What then is a blood covenant?
In a blood covenant each party takes on the identity of the other. What mankind needed was someone who was indeed connected to God so that mankind could obtain that connection. We needed someone whose spirit was connected with God’s Spirit, someone who was actually inhabited by God’s Spirit. However, the person who was connected to God would have to take on man’s nature, that of being disconnected, and suffer the penalty of being disconnected. Here is God’s plan. First we need to know who Jesus is. The Bible tells us in John 1:1-2 that Jesus is God Himself, that He is the Word of God, and that He is the Son of God who created everything by His words. The Bible also tells us that God has other aspects; that of The Father and that of The Spirit. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:1-3). “He was in the world, and the world