Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.
Heb 7:11
Truly, then, if perfection were through the Lĕwitical priesthood – for
under it the people were given the Torah – why was there still need for another
priest to arise according to the order of Malkitseḏeq, and not be called
according to the order of Aharon?
Heb
7:12 For the priesthood being changed,
of necessity there takes place a change of law1 also. Footnote: 1Heb.
7:12. See “Law” in Explanatory notes.
Heb
7:13 For He of whom this is said belongs
to another tribe, from which no one had attended at the altar.1
Footnote: 1See “Altar” in Explanatory notes.
Heb
7:14 For it is perfectly clear that our
Master arose from Yehuḏah, a tribe about
which Mosheh never spoke of concerning priesthood,
Heb
7:15 and this is clearer still, if
another priest arises in the likeness of Malkitseḏeq,
Heb
7:16 who has become, not according to
the Torah of fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
Heb
7:17 for He does witness, “You are a
priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq.”
Heb
7:18 For there is indeed a setting aside
of the former command because of its weakness and unprofitableness,
Heb
7:19 for the Torah perfected naught, but
the bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to Elohim.
Heb
7:20 And it was not without an oath!
Heb
7:21 For they indeed became priests
without an oath, but He became Priest with an oath by Him who said to
Him, “יהוה has sworn and
shall not regret, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq.’ ”
Heb 7:22 By as much as this יהושע has become a guarantor of a better covenant.
Heb 7:23 And indeed, those that became priests were
many, because they were prevented by death from continuing,
Heb 7:24 but (Gk –yet)He, because He remains forever,
has an unchangeable priesthood.
Heb 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save completely
those who draw near to Elohim through Him, ever living to make intercession for
them.
Heb 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a
High Priest – kind, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners,
and exalted above the heavens,
Heb 7:27 who does not need, as those high priests, to
offer up slaughter offerings day by day, first for His own sins and then
for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He offered up
Himself.
Heb 7:28 For the Torah appoints as high priests men
who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah, appoints
the Son having been perfected forever.
When we who have grown up in the church read this
passage of scripture we immediately assume that the Levitical priesthood has
been done away with. This is impossible – see Matt 5:17-19.
Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the
heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass
from the Torah till all be done.[f] Footnote: f Luk_16:17.
Luk 16:17 “And it is easier for the heaven and
the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall.
Jer 33:20 “Thus said יהוה, ‘If you could break My covenant with the
day and My covenant with the night, so that there be not day and night in their
season,
Jer 33:21 then My covenant could also be broken
with Dawiḏ My servant – so that he shall not have a son to reign upon his
throne – and with the Lěwites, the priests, My attendants.
One day life
as we know it on this planet will come to an end – there will be no sun or moon
or seasons – it will only be light –
Rev 21:1 And I
saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth,[a] Isa_65:17 for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and
the sea is no more. Footnote: aAlso see Isa_66:22.
Rev 21:23 And the
city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it, for the esteem of
Elohim lightened it, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Rev 21:24 And the
nations, of those who are saved, shall walk in its light,[f] and the sovereigns
of the earth bring their esteem into it. Footnote: fSee Isa_60:3.
Rev 21:25 And its
gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.
Gal 3:24 Therefore
the Torah became our trainer (peidagogos – Gk) unto Messiah, in order to be
declared right by belief.
Gal 3:25 And after
belief has come, we are no longer under a trainer (Gk – peidagogos)
From G3816 and a
reduplication form of G71; a boy leader, that is, a servant whose office it was
to take the children to school; (by implication [figuratively] a tutor
[“paedagogue”]): - instructor, schoolmaster.
Jer 31:32 not like
the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I strengthened [b] their
hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke,
though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה. Footnote: b Commonly understood as “take
hold of.”
Jer 31:33 “For this
is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ěl after those days,
declares יהוה: I shall
put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall
be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
Jer 31:34 “And no
longer shall they teach, each one his neighbour, and each one his brother,
saying, ‘Know יהוה,’ for they
shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares יהוה. “For I
shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.”
Lev 8:33 “And do not go outside the door of the Tent
of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed –
for he fills your hands for seven days. Lev 8:34 “יהוה has commanded
to do, as he has done this day, to make atonement for you. Lev 8:35 “And stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting
day and night for seven days. And you shall guard the duty of יהוה, and not die, for so I have been
commanded.” Lev 8:36 And Aharon and his
sons did all the words that יהוה had commanded
by the hand of Mosheh.
This Levitical priesthood was meant to point us to a
superior priesthood – that of Messiah. Only those who abide by the Torah of
YHVH’s Levitical priesthood will find themselves united to the Messiah in his
Melechtzedek Priesthood.
Eze 43:26
‘For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and cleanse it,
and ordain it.
