Numbers 35:33 – Blood Pollutes the Land :: By Gary Ritter

Some of the final instructions to the Israelites before they crossed the Jordan River into the land of Canaan gave them important principles that we in modern times should have heeded but did not. They display the character and intent of God, which ultimately His people ignored, and which we likewise have disdained in the sophistication of our civilized age.

God’s bottom-line command in the directives He gave is found in Numbers 35:33:

“You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.”

Read that again. Blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land…except by the blood of the one who shed it.

This statement was made in the context of God’s decrees regarding the killing of another person. Yahweh described two instances of this sin:

  1. The killing of someone without intent (Numbers 35:11)
  2. The deliberate murder of someone (Numbers 35:16)

Basically, these two conditions speak of unintentional manslaughter and deliberate homicide. The text also relates what the punishment shall be for these crimes and who is to carry out the sentence.

Someone in Israel who committed manslaughter could flee to a city of refuge, where he could remain safely until his trial. The city of refuge was his safe haven; but even if judged not guilty, if he strayed beyond this city’s boundaries, he was subject to being killed by the one tasked with avenging the death of the person whose life he inadvertently took. The sentence remained in effect until the high priest died. Only then could he go in peace back to his actual home.

The one who deliberately murdered another could similarly go to the city of refuge.

At his trial, at least two witnesses were required to accuse him. The testimony of a single witness wasn’t sufficient. If found guilty, the killer was to be put to death immediately.

The tracking down of someone who killed another under either condition fell to a person known as the avenger of blood (Numbers 35:19). He was the executioner, usually the nearest male relative of the deceased. When a person took that role, he had the solemn duty to carry it out. Why? Because of God’s decree in Numbers 35:33.

Polluting the land with blood has been a problem from the very beginning. When Cain killed Abel in an act of deliberate homicide, the Lord knew and was grieved.

He said the following in Genesis 4:10-11:

“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”

The act of murder – the shedding of blood upon the land – brings forth a curse.

The blood must be avenged in order for atonement to be made.

As Israel fell further from Yahweh in her years of disobedience, have no doubt that this command went ignored. Worse, it was the shedding of Jesus’ blood that brought about the curse of the final destruction of Israel that led to the diaspora of the Jewish people. Consider what the people cried out when Pilate gave them the choice of freeing Barabbas or Jesus in Matthew 27:25:

“And all the people answered, ‘His blood be on us and on our children!'”

Did they have any idea how serious this vow was? The Pharisees and other leaders had incited the mob. The blood of Jesus was upon them all. Within one hundred years, Israel was no more. Jesus’ blood, and that of many others, had polluted the land.

There was no human avenger of blood for Jesus, so God Himself took on that role.

What about us today? Has the blood of innocents been shed? Has it been avenged? Think, of course, of the 60 million unborn children callously murdered in the womb.

Does their blood cry out?

Consider the perversion of our justice system where murderers spend their lives in prison. Is the blood they shed avenged?

Our nation has forgotten God in many ways. This is only one such instance. We have not only allowed murder to go unpunished, we have encouraged it through the passing of laws that actually facilitate it. We even contribute huge sums of taxpayer money to an organization that has literally poured a river of blood onto the land.

Does the land not cry out to God against Planned Parenthood and all those who support it? Do we really think God will let this atrocity stand?

He will not. The Tribulation for the unbelieving world is coming. God will indeed execute judgment upon all who have not confessed Jesus as Lord.

He will pour out blood upon the guilty as part of their punishment (e.g., Revelation 8:8 – the 2nd Trumpet Judgment).

When Jesus returns at the final death throes of these most horrible seven years, avenged blood will flow freely (e.g., Revelation 14:20 – the final harvest).

We have mocked God all these years, but He will uphold His holy Name against all who have profaned it. We grieve now at the injustice, but God’s Word will prevail. We can rest assured that all innocent blood will be accounted for.

God is sovereignly in charge. His will, unquestionably, will be done.

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Gary W. Ritter is a lay pastor and Bible teacher.

He is also a prolific author. His Whirlwind Series comprises three books: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind, and There Is A Time. These books are contained in the collected volume of the Whirlwind Omnibus. Gary has been given the Christian Redemptive Fiction award for two novels: The Tattooed Cat and Alien Revelation. He has collaborated with Terry James in writing The Minion Protocols, the just-released third book in James’ Second Coming Chronicles, which has also won the Christian Redemptive Fiction award.

Gary recently released a four-volume set of Awaken Bible Study Notes that comment verse-by-verse through Scripture from a Biblical prophetic

lens. The intent in all Gary’s writings is to bring a strong Christian witness to what people read. You can reach him at his website:www.GaryRitter.com or his Facebook Author page: https://www.facebook.com/gritter3390.

You can also see his video Bible teachings on his Gary Ritter YouTube channel – look for the fish symbol.

Mar 8, 2021

March to May Donation Drive

The past couple of months have been stressful for those who love their country and hate to see the enemy winning at every level. I’ve had to deal with an issue that most people have no clue of what is taking place. The Big Tech companies are fixated on setting up a Chinese-style censorship of the internet.

Members of Congress are now pushing for public and private censorship on the web and in other forums. They are being joined by an unprecedented alliance of academics, writers and activists calling for everything from censorship to incarceration to blacklists.

This call for censorship even extends to the television market. Democrats have pressed a mix of cable, satellite and streaming providers about their decisions to carry Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax, accusing the right-leaning outlets of serving as “misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm.”

Over the past month, I received emails from four firms that say they are updating their guidelines for using their service. I now get a message about every other day that warns me of problems with Rapture Ready’s content on some pages, but they don’t say what the problem is.

I’m currently involved in an Identity verification battle with one of these demonic firms. They are wondering who are the people who run RR, and they’ve asked me to send a host of documents. I sent them a photo of my driver’s license, tax ID records, state articles of incorporation, and even a copy of my water bill. All these documents show Todd Strandberg as the guy running RR. But No, they still need more proof.

The next question will probably be for me to take a picture of me posing at the grave of my mother and father. If I did that, the next request will be the broomstick of the wicked witch of the west. I’ve locked up my account with them and moved to another firm that provides the same ad service.

I was watching a video on the persecution of Hungarian Jews in the 1930s, and I recognized the game that is currently playing out. The Nazis asked the Jews to show proof that they are real Hungarian citizens. Many Jews went through the vast Nazi bureaucracy to get the right papers to show they were a true citizen of Hungary. One woman recalled her father happily waving the document in the air. The Nazis kept changing the rules, and this woman’s whole family became non-citizens and were sent to a death camp. The woman’s father and mother were both killed.

The fixation on declaring everything racist is just plain scary. There should have been a massive blowback when the Muppets were deemed racist, Dr. Seuss Books were ‘canceled’ over ‘racist imagery,’ and math as we know it is now racist. At some point, these liberal nut jobs are going to look at the Bible. I’m sure they will find it’s loaded with Racism and Homophobia – and get out the smelling salts if they find out that Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

I doubt there will ever be a ban placed on the Bible. There will be a ban on people’s interpretation of the Holy Word. They will maintain that God loves all people the same, you can be a gay Christian, and Jesus is just a way to God; never mind that John 14:6 typo.

Years ago, my main thought about the rapture is that I wished it would come so I could escape the dying process. My current view is that the rapture will be needed to rescue us from those who wish to aid the dying process. We are so close to what the Bible described as being the last days, the horrors of the tribulation must be in earth’s near future.

There are probably a dozen ways for the enemy to completely block RR from being seen on the internet. Because God has held things together for so long, I don’t think the left is going to turn American into a clone of China. Since we are only a few steps away from total tyranny, the rapture must be very close.

