The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread, Expanded Edition: Revealing the Power of the Blood of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation

233 Pages·2016·1.66 MB·English

by  Richard Booker

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My love and gratitude to the following:
The reviewers for reading the manuscript and giving helpful comments and

needed encouragement.

My wife and covenant partner in life for over 50 years, Peggy, for typing and

retyping the manuscript and for being my friend. Many women have done
excellently, but she surpasses them all. To her, I lovingly dedicate this writing.

I also want to acknowledge my covenant friend, Randy McLemore, who

went to be with the Lord on June 29, 2002. Randy loved this book, gave away
many copies and helped spread its message. He is greatly missed by all who
knew him and loved him. At Randy’s funeral, his pallbearers wore a scarlet
thread in their coat lapel as a witness to the impact this book had on their lives.
They all made it a point to show it to me and explained why they were wearing
it. Wow!

© Copyright 2017–Dr. Richard Booker

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CONTENTS

My Encounter with God

Preface

Chapter 1
Introduction to a Dusty Old Book

Chapter 2
The Blood Covenant

Chapter 3
What Did Abraham Believe?

Chapter 4
The Tabernacle

Chapter 5
The Sacrifices

Chapter 6
The High Priest

Chapter 7
The Passover

Chapter 8
The Threshold Covenant

Chapter 9
The Salt Covenant

Review Study Questions

MY ENCOUNTER WITH GOD

The Story of The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread

Wow! This printing is celebrating 35 years of The Miracle of the Scarlet

Thread being in print. As you will learn in this preliminary to reading the book,
this is truly a miracle. I want to thank my dear friends at Destiny Image
Publishers for working with me to issue this anniversary edition of the book.

As a special honor to the Lord for His faithfulness, I have added my personal

testimony describing my encounter with God and how this story of the blood of
the everlasting covenant became a book. I hope you will be blessed reading how
an extraordinary God can change the life of an ordinary person

I have also added two powerful chapters on The Threshold Covenant and

The Salt Covenant. Writing these chapters was so exciting and uplifting. I
couldn’t stop saying, “Wow, Lord, You are awesome.” I pray you will
experience the same revelation and joy I did when you read them.

Over the years people have asked for a study guide for The Miracle of the

Scarlet Thread. I am happy to let you know that I have written a separate study
guide for individual and/or group use. It is an easy-to-use guide that will take
you deeper into this powerful, life-changing story. If you want more, the study
guide will help the revelation of this teaching become alive in you. If you are
leading a study or reading and studying on your own, I hope you will get a copy
and use it along with your study of this book. You may order the study guide
directly from my online store at www.rbooker.com.

The Revelation of the Blood

I was teaching from The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread at a church in

Wisconsin when a lady came up to me to tell me her testimony. She told me that
she had been asking the Lord for a revelation of the power of His blood. Here is
how He answered her prayer.

Shortly after her prayer, she needed surgery. During the surgery the machine

she was connected to begin to malfunction. Instead of pumping her blood into
her body, it was pumping her blood out of her body. She explained that as the
life-giving blood was leaving her body she could feel herself getting weaker and
weaker.

She was near death when the doctor realized what was happening and

adjusted the machine to work correctly. As her blood was being pumped back
into her body, she felt her life coming back and she became stronger with every
drop of life-giving blood once again flowing in her body. The Lord then revealed
to her that she just experienced the power of His blood.

The Bible reminds us that the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus

17:11). We cannot live without life-giving blood flowing through our body.
While human blood is corrupted, the blood of Jesus is pure and has the life of
God in it, as John said, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John
1:14).

God’s people are His body on the earth. His Spirit lives in those who are in

blood covenant with Him. Spiritually speaking, the Spirit of God gives us a
blood transfusion replacing our corrupt, human life-blood with the divine life-
blood of Jesus. He is in us and we are in Him. However, if we pump His blood
out of us, we will become spiritually weak and spiritually dead.

We all know that the corporate church of Jesus in the West is weak, anemic,

and sickly. Many ministers have pumped His blood out of their sermons and
given us a transfusion of entertainment—feel-good and self-help sermons that
have no power in them. As a result, much of the organized church in the West is
near death.

The only thing that will revive the people of God is to spiritually pump the

blood of Jesus back into our lives. A transfusion and revelation of His blood will
empower us to godly living that will change our lives and the lives of those
around us. It is the only thing that will save the Western church and Western
civilization from certain spiritual death.

In The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread I explain how this happened in my life.

I pray the Lord of heaven will use this book to spiritually “pump the blood of
Jesus” into your life so that you can walk in the power of His life-giving blood.
As this book is a blessing to you, please share it with family, friends and others
who may also need this revelation and experience in their journey through life.

My Personal Testimony

It was 1974 that I had an encounter with God and revelation of the blood of

Jesus that changed my life forever. I don’t know why God prepared and chose
me for a divine assignment. I consider myself to be a normal, everyday
American person living a normal, everyday American person’s life. I don’t think
of myself to be anyone special. I had no idea that I was born for a purpose or that
God had a plan for my life. Does that sound like you? Do you know why you
were born or God’s plan for your life?

Today is my birthday. Just as I finished writing the above sentence, someone

gave me a birthday card that I opened and read. It says, “You were made by a
loving God for His special purpose. May today be a celebration of His wonderful
plan for you.” Now you may think this is just a coincidence, but after walking
with God for over forty years I prefer to think that birthday card was really from
Him.

I was busy living my life and doing things that American people do. I

certainly never had a thought that I would one day leave my successful career to
teach the Bible and write Christian books and have no known source of income.
I was simply a businessman who started looking for God.

The Bible even talks about the unforeseen plans God has for us. The apostle

Paul certainly had a divine surprise in his own life. Writing from firsthand
experience, he said, “…Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the
heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But
God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things,
yes, the deep things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:9-10).

Most people are searching for God but in all the wrong places. They don’t

really know they are looking for Him. They may have many accomplishments,
but they know something is missing in their life. It is not the X factor that is
missing but the God factor.

Now here’s some good news—if you are truly and sincerely looking for God

you will eventually find Him. This is a promise from God as we read in
Jeremiah, “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all
your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). Now God doesn’t reveal Himself to the casual
inquirer. But if you are desperate for Him and are willing to do what He tells
you, He will manifest Himself to you.

The Emmaus Road and Leviticus

God manifested Himself to me when I started reading the Bible. I started at

Leviticus. I know that is probably not your favorite book in the Bible. It is
probably your least favorite. It is my favorite because that is where I met God. I
had an Emmaus Road experience while studying the book of Leviticus. What do
I mean by an “Emmaus Road experience”?

You recall that after Jesus was resurrected, He appeared to two of His

disciples who were walking on the road to the village of Emmaus. They thought
that Jesus was the Messiah but lost all hope when He was crucified. They did not
know He was raised from the dead. Naturally when He appeared to them, they
did not recognize Him. He was the last person they thought they would ever see
again—alive!

But then Jesus revealed to them how the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) was

a picture of Himself. Luke explains, “Then their eyes were open and they knew
Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, ‘Did not
our heart burn with us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened
the Scriptures to us?’” (Luke 24:31-32). Luke goes on to say that these two
disciples began to share what the Lord taught them (Luke 24:35).

In God’s predetermined plan for my life, He let me be a third disciple on that

road to Emmaus. In other words, God let me in on the teaching. He let me hear
what Jesus said to them. But it happened while I was studying Leviticus. It
happened so fast I can only explain it as a “heaven second.” It was an instant
bright picture flash like the flash of a camera.

Using computer talk, God instantly downloaded into my spirit the whole

story of the Bible. I saw in a visual revelation that the Hebrew Bible (Old
Testament) was a picture of Jesus and how all the pieces, books of the Bible, fit
together. The Lord opened my spiritual eyes to see by revelation what I could
not see by study alone.

An Encounter with the Almighty

It is very difficult to explain heavenly encounters in earthly terms. Human

words fail us. All I can say is that the revelation of God’s Word burned in my
heart. It was not just knowledge or information; it was revelation and God’s
revealed Word has God’s life in it. The living words of the Living God leaped
off the pages of the Bible and came alive in me with His life manifesting
Himself in me, through me, and out of me. In other words, I had a spiritual
transfusion of the blood of Jesus.

It is this revelation that has been burning in my soul for over forty years. No

matter what I may be experiencing in my life, good or bad, joy or sadness,
happiness or disappointment, this revelation has empowered me and motivated
me to stay the course, run the race, and fight the good fight of faith. And like
those two disciples on the Emmaus road, the zeal of God has driven me to share
what the Lord taught me.

That burning of the Spirit was not just in my soul. It was also in my body.

Before this experience, I knew absolutely nothing about the supernatural and
was even told by religious leaders that God no longer did miracles. However, I
discovered that when you encounter the Almighty, you can expect to have
unusual supernatural manifestations. If you think about it, when the all-powerful
God manifests Himself to a human being, you will have “out-of-this-world”
experiences. Heaven comes down and glory fills your soul. I am not talking
about religion or even “getting saved” but an encounter with the Creator of the
universe.