Eze 43:27
‘And when these days are completed it shall be, on the eighth day and
thereafter, that the priests make your burnt offerings and your peace offerings
on the altar, and I shall accept you,’ declares the Master יהוה.” Eze
44:1 And He
brought me back to the outer gate of the set-apart place which faces east, and
it was shut. Eze 44:2 And יהוה said to me,
“This gate is shut, it is not opened, and no one enters it, because יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has entered by it, and
it shall be shut. Eze 44:3 “The prince,
as prince, he sits in it to eat bread before יהוה, coming in by
way of the porch of the gate, and going out the same way.” Eze 44:4 And He brought me by way of the north gate to
the front of the House. And I looked and saw the esteem of יהוה filled the House of יהוה, and I fell on my face. Eze 44:5 And יהוה said to me,
“Son of man, set your heart and see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all
that I say to you concerning all the laws of the House of יהוה and all its Torot. And you shall set your
heart to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the set-apart place,
Eze 44:6 and shall say to the rebellious, to the house
of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “O house of
Yisra’ĕl, enough of all these abominations of yours, Eze 44:7 that you brought in sons of a foreigner,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My set-apart place
to profane it, My house! That you brought near My food, the fat and the blood,
and you broke My covenant because of all your abominations. Eze 44:8 “And you did not guard the charge of that
which is set-apart to Me, but you have set others to guard the charge of My
set-apart place for you.”
It is possible only those who
have been chosen to obey the Torot of the priesthood will be part of the Bride
of Messiah in the Messianic age.
YHVH has appointed a set apart
priesthood in Messiah to bring His people back to the Torah and back to the
full restoration of the Temple service in Yerushalayim in the Messianic Reign
(Kingdom).
Eph 4:4
one body and one Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of
your calling,
Eph 4:5
one Master, one belief, one immersion,
Eph 4:6
one Elohim and Father of all,1 who is above all, and through
all, and in you all. Footnote: 1Mk. 12:32,34, 1 Cor. 8:6, 1 Tim.
2:5, Mk. 12:29-34.
Eph 4:7
But to each one of us favour was given according to the measure of the
gift of Messiah.
Eph 4:8
That is why it says, “When He went up on high, He led captivity captive,
and gave gifts to men.”
Eph 4:9
But what does “He went up” mean, except that He also first went down
into the lower parts of the earth?
Eph 4:10
He who went down is also the One who went up far above all the heavens,
to fill all.
Eph 4:11
And He Himself gave some as emissaries, and some as prophets, and some
as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers
Eph 4:12
for the perfecting of the set-apart ones, to the work of service to a
building up of the body of the Messiah,
Eph 4:13
until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the
Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the
completeness of Messiah,
Eph 4:14
so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every
wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of
leading astray,1 Footnote: 15:6, also 2 Cor. 10:5, 2 Cor.
11:3-14, Gal. 1:6-9, 2 Tim. 3:1-8, 2 Tim. 4:2-4, 2 Peter 2:2-22, Jud. vv.
10-19.
Eph 4:15
but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him
who is the head, Messiah,
Eph 4:16
from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint
supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes
growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Eph 4:17
So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk
as the gentiles walk,1 in the futility of their mind, Footnote: 11
Cor. 12:2, and Jer. 10:2.
Eph 4:18
having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the
life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the
hardness of their heart,
The Bride of Messiah is being restored in
these days – YHVH has called a chosen priesthood to bring about His purpose and
desire for all His Creation. Failure to recognize and obey them will result in
failure to enter His Kingdom –
This has always been YHVH’s plan and
purpose – that a nation of priests will minister and bless the nations of this
world – this is and always will be the essence of the Good News.
Gal 3:8 And
the Scripture, having foreseen that Elohim would declare right the nations by
belief, announced the Good News to Aḇraham beforehand, saying, “All the
nations shall be blessed in you,”a Gen_12:3. Footnote: aGen_18:18.
Only those who can submit
themselves to His priesthood will themselves become priests. This is the reason
why only a very small remnant will be saved out of the Great tribulation in the
last days – see Isaiah 6.
It may not always be that easy
to submit to YHVH’s chosen priesthood because they may have things to say to us
that we might not want to hear.
Deu 17:8 “When any
matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood,
between plea and plea, or between stroke and stroke – matters of strife within
your gates – then you shall rise and go up to the place which יהוה your
Elohim chooses,
Deu 17:9 and shall come
to the priests, the Lěwites, and to the judge who is in those days, and shall
inquire. And they shall declare to you the word of right-ruling,
Deu 17:10 and you shall
do according to the word which they declare to you from that place which יהוה chooses.
And you shall guard to do according to all that they instruct you.
Deu 17:11 “Do according
to the Torah in which they teach you, according to the right-ruling which they
say to you. You do not turn to the right or to the left from the word which
they declare to you.
Deu 17:12 “And the man
who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to serve
there before יהוה your Elohim, or to the judge, that man
shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ěl.
Deu 17:13 “And let all
the people hear and fear, and no longer do arrogantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi0ULlCnKcQ Levitical Priesthood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmLOXqHvBw&frags=pl%2Cwn Levitical Priesthood
(Blessed are
you YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of
truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you,
YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn