AFTER ESTABLISHING THAT YAHUSHA IS INDEED OUR HIGH PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK, PAUL NOW INTRODUCES THE FACT THAT A PRIEST MUST HAVE A SANCTUARY (A TEMPLE) TO CARRY OUT HIS MINISTRY IN. SO JUST AS THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD HAD ONE, SO MUST THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD. THE TRUE SANCTUARY IS NOT EARTHLY THOUGH, BUT HEAVENLY AND EVERY SHADOW AND MODULE OF OLD WAS POINTING OUR ATTENTION TO IT.
H E B R E W S . 8
1 So here's the point of what we're saying: We have a High Priest like that, Who sits 'at the right hand' of the Throne of greatness in Heaven. ALL AUTHORITY
2 For Our High Priest serves in the Most Set-Apart Place, serving in the true Tabernacle that was made by Alahim, not by mankind. YAHUSHA WANTS TO BE CLOSE !
3 For every High Priest has the work of offering gifts and sacrifices to Alahim. So our High Priest must also have something to offer. PERFECT BODY AND BLOOD ON THE STAKE!
4 For if our High Priest were now living on earth, He would definitely not be a Priest. I say this because there are already Priests here who offer gifts according to the Torah Laws.
PROOF THAT THE PRIESTHOOD WAS STILL OPERATING IN REJECTION OF YAHUSHA !
ON EARTH HE WAS THE SACRIFICE BUT IN HEAVEN HE IS THE KING & HIGH PRIEST ...
5 For these Priests perform only a copy and a shadow (IMAGE) of what is in Heaven (SHADOW IS NOT REALITY). That is why Alahim warned Moses when he was ready to build the set-apart Tabernacle: “Be sure to make everything exactly like the pattern I showed you on the mountain.” AARONIC PRIESTS SIMPLY ACTED OUT
(LIKE A PLAY) TYPICALLY WHAT THE REAL MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD WOULD DO IN ACTUALITY ... MUST FOLLOW PATTERN!
6 But the ministry and service Yahusha does is more excellent and superior to those old Priests, for He is the mediator of a much better Blood-Covenant, based on far greater promises. MIDDLE-MAN - N.Co TO RESTORE INTIMACY
1 TIMOTHY 2:5
"For there is one Alahim, and one mediator between Alahim and mankind - the man Yahusha Messiah, 6Who gave Himself as a ransom for all, to be realised in due time".
JOB 16:21
"O' that one might plead for a man with
Alahim, as a man pleads for his neighbour!"
JOB 9:33
"For Alahim is not a man, as I am, that I could answer Him, and for us to come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman between us, that might lay his hand upon us both".
UMPIRE/GO-BETWEEN... (HEBREW: PLEAD, REASON, DECIDE, INSTRUCT)
JOB 19:25
"For I know that my redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And even after my skin-worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I will see Alahim".
AS THE ALAHIM-MAN, YAHUSHA PERFECTLY KNOWS BOTH SIDES OF THE DIMENSIONAL-SIN-CONFLICT AND BROUGHT ABOUT RECONCILIATION (RESTORED INTIMACY & DIRECT ACCESS WITH HIM) THROUGH HIS PERFECT BLOOD, USHERING IN THE FAR GREATER PROMISES OF ETERNAL LIFE. (ALL THE `BETTERS')
7 So obviously, if there was nothing wrong with the first Covenant, then there would be no need for a second Covenant would there? 1st COVENANT THAT MADE YISHARAL A NATION
8 But Yahuah found something very wrong with the people when He said, 'The time is coming when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Yisharal and Judah. QUOTED FROM JER 31 / EZ 11 / EZ 36 ... WHILE
9 O' but it won't be like the first one that I made with their fathers in the wilderness, when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. For they did not continue following the Covenant I gave them, and so I turned away from them' ... ABRAHAM'S COVENANT HAD NO CONDITIONS ... MOSES' COVENANT DID!
10 But this is the New Blood-Covenant I'll give the people of Yisharal: I'll put My Torah Laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and will be their Alahim, and they will be My people.
IN THE NATURAL, THE HOUSE OF YISHARAL WAS SCATTERED AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH (THE FEW THAT RETURNED) GENERALLY REJECTED THEIR OWN MESSIAH ... SO THE `TWO STICKS PROPHESY' WILL BE UNITED IN THE REVELATION OF YAHUSHA'S MULTI-CULTURAL BRIDE FROM THE EARTH. TORAH TO BE WRITTEN IN MIND (PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE) AND ON HEART (WE THINK FROM HEART) ... TSITSITS WERE TO REMIND - NOW YAHUSHA HAS WRITTEN HIS LAWS OF LOVE ON OUR HEARTS ...
WE ARE NOT SET FREE TO BE LAWLESS BUT TO BE OBEDIENT TO YAHUSHA'S ROYAL LAWS OF LOVE !
