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 Yisrael, 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 Yisrael. 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.
קח את אהרן – '’kach’’ is the command to ‘’firmly embrace’’- We as His redeemed people are
called upon to firmly embrace Aharon and everything about his life and ministry
that will awaken in our own hearts our great redemption both in the physical as
well as the eternal spiritual realm.
Lev 8:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev
8:2 “Take Aharon and his sons with him,
and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and
the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
Lev
8:3 and assemble all the congregation at
the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
Lev
8:4 And Mosheh did as יהוה commanded him, and the
congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev
8:5 And Mosheh said to the congregation,
“This is the word יהוה
commanded to be done.”
Lev
8:6 So Mosheh brought Aharon and his
sons and washed them with water,
Lev
8:7 and put the long shirt on him, and
girded him with the girdle, and dressed him in the robe, and put the shoulder
garment on him, and girded him with the embroidered band of the shoulder
garment, and with it tied the shoulder garment on him,
Lev
8:8 and put the breastplate on him, and
put the Urim and the Tummim in the breastplate,
Lev
8:9 and put the turban on his head. And
on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the set-apart sign of
dedication, as יהוה had
commanded Mosheh.
Lev
8:10 And Mosheh took the anointing oil
and anointed the Dwelling Place and all that was in it, and set them apart.
Lev
8:11 And he sprinkled some of it on the
altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin
and its base, to set them apart.
Lev
8:12 And he poured some of the anointing
oil on Aharon’s head and anointed him, to set him apart.
Lev
8:13 And Mosheh brought the sons of
Aharon and put long shirts on them, and girded them with girdles, and put
turbans on them, as יהוה had
commanded Mosheh.
Lev
8:14 And he brought the bull for the sin
offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for
the sin offering,
Lev
8:15 and it was slaughtered. And Mosheh
took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his
finger, and cleansed the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the
altar, and set it apart, to make atonement for it.
Lev
8:16 And he took all the fat that was on
the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the two kidneys with their
fat, and Mosheh burned them on the altar.
Lev
8:17 And the bull, and its skin, and its
flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh. (Num 19
– Red Heifer)
Lev
8:18 And he brought the ram of the burnt
offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,
Lev
8:19 and it was slaughtered. And Mosheh
sprinkled the blood on the altar all around,
Lev
8:20 and he cut the ram into pieces. And
Mosheh burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat,
Lev
8:21 and he washed the entrails and the
legs in water. And Mosheh burned the entire ram on the altar. It was a burnt
offering for a sweet fragrance, and an offering made by fire to יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Lev
8:22 And he brought the second ram, the
ram of ordination, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the
ram,
Lev
8:23 and it was slaughtered. And Mosheh
took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aharon’s right ear, and on the
thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Lev
8:24 And he brought near the sons of
Aharon, and Mosheh put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and
on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet.
And Mosheh sprinkled the blood on the altar all around,
Lev
8:25 and took the fat and the fat tail,
and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and
the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh,
Lev
8:26 and from the basket of unleavened
bread that was before יהוה he
took one unleavened cake, and a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one thin
cake, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh,
Lev
8:27 and placed all these in the hands
of Aharon and in the hands of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering
before יהוה.
Lev
8:28 Mosheh then took them from their
hands and burned them on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were
ordinations for a sweet fragrance. It was an offering by fire to יהוה.
Lev
8:29 And Mosheh took the breast and
waved it, a wave offering before יהוה.
It was Mosheh’s portion of the ram of ordination, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Lev
8:30 And Mosheh took some of the
anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on
Aharon, on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with
him. And he set apart Aharon, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of
his sons with him.
Lev
8:31 And Mosheh said to Aharon and his
sons, “Cook the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there with
the bread that is in the basket of the ordinations, as I have commanded,
saying, ‘Aharon and his sons are to eat it.’
Lev
8:32 “Then burn the rest of the flesh
and the bread with fire.
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.
Lev
9:1 And on
the eighth day it came to be that Mosheh called Aharon and his sons and the
elders of Yisra’ěl.
Lev
9:2 And he said to Aharon, “Take for yourself a young bull as a sin
offering and a ram as an ascending offering, a perfect one, and bring them
before יהוה.
Lev
9:3 “And speak to the children of Yisra’ěl, saying, ‘Take a male goat as
a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, perfect ones, as an
ascending offering,
Lev
9:4 and a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to slaughter before יהוה,
and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today יהוה shall appear to you.’ ”
Lev
9:5 And they took what Mosheh commanded before the Tent of Appointment,
and all the congregation drew near and stood before יהוה.
Lev
9:6 And Mosheh said, “This is the word which יהוה commanded you to do, so that
the esteem of יהוה appears to you.”
Lev
9:7 And Mosheh said to Aharon, “Go to the slaughter-place, and prepare
your sin offering and your ascending offering, and make atonement for yourself
and for the people. And make the offering of the people, and make atonement for
them, as יהוה has commanded.”
Lev
9:8 So Aharon came near to the slaughter-place and slew the calf of the
sin offering, which was for himself.
Lev
9:9 And the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he dipped his
finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the slaughter-place, and poured
the blood at the base of the slaughter-place.
Lev
9:10 And the fat, and the kidneys, and the appendage on the liver of the
sin offering he burned on the slaughter-place, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Lev
9:11 And the flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the
camp.
