Posted on 02/06/2016 6:47:24 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
I read that Deuteronomy 29 on the 29th day a couple days ago and I stopped on that exact passage! Well, the chapter ended there but it was a good reminder that we only know what we are to know. Absolutely.
I struggle with the 1000 year reign. It is A LOT easier to look back after 2000 plus years and say, oh yeah, I see what the prophets were saying.
But we are looking through a glass darkly. I don’t fully comprehend it. A part of me says, I see all those offerings as a 1000 year class on why Israel was taught to do what they were taught to do, even the new types that show up in Ezekiel.
Without Satan around to mess it up. Are you in line with a full 1000 years, literal?
I see it as literal.
But it is intriguing like you said.
I have even struggled with the ‘Prince’ in Ezekiel- because there is a part of me that asks, could the Prince be David? Resurrected and sitting as prince of Israel while Christ is King of Israel and the World? Because of what you mention about offerings for ‘sin’, etc and one verse-Ezekiel 34:24.
Because I struggle with why is there a Millennium temple that Christ would be outside making offerings. I struggle with the visual...
All the temples have a feel of a 30-fold outer court, 60-fold inner court(Holy Place) and 100-fold Holy of Holies template and I just struggle with the duties of the High Priest and all the priests on everyday activities.
I suspect it can be studied to gain some insight but because there isn’t a temple there yet, it is tough for me to follow.
We know Him Crucified and Risen and that is more than most sadly.
And if He tells you more on this or any other prophecy, let us know!
Peace back at you!
And with this in mind, the only sacrifice for sin that the high priest was responsible for was that of the nation on the Day of Atonement and according to Ez 45:17, it is this ‘prince’ of the Millennial reign who also makes atonement for the nation, again, no mention of a high priest.
Looking through the glass darkly for sure, but our hearts see purely the path that will bring the final light through that darkened glass. Shalom
Good point about the Aaronic priesthood! You brought to my mind a time when something ‘isn’t’ there that we would normally not see I we weren’t looking for it.
Revelation 17- the woman arrayed in priestly apparel minus one big color- Blue..
The blue that was to remind Israel of His Commandments in Numbers(fringes, tassles I believe)
Add in the ephod of blue and the blue Saphire stone that they saw of His Throne..some would argue the tablets were carved from blue stone sy!bolizing His eternal throne and eternal Law.
A ‘blue-less woman in Revelation 17..
You brought that to my mind when you mentioned there was no mention of a restored aaronic high priesthood.
Thanks!
Jesus said, do not think I can to do away with the Law or the Prophets ... those who break the least of the commandments and teach others to do also, these are the least in the kingdom ... and then those who deny them all together, these are not even of His kingdom.
What the church has failed in, is in their setting aside His commandments, break one, set aside one (Sabbath) you set aside them ALL!
So according to Jesus, those words He spoke in Mt 5:20, the Scribes and Pharisees who were observing His commandments, albeit by their own rules and standards, they are better off than those who altogether set the commandments aside as the very first thing God ordained was the Sabbath and from the Sabbath flows all righteousness.
Again, Thanks! Shalom
No problem! This is what comes out when people talk about His Word. It generates thought that we don’t necessarily think about everyday.
It is why I made the connection with the 3 parts of the temple(outer court/inner court and Holy of holies) and His 30/60/100 in the Parable of the Sower.
And I only saw it while literally following the Exodus last year, day by day.
His Commandments are what is under attack by the enemy in Revelation 13. (Worship beast/worship image/blaspheme His name/ even the mark of the beast on the forehead and hand is symbolic of lawlessness- the sign for His people Israel will also be on the forehead and the hand, and it was a sign of obedience. (Want to say Deut 6:8 because Deuteronomy 5 is His 10 Commandments)
And why Revelation 14 says the patience of the saints is the ‘keeping of His Commandments’ AND faith.
It all goes back to Sinai in our journey too but not in a way too many see. The Parable of the Sower tells us!
Christianity and Judaism are missing the 60 and the 100 because of that , forgive me, New Moon Day :)
It has messed up their ability to see what happened to Israel after they were delivered by the blood of the Lamb.
After 30 days -they were fed manna from Heaven.
After 60 days -(passover) they heard His Law thundered down to them from Sinai
Moses goes up the mount 40 days (already at 60+ another 40) and
After 100 days- Moses comes down with the two tablets of the Covenant,the 10 Commandments written by His Finger.
And back to your ‘least’ and great’ in His discussion of the Kingdom with that understanding-
Well, the least will be 30fold- they have been delivered by the blood of the Lamb, and happy to be fed the manna from heaven.
But they will not journey on to hear His Commandments (60) or have them written on the tablets of their hearts (100)
That 30,60,100 can be seen in their Exodus and we are no different with our journey.
Christianity thinks Pentecost is the 50th day. That is true if they use Rome’s calendar. But the biblical calendar will have at least 51 days after the 7th Sabbath, and it’s the new moon day that trips them up.
When I counted His 7 Sabbaths last year for the first time, the next ‘day’ after the 7th Sabbath isn’t the 50th day. It was I think,the 52nd day (because there were 2 New Moon Days that , according to that template in Ezekiel, aren’t counted as work days.
Which means that Leviticus 23 command to number 50 days after the 7th Sabbath required just that- another 50 days.
And that will make Moses coming down the Mount and 3,000 killed mesh with the Holy Spirit coming down and 3,000 saved in Acts.
Christianity gets its birthday wrong. About 50 days too early.
A summer Feast. A Feast of summer wheat and new wine in the 4th month of His Calendar..
I only saw it because I numbered my days and followed it day by day(some Bible versions are really deceptive in their Exodus chapter 19 descriptions that make it a difficult thing to see without study)
But Christianity won’t see if because they don’t see the New Moon Day.
I know you and I don’t share the same view of New Moon Day, and I won’t convince folks without some good evidence, but that day and following that Ezekiel template, showed me that the way that Leviticus command is understood today, blinds Judiasm and Christianity to Awesome Truth.
You and I see the importance of His Law. And I have been blessed to see how Satan’s tweaking of the calendar has caused people of faith to meet when he wants them to. Even to the point of missing the church’s self described ‘birthday’ and a Feast Day.
Satan wanted to steal worship and the best way to do that is to hide the Father’s appointed times with a seemingly ‘biblical’ calendar.. That is so subtle it won’t be seen without testing the calendar the world uses..
Is it any wonder the world is the way it is?
Thanks again to you too! Awesome stuff! Iron sharpens iron!
It does not say faith in, it says faith "OF" and what is the faith of Jesus?
Php 2:8 And having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, death even of a stake. Shalom
never saw that before! Thank you so much! That’s great!
I died to self 4 years ago Patlin. Didn’t really think of it as denying myself,but it was jusat that looking back. It was simply obeying a Commandment, but didn’t even look at it that deeply. Just got to do what you got to do..
But the change He does forming one’s heart to His, and transformimg one’s mind to His, and conforming one’s will to His, was the Work He was doing..
I even got to see what 3 1/2 years felt like..
Proverbs 3:5-6 in living color!
Thanks again for that rather important spiritual application to the Word ‘of’!
He is not just our Savior- He is our example!
Shalom back to you and yours
And then He goes on to say ...
Pro 3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear YHWH, and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
I also have personally witnessed this is His healing of my crippling arthritis through my trust in Him, that His faith be in me, seeking not my own way, but trusting in His so to follow His ways as Jesus did.
May His blessings never cease from you also. Shalom
You too patlin! Worthy is the Lamb!
Patlin, I have been thinking about the bull of Passover in Ezekiel. we discussed it a while back.
I don’t have a definitive answer but I keep coming back to the end of Exodus when they erected the tent(scripture says Moses did it ) on the 1st day of the 1st month and then had 7 days where the priests stayed at the door of the tent of meeting for seven days. They performed the offering of the bull for a sin offering and the two rams (with the second ram being the ram of ordination) in Leviticus 8. leviticus 9 has the 8th day after their 7 days, (6 days before Passover) and they offer another bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
now, none of that details why in Ezekiel a bull is used, but
I have only begun digging into the Hebrew language and what strikes me is the ancient Hebrew letter pictographs and especially when we see the Aleph and the Tav. the first and the last. The ‘Ox’ (or bull) and the Cross/Mark- (the Lamb)
And those are the two animals commanded as offerings at the door of the Tabernacle on the 1st day of the 1st month and the 8th day, respectively.
The Bull (the Aleph) was there at Passover in the New Testament but we only see the Lamb on the tree(Tav).
The first (bull) and the last (lamb)-the beginning and the end. the Aleph and the Tav. there are 7 young bulls and 7 young rams as burnt offerings each day of the feast too in Ezekiel.
a reminder of the first and the last, the beginning and the end. the Passover ‘on this side’ focuses on the lamb and maybe on the millenium side, the bull will be emphasised..
just a thought I have been thinking on...
Baruch El Shaddai!
added to the thought ( I hope you read the first comment before this, if not, no biggie) - Day of atonement Leviticus 16- A Bull for a sin offering. and a Ram for a burnt offering.
(Leviticus 16:3)
Same Aleph- Tav symbolic picture of the beginning and end; and the first and the last..
what is interesting is I dont see any detail in Leviticus 16 about what happens to the Ram. It details what happens to the Bull and the two goats..if we get real literal, scripture also details another ram in leviticus 16:5 with the two goat. (not clear but the ram(s) kind of get lost with what happens to them as the focus is on the bull and the two goats- unless my translation is off or I am missing it.
I do believe there is a connection between all the festival sacrifices that point us to Messiah and His dual role as ‘peacemaker’ who is the Lamb who brings us back into right relationship with the Father, hence making peace with the Father and that of His role to come as King. And somewhere in between those two is His role as High Priest and that is the one role that many confuse.
Right now there is preparation going on in Jerusalem to reinstate the high priesthood of Aaron, yet we know that that priesthood has now faded away and will never return. No longer is atonement made through the flesh, but directly through the faith of Yeshua that is in us. Yeshua is our covenant of Peace forever, Aaron's was but a temporary one.
Num 25:12 Therefore say, ‘See, I am giving him My covenant of peace, 13 and it shall be to him and to his seed after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was ardent for his Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisra’el.’
Hebrews, chapters 7-8 is about the high priesthood and this covenant of peace that YHWH made with the sons of Aaron. And because that priesthood was of the flesh it was subject to corruption, however, Yeshua’s priesthood is not of the flesh and therefore, it is not subject to that same corruption, but endures forever.
I believe that this is the bull connection, the change in the priesthood as there is no high priest of the flesh spoken of during the millennial reign. Yeshua, no longer a year old lamb, but a strong & powerful bull standing and guarding those who are His.
Shabbat Shalom
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