Marc I realize there's no temple, as I said in the OP in the imagery of the NT writings we are taught that Yeshua is the lamb of G-d. He tells us that the Passover bread is his body which is sacrificed for us. He also tells us to 'do this' (keep the Passover, eat the unleavened bread) in remembrance of his sacrifice.
Something to consider...
Christ made an
atonement/ reconcilliation for sin as our passover.
Ex 29:33 And they shall
eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them:
but
a stranger <02114> shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
Who ARE THE STRANGERS HERE? And what is the distinctiveness of these strangers? I will embolden the points I think ring significant here.
02114 רוז zuwr zoor
a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 541}
AV-stranger 45, strange 18,
estranged 4, stranger + 0376 3, another 2, strange woman 2, gone away 1, fanners 1, another place 1; 77
1) to be strange, be a stranger
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to
become estranged
1a2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle)
1a3) loathsome (of breath) (participle)
1a4) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (meton)
1b) (Niphal)
to be estranged
1c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be
one alienated
I would like to put forth my thoughts on this for a moment.
ESTRANGEMENT, like unto the notion of the separation of married couples which legally termed
estranged from each other.
Those which are ESTRANGED FROM THE PRIESTS HOUSEHOLD. JEW OR GENTILE, BOTH STRANGERS FROM THE HOLY FOOD.
SEE HERE.....
Ex 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon
a stranger <02114>, shall even be cut off from his people.
Le 22:10 There shall
no stranger <02114> eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall
not eat of the holy thing.
Le 22:12 If the priests daughter also be married unto
a stranger <02114>, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Le 22:13 But if the priests daughter be
a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her fathers house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her fathers meat: but there shall
no stranger <02114> eat thereof.
Nu 3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priests office: and
the stranger <02114> that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Nu 3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and
the stranger <02114> that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Nu 16:40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that
no stranger <02114>, which is
not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Nu 18:4 And
they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and
a stranger <02114> shall not come nigh unto you.
Nu 18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your
priests office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your
priests office unto you as a service of gift: and
the stranger <02114> that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Take note however of this.......
Lev 22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
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But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is
born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
And these....
1cor 6:20 For ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.
1cor 7:23 Ye are
bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
act 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed
the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
and these
Ro 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the
atonement <2643>.
Ro 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the
reconciling <2643> of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
2Co 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation <2643>;
2Co 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation <2643>.
This is about EATING, of the holy things of the priest YESHUA. BEING RECONCILED, no longer estranged. Having been purchased by his blood of atonement. BORN AGAIN.