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[[File:Jesusfeeds.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The priesthoods of nations like that of [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], John the [[Baptism|Baptist]] and Jesus and certainly the early [[Church]] advocated a [[Daily ministration]] that was dependent on [[Charity]] only and it was not like the system of [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and [[Rome]].]] | [[File:Jesusfeeds.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The priesthoods of nations like that of [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], John the [[Baptism|Baptist]] and Jesus and certainly the early [[Church]] advocated a [[Daily ministration]] that was dependent on [[Charity]] only and it was not like the system of [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and [[Rome]]. What is the difference between the [[priest]]s of [[righteousness]] and those of priests of [[Balaam]] and the [[Nicolaitan]]?<Br>In [[Mark 9]] their are three priests mentioned who will have the ''means and methods'' of [[Christ]] rather than those of [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]]. What is the roll of such a [[priest]]? Are there more than one kind of priesthood?<Br>Both require some form of [[fasting]] and [[sacrifice]]. <Br>Both kinds priests are an office of [[one form of government]] or ''another''. <Br> One kind of [[priest]] will tickle the ears of the people while riding the back of a beast<Ref name="marks">{{marks}}</Ref> and delivering the people into [[bondage]] as the harlot church of Babylon. The other priests of Christ believe in [[the way]] of [[Christ]] as [[servants]] of [[righteousness]].<Br>They can be identified by the means and methods of their position. <Br>One form sets the [[captive]] free and the other bring them into [[bondage]]? Both provide for the needy of society through what can be called [[religion]]. <Br>One system is [[Pure religion|Pure Religion]] and the other is [[Public religion]].<Br>One is a system of [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]] requiring [[love]] and [[Freewill offering|freewill offerings]] and the other is a system of of [[force]], [[fear]], and [[fealty]], requiring [[allegiance]] and [[Submit|obedience]]. <Br>One gives [[liberty]] of [[choice]] and the other offers [[dainties]] from [[rulers]] which are a great [[Plutarch|destroyer]] of [[Liberty degenerate|liberty]].]] | ||
== Priests and other Administers of the people == | == Priests and other Administers of the people == | ||
Most people and religionists today including many modern theologians and ministers do not understand what was meant by a '''''priest''''', who they were and what service they performed for society. There are men all around that still provide the same services of the [[Priests|priest]]s of old, but you no longer call them [[Priests|priest]]s nor even ministers. | Most people and religionists today including many modern theologians and ministers do not understand what was meant by a '''''priest''''', who they were and what service they performed for society in ancient times. There are men all around that still provide the same services of the [[Priests|priest]]s of old, but you no longer call them [[Priests|priest]]s nor even ministers. | ||
As a matter of fact, you do not find them in what you call church today. You find those administers in government buildings, which makes perfect sense because the | As a matter of fact, you do not find them in what you call church today. You find those administers in [[government]] buildings, which makes perfect sense because the [[early Church]] was “[[Church legally defined|one form of government]]” too. The ancient [[Temples]] were often supported by government taxes and provided services that today are provided far to often by governments that exercise authority one over the other with disastrous consequences. | ||
You see, although the word [[Religion|religion]] is defined today as what you think about a supreme being, just two hundred years ago [[Religion|religion]] was defined as the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman. That duty included coming to your neighbor's aid in time of trouble. | You see, although the word [[Religion|religion]] is defined today as ''what you think about a supreme being'', just two hundred years ago [[Religion|religion]] was defined as ''the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman''. That duty included coming to your neighbor's aid in time of trouble. | ||
The [[Church]] use to take care of the needy of society by charity to the ministers of the [[Church]] who used those funds in a [[Daily ministration]] from house to house. In fact this is the very definition of [[Pure Religion]]. This is why Jesus told us stories about good Samaritans and condemned the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]]. | The [[Church]] use to take care of the needy of [[society]] by [[charity]] freely given to the ministers of the [[Church]] who used those funds in a [[Daily ministration]] from house to house without any assistance from ''[[World|the constitutional orders or systems of government]]''. In fact this is the very definition of [[Pure Religion]]. This is why Jesus told us stories about good Samaritans and condemned the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]]. | ||
The [[Church]] was | The [[Church]] was [[appoint]]ed by Christ, and its [[Ekklesia|called out]] ministers were its public servants. These ministers formed a body politic, ''one form of government''.<Ref>: “[[Church]]. In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances.” | ||
: “A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies.” Black’s Law Dictionary, 3rd ed. Page 325. also 4th, 5th 6th … Eds.</Ref> | : “A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies.” Black’s Law Dictionary, 3rd ed. Page 325. also 4th, 5th 6th … Eds.</Ref> | ||
They could not [[Exercises authority|exercise authority]] over the people like the [[Benefactors]] of other governments but depended upon the people for | They could not [[Exercises authority|exercise authority]] over the people like the [[Benefactors]] of other [[governments]] of the [[world]] but depended upon the people for [[freewill offerings]] of the people to provide for the people according to their needs. In other words God taxed the people in their hearts and minds and through [[charity]] that government was supported by their [[Freewill offerings|freewill offerings]]. | ||
