Just last night I caught a commercial where a guy cuts himself shaving and then decides to taste his own blood. The message is something like, “Be open to new ideas.” It was for the HBO drama series on vampires called “True Blood.”

Drinking blood seemingly could not be more popular in today’s “hippest” shows and movies. Fans of Harry Potter, for example, are treated to the practice of human sacrifice and the sucking of blood of dead animals.

As a baby, Harry sees his parents murdered on Halloween night and “through the sacrificial goddess magic of his mother’s love, baby Harry is saved and his blood is given magical powers,” says occult expert Caryl Matrisciana in the widely watched internet documentary “Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged.”

According to Matrisciana, “The sacrificial death that (Harry’s mother) gave through love is a symbolism of goddess worship. Now, this concept is brought up several times; in fact, it is so important in witchcraft and pagan thinking that Voldemort, Harry’s arch-enemy, takes a vial of blood from Harry in Book Four in order to have the blood run through his veins in order that he can be resurrected and have a body. That is how powerful the blood sacrifice is.”

From Book One is the passage: “See what I’ve become, the face said, mere shadow and vapor. I have form only when I can share another’s body. But there’s always been those willing to let me into their hearts and minds. Unicorn blood has strengthened me these past weeks.”

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At the time of Jesus Christ, the religious leaders of Israel had been so corrupted and co-opted by the false religious system of Baal worship that Christ looked at them and said, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.”

Offended, they responded, “Wait a minute! We have Abraham as our father!” to which Jesus replied, “Yeah, I know physically you go back to Abraham, but spiritually you’ve bought into the Baal worship system so thoroughly you’re really the offspring of Satan.”

As Jordan explains, “That’s why He called them ‘ye serpents, ye generation of vipers.’ You see that reference there—that venom of asps; the poison that spewed out of them in the spiritual lie system? Well, involved in that is their wine, their drink offerings; the blood of the grape.”

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In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul admonishes the people, “But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
[21] Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.”

David writes about the Baal worshippers in Psalm 16:4: “Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.”

Jordan says, “Notice the enemies, these people going after other gods, have drink offerings. Notice they’re drink offerings of blood. Now, if you go back to Deuteronomy 32 (Israel’s national anthem reliving their history) you see the connection with Baal worship in verse 14 where it says ‘thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.’ Notice how the grape has juice and the juice in the grape is called ‘the blood of the grape.’ Well, that begins to be interesting in religious terms.

“In verse 31, there’s a rock with little ‘r’ and Moses says our Rock with the big ‘R’ is Jehovah. That’s saying, ‘If our Rock is Christ, their rock (defined as ‘our enemies’) is going to be a substitute for Christ or an anti-Christ. A counterfeit. The religion of Baal worship is built on a rock. Their vine (verse 32) is ‘the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah.’ ”

Israel’s national anthem goes on, “Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
[33] Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
[34] Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
[35] To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
[36] For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
[37] And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
[38] Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
[39] See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
[40] For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
[41] If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
[42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.”

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From Jeremiah 44, we hear from the Israelites themselves about the abominable time “when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her.”

Jordan says, “As soon as you see that, you say, ‘Wow, she’s got a church not too far from here! What’s ‘the queen of heaven’ doing in Jeremiah’s day 5-600 years before Christ and then doing in the Chicago area in the 21^st century?! How did that happen?! Well, that one religious system—Revelation 17 says it ‘rules over the kingdoms of the earth.’

“It doesn’t matter the name you call her. The ‘queen of heaven’ has had a lot of different names through history but they’re all just different names for the same satanically devised deity that starts in the Book of Judges in Israel. They have the male god and female god and he’s supposedly God and she’s ‘the queen of heaven.’

“Simply, in the Baal system, there is a worshipping of god where their using drink offerings, incense and wafers. Now, if you’ve got an ear to hear what I’m saying, you know where I’m at with all that! You’ve got people today worshipping a rock that isn’t Jesus Christ but that claims to be.”

In a classic chapter of prophecy about the ‘last days’ leading up to the Second Coming of Christ, Revelation 17 starts out about the “great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
[2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

Jordan says, “In Rev. 17:16 you must notice that issue about ‘eating her flesh.’ Those ten kings that reign with the Antichrist are demonic kings who are cannibals.”