THEY WEREN'T NEW ... BUT PROPHETIC
( SPOKEN OF AT THE SAME TIME AS THE TEN WORDS GIVEN )
>>> TRUE COMMANDS ARE SUPERNATURAL NOT IN STONE <<<
THE COMMANDS GIVEN TO MOSES DEALT WITH THE OUTWARD ACTION AND THE FLESHLY - THE EXTERNAL MAN - HOWEVER YAHUSHA'S TWO ROYAL LAWS OF LOVE DEAL WITH THE HEART, THE MIND, THE THOUGHTS, THE INTERNAL MOTIVES AND SUPERNATURAL POWER WITHIN - BECAUSE THE INSIDE AFFECTS THE OUTWARD BEHAVIOUR ...
ONCE AGAIN - WE ARE NOT SET FREE TO SIN FOR LOVE ISN'T LAWLESS!
THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES AND STATEMENTS DECLARING THAT YISHARAL IS NOT YAHUAH'S PEOPLE ANYMORE (HOSEA'S KIDS etc - `not My people, have no mercy') AND ALSO MANY PROPHECIES STATING THAT HE WILL ONCE AGAIN CALL THEM HIS PEOPLE .... BUT THIS CAN ONLY OCCUR IN THE NEW COVENANT, WHEREBY BOTH JEW & GENTILE ARE UNITED, ANOINTED, GIFTED AND TRANSFORMED .
11 And never again will anyone have to teach their neighbors or their family to know Yahuah. For all people, (from the greatest to the least), will know Me. ( JER 31 )
THIS WAS THE JOB OF THE LEVITES ... NOW IT'S FULFILLED THROUGH YAHUSHA'S SPIRIT WITHIN AND HIS ANOINTED GIFTINGS WITHIN THE ASSEMBLY ... UNTIL SUCH A TIME AS LOVE REIGNS ... COMING TO THE MEASURE OF THE FULNESS OF YAHUSHA'S STATURE !
12 And I will forgive their lawless, rebellious behaviour and I will not remember their sins anymore.” YEARLY REMBRANCE FEASTS
UNDER OLD LAW THERE WAS NO MERCY - ONLY DEATH. THE LID OF THE ARK WAS CALLED THE MERCY-SEAT ... TOUCH IT, LOOK AT IT AND DIE ! NOW UNDER THE NEW COVENANT THE VEIL HAS BEEN RENT AND THE ARK HAS BEEN OPENED TO WITNESS THE TRUE SPIRIT AND POWER OF YAHUSHA'S ETERNAL VOICE AND REQUIREMENTS .... LOVE & MERCY !
"I DESIRE MERCY (COMPASSION) NOT SACRIFICE" YAHUSHA SAID ...
13 So by calling this a New Covenant, He has made the first Covenant old, (meaning it's decaying and ready to vanish away).
COMMON SENSE - NEW IMPLIES OLD IS GONE - WHY THE DECEPTIVE `RENEWED'?
WINESKINS/GARMENTS - YAHUSHA ALWAYS ALLUDED TO THIS CHANGE-OVER !
ONLY THE NEW COVENANT CAN BE EVERLASTING AS YAHUSHA IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF THIS VERY COVENANT, IN HIS OWN BLOOD AS THE SIGN, SEAL AND NEW ARRANGEMENT OF RELATIONSHIP AND BEHAVIOUR .... LOVE!
SITS IN
HISTORY OF THE ALTAR:
HE OFFERED THE GREATEST SACRIFICE OF HIS
WAS AN ACCUMULATION OF ALL BEFORE.
THE FIRST COVENANT WAS STILL IN EFFECT
YISHARAL BROKE SO YAHUAH BROKE (CAN'T REMARRY) ONLY WAY IN IS THROUGH YAHUSHA!
GALATIANS 4
21 Some of you people want to be under the Torah Law again. Tell me, do you know what the Law says? 22 The Scriptures say that Abraham had two sons. The mother of one son was a slave woman (HAGAR) and the mother of the other son was a free woman (SARAH). 23 Abraham’s son from the slave woman was born in the normal fleshly way. But the son from the free woman was born because of the promise Alahim made to Abraham.
24 This true story is an illustration (shadow/module) for us, for the two women are like the two Covenants between Alahim and His people. One Covenant is the Torah Law that Yahuah made on Mount Sinai, and the people who are under this Covenant are like slaves. The mother named Hagar is like that Covenant. 25 So Hagar is like Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is a shadow of the earthly city of Jerusalem. This city is a slave, and all its people are slaves to the Torah Law. 26 But the Heavenly Jerusalem (that is above) is like the free woman, who is our mother ....
28 My brothers and sisters, you are children who were born because of Alahim’s promise, just as Isaac was. 29 But the other son of Abraham, who was born in the normal fleshly way, caused trouble for the one who was born by the power of the Spirit. And it's the same today. 30 But what do the Scriptures say? 'Throw out the slave woman and her son! The son of the free woman will receive everything his father has, but the son of the slave woman will receive nothing.' 31 So, my Brothers and Sisters, we are not children of the slave woman. We are children of the free woman".