The [[Temples]] of [[governments]] back then hated Christians and accused them of robbing them because the most generous givers moved to [[The Way]] of Christ as it was more fruitful. | The [[Temples]] of [[governments]] back then hated Christians and accused them of robbing them because the most generous givers moved to [[The Way]] of Christ as it was more fruitful. | ||
Today's [[Priests|priest]]s and administers work at the welfare office and social security and run the | Today's [[Priests|priest]]s and administers work at the [[welfare]] office and [[social security]] administrations and run the educational departments of modern government just like they did in the government [[Temples]] of [[Rome]]. | ||
The people who sit in darkness imagine they see the wisdom of the [[Torah]] and have unmoored the spirit of scripture from the symbols of the text through [[sophistry]] and pride. They need to [[seek]] the [[kingdom of God]] and his [[righteousness]] by searching their own souls so that in [[repent]]ance they may find the ''wise hearted, whom God has filled with the spirit of wisdom'' for they have no one who can [[breeches|consecrate the garments]] of their priests.<Ref> [[Exodus 28]]:3 And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the [[priest]]’s office.</Ref> | |||
== Kohen == | == Kohen == | ||
Israel was a nation chosen to serve all people as [[Priests|priest]]s. What kind of [[Priests|priest]]s? The Hebrew word ''kohen'' is translated as “[[Priests|priest]]” 744 times. It is also translated “own” twice, “chief ruler” twice, “officer” and “princes” once each. It is defined as “[[Priests|priest]], principal officer or chief ruler” and could mean a pagan, or Levitical [[Priests|priest]], or even a [[Priests|priest]]-king. Jesus was such a [[Priests|priest]] after the order of Melchisedec, but he ruled, not with the rod of iron like Rome, but with love, service, and humility. He was the Prince of Peace. | Israel was a nation chosen to serve all people as [[Priests|priest]]s. What kind of [[Priests|priest]]s? The Hebrew word ''kohen'' is translated as “[[Priests|priest]]” 744 times. It is also translated “own” twice, “chief ruler” twice, “officer” and “princes” once each. It is defined as “[[Priests|priest]], principal officer or chief ruler” and could mean a pagan, or Levitical [[Priests|priest]], or even a [[Priests|priest]]-king. Jesus was such a [[Priests|priest]] after the order of [[Melchisedec]], but he ruled, not with the rod of iron like [[Rome]], but with love, service, and humility. He was the Prince of Peace. | ||
The original role of the [[Priests|priest]] came from the first-born son of the family, who managed the common funds of the family for the benefit of all its members. The [[Priests|priest]]s of a nation were very much the same. Israel was a kingdom, not a religion. It was a system of faith, but all governments are systems of faith or fidelity, established for the welfare of the people, accepting, in exchange, a portion of their loyalty or allegiance. A Godly government is based upon the precepts of a brotherhood of love and charity and not upon demands and force. | If the priests of your government are using [[force]] through an [[exercise authority|exercising authority]] to care for and [[Benefactors|provide for]] the the people those are not the priests of [[early Israel]], nor the [[early Church]]. | ||
The original role of the [[Priests|priest]] came from the first-born son of the family, who managed the common funds of the family for the benefit of all its members. The [[Priests|priest]]s of a nation were very much the same. Israel was a kingdom, not a [[religion]]. It was a system of [[faith]], but all governments are systems of faith or fidelity, established for the [[welfare]] of the people, accepting, in exchange, a portion of their loyalty or allegiance. A Godly government is based upon the precepts of a brotherhood of [[love]] and [[charity]] and not upon demands and [[force]]. | |||
For almost 400 hundred years, Israel had been a powerful nation with no central government, no compulsory tax, and no police force or standing army, other than an organized brotherhood of free citizens. The dominion and civil power was in the hands of the individual families. Patriarchs ruled their own families. With the law in their hands, they came together in a union of community consensus and national brotherhood. | For almost 400 hundred years, Israel had been a powerful nation with no central government, no compulsory tax, and no police force or standing army, other than an organized brotherhood of free citizens. The dominion and civil power was in the hands of the individual families. Patriarchs ruled their own families. With the law in their hands, they came together in a union of community consensus and national brotherhood. | ||
The first-born of those families were the [[Priests|priest]]s within the family, but the [[Priests|priest]]s and ministers of the nation were chosen from amongst the first-born of a nation, which, as a people, were called the Levites. God said that they were to open the matrix of the nation. They belonged to God the Father<Ref>Numbers 8:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. [[Numbers 3]]:12</Ref> with separate civil communities or cities. | The first-born of those families were the [[Priests|priest]]s within the family, but the [[Priests|priest]]s and ministers of the nation were chosen from amongst the first-born of a nation, which, as a people, were called the [[Levites]]. God said that they were to open the matrix of the nation. They belonged to God the Father<Ref>[[Numbers 8]]:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. [[Numbers 3]]:12</Ref> with separate civil communities or [[cities of refuge|cities]]. | ||