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In Zechariah 11, a passage prophetically looking into the future, talks of a “foolish shepherd,” or the “false prophet” who makes it so that people who don’t bow down to him and take ‘the mark of the beast’ can’t buy and sell. Verse 16 says this shepherd “shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.”

Jordan says, “Notice again that issue of eating people up. Come to Psalm 53. This would be like Psalm 16. David writes in verse 4, ‘Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.’ Again, this is a psalm associated with the ‘last days’ and the tribulation and with the Antichrist. In fact, the whole of Psalm 52 is about the Antichrist.

“When it says there’s some people who take bread and ‘eat up my people like bread,’ it’s like when they’re eating the bread, they’re eating ‘my people.’ It’s like the bread turns into His people!

“Now, there’s a religious doctrine called that; it’s transubstantiation, where you ring the bell, say the prayer and the bread turns into human flesh. That idea didn’t just pop out of the end of Augustine years ago; it’s been around for millenniums!

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In Daniel 2, another prophetic passage dealing in end-times events, Daniel talks about how “they mingle themselves with the seed of man,” and the issue there being about demons and man and producing a satanic seed through these demons coming in and taking onto themselves a human identity.

Jordan explains, “You go to Revelation. 17 and these demonic creatures—these fallen spirits who’ve taken on a human vessel of identity—when it says they will ‘eat the flesh of the woman,’ the woman is guilty of the blood of the servants of Jesus. Rev. 16:6 is talking about the third vial and ‘blood to drink’ goes back to chapter 6.

Rev. 6:9-10 reads, “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
[10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”

Jordan says, “Now, here’s the blood of the saints that the woman is associated with that these demonic kings want to assimilate and notice the blood of the saints is shed in a certain way. When it says they were ‘slain’ that’s a ‘term of art’ in the Scripture.

“Turn back a page to chapter 5:9, which says, ‘And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.’

“Notice that blood being shed when they’re slain . . . how is Jesus Christ’s blood shed? He was shed as a sacrifice. He was slain as a sacrifice.

“Verse 12 says, ‘Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.’ My point to you is the word ‘slain’ is a term that over and over, when it’s used about shedding the blood, is talking about not just killing somebody but slaying a sacrifice.”

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In I John 3:12, we are reminded of Cain “who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.”

Jordan says, “You know why Cain did what he did? He bought into the lie program of the Adversary. He knew what he ought to bring, what the offering was to be and when and where, but he bought into the lie of the Adversary that the fruit of the ground would do.

“Notice he ‘slew’ Abel. He was slain like you kill a sacrifice. He cut his throat and he cut it probably with the very sacrificial knife Abel had used to slay the blood of the lamb.

“Now, ‘the life of the flesh is in the blood.’ So if these 10 kings are going to take on human form, in order to do that, they’re going to need the life of the flesh. And where is that? That’s going to be in the blood. You see, ultimately the goal of the satanic policy of evil is to establish Satan’s seed—the seed of the serpent in the earth—and he’s using these people to do that.

“I don’t know if you ever thought about what Cain did when he went there to that sacrifice and brought that fruit and put it before God. He knew God wanted blood. No question about it. His mom and daddy had told him about it—about slaying the animal and how He wouldn’t take the fruit, wouldn’t take the fig leaves.

“Cain knew where to bring the sacrifice and when to do it, and the text says when the time came he came up there. And sure as you’re sitting there in that seat, what Cain did is he bowed down there and put that big old fruit table out. You ever hear how you can’t get blood out of a turnip? What did Deuteronomy say? The fruit of the grape was the pure blood of the grape.

“He takes that cluster of that grape and squeezes that stuff into that cup and he said, ‘Lord, I know you got the power to change that—transfigure that into blood and I trust you to do it and use your miracle-working power,’ and he knocks that drink back in a religious ceremony which finds its way all own through human history to the last days where there are some kings who take over Israel and say, ‘We don’t want grape juice; we want the real thing!’

“And they collect the blood of the saints. They say, ‘Put it down there and let’s get it fresh; let’s cut the jugular, let it pump right out into the cup and we’ll take it down because the life of the flesh is in the blood.’ ”

(Editor’s Note: To be continued . . . )