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...in absence of a working Levitical Priesthood?
As a Torah observant Christian, I do my best to keep YHWH's eternal Moedim. I'm often told by Sabbath keeping Christians (although some of them misguided, keeping the Sabbath on the 1st day), that I can't keep the Moedim, in absence of the Temple, and a working Levitical Priesthood.
Well, I do my best to keep the parts that YHWH tells me to keep; despite the fact that the Levites aren't operating in a Temple.
I do my best to keep the Sabbath as the first order of business in Leviticus 23, despite the fact that the Levitical Priesthood aren't performing the following in a Temple:
(CLV) Num 28:9
On the sabbath day you shall bring near two flawless year-old he-lambs, and two tenths of an ephah of flour, an approach present mingled with oil, with its libation.
(CLV) Num 28:10
This is the sabbath ascent offering on its sabbath along with the regular ascent offering with its libation.
(CLV) Lv 24:4
On the pure lampstand shall he arrange the lamps before Yahweh regularly.
(CLV) Lv 24:5
You will take flour and bake of it twelve perforated cakes. Two tenths of an ephah shall there be for one perforated cake.
(CLV) Lv 24:6
And you will place them in two arrays, six to the array, on the pure table before Yahweh.
(CLV) Lv 24:7
You will put along each array clear frankincense, and it will be used instead of the bread as a memorial portion, a fire offering to Yahweh.
(CLV) Lv 24:8
Sabbath day by sabbath day shall he arrange it before Yahweh regularly on behalf of the sons of Israel, an eonian covenant.
This means forever.
So now for the question I started with: As Sabbath keeping Christians, how can we keep the Sabbath in absence of a working Levitical Priesthood?
As a Torah observant Christian, I do my best to keep YHWH's eternal Moedim. I'm often told by Sabbath keeping Christians (although some of them misguided, keeping the Sabbath on the 1st day), that I can't keep the Moedim, in absence of the Temple, and a working Levitical Priesthood.
Well, I do my best to keep the parts that YHWH tells me to keep; despite the fact that the Levites aren't operating in a Temple.
I do my best to keep the Sabbath as the first order of business in Leviticus 23, despite the fact that the Levitical Priesthood aren't performing the following in a Temple:
(CLV) Num 28:9
On the sabbath day you shall bring near two flawless year-old he-lambs, and two tenths of an ephah of flour, an approach present mingled with oil, with its libation.
(CLV) Num 28:10
This is the sabbath ascent offering on its sabbath along with the regular ascent offering with its libation.
(CLV) Lv 24:4
On the pure lampstand shall he arrange the lamps before Yahweh regularly.
(CLV) Lv 24:5
You will take flour and bake of it twelve perforated cakes. Two tenths of an ephah shall there be for one perforated cake.
(CLV) Lv 24:6
And you will place them in two arrays, six to the array, on the pure table before Yahweh.
(CLV) Lv 24:7
You will put along each array clear frankincense, and it will be used instead of the bread as a memorial portion, a fire offering to Yahweh.
(CLV) Lv 24:8
Sabbath day by sabbath day shall he arrange it before Yahweh regularly on behalf of the sons of Israel, an eonian covenant.
This means forever.
So now for the question I started with: As Sabbath keeping Christians, how can we keep the Sabbath in absence of a working Levitical Priesthood?
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