The people ruled themselves. But the people voluntarily came together in a series of small groups or congregations.<Ref>''edah'' from ed meaning witness. It is translated congregation 124 times, company 13, assembly 9 times and multitude, people and swarm once each. It means a congregation, gathering</Ref> Ten elders of families would gather together to choose a representative who would be in service to those families. Ten of these ministers, in turn, would choose their administer, who were the elders or princes of the tribe and, eventually, the nation. The same pattern was played out in the Levites’ charitable ministration to the tents of the congregation. | The people ruled themselves. But the people voluntarily came together in a series of small groups or congregations.<Ref>''edah'' from ed meaning witness. It is translated [[Congregations|congregation]] 124 times, company 13, assembly 9 times and multitude, people and swarm once each. It means a congregation, gathering</Ref> [[Tens|Ten elders]] of families would gather together to choose a representative who would be in service to those families. Ten of these ministers, in turn, would choose their administer, who were the elders or princes of the tribe and, eventually, the nation. The same pattern was played out in the Levites’ charitable ministration to the tents of the congregation. | ||
: "… the | : "… the [[Levites]]… they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:" [[Numbers 8]]:24 | ||
Both the elders of the nations and the men who followed their lead were the right hand of government. Those elder Levites, chosen by the congregation and then by other Levites, had no personal estate. They could not own real property in their own name. They were a separate civil jurisdiction unto themselves. This was the left hand of the governing system of the Kingdom of God, Israel. Neither had authority over the people. They were men respected in their service. They were titular in their offices.<Ref>Webster’s. “REPUBLIC 3. A state or nation with a president as its titular head.” [A person who holds title, especially without any obligations of office]. See Republic vs Democracy, The Covenants of the gods.</Ref> | Both the elders of the nations and the men who followed their lead were the right hand of government. Those elder [[Levites]], chosen by the congregation and then by other Levites, had no personal estate. They could not own real property in their own name. They were a separate civil jurisdiction unto themselves. This was the left hand of the governing system of the Kingdom of God, Israel. Neither had authority over the people. They were men respected in their service. They were titular in their offices.<Ref>Webster’s. “REPUBLIC 3. A state or nation with a president as its titular head.” [A person who holds title, especially without any obligations of office]. See [[Republic]] vs [[Democracy]], [[COg|The Covenants of the gods]].</Ref> | ||
: "Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service." [[ | : "[[Tithing|Take [it]]] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the [[Levites]], to every man according to his service." [[Numbers 7]]:5 | ||
This was an amazing concept in government, where no employed minister would get paid unless his constituents thought he was doing a service and those ministers were directly answerable to, at least, 10 constituents, yet autonomous. | This was an amazing concept in government, where no employed minister would get paid unless his constituents thought he was doing a service and those ministers were directly answerable to, at least, 10 constituents, yet autonomous. | ||
It was a system of responsibility, charity, faith, and hope. It was not a government of self- indulgence, sloth, pride, and arrogance. Why would the people ask for a central government, knowing that guaranteed entitlements granted a reciprocating entitlement to the ruler of that system; knowing that your ministers would be appointed from the top down; and knowing that your goods and the firstfruits of your labor would be taken for its purposes; knowing that your sons and daughters would become human resources serving that government.<Ref>[[1 Samuel 8]]:</Ref> | It was a system of responsibility, [[charity]], [[faith]], and [[hope]]. It was not a government of self- indulgence, sloth, pride, and arrogance. Why would the people ask for a central government, knowing that guaranteed entitlements granted a reciprocating entitlement to the ruler of that system; knowing that your ministers would be appointed from the top down; and knowing that your goods and the firstfruits of your labor would be taken for its purposes; knowing that your sons and daughters would become human resources serving that government.<Ref>[[1 Samuel 8]]:</Ref> | ||
Giving power to a central authority, and having that same authority appoint the servants of government, relinquishes a responsibility required of the people in a truly free society. Such granted power corrupts the leaders with that same power and the people with apathy. Despite God’s warnings, men continue in pride to imagine that they can control such constituted governments. From Saul to Rehoboam, all of the rulers of God’s kingdom violated the constitution of Israel and its remnant, Judea.<Ref>[[Deuteronomy 17]]:14…</Ref> | Giving power to a central authority, and having that same authority appoint the servants of government, relinquishes a responsibility required of the people in a truly free society. Such granted power corrupts the leaders with that same power and the people with apathy. Despite God’s warnings, men continue in pride to imagine that they can control such constituted governments. From [[Saul]] to Rehoboam, all of the rulers of God’s kingdom violated the constitution of Israel and its remnant, Judea.<Ref>[[Deuteronomy 17]]:14…</Ref> | ||
They had forgotten the despotism of Egypt and had grown weary of the individual responsibility of a free state. After only a few kings, Israel divided as a kingdom under Rehoboam. Most of the people forsook the kingly line of David and abandoned the centralized civil powers. The people desired “Those days when there was no king or central government in Israel, and every man did what he believed was right in his own eyes.”<Ref>[[Judges 17]]:6 </Ref> | They had forgotten the despotism of Egypt and had grown weary of the individual responsibility of a free state. After only a few kings, Israel divided as a kingdom under Rehoboam. Most of the people forsook the kingly line of David and abandoned the centralized civil powers. The people desired “Those days when there was no king or central government in Israel, and every man did what he believed was right in his own eyes.”<Ref>[[Judges 17]]:6 </Ref> | ||
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== Priests as servants of the people == | == Priests as servants of the people == | ||
[[File:tower-of-babel.jpg|right|325px|thumb|'''What is [[Mystery Babylon]]?'''<Br> What is the "city<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and tower<Ref name="tower">{{04062}}</Ref>" of Babel we see in [[Genesis 11]] really all about?<Br> If we understand what [[Nimrod]] was doing will we then understand what [[Mystery Babylon]] means in [[Revelation 18]]?<Br>Was "city<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and tower<Ref name="tower">{{04062}}</Ref>" like [[Babylon]] a civil [[Systems|system]] set up by men like [[Nimrod]], [[Caesar]], [[Herod]], and [[FDR]]?<Ref name="Pollack">"If we search out the origins of [[Roman Law]], we must study [[Babylon]]..." Sir Frederic Pollack and Frederic William Maitland, The History of the English Law Before the Time of Edward I, page 561, Cambridge Univ. Press 1968.</Ref> <Br>Did it oppose the superior [[Common Law]] with [[Babylon]]ic intent?<Ref>"[[Civil law]] stems from [[Babylon]] and is inquisitorial, encouraging and requiring the state's violation of one's freedom of [[conscience]]. This ever-present trait arises from the [[Babylon]]ian system's dependence upon the [[priest]]'s judicial power to examine its subjects in the Babylonian deity's name. In theory, the Babylonian deity, using various names worldwide and personified in the state or its demagogue, invested his priests with the power to examine the consciences of devotees by whatever means necessary, granting absolution or condemnation according to their imperious pleasure. By entrusting themselves to a totalitarian state, the Babylonian settlers established statism." Brent Allan Winters, Excellence of the [[Common Law]], Compared and Contrasted with Civil Law in Light of History, Nature and Scripture, Page 63, 2008.</Ref> <Br> Were these terms [[metaphor]]s for the '''[[city of blood]]''' spoken of by Jeremiah<Ref>[[Jeremiah 26]]:15</Ref>, Ezekiel<Ref>[[Ezekiel 7]]:23, [[Ezekiel 9]]:9, [[Ezekiel 22]]:2-3 ,[[Ezekiel 24]]:6-9 </Ref>, Hosea<Ref>[[Hosea 6]]:8</Ref>, Nahum<Ref>[[Nahum 3]]:1</Ref>, Habakkuk<Ref>[[Habakkuk 2]]:8, 12,17</Ref>, and even Revelation.<Ref>[[Revelation 14]]:20</Ref>? Which way is can we go to be [[Exiting Babylon]]?<Br> The word ''[[Babylon]]'' is from the [[Hebrew]] word [[0894|Babel]] meaning ''"confusion by mingling"''. | |||
<Br>The [[Babylon]]ian system was a "[[One purse]]" system based on the "[[covetous practices]]" of "[[legal charity]]" leading to [[socialism]] with [[Nimrod]]'s officers of his [[welfare state]] as the [[Benefactors]] of [[society]]. <Br>The way society "mingles" or "[[Entangled|entangles]]" itself in the "[[elements]]" of the "[[world]]" relates to [[the way]] the [[masses]] provide [[Social welfare]], which may [[degenerate]] them into [[perfect savages]] through becoming accustomed to the [[covetous practices]] of the [[world]]. [[Nimrod]]'s city and tower was to provide [[protection]] in the form of a "[[social security]]" system that would make the people [[merchandise]], returning them to the [[bondage of Egypt]]. ]] | |||
The original ministers of Israel were the [[Levites]] who served the [[Congregations]] of the people. | The original ministers of Israel were the [[Levites]] who served the [[Congregations]] of the people. | ||
Those servants who managed the contributions of society for its benefit in fulfillment of that duty were often called '''kohens''' or ''[[Priests|priest]]s''<Ref> [[Priests|Priest]], is derived from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family</Ref> at one time but are more often called ''bureaucrats'' today. A [[Priests|priest]] is “a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion” but [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php religion] use to be defined as “the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman”. That is duty has been pursued either through systems of free will offerings or or sacrifice or they were provided through compelled offerings directed by men who rule over the people; in other words either through [[Church]] or state. | Those servants who managed the contributions of society for its benefit in fulfillment of that duty were often called '''kohens''' or ''[[Priests|priest]]s''<Ref> [[Priests|Priest]], is derived from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family</Ref> at one time but are more often called ''bureaucrats'' today. A [[Priests|priest]] is “a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion” but [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php religion] use to be defined as “the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman”. That is duty has been pursued either through systems of free will offerings or or sacrifice or they were provided through compelled offerings directed by men who rule over the people; in other words either through [[Church]] or state. | ||
The word [[Priests|priest]] is also defined “as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.” Ancient altars of Abraham and Moses was part of their welfare system that bound the nation together. Through sophistry those sacrifices turned into mindless religious rituals which provided little services for the people. | The word [[Priests|priest]] is also defined “as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.” Ancient [[altars]] of [[Abraham]] and [[Moses]] was part of their [[welfare]] system that bound the nation together. Through [[sophistry]] those sacrifices turned into mindless religious rituals which provided little services for the people. | ||
The [[Priests|priest]]s were not mediators between God and the people but mediatory agents. An agent was “a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:” While mediatory is merely “ to serve as a medium for causing (a result) or transferring (objects, information, etc).” Israel was a theocratic [[republic]] where God was to rule through the hearts of the people. | |||
The [[Levites]] as [[Priests|priest]]s of that society served the “tabernacles of the congregations” which is just the same as saying they served the tents of each family in free assemblies. Those assemblies donated to the minister of their choice who acted as a voluntary [[health]], [[education]] and [[welfare]] agency to help care for the needs of society through a network of ministers supported entirely by [[freewill offerings]]. | |||
The elders of each family were both [[Priests|priest]]s and kings within their own family but to come together as a nation required some one to act as as [[Priests|priest]] on a national level. The people were gathered in congregations of ten but they shared what the produced with the national [[Priests|priest]]s of their society to help maintain the community and strengthen its natural bonds. | The [[elders]] of each family were both [[Priests|priest]]s and kings within their own [[family]] but to come together as a nation required some one to act as as [[Priests|priest]] on a national level. The people were gathered in congregations of ten but they shared what the produced with the national [[Priests|priest]]s of their society to help maintain the community and strengthen its [[social bonds|natural bonds]]. | ||
Such systems of voluntary assistance in society require the people to be diligent in their practice of virtue and their duty to their fellowman. The Levites as a national [[Priests|priest]]hood were not originally meant to burn up animals on piles of dead stone but the were a government institution designed serve the public as a medium for causing the transfer of the offered sacrifices to those truly in need as the deserving poor. | Such systems of voluntary assistance in society require the people to be diligent in their practice of virtue and their duty to their fellowman. The [[Levites]] as a national [[Priests|priest]]hood were not originally meant to burn up animals on piles of dead stone but the were a government institution designed serve the public as a medium for causing the transfer of the offered sacrifices to those truly in need as the deserving poor. | ||
The [[Pharisees]] had it wrong but other religious groups reading the exact same Torah at the time of Christ would have little or nothing to do with the bloody mindless rituals of the [[Pharisees]]. The considered the Pharisaical interpretation of the sacred scriptures to be a fiction and a fraud.<Ref>Adventures of Artifice in Languageland | {{cloths of service}} | ||
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/sacrifice.php</Ref> | |||
The [[Pharisees]] had it wrong but other religious groups reading the exact same Torah at the time of Christ would have little or nothing to do with the bloody mindless rituals of the [[Pharisees]]. The considered the Pharisaical interpretation of the sacred scriptures to be a fiction and a fraud.<Ref>Adventures of Artifice in Languageland http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/sacrifice.php</Ref> | |||
The [[Church]] and the [[Church]] in the wilderness were always required to perform a duty to the needy of their society but provided those benefits by free will offerings, while civil institutions provided those benefits and services by compelled offerings imposed by the ruling judges of those societies. | The [[Church]] and the [[Church]] in the wilderness were always required to perform a duty to the needy of their society but provided those benefits by free will offerings, while civil institutions provided those benefits and services by compelled offerings imposed by the ruling judges of those societies. | ||
This was the central division line between Christians an other welfare systems of the world. This was the key element between the [[Christian conflict]] with the world governments. | This was the central division line between Christians an other welfare systems of the world. This was the key element between the [[Christian conflict]] with the [[world]] governments. | ||
One of the reasons the politically established religious faction of the day at the time of [[Christ]] wanted to crucify Him was because of the conflict between those who promoted a socialist [[Welfare|welfare]] system run by a government that called themselves a [[Benefactors|benefactor]] but exercised authority one over the other and the appointed [[Church]] of Jesus the Christ who operated by faith, hope, and charity through the [[Perfect law of liberty|perfect law of liberty]]. | One of the reasons the politically established religious faction of the day at the time of [[Christ]] wanted to crucify Him was because of the conflict between those who promoted a socialist [[Welfare|welfare]] system run by a government that called themselves a [[Benefactors|benefactor]] but exercised authority one over the other and the appointed [[Church]] of Jesus the Christ who operated by faith, hope, and charity through the [[Perfect law of liberty|perfect law of liberty]]. | ||
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== Meant to be Priest to All Nations == | == Meant to be Priest to All Nations == | ||
All nations knew that the care of the afflicted was essential to create the bonds of society. To aid a fallen comrade in arms or in life has always been a social obligation of honor. Cain, Lemech, [[Nimrod]], Pharoahs and Caesars of the world had one way and Abel, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, the Prophets and Jesus had another. | All nations knew that the care of the afflicted was essential to create the bonds of society. To aid a fallen comrade in arms or in life has always been a social obligation of honor. [[Cain]], Lemech, [[Nimrod]], Pharoahs and Caesars of the world had one way and Abel, Enoch, [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], the Prophets and Jesus had another. | ||
All those who know the LORD should know that God wants you to care for the needy by love, and there is no love without choice. The right to choose is the liberty endowed by God. God's [[The Way|"way"]] has always been by [[Freewill offerings]] through a network of national servants like the [[Levites]] in the days of Moses<Ref> | All those who know the LORD should know that God wants you to care for the needy by love, and there is no love without choice. The right to choose is the liberty endowed by God. God's [[The Way|"way"]] has always been by [[Freewill offerings]] through a network of national servants like the [[Levites]] in the days of [[Moses]]<Ref> | ||
: [[Genesis 18]]:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and '''all the nations''' of the earth shall be blessed in him? | : [[Genesis 18]]:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and '''all the nations''' of the earth shall be blessed in him? | ||
: [[Genesis 22]]:18 And in thy seed shall '''all the nations''' of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. | : [[Genesis 22]]:18 And in thy seed shall '''all the nations''' of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. | ||
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14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. | 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. | ||
