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I will just take this from your post.
* you quoted...
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
* I already quoted... but here it is again
Prophetic utterance of the high priest......Because of his office (annointing)
Joh 11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
I think you should pay more attention to the Christ's Words here, and less attention to the religious philosophies of men.
Jesus called these Priest's "Children of the Devil". Can the devil not also read the Scriptures? Did the devil not know who Jesus was? Did the devil not know that he was going to influence man to kill Jesus?
Are you then preaching to the world that God placed satan as High Priest?
You didn't answer the Post regarding John the Baptist? Was John a Levite Priest? Did Jesus go to him, or the prophetic High Priest to be baptized?
When you find the Biblical answer for this, explain why Jesus didn't go to the High Priest that you are preaching was "ruling" "in the Law of Moses", but went to a Levite Priest who didn't preach from the Shrines of worship built by men.
Also, since you are preaching that the Levite Priests were truly "Ruling" in the Law of Moses, why don't you answer another question.
John 19:6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Can you find where God's Law condemned Jesus to death?
This is called an examination of Scriptures. You post scriptures, and we examine them in order to find Biblical Truth.
* you quoted
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
I quoted
32 ἄγγελος aggelos ang’-el-os
from aggello [probably derived from 71, cf. 34] (to bring tidings); n m; TDNT-1:74,12; {See TDNT 13}
AV-angel 179, messenger 7; 186
1) a messenger, envoy, one who is sent {#Mt 11:10 Lu 7:27 9:52 Mr 1:2 Jas 2:25}
2) an angel
*I quoted...
Mal 2:7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger (aka angel) of the LORD of hosts.
Messenger here is
04397 מלאך mal’ak mal-awk’
from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; n m; [BDB-521b] {See TWOT on 1068 @@ "1068a"}
AV-angel 111, messenger 98, ambassadors 4, variant 1; 214
1) messenger, representative
1a) messenger
1b) angel
1c) the theophanic angel
Mal. 2, that you selectively quoted from, makes my point, and destroys your entire premise.
Mal. 2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. (Ex. 32:26, look it up)
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
So yes, this was the purpose of the Levite Priest. But you omitted the important part of this scripture.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
So let me ask you some questions. Who was made contemptible, John the Baptist? Or the Priest's who murdered the Prophets contrary to God's Law? Who was the "Messenger of the Lord" The Levite Priest called John the Baptist? Or the High Priest who "taught for doctrines the commandments of men?
This is called examining the scriptures to determine their truth. As opposed to just selecting some scriptures and omitting the rest in an attempt to promote a certain religious philosophy.
I look forward to an honest examination of Scriptures.
And here
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Yes, why was there a need for a different High Priest? What was wrong with the Levite Priests? Why couldn't they all have been like Zacharias, and John the Baptist? What happened that there was a Need for a Change in the Priesthood?
Jer. 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jer. 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
Mal. 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
So as anyone can see, God warned us about the Levite Priests. And I already posted the Very Word's of the Christ Himself, confirming this Biblical Truth.
So what did this same God of the Bible do, given these Levites Priests corrupted the covenant God made with them? This answer is also in your own Bible, if you would just believe.
Heb. 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, ( Levite Priests who had departed out of God's Way and corrupted the Priesthood Covenant God made with them) he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
And what is the New Covenant? The Christ becomes our High Priest, and administers the Priesthood duties the Levites corrupted and abandoned.
It's right there in your own Bible.
Deut 33:8 And of Levi he said (8804), Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one
The holy one is the high priest
10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
And I already gave you deuteronomy 17.
And they did for a time.
Mal. 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
But you are omitting the weightier matters of the Law and Prophets here.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
So your statement "The high priest, and the judges still ruled (together)in the law of Moses." is simply not TRUTH, if the Holy Scriptures are our guide. For me to believe you, I would have to reject the Christ's Own Words, as well as the Teaching of the Law and Prophets, inspired by this same Christ, which were written for my admonition.
Why would I do such a thing?
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