Lev
9:12 And he slew the ascending offering, and the sons of Aharon presented
to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the slaughter-place all around.
Lev
9:13 And they presented the ascending offering to him, with its pieces
and head, and he burned them on the slaughter-place.
Lev
9:14 And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with the
ascending offering on the slaughter-place.
Lev
9:15 And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was
the sin offering for the people, and slew it and made it a sin offering, like
the first one.
Lev
9:16 And he brought the ascending offering and made it, according to the
right-ruling.
Lev
9:17 He also brought the grain offering, and filled his hand with it, and
burned it on the slaughter-place, besides the ascending offering of the
morning.
Lev
9:18 And he slew the bull and the ram as a slaughtering of peace offerings,
which were for the people. And Aharon’s sons presented to him the blood, which
he sprinkled on the slaughter-place all around,
Lev
9:19 and the fat from the bull and the ram, the fat tail, and the
covering, and the kidneys, and the appendage on the liver,
Lev
9:20 and they placed the fat on the breasts, and he burned the fat on the
slaughter-place.
Lev
9:21 But the breasts and the right thigh Aharon waved as a wave offering
before יהוה, as Mosheh had commanded.
Lev
9:22 Aharon then lifted up his hand toward the people and blessed them,
and came down from making the sin offering, and the ascending offering, and the
peace offerings.
Lev
9:23 And Mosheh and Aharon went into the Tent of Appointment, and came
out and blessed the people. And the esteem of יהוה appeared to all the people,
Lev
9:24 and fire came out from before יהוה and consumed the ascending offering and
the fat on the slaughter-place. And all the people saw and cried aloud and fell
on their faces.
Lev
10:1 And Naḏaḇ
and Aḇihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his fire holder and put fire in it,
and put incense on it, and brought strange fire before יהוה, which He had not commanded
them.
Lev
10:2 And fire came out from יהוה and consumed them, and they
died before יהוה.
Lev
10:3 Then Mosheh said to Aharon, “This is what יהוה spoke, saying, ‘By those who
come near Me let Me be set-apart! And before all the people let Me be
esteemed!’ ” And Aharon was silent.
Lev
10:4 And Mosheh called to Misha’ěl and to Eltsaphan, the sons of Uzzi’ěl
the uncle of Aharon, and said to them, “Come near, take your brothers from
before the set-apart place out of the camp.”
Lev
10:5 So they came near and took them by their long shirts out of the
camp, as Mosheh had said.
Lev
10:6 And Mosheh said to Aharon, and to El‛azar and to Ithamar, his sons,
“Do not unbind your heads nor tear your garments, lest you die, and wrath come
upon all the people. But let your brothers, all the house of Yisra’ěl, bewail
the burning which יהוה has kindled.
Lev
10:7 “And do not go out from the door of the Tent of Appointment, lest
you die, for the anointing oil of יהוה is upon you.” And they did
according to the word of Mosheh.
2Ch
7:1 And
when Shelomoh had ended praying, fire came down from the heavens and consumed
the ascending offering and the slaughterings. And the esteem of יהוה
filled the House.
2Ch
7:2 And the priests were unable to enter the House of יהוה,
because the esteem of יהוה had filled the House of יהוה.
2Ch 7:3 And all the children of Yisra’ěl saw how the fire came down, and the esteem of יהוה on the House, and they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and did obeisance and gave thanks to יהוה, saying, “For He is good, for His loving-commitment is everlasting.”
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.” (Dedication of altar in the millennium)
In the last days before Messiah’s return YHVH has appointed a set apart remnant in Messiah to bring His people back to the Torah and to begin to prepare His people for the full restoration of the Temple service in Yerushalayim in the Messianic age. (Very few people believe this)
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,
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi0ULlCnKcQ
Levitical Priesthood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmLOXqHvBw&frags=pl%2Cwn
Levitical Priesthood
Midrash and
commentary from the second writings:
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, (Gk - anōphelēs)
Tit
3:9 But
keep away from foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife and quarrels
about the Torah, for they are unprofitable (anōphelēs) and useless.
Tit 3:10 Reject a divisive man after the first and second warning,
Note it is not the Torah that is unprofitable it is the misrepresentation of the Torah that is unprofitable.
Heb 7:19 for the Torah perfected naught,(because of
disobedience) 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.’ ” 1 Pet 2:9
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 ,(Gk ‘’meta’’ denotes accompaniment) the Torah 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.
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 3:23 But before belief came,
we were being guarded under Torah, having been shut up for the belief being
about to be revealed.
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)
pahee-dag-o-gos' Strongs 3807
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.
Note The Torah is referred to as the ‘’servant’’ who takes us to the ‘’Teacher’’ One day this ‘’escort’’ function will cease because we will be in the presence of our Teacher and we will need no one to instruct us concerning our Teacher and the Truth of Torah, because it will be in our hearts.
1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive.
Jer 31:31 “See, the days are
coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a
renewed covenant with the house of Yisra’ěl and with the house of Yehuḏah,[a]
Footnote: a Heb_8:8-12, Heb_10:16-17.
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.”
Here we find the Torah pattern of how the priesthood is ordained – then and in the future – See Ezekiel chps40-48 and 1Kings chp 8.
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 – Amein.