15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.</Ref> the term was to be only every three years and to the [[Priests|priest]]s. The texts cited show very clearly that from the outset, it was a matter of social-welfare contributions." | 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.</Ref> the term was to be only every three years and to the [[Priests|priest]]s. The texts cited show very clearly that from the outset, it was a matter of social-welfare contributions." | ||
The Library of Qumran: On the [[Essenes]], Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus, By Hartmut Stegemann | The Library of Qumran: On the [[Essenes]], Qumran, [[John the Baptist]], and Jesus, By Hartmut Stegemann | ||
* "For Israel, the practice of social welfare is about choosing not to be like Pharaoh and choosing to follow God." God, Justice, and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible By Jonathan Burnside | * "For Israel, the practice of social welfare is about choosing not to be like Pharaoh and choosing to follow God." God, Justice, and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible By Jonathan Burnside | ||
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== Christ is my minister == | |||
Many people suggest that Christ did away with the system of ministers and we are all ministers. Of course it is clear that Christ not only trained minsters but he appointed them a kingdom or government. | |||
* [[Genesis 17]]:1 "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." | |||
[[Abraham]] was to walk in [[The Way]] of God to become perfect. We are told the same in [[Matthew 5]]:48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." | |||
Jesus did terminate the kingdom in the hands of the [[Pharisees]] and did not like their offerings because they were [[Corban|making the word of God to none effect]].But he told them he was going to [[appoint]] that kingdom to another and He did just that. | |||
Jesus was going to have a new order according to that order of Melchisidec. | |||
* [[Hebrews 7]]:11 "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" | |||
People understood that this appointed kingdom was a government and gave regularly to the ministers of their choice. | |||
[[Abraham]] [[tithe]]d to the order of Melchisedec who was the [[righteous]] King of Peace because he was the head of a voluntary system of government that did not force the offerings of the people like [[Saul]], [[Nimrod]], or [[Cain]] and [[Caesar]]. | |||
[[Image:Fract10s-100s.jpg|right|thumb|300px|We are obligated by the Father in heaven to dress and keep all that He gave us including our [[Fellowship|neighbor]]. The way He has always done this was by living [[altars]] of [[Clay and Stone]].<Br>[[Abraham]], [[Moses]] and [[Jesus]] all [[appoint]]ed such [[altars]] of unhewn stone.Jesus as high priest and king took the kingdom away from the [[Pharisees]] who sat in the seat of [[Moses]] by the words of their own mouth and [[appoint]]ed it to another. The ''Potestas'', ''Imperium'' and ''Auctoritas'' of government belongs in each family, in the Pater Familias, where God intended it to be.<Ref> God warned that the desire for power over others would bring their own punishment.<Br>The ''Potestas'', ''Imperium'' and ''Auctoritas'' passes from ''generation to generation''. If your natural father sells that right he may be [[snared]] as [[surety]] for debt and you will not inherit it. This is why Israel was still in [[bondage]] 400 years after the actions of their ancestors and it is why people are in [[bondage]] today and cannot just free themselves or redeem themselves.</Ref> We gather in hope of His [[redemption]].]] | |||
So Jesus established another priesthood after the order of Melchisedec and the apostate priests and ministers which did not understand what Aaron was doing was going to pass away. The twisted interpretation of the [[Torah]] and the false teachings was coming to an end. | |||
The [[early Church]] provided local and international aid through men like Paul and Barnabas and others. | |||
We are obligated by the [[Father]] in heaven to dress and keep all that He gave us including our neighbor. [[The Way]] He has always done this was by living [[altars]] of [[Clay and Stone]]. | |||
[[Abraham]], [[Moses]] and [[Jesus]] all appointed living [[altars]] of unhewn stone, unregulated men. But the people with God dwelling in their heats and minds organized themselves so that they could serve one another in the [[name]] and character of [[Christ]]. | |||
Jesus as high priest and king took the kingdom away from the [[Pharisees]] who sat in the seat of Moses through their claim to have no king but Caesar. and appointed those ministers in hope that people would be perfected in Him in hope of their [[redemption]]. | |||
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In Mark 9 their are three priests mentioned who will have the means and methods of Christ rather than those of Herod and the Pharisees. What is the roll of such a priest? Are there more than one kind of priesthood?
Both require some form of fasting and sacrifice.
Both kinds priests are an office of one form of government or another.
One kind of priest will tickle the ears of the people while riding the back of a beast[1] and delivering the people into bondage as the harlot church of Babylon. The other priests of Christ believe in the way of Christ as servants of righteousness.
They can be identified by the means and methods of their position.
One form sets the captive free and the other bring them into bondage? Both provide for the needy of society through what can be called religion.
One system is Pure Religion and the other is Public religion.
One is a system of faith, hope, and charity requiring love and freewill offerings and the other is a system of of force, fear, and fealty, requiring allegiance and obedience.
One gives liberty of choice and the other offers dainties from rulers which are a great destroyer of liberty.
Priests and other Administers of the people
Most people and religionists today including many modern theologians and ministers do not understand what was meant by a priest, who they were and what service they performed for society in ancient times. There are men all around that still provide the same services of the priests of old, but you no longer call them priests nor even ministers.