Everyone in the Bible who had an encounter with the Living God was

completely undone. When God shows up, everything changes. Your world is
turned upside down. Nothing will ever again be the same. The meaning and
purpose and focus of your life are set forever. For those who don’t believe I can
only say that a person who has had an encounter with God is never at the mercy
of someone who only has a doctrine or argument about God.

The power of God’s revealed Word burst forth out of my spirit into my soul

and was being manifested through my body with fire sensations. There were
times when my hands were so hot I literally thought I was on fire. I tried to cool
my hands by washing them in cold water. This did nothing because the fire was
coming from within. I knew that if anyone came near me the holy fire of God’s
Spirit would touch them in a very tangible way. While this is not a normal

experience it is certainly biblical. John the Baptist said that Jesus would baptize
us with the Holy Spirit and with fire (see Matthew 3:11).

The Bible speaks about the weight of the glory of God (see 2 Corinthians

4:17). What does this mean? It means that the finite creature cannot take too
much revelation and manifestation of the infinite Creator. Perhaps you recall
when God showed up at Mount Sinai His presence was too much for the people.
They asked Moses to speak with God for them (see Exodus 20:19).

When I had my encounter with God, the weight of His glory was so heavy

there were a few times when I could neither walk nor stand. I crawled on the
floor in my house trying to get to the couch. All I could do was to slowly pull
myself along on my elbows and knees just to go a few feet. When I finally got to
the couch, it took all of my strength to roll myself up on the couch. All I could
do was lay there motionless until the weight of His glory lifted. I could not
move. These are moments you never forget.

You see, the infinite Creator can only reveal a little of Himself to finite

humans. If He manifests too much of Himself, we would die. I thought I would
die and literally hid under my desk and begged God not to show me anything
further. I thought I would explode. Really, this is the way it happened. The
power of His living Word in me was more than my fragile human flesh could
handle.

Forsaking All to Follow His Call

Thank God He knows what we can take. God knew I needed such a powerful

manifestation of His presence to make such a drastic change in my life. I am
forever grateful that He was also revealing Himself to my wife, Peggy, who had
the faith and trust in God to accept His calling in our lives, as this would mean
leaving my career with no money and no visible means of support.

I was 32 years of age when I had this encounter that would forever change

my life. At the time I was at the peak of my career path enjoying my position as
Corporate Director of Management Information Systems Training and Standards
at a large oil company in Houston, Texas. But when one meets the Living God in
such a powerful way, everything you used to glory in no longer matters. I
instantly lost all interest in my career and job. I stopped watching football
games, turned off the television, and every other distraction fell by the wayside.
All I wanted to do was to “eat the book.” I felt I could not live unless I could
spend every waking minute in the presence of God studying His holy Word.

With such a hot fire of God burning in my heart, I could no longer function

at my job. Peggy and I came to understand that God was calling me to a life of
study and ministry. But what do we do? That work doesn’t pay too well. If I left
my job we had no stocks to sell, no bonds to cash, no severance pay or
retirement, not even any savings, no supporters, and no known source of money
to pay the bills. While there is a difference between faith and presumption, the
Lord gave us the faith to trust Him to take care of us as we followed His call and
plan for our lives.

In those days there was no one to mentor us or help us understand the

dramatic change in our lives. Of course people didn’t understand how I could
just quit my job with no source of income. We didn’t understand it either, but it
really didn’t matter if we understood it or not. The zeal of God was consuming
us and that was all that mattered. As we say, it was sink or swim. The Lord was
gracious and encouraged us with the following Scripture, “But seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to
you” (Matthew 6:33).

We came to believe that God wanted me to teach the Bible and write

Christian books beginning with sharing my experience and revelation of the
blood covenant. In those days, few Christians understood the ministry gift of
“teacher.” We spent a lot of time trying to explain my calling. As we were
leaving everything we knew and were familiar with, we needed God to confirm
this for us. He did so in several ways, one of which was so clear we knew we
were hearing from Him. Here is what happened.

I picked up a book by Frances Roberts entitled On the High-road of

Surrender (King’s Farspan, Inc., 1973). As I looked at the Table of Contents, my
eyes seemed to be directed by an unseen hand to a specific inspirational topic. It
was called “My Words Cannot Wait.” I turned to page 38 and read the following
words.

“The hour is late, and the time for ministering is limited. Delay not, but hasten to
finish the work. I have other work for you, and it only waits the completion of
the present task. Do that which is nearest at hand. I shall open a way for its
fulfillment, so you need not hold back, wondering how the provisions will be
supplied. Lacked you ever in the present? Have you not acted in each case with
faith in Me as your only hope? Yes, child, I say to you, walk on. There are no
limits to the promises of God.

“My words cannot wait; but you have held them as though you thought the
future would wait. Up! Delay no more. Obey Me, and do so quickly. There is a