The priesthood not after the carnal commandment-Part 2

In our previous study we saw the priesthood which was not by a carnal commandment but by dabar Malchizedek. We saw Shem who was the father of Abary outliving Abraham as he lived 500 years after the flood and was 390 years when Abraham was born.

We see this priesthood after Dabar Malchizedek as the doorway to the Kahan Gadal (Magnificient priest) Yahusha ha Mashiyach who is the ‘Ban’ (Son) in ‘Taban’ (earthly mishkan pattern) and the ‘Kan’ (base) in the ‘takan’ (heavenly pattern). We are all measured unto him as our Mashiyach is in everything. He is the Alaph and Thu, he is the foundation/base, he is in priesthood, altar, sacrifice, ark of the testament, between the cherubs, in the curtains and all garments of priests, high priest etc. Everything is measured unto him and he holds everything. The carnal (tabaniyth) pointed to the base/measure i.e. the spiritual (takaniyth).

We also saw how this priesthood was transferred from father to the son in a blessing and before even the Thurah was given or an earthly tabernacle was set up we see Abel, Noach etc offering a clean kid from the flock on the altar before even a high priest was ordained which shows the dabar Malchizedek priesthood in force and Yahuah confirming the covenant with Abraham before the Thurah was given.

We also saw Esau loosing his birthright to his younger brother Yaqoob and when he learnt what he lost he wept bitterly seeking to receive it back but he lost it forever.

Heb 12:16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his own birthright.
Heb 12:17 For you know that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

In this study we will see the murderous intention of the high priest where the elder killed the younger or intented to kill the younger and how Yahusha our Mashiyach turns that around in fulfilling the dabar priesthood.

Heb 11:4  By faith Abel offered unto Aluahym a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Aluahym testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

1Jn 3:12  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's (Abel’s) righteous.

When we compare both the scriptures above we see Aluahym testifies of the works/gifts of Abel i.e. the kahan gadal offering of sin which speak of the dabar priesthood and also the sacrifice whereas Cain is said to be of that wicked one i.e. ha shatan.

In our previous study we saw in Ezekiel 28 how Yahuah speaks of ha shatan and says of him ‘thou sealest up the sum’ where the word for sum is ‘takaniyth’ which means ‘pattern’ and we saw how Shatan tries to stop/distort the heavenly pattern who is Mashiyach and involves man in carnal ordinances.

We see Shatan’s murderous intention when through Herod he tried to kill Yahusha when he was a babe. Being a covering cherub once created to guard the pattern (takaniyth) he understood the promise of Aluahym of the dabar priesthood and by all means tried to put an end to the priesthood. The priesthood stood as the only office of mediatorship between Aluahym and man. By doing away with the priesthood which stood in shadows of the eternal priesthood of ha Mashiyach he thought he could be successful.

Cain the elder tried to kill his brother to attain the priesthood but he was accursed and he was banished from the presence of Yahuah forever.

Jude1:9 But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moshe, dare not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, Yahuah rebuke you!

Jude1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they do not know; But what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things corrupt themselves.

Jude1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, And ran greedily after the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Yahudah (Jude) names a few murderers of the priesthood. He begins with Shatan disputing the body of Moshe. The body of Moshe was the written Thurah with all the carnal ordinances. Let’s pick this up from Zech 3.

Zec 3:1 Then he showed me Yahusha (Joshua) the high priest standing before the angel of Yahuah, and hasatan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

Zec 3:2 Yahuah said to hasatan, Yahuah rebuke you, hasatan! And Yahuah who has chosen Yerushalam rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?

First let’s look at the phrase ‘brand plucked from the fire’

The word brand is the Hebrew word ‘aud’ which means ‘charcoal’. The picture is of a charcoal removed from the fire.

The word ‘plucked’ is the Hebrew word ‘natsal’ which means deliver/delivered/escape

‘brand plucked out of fire’ ( zeh ‘aud natsal ’esh) should be correctly translated as ‘charcoal delivered fromthe fire’. Yahusha the high priest has been delivered from the fire of the sacrifical carnal altar.

Coming back to Zechariah 3 where Yahudah (Jude) speaks of, Shatan was standing at the right hand of the Kahan Gadal accusing him of sin because the kahan gadal who were human were sinners and first offered sacrifice for themselves and then for the sins of the people. Yahuah speaking through the Covering cherub ‘Miykael’ rebukes Shatan by saying ‘’Ýahuah rebuke you’’. It was prophetic because Ýahuah indeed rebuked ha Shatan as he became our Yahusha. Shatan disputed the body of Moshe (not his literal body but the Thurah which through carnal ordinances can never take away sins) by rendering the priesthood as useless but he couldn’t continue with the accusation because of dabar Malchizedek priesthood which was eternal and the promised one who would rebuke him.

Zec 3:3 Now Yahusha was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.

Zec 3:4 He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, Remove the filthy garments from him. And he said to him, See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and shall clothe you with festal robes (machaltsah) .

‘Machaltsah’ comes from the root word ‘çhalats’ which means ‘Loins’ in the sense of next generation being drawn from the loins.

By giving a change of robe to the kahan gadal whose garments were filthy Yahuah is showing us spiritually that the nakedness of the high priest is taken by the one who would come in the next generation who is ha Mashiyach himself the dabar Malchizedek fulfillment and the continuation of the carnal priesthood according to the Thruah till the promise is fulfilled. This is a beautiful picture of the preservation of the priesthood by Yahuah until he would become Yahusha  for us.

Coming back to Yahudah (Jude 1). He names murderers beginning from shatan, then Cain, then Balaam and finally Korah.

We saw already how Cain the elder killing his younger brother Abel.

Balaam was an Edomite and a descendant of Esau who lost his birthright to Yaqoob his younger brother.

Balaam: ‘Bal’ in Hebrew means ‘without’/’nothing’ and ám’ in Hebrew means ‘people’

Balaam put together means ‘Without people’ or a ‘people brought to nothing’. Bal is rooted in ‘Babel’ which is a kingdom of nothingness or the kingdom WITHOUT

Esau the eldest brother was brought to this nothingness as he lost his birthright to his younger brother Yaqoob.

Gen 25:23 Yahuah said to her, Two nations are in your womb (Esau and Yaqoob); and two peoples shall be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the older shall serve the younger.

1Ch 1:43  Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

While there were many ‘Beor’, this name was popular in Edom because he was a descendant of Esau.

Gen 36:32  And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

Num 24:3  And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

We see a picture of Balaam trying to murder his younger brother Yasharal in the wilderness for money by cursing them and when he was unsuccessful he caused a stumbling block to be placed before Yasharal by causing them to eat things sacrificed to idols. For her knew that if Yasharal sinned surely Yahuah would curse them.

Rev 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

Korah:

Exo 6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Yitzhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

Exo 6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.

Exo 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

Exo 6:21 And the sons of Yitzhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

Num 16:1  Now Korah, the son of Yitzhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:

Num 16:2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

The Korach rebellion: Korach was the eldest son of Yitzhar the brother of Amram who was the father of Moshe and Aaharon. There was Korach himself, Moses’ and Aaron’s cousin, indignant that the supreme leadership positions had gone to his family, the sons of Amram and Uzziel the youngest, while he, the eldest son of Amram’s brother Yitzhar, had had no equivalent honour. There were the Reubenites, Datan and Aviram, who felt that their tribe – that of Yaqoob’s firstborn son – had not received its due share of leadership roles. And there were the 250 community leaders who may have felt that they had not been given appropriate honour in the service of the sanctuary.

In Numbers 3, Aluahym set aside the Levites, out of the tribes of Yasharal, for full time service to Him. They were ordained to take care of the tabernacle and all of its implements, as well as the Ark of the Covenant. Only the descendants of Aaron, however, were allowed to serve as priests.

The three sons of Levi were Gershon, Merari, and Kohath. The Gershonites were responsible for the care of the tabernacle and tent, its coverings, the curtain at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the curtains of the courtyard, the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard surrounding the tabernacle and altar, and the ropes—and everything related to their use. The Merarites were appointed to take care of the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, bases, all its equipment, and everything related to their use, as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes. The Kohathites were responsible for the care of the sanctuary. They were responsible for the care of the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used in ministering, the curtain, and everything related to their use. They were under the direct supervision of Eleazar, son of Aaron.

Unlike the Gershonites and the Merarites, who were allowed to transport the items under their care on carts, the Kohathites had to carry their items, the holy things of the tabernacle, on their shoulders. They had the arduous burden of transporting these items from place to place as the camp moved, but they were not allowed to actually touch the items or they would die. The priests had to wrap the sacred objects in special coverings before they were transported (Numbers 4:15). Many of the Kohathites began to disdain this task and to covet the role of the priests.

Num 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Korah the cousin of Moshe and Aaharon with the eldest sons of the tribes were not happy with their allotment in service of the mishkan and came against Moshe and Aaharon with whom they were jealous of because Yahuah chose these men Moshe and Aaharon to deliver his people Yasharal and Aaharon and his sons to stand ministering as priests. Thus they came against the priesthood appointed by Aluahym. The eldest sons claiming their rights.

Num 3:30  And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

Num 3:31  And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

Uzziel was younger brother to Yitzhar the father of Korah and yet his son was given the rulership of chief of the father of the families of the KOHATHITES.

Num 3:32  And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

Korah’s argument may have been  ‘’My father was one of four brothers… Amram was the firstborn. Of his sons, Aaron was awarded the priesthood and Moshe was given kingship. Who is worthy of receiving the next honor if not the second [brother, Yitzhar]? I, Yitzhar's son should have been made prince of the clan, but instead Moshe appointed Elizaphan, son of Uziel [the fourth and youngest brother; see Bamidbar (Numbers) 3:30]. Should the youngest of father's brothers be greater than I?

We know what happened of Korah and his company of rebellion. The earth opened up and swallowed them all. But we see the mercy of Yahuah that his sons were not consumed with them and we have beautiful Psalms written by the sons of Korah, something Korah was not aware of, of what Yahuah had kept in store for his seed.

We saw the scripture Gen25:23 Yahuah said to her, Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples shall be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the older shall serve the younger.

While the eldest son was always bestowed much honor and was the heir to the father we see it was said that the ólder shall serve the younger’. We saw that among brothers the eldest stood to even kill his younger brother just like Cain did to attain the priestly blessing. Esau didn’t kill Yaqoob but he had the murderous intention to do so.

Gen 27:41  And Esau hated Yaqoob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

We already saw the examples of Shatan, Cain, Balaam (false prophet), Korah and Esau-they all came against the dabar priesthood seeking an inheritance among mediatorship but they all were restrained from their evil purpose.

Psa 110:4 Yahuah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after Dabar Malchizedek.

The dabar Malchizedek priesthood was forever and Yahusha ha Mashiyach is the fulfillment of the priesthood.

Heb 2:11  For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he (Yahusha) is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Heb 2:12  Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

Heb 2:13  And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which Aluahym hath given me.

Yahusha came as our elder brother and fulfilled Dabar Malchizedek. It was told the ólder shall serve the younger’ and that’s exactly what he did. In fact being the Kahan Gadal he allowed himself to be murdered so that he could give his birth right (priesthood) to us his younger brethren.

Act 3:14  But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

Act 3:15  And killed the Prince of life, whom Aluahym hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

This is the grace of Aluahym. Yasharal killed his high priest but the love of high priest was that out of his side flowed blood and water which gave Yasharal a hope of redemption from the womb of sorrow. This is the love of Aluahym. Among men the elder tried to murder his younger brother to get his birthright but with Yahusha, the elder readily laid down his life for his younger brother to give him his birthright of this priesthood.

1Pe2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingdom (mamlakath) priesthood (kahanayim), a holy nation, a preculiar people; so that you should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Mamlakath: Mem Mem Lamed Kaph Hay Thu

Laka means walk. The pictograph is of the staff in the palm of a nomad to support in walking in the wilderness.

Mem Lamed Kaph (malak) means king. Hence ‘Mem Malak Hay Thu’ (malakath: Mem Mem Lamed Kaph Hay Thu) means ‘many kings behold in covenant’

The picture is of all the elect as kings walking (Lakah) in the Covenant. Hence ‘malakath kahanayim’ is ‘Many kings behold in covenant as priests’.

Rev 5:10 You have made us to our Al kings and priests; and they shall reign upon the earth.

Having received this priesthood from Yahusha Ha Mashiyach we now do not serve in the holy place but now have access to the most holy place where only once a year the Kahan Ha Gadal (magnificient/high priest) alone went once a year.

Heb 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service,

Heb 9:7 but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people.

Heb 10:19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence into the entrance of the holy place by the blood of Yahusha,

Heb 10:20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,

The older shall serve the younger was seen in the servanthood of Mashiyach.

The hatred of man makes way to the love of Mashiyach.

John 13:4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.

John 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

John 13:6 So He came to Simon Kepha. He said to Him, My Master, do You wash my feet?

John 13:7 Yahusha answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you shall understand hereafter.”