As a matter of fact, you do not find them in what you call church today. You find those administers in government buildings, which makes perfect sense because the early Church was “one form of government” too. The ancient Temples were often supported by government taxes and provided services that today are provided far to often by governments that exercise authority one over the other with disastrous consequences.
You see, although the word religion is defined today as what you think about a supreme being, just two hundred years ago religion was defined as the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman. That duty included coming to your neighbor's aid in time of trouble.
The Church use to take care of the needy of society by charity freely given to the ministers of the Church who used those funds in a Daily ministration from house to house without any assistance from the constitutional orders or systems of government. In fact this is the very definition of Pure Religion. This is why Jesus told us stories about good Samaritans and condemned the Corban of the Pharisees.
The Church was appointed by Christ, and its called out ministers were its public servants. These ministers formed a body politic, one form of government.[2]
They could not exercise authority over the people like the Benefactors of other governments of the world but depended upon the people for freewill offerings of the people to provide for the people according to their needs. In other words God taxed the people in their hearts and minds and through charity that government was supported by their freewill offerings.
The Temples of governments back then hated Christians and accused them of robbing them because the most generous givers moved to The Way of Christ as it was more fruitful.
Today's priests and administers work at the welfare office and social security administrations and run the educational departments of modern government just like they did in the government Temples of Rome.
The people who sit in darkness imagine they see the wisdom of the Torah and have unmoored the spirit of scripture from the symbols of the text through sophistry and pride. They need to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness by searching their own souls so that in repentance they may find the wise hearted, whom God has filled with the spirit of wisdom for they have no one who can consecrate the garments of their priests.[3]
Kohen
Israel was a nation chosen to serve all people as priests. What kind of priests? The Hebrew word kohen is translated as “priest” 744 times. It is also translated “own” twice, “chief ruler” twice, “officer” and “princes” once each. It is defined as “priest, principal officer or chief ruler” and could mean a pagan, or Levitical priest, or even a priest-king. Jesus was such a priest after the order of Melchisedec, but he ruled, not with the rod of iron like Rome, but with love, service, and humility. He was the Prince of Peace.
If the priests of your government are using force through an exercising authority to care for and provide for the the people those are not the priests of early Israel, nor the early Church.
The original role of the priest came from the first-born son of the family, who managed the common funds of the family for the benefit of all its members. The priests of a nation were very much the same. Israel was a kingdom, not a religion. It was a system of faith, but all governments are systems of faith or fidelity, established for the welfare of the people, accepting, in exchange, a portion of their loyalty or allegiance. A Godly government is based upon the precepts of a brotherhood of love and charity and not upon demands and force.
For almost 400 hundred years, Israel had been a powerful nation with no central government, no compulsory tax, and no police force or standing army, other than an organized brotherhood of free citizens. The dominion and civil power was in the hands of the individual families. Patriarchs ruled their own families. With the law in their hands, they came together in a union of community consensus and national brotherhood.
The first-born of those families were the priests within the family, but the priests and ministers of the nation were chosen from amongst the first-born of a nation, which, as a people, were called the Levites. God said that they were to open the matrix of the nation. They belonged to God the Father[4] with separate civil communities or cities.
The people ruled themselves. But the people voluntarily came together in a series of small groups or congregations.[5] Ten elders of families would gather together to choose a representative who would be in service to those families. Ten of these ministers, in turn, would choose their administer, who were the elders or princes of the tribe and, eventually, the nation. The same pattern was played out in the Levites’ charitable ministration to the tents of the congregation.
- "… the Levites… they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:" Numbers 8:24
Both the elders of the nations and the men who followed their lead were the right hand of government. Those elder Levites, chosen by the congregation and then by other Levites, had no personal estate. They could not own real property in their own name. They were a separate civil jurisdiction unto themselves. This was the left hand of the governing system of the Kingdom of God, Israel. Neither had authority over the people. They were men respected in their service. They were titular in their offices.[6]
- "Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service." Numbers 7:5
This was an amazing concept in government, where no employed minister would get paid unless his constituents thought he was doing a service and those ministers were directly answerable to, at least, 10 constituents, yet autonomous.
It was a system of responsibility, charity, faith, and hope. It was not a government of self- indulgence, sloth, pride, and arrogance. Why would the people ask for a central government, knowing that guaranteed entitlements granted a reciprocating entitlement to the ruler of that system; knowing that your ministers would be appointed from the top down; and knowing that your goods and the firstfruits of your labor would be taken for its purposes; knowing that your sons and daughters would become human resources serving that government.[7]
Giving power to a central authority, and having that same authority appoint the servants of government, relinquishes a responsibility required of the people in a truly free society. Such granted power corrupts the leaders with that same power and the people with apathy. Despite God’s warnings, men continue in pride to imagine that they can control such constituted governments. From Saul to Rehoboam, all of the rulers of God’s kingdom violated the constitution of Israel and its remnant, Judea.[8]
They had forgotten the despotism of Egypt and had grown weary of the individual responsibility of a free state. After only a few kings, Israel divided as a kingdom under Rehoboam. Most of the people forsook the kingly line of David and abandoned the centralized civil powers. The people desired “Those days when there was no king or central government in Israel, and every man did what he believed was right in his own eyes.”[9]
The people called for a return to the free dominion of their own tents or household.
