You were wrong rearding Babylon. You were wrong regarding Torah. You are wrong again. There ARE Cohanim ready to resume duties IF the Temple were to be rebuilt. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Sanhedrin Appoints High Priest in Preparation for Third Temple
Yeshua redeemed us from the
curse of the Law...sin is the transgression of the law and the wages of sin is death...we are free from the curse of the Law, which is death (Gal 3:13). Not that we can be disobedient to Him, but that we would have grace & mercy, through repentance, whenever we fall short of obeying God’s Law.
What are you talking about? They are apostate Christ-rejecters. They are blind and deaf. They are of their father the devil. You need to untangle yourself from the old covenant. It was destroyed long ago. It will never be restarted. PTL.
Please read what the NT says:
Hebrews 7:11-12 tells us,
“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? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.”
The priesthood has been changed; and having been changed there was a change triggered in the law (“there is made of necessity a change also of the law”). Whilst the written law is still active, the whole old covenant ceremonial system was superseded by a new better covenant.
The Greek word for “changed” here is
metatithemi which actually means
transferred or exchanged. This shows that old temporal imperfect priesthood has been exchanged for the new perfect eternal priesthood in Christ. The deficient shadow and type has been replaced by Israel’s eternal high priest the Messiah and will never again be changed, undone or rivalled by a parallel priesthood. It is an eternal transfer of influence. Christ will not (or cannot) share this office with another, neither can He hand the baton over to others. He holds it firm and alone as of right and by way of an everlasting oath. Those that purport to steal this sacred title enter into the dangerous arena of heresy.
The problem with the Old Testament priestly administration was:
it was inadequate. It involved men who by nature were prone to sin and who therefore fell short of what God required of them. Time after time, the high priest failed in God’s requirements through sin or compromise and consequently God judged the whole nation. Corruption eventually took a hold of the office and brought it into complete disrepute. This opened the door to idol worship and apostasy. What is more, with the blight of sin in man came death. This meant the office was continually passed from one to another.
Hebrews 7:15 clearly tells us of this new covenant period:
“there ariseth another priest” – “even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec” (Hebrews 6:20). This priest was an eternal priest ministering on behalf of the people of God.
Whilst there were many priests in the nation of Israel under the old covenant there was only ever
one high priest at any one time. The office was passed on upon death from one high priest to another. Hebrews 7:21-24 says, speaking of Christ,
“Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.”
The word interpreted “unchangeable” here is very significant. It comes from the Greek word
aparabatos, which simply means non-transferable. It is a legal word. For example, it relates to a judge laying down a decision that is unalterable and non-transferable. It also describes something which belongs to one person and cannot be transferred to anyone else. This tells us, no one else can hold the Melchizedek priesthood. Christ continues alone in this role, having an unchangeable non-transferable priestly office. Unlike the old covenant priesthood, Christ has no successors in this office. This priesthood cannot pass from one to another, it is not transmissible. No other can appropriate this title or share in the function of the position, Christ alone holds that sacred high priestly office. Christ is the only real and perfect High Priest. He is the ultimate and final high priest of the redeemed of God.
Hebrews 7:16 tells us that Christ
“is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.”
The whole context here is the removal and the replacement of the old covenant priesthood, the writer of the Hebrews presents Christ as heavens eternal replacement. What is more, we can see that this priesthood cannot pass from one to another, it is not transferrable. No other can appropriate this title or share in the function of the position, Christ alone holds that sacred high priestly office. Christ is the only real and perfect high priest today. He is the ultimate and final High Priest of the redeemed of God.
Hebrews 7:26-28 confirms this, telling us that Christ
“For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”
The Levitical priesthood had to be replaced because it was inadequate and temporal. The priests themselves were blighted with sin, therefore they died. The old covenant priesthood was simply a weak figure of the eternal priesthood that was to come. Hebrews 7 confirms:
those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s” (v 27) and
“they were not suffered to continue by reason of death” (v 23).
Christ’s “perfect” priesthood cannot be compared to the faulty old covenant priesthood with all its obvious limitations. It is final, eternal and unchanging. There is no end to the Lord’s hold on this office. When Christ ascended to the right hand of majesty on high He did so as man’s final perfect high priest. He was the substance and fulfilment of the Old Testament high priestly order who served as the temporal shadow of the coming Messiah. He met every requirement demanded of God to reconcile the sinner unto God.
Hebrews 8:3-8:
“For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law … But now hath He [Christ] obtained a more excellent ministry (than the priests that made imperfect sacrifices), by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.”
The removal of the faulty old covenant is here connected to the replacement of the old covenant priesthood. The two are inextricably tied together. The one true eternal high priest has perfected the last sacrifice for sin, and now sits in heaven interceding for His elect. Thus He fulfils the two-fold duty of the priest (making atonement for sin, and interceding on the people’s behalf).
Hebrews 10:19-21 says,
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God.”
The old imperfect sacrifices made by the representative priests in the Old Covenant were
superseded at the cross by the one final satisfactory sacrifice by the one true eternal priest – the Lord Jesus Christ.
The book of Hebrews destroys any notion of the restoration of the old covenant priests. It is quite inconceivable that this defunct priesthood would one day be restored to compete with Christ in a future temple. Hebrews 7:19 tells us:
“the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.” Christ owns the only priestly office that God recognises for all eternity. Hebrews 7:22 confirms, “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.” For “he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises” (Hebrews 8:6).
We have entered into a new divine arrangement that supersedes the shadow, type and figure. Man has one true heavenly high priest and requires none other. For our Premillennial brethren to expect others is a mistake and underlines the dangers of the Premillennial teaching. It is totally wrong to imagine that the new covenant would be replaced by the old in the future. This will never (or can never) happen.
