Priesthood

[WAB]

You have absolutely NO basis in fact for the above statements. WE, the body of Christ, are NOT priests! We are members of His BODY. The priesthood position is to be held by the Nation Of Israel. CAN YOU READ????

Its NOT a privilege you are afforded to MISREPRESENT God here or anywhere else. Until you can learn something about dispensational theology, I would recommend you take your misinformation elsewhere. This forum is for discussing Dispensational theology, and you dont know a thing about it. Do you know how foolish you are making yourself look?

Now...both of you....if you want to LEARN about how God set up the Bible for you to study and understand, and what His program IS for today, stick around.

But, I for one, am thru fooling with your silly comments and questions. You dont want to learn, and you INSULT the grace of God and make the Cross of NONE EFFECT with your preaching of another gospel that God set aside two thousand years ago.

This is serious stuff. We arent here to massage your egos by arguing back and forth on issues that God has already settled in His Word. Stop feeding your silly pride, and LOOK at the information you have been presented with the goal in mind of CHANGING YOUR MIND TO think as GOD THINKS and as he has revealed His will in the scriptures rightly divided.

You have wasted our time in here. Enuff.

eph, you have stated that you were through with me more times than I can remember (although I confess that my memory is faulty)...

And yes, I can read, but reading your personal diatribes is certainly not a favorite.

By inference, you personally do not have access into the presence of the Lord. That is what priesthood is all about. Everyone who is "in Christ"; any member of the "Body of Christ/Church/Bride of Christ" has that access. Deny it as often as you like, but denial of fact does not invalidate the fact.

And yes, I certainly understand that you consider this area off limits to anyone who would question your hyper-dispy position, but I happen to be a dispensationalist as well, and have stated so several times; so I really look forward to the time when you actually keep your word for once and ignore what I post, as you do so much other truth.

Having said that... in obedience to the instructions of our Lord that we are to love our enemies, will continue to pray for your enlightenment.

 

[WAB]

First off, will clarify that I agree God is a dispensationalist (and for that reason so am I), just not a hyper one. Nor even a mid-Acts one.

My memory is really faulty, and more so as the days go on, but will try to find where even those who were known to be descendants of Aaron were rejected from becoming priests if, for whatever reason, their names could not be found in the geneological records.

We are getting much closer to the building of the temple on it's historical site, and am well aware of the preparations under way.... (red heifer, et al).

No doubt the temple will be built, and no doubt there will be sacrifices made... all predicted, but also contrary to the fact that "...therefore there is no more sacrifice for sin." Because that was done "once for all" by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Shalom... WAB

p.s. We live in exciting times, and history will culminate in Jerusalem.

Hi JR... just found the Scripture I was looking for, and here it is...

Just as a bit of background, here are the requirements of the Old Testament for entry into the priesthood for the Jews. In Ezra 2:61,62 we read… “And of the children of the priests: the children of Ha-ba’-iah, the children of Koz, the children of Bar-zil’la-i; which took a wife of the daughters of Bar-zil’la-i the Gil’e-ad-ite, and was called after their name. These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.” (KJV).

Then in Nehemiah 7:64, referring to the same group… “These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.”

So we see that if someone were to be accepted into the priesthood of Israel, their genealogical record had to be available. And… the fact that they were known to be children of priests was not sufficient.

Since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D., when all the genealogical records were destroyed, and the death of the priests then living, there has been no O.T. priesthood. And of course as a result there has been no animal blood sacrifice.

Cut and pasted the above from an article done quite a while ago, so that is why it is a bit larger than my normal posts...

Shalom... WAB

Edited to apologize for not including "cubanito's" post...thought it would appear...

 

[cubanito]

Jews have not been detered before by technicalities. For example, after Solomon's temple fell the Ark of the Covenant was lost. The Temple shaould have meant nothing without the ark, as it was an afterthought to house the ark. In fact, without access to the mercy seat on the ark, the whole sacrificial system should have disapeared, as there was nowhere to sprinlkle the blood. But it did not. Despite the absence of precedent, the temple was rebuilt, and sacrifices restarted on the spot from where the ark had been taken.

Given how the Jews were able to sidestep an issue so thoroughly commanded in detail by God, how they further sidestep the specific commandments of Passover and instead of a sacrificial lamb offer a dried bone, do you think that the lack of a written geneaology will be even a bump on the road? Someone SAYING they are the son of a priest could be doubted. But a genetic analysis is more reliable even than written geneaologies.

There is nothing but the lack of a red heifer, and the minions of arabs, between the orthodox Jew and the reinstatement of the Temple. I agree that this will not honor God. All animal sacrificies are now done away with by the blood of Christ, but the Orthodox Jew doe not recognize Christ.

It has happened before. It WILL happen again. And once again, as the Jews commend themselves on their Temple activities, the abomination of desolation will again desecrate this.

JR

 

[WAB]

agreed... with the stipulation that since the once for all sacrifice of our Lord on Calvary's Cross, that there is no legitimacy to any restoration of temple or sacrifice.

Shalom... WAB

 

[cubanito]

Agreed, no legitimacy to it at all, but when has that ever stoped the utterly depraved like you and I used to be?

BTW, I find nothing wrong, and much right about observing passover as it is a remembrance, or most other such events as a way of giving a physical reality to some past event of God's actions. But the kind of Temple sacrifices these Orthodox Jews are envisioning is for the expiation of sin, not mere memory, and thus will be considered offensive by God.

JR

JR

 

[WAB]

Agreed, no legitimacy to it at all, but when has that ever stoped the utterly depraved like you and I used to be?

BTW, I find nothing wrong, and much right about observing passover as it is a remembrance, or most other such events as a way of giving a physical reality to some past event of God's actions. But the kind of Temple sacrifices these Orthodox Jews are envisioning is for the expiation of sin, not mere memory, and thus will be considered offensive by God.

JR

JR

And are you not eternally greatful that it is genuinely a "used to be"?

Shalom... WAB