- "So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents." 1 Kings 12:16
The people were divided by their own sin. There were a series of corrupt kings and vanquishing captivities with short periods of repentance. Finally, God took away the promise of the seed of David ever prospering again upon the throne of God’s kingdom.
- "… for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah." Jeremiah 22:30
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What is the "city[10] and tower[11]" of Babel we see in Genesis 11 really all about?
If we understand what Nimrod was doing will we then understand what Mystery Babylon means in Revelation 18?
Was "city[10] and tower[11]" like Babylon a civil system set up by men like Nimrod, Caesar, Herod, and FDR?[12]
Did it oppose the superior Common Law with Babylonic intent?[13]
Were these terms metaphors for the city of blood spoken of by Jeremiah[14], Ezekiel[15], Hosea[16], Nahum[17], Habakkuk[18], and even Revelation.[19]? Which way is can we go to be Exiting Babylon?
The word Babylon is from the Hebrew word Babel meaning "confusion by mingling".
The Babylonian system was a "One purse" system based on the "covetous practices" of "legal charity" leading to socialism with Nimrod's officers of his welfare state as the Benefactors of society.
The way society "mingles" or "entangles" itself in the "elements" of the "world" relates to the way the masses provide Social welfare, which may degenerate them into perfect savages through becoming accustomed to the covetous practices of the world. Nimrod's city and tower was to provide protection in the form of a "social security" system that would make the people merchandise, returning them to the bondage of Egypt.
The original ministers of Israel were the Levites who served the Congregations of the people.
Those servants who managed the contributions of society for its benefit in fulfillment of that duty were often called kohens or priests[20] at one time but are more often called bureaucrats today. A priest is “a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion” but religion use to be defined as “the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman”. That is duty has been pursued either through systems of free will offerings or or sacrifice or they were provided through compelled offerings directed by men who rule over the people; in other words either through Church or state.
The word priest is also defined “as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.” Ancient altars of Abraham and Moses was part of their welfare system that bound the nation together. Through sophistry those sacrifices turned into mindless religious rituals which provided little services for the people.
The priests were not mediators between God and the people but mediatory agents. An agent was “a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:” While mediatory is merely “ to serve as a medium for causing (a result) or transferring (objects, information, etc).” Israel was a theocratic republic where God was to rule through the hearts of the people.
The Levites as priests of that society served the “tabernacles of the congregations” which is just the same as saying they served the tents of each family in free assemblies. Those assemblies donated to the minister of their choice who acted as a voluntary health, education and welfare agency to help care for the needs of society through a network of ministers supported entirely by freewill offerings.
The elders of each family were both priests and kings within their own family but to come together as a nation required some one to act as as priest on a national level. The people were gathered in congregations of ten but they shared what the produced with the national priests of their society to help maintain the community and strengthen its natural bonds.
Such systems of voluntary assistance in society require the people to be diligent in their practice of virtue and their duty to their fellowman. The Levites as a national priesthood were not originally meant to burn up animals on piles of dead stone but the were a government institution designed serve the public as a medium for causing the transfer of the offered sacrifices to those truly in need as the deserving poor.
A nation of priests and kings is where the people are not slothful in their responsibility to give and forgive in the care of their neighbor through a social safety net of charity and attention to the weightier matters.
: Why are the ministers of a nation considered naked and need the people to sew them Breeches and what are the cloths of service described in Exodus 28 and Exodus 29 based on the intent of Moses in the scriptures?
What is the symbolism of their garments?
Cloths of service
With the choosing of a King or ruler which God considered a rejection of Him, David took a position to assure the duties of the priests.[21] This gave the king the power to fire or appoint the "porters also by their courses at every gate". The porters[22] were the moneychangers who provided a service in the operation of the temple receiving and converting the contributions of the people.
So much of what we are led to believe about priests is shrouded in allegory and metaphor. The phrase "cloths of service", like the breeches of the Levites or the wedding garment in the parable of Christ[23] are about relationships of service through righteousness and fellowship verses those systems which merely exercise authority. We see this phrase in the relationship to Aaron to the people where the idiom has been misleading to say the least. The word cloths[24] Why does a word ^דגב^ with the Hebrew letters BeitGimelDalet used indiscriminately to mean "treachery and deceit" or "garment and clothing"? And what do they have to do with the Holy Spirit. Then we can also ask about the word service[25] in this verse from the Hebrew letters ShinReishDalet which is supposed to mean "plaited or braided work" but translated "service". The same word is from an identical letters ShinReishDalet[26] that is supposed to mean "escape or survive", appears once in the Bible and is there translated "remained".[27] The normal word for service or more precise the word minister is sharath[28] composed of the letters ShinReishTav with the letter Tav meaning faith.
The distinctive difference between the ministers of God's government and those administers of the world governments is that the former operate by faith, hope, and charity and the latter by force, fear, and fealty exercising authority one over the other. Since the former is a voluntary society and intentional community where the government is supported by freewill contributions it is absolutely essential that every head of a family unit is filled with the Holy Spirit so that they will have the strength and the wisdom to care for one another in love according to the perfect law of liberty. Any sloth in that area or covetous practices will lead the people back into bondage and under tribute like the days of the bondage of Egypt.