We still need your financial help to pay for our soaring expenses in telling the world that time is running out. What we really need is prayer. Rather than prayer about our enemies and the many problems in our nation, people praying “Please come, Lord Jesus “will resolve every one.

There are three ways you can contribute to Rapture Ready: You can send a financial gift via our P.O. Box address, you can make a one-time donation, or there is a frequent option that allows you to make monthly donations. If you’re interested in signing up, find the input links on the Donation page. Donations can be sent to our P.O. Box at:

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.– Todd


Minion Invasion: Fact or Fiction?

This week’s column admittedly is, in part, to promote my third book of The Second Coming Chronicles series. Gary Ritter, an award-winning novelist, and I have joined to produce the third of the series. Its title is The Minion Protocols and it follows The Rapture Dialogues and The Nephilim Imperatives.

The first of the novels was the fictional—although based in solid Bible prophecy—presentation of part of Jesus’ foretelling of these very days in which I believe we are living.

Our Lord prophesied that when He is next revealed in a spectacular way, a catastrophic way, society and culture will be like they were during the days of Noah.

Here is what Jesus Christ said:

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (Matthew 24:37–44)

Despite the insistence of many seminaries and their graduates that this is not a Rapture prophecy, I believe it’s obvious that it is. There are Greek terms involved that also indicate it’s a Rapture prophecy.

That argument aside, the important thing to consider here is that the Creator of all matter that exists says that when He next catastrophically intervenes into human history, things will be—in society and culture—like they were in the days of Noah before the Flood that destroyed most all flesh on earth. We look back to the book of Genesis to see what things were like back in that antediluvian world.

This is the record of that epoch of earth I want us to consider for the moment.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:1–5)

Again, a look at the Greek in regard to the term “sons of God” here can prove to those willing to lay aside prejudices against angelic sexual intervention in the human procreation process that these “sons of God” indeed sired nonhuman offspring—Nephilim, as my second novel of the series terms them. From the Nephilim, I believe, came the legends, gods, and demigods of Greek and other literature. These creatures were also, I believe, the possessors of the archeologically unearthed, gigantic, human-like skeletons and bones that science today, and even clergy, want to deny and/or keep under wraps from the curiosity of humanity.

These folks, for reasons known only to themselves, have managed to convince much of the world’s populations that such artifacts of paleontology don’t exist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I, personally, suspect that it is to prevent truth of the biblical account of Creation and human origin from coming to light.

Jesus said in His Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24 that deception will be a primary sign of his Second Coming. As a matter of fact, it was the first sign He gave when His disciples asked Him what would signal His return and the end of the age.

The fact that dark forces of science and government have managed to prevent light from being shed in that regard smacks, I believe, of supernatural obfuscation from the dark dimension this novel series is meant to expose.

Certainly we have gone over and over the deception that has been foisted by the dark human geopolitical forces of the past number of years. And the efforts to lie and promote that deceit have been so creatively accomplished that we can only conclude that the master planner is “the father of lies,” Lucifer.

Our novel, The Minion Protocols: Dark Powers, goes behind the scenes of all that has gone on in the American political and governmental machinations of late. Although the story fictional, we hope it gives a glimpse of how the dark powers that invaded the earth and were denounced by God as evil in their activities and intentions are almost certainly now setting the stage for the Tribulation era and the emergence of the Antichrist regime, precisely as God’s prophetic Word predicted millennia ago. All this evil and dark deception is fact, not fiction.

We believe that one quick glance around your personal world at any given moment gives you the strange but certain sensation that there is a growing, collective madness that Paul described as a “reprobate mind” (Romans 1: 28).

To that extent, we say without reservation that the Minion invasion is reality at this very moment.

But we who know the Lord for salvation can take great comfort from our Lord’s own words about all that is darkening our presence circumstance.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:28)

The links to order the third book of the series and the entire series are below.

Here is the link for The Minion Protocols:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X7KNPKR/

And here is the link for the complete box set (all three novels) of The Second Coming Chronicles:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X9QCGPF/

–Terry