that seed which is
Christ is the promise of you know that that seed not seeds of plural but seed
as of one that is of Christ he is the promised seed so the the scarlet
thread you know came through Judah and obviously Rahab the harlot pictures with
the scarlet thread you see the picture in the priests out the priest
outfits that they had to wear but who's the high priest now Jesus Christ so
ultimately he was going to be the high priest and so that's why the high
priest had to wear you know the priest had to wear those pictures of
in their out in their outfits right now let's turn to John chapter 19 John
chapter 19 so in John chapter 19 we see that the Jews even though they
don't have a problem killing Jesus for no reason they don't have a problem
with selling him or with paying Judas 30 pieces of silver to in the middle of
the night to go capture him and to hit him and and do all this stuff a lie
about him constantly and try to do things to trip him up and send their
soldiers to try to murder him multiple times throughout the book of John you
see even after chapter 7 that he just couldn't even walk around in this in
the towns and cities anymore he had to kind of go on the outskirts because
they're constantly just trying to kill him the whole time they don't have a
problem doing that but you know what they do have a problem with him
healing people that are crippled they have a problem with him healing a
blind man on the Sabbath day they have a problem with him healing a man
whose hand was withered you know the man was blind on the Sabbath day they
had a problem with that he was born blind but they're they're upset
because he did on the Sabbath day these people are just so backwards it's not
even funny but look what the so so that the law is that if a man hath
committed a sin worthy of death all the people you saw the verse were said
all the people were saying you know let his blood his blood be upon us
and upon our children so even the people are joining in at this point it
was the leaders that were doing it now the people have joined in and the
Romans are allowing it to happen and John 1931 says and this is after he's
already died here it says the Jews therefore because it was the preparation
that the body should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day for that
Sabbath was an high day be stopped pilot that their legs might be broken
and that they might be kept taken away so that high day that it's
talking about it's talking about the Passover which is drawing nigh so Jesus
died at the time that you were supposed to kill the Passover lamb on
the 14th of the month right so now it says in verse 32 then came the
soldiers and break the legs of the first and of the other which was
crucified with him but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead
already they break not his legs but one of the soldiers with the spear
pierced his side and forthwith came there out blood and water so he
already bled pretty much everything he was going to bleed but then just to
bleed him out completely they stabbed him in the side and all the rest of
that blood just came gushing out and water and he said and he that saw
it bear record and his record is true and he knoweth that he sayeth true
that he might believe for these things were done that the scripture be
fulfilled a bone of him shall not be broken and that scriptures found in
the Psalms and so his body was broken but his bones were not broken and so if
they would have sledge hammered his leg and broke his legs then that scripture
would have been broken right so Jesus died according to the scriptures
that's what the Bible says so he had to die when he was supposed to die
how he was supposed to die all the things in the Old Testament had to be
fulfilled about how he died and the blood that he shed and exactly the
things some of the things that were said by him but look in verse 37 says and
again another scripture saith they shall look on him whom they pierced so they
looked upon Jesus they pierced him in his side and you know there's another
fulfillment of that coming also but look at Hebrews chapter 9 let's see
Hebrews chapter 9 so I'm going to read for you while you turn there 1st
Corinthians chapter 15 verse 3 it says for I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures the probability of Jesus fulfilling all those scriptures
is astronomical it's just not possible so people are like oh yeah
well it's just made up now these things happen folks it's a historical
fact we're in 2024 because we were keeping track because of when Jesus
came it was it was a it's it's the defining moment of history now they can
say the History Channel could make up or whatever anybody can say well you know
BCE and all this other stuff it's before Christ that's what it really is
you know they can before they'll say before the common era no it's before
Christ that's what it actually is you know Jesus Christ changed this world
and everything in it you know these savage nations that were sacrificing
humans turned to Christ in all different walks of life in all
different places Hebrews 9 12 says I told you we'd come back to this Hebrews
9 12 says neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood
who Jesus Christ by his own blood he entered in once unto the holy place
having obtained eternal redemption for us so he obtained because he did all the
work right and he entered into the holy place it says how many times once
right for if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the unclean sanctify to the purifying of the flesh how much
more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered
himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God and for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament that
by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under
the First Testament they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance for where a testament is there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator for a testament is a force after men are
dead it's talking about like a covenant or a will otherwise it is of
no strength at all while the testator liveth whereupon neither the
First Testament was dedicated without blood for when Moses had spoken every
precept to the people according to the law he took the blood of calves
and of goats and of water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the
book and all the people saying this is the blood of the Testament which God
hath enjoined unto you moreover he sprinkled with blood both the
tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry and almost all things are
by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no
remission so like I said you know sin is like a cancer and a plague upon our
eternal soul the blood of Christ puts our death sentence and curse in a
permanent remission so when it's talking about the remission of sins
it's talking about the taking away of it the taking away of the curse
because his atonement and the blood that he shed at one time that's all I had
to be done one time he'll he had to go into heaven and put the blood on the
mercy seat one time so Moses and they had to do these sacrifices in the Old
Testament many times and what's talked about is like you know it'd be
like so that book right there obviously they didn't have like a
necessarily a book like that but like the scroll or whatever they wrote it
on you know Moses is like walking around with blood and hyssop and all
this stuff and he's just like splashing it I mean imagine you know just
someone with a with a thing of blood just like just flicking blood all over
you just like just pour just splashing blood on you I mean that'd be
disgusting wouldn't it but you know that is the picture that that we need
to be sprinkled with the blood of Christ in order to escape the cancer of
sin so that we can be in remission so that we can never have our sins
thrown in our face again for all eternity because it's not just a one-time
thing I mean just going out soul-winding yesterday there's multiple
people that just think that their sin is only covered until a certain point
that their sin is just covered until the moment they get saved and then
they have to then they you know it's just weird and to explain these things
to people it's like look if he died for everybody sins for all time he
died for every sin they ever committed or will commit because he died in the
past didn't he so in his sacrifice covered all the people that were born
before him and all the sins are gonna be born after him so wouldn't it
make sense that everything you've ever done is covered too so once you
believe everything's retroactively and futuristically covered by that blood
that makes sense so like you don't have to keep getting saved over and
over again and in fact you can't get saved over and over again it's just
like his atonement was a one-time thing so is your salvation a one-time thing
and all it takes is the is to be saved is to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ now I get sick of all these churches trying to make it
something that it isn't it's real simple to be saved believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ that's what it's that's what the Bible says and thou shalt be
saved real easy it's not hard it's hard to follow Christ it's hard to live the
Christian life but being saved is super easy it's as easy as walking through a
door it's as easy as eating a piece of bread this is easy as drinking a
drink of water and that's pretty easy isn't it and so Christ has made it
simple for us because look if it was hard we would never get it done if it
was dependent upon what we do in our lives we'd fail every single day in fact
we do fail every day nobody has a perfect day that you know that's the
other thing people will say well you know I've only done a couple things
wrong my whole life it's like come on man you can't fool an old fooler
you're not gonna get away with that one with me because obviously I'm saved
and I still struggle with sin how about you the flesh cannot be reformed but
you know what can I mean obviously can be reformed to a certain extent but
we're never going to be reformed until Christ comes back in the clouds to
receive us to himself and then we get the glorified body that he has I'm
sorry let me finish up here and move past this but so now verse 23 it
says it was therefore necessary that the patterns of the things in heaven
should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with better
sacrifices than these for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself now to
appear in the presence of God for us so when he did this he became our
high priest he ever liveth to make intercession for us and it says in
verse 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest
enterth into the holy place every year without with the blood of others so he
doesn't have to keep atoning for our sins it's just one time for then must
he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but he hasn't
had to suffer since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of
the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and as
it is appointed unto men wants to die but after this the judgment so Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many and to and unto them that look for
him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation so he's
gonna come back a second time is that what it's saying and he's gonna
receive us to himself so that scarlet thread is prevalent throughout the whole
Bible we see it's gruesome picture throughout the scriptures and you know
we see that in revel so I gotta hurry up and be done here but revelation 13
8 says and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names
are not written the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world I do want to kind of make this final point because you know
we say this you know that Jesus Christ is a lamb slain from the foundation of
the world but Jesus was slain at a specific time so I want to help you
understand this really quickly turn to first Peter chapter 118 so it says slain
from the foundation of the world but was he slain before the foundation of
the world was he actually slain before the foundation of the world
well it says the first Peter it says for as much as you know that you are
not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain
conversation received by the tradition of your fathers but with the precious
blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was
foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these
last times for you so he was foreordained what does that mean well
he was appointed beforehand so the plan was already in place before the
foundation of the world because God knows everything he sees everything
before it happens he knew that man would fail but he still wanted to make
man he wanted to make this creation because he knew eventually everything
was going to turn out right because he was going to send Jesus Christ but he
was foreordained so was he slain before the foundation of the world or
was it the plan that he would be slain for the world well it was the
plan it was it was foreordained it was going to happen no matter what so
I'm not trying to freak anybody out here by saying oh well he wasn't slain
before the foundation of the world well we know when he came he came to 20 you
know 2,000 years ago and was slain then but it was as good as done that's
kind of what it's saying right it was it was going to happen according to
the scriptures look God's Word can't be broken when God says something's
going to happen it's going to happen he with his foreknowledge knew that this
was going to happen and he basically foreordained it to happen but doesn't
mean that Jesus didn't die when he died he did die when he died he did
resurrect when he resurrected so we and we are you know we are made nigh by
the blood of Christ to him because you know he died for us and so we are
able to be saved just like the children of Israel and so I just want to
turn to one last verse and we'll be done here revelation chapter 22 so I was
going to kind of go through some other stuff but I've kind of made the point
right well and the book it's in the book of Ephesians Colossians first John
revelation chapter 12 and then you have that that picture of scarlet on the
false prophets of the beast you have the dragon it's red you have the
scar woman colored in scarlet because the devil wants to to mimic the
things of God right so I didn't have time to get into that but revelation 22
you know in the end everything works out great for us in the end everything
is going to be all better you know we live in a crazy world today and
we're just doing our best to get along in this world and to be a shining
light in this world for Christ says in Revelation 21 or 22 verse 1 says and
he showed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal proceeding out of
the throne of God and of the Lamb in the midst of the street of it and on
either side of the river there was a there was there the tree of life so
here we have the tree of life coming back into the picture so remember in
Genesis the tree of life was taken away from mankind and not allowed to
access it in the garden when they kicked out of an Eve out right but now
we have the the tree of life coming back it says and which bear 12 manner
of fruits and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations and there shall be no more curse and why
why because everything is fulfilled everything is done all the blood is
covered everything and and and God and all the things in Revelation are
done and the thousand year reign is over and there's gonna be no more
curse that's gonna be great right all the curse is gone that curse that
we've always lived under gone but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be
in it and a servant shall serve him and they shall see his face and his
name shall be in their foreheads and there shall be no night there and
they need no candle neither light of the Sun for the Lord God giveth them
light and they shall reign forever and ever the end I mean that's great
right in the end because of all the hard work that Jesus did for us we get
to rule and reign with him as inherited sons and daughters of God
praise God I mean he did it all for us and all we have to do is just
believe in him and we get to reap the benefits of everything that he did
for us we don't have to repent of our sins to be saved we don't have to
make Jesus the Lord of our lives to be saved we don't have to get saved
over and over again and try to live a perfect life and try not to sin as we
die you can literally die committing the sin you're still gonna go to heaven
because that's the truth folks the truth is is that Christ paid it all
with his precious blood and the scarlet thread that we see through
scripture the pictures that we see and Christ did it all for us we did
nothing all we have to do is put our faith in him our trust in him and then
it's done for us and then we just do our best to serve him right so let's
pray Lord we thank you so much for the the great theme that we have and
the precious blood that that your son Jesus shed for us and that Lord it's
just so easy to be saved Lord I pray that if there is somebody here that's
not saved today Lord then they would make the decision to be saved or at
least that a seed would be planted and then Lord that they would seek you
and to find out for sure what the Bible says it takes to be saved and I
pray that you just bless the soul that goes on here today and Lord I pray
that you'd bless our solemn feast that we have planned later in the
afternoon we pray these things in Jesus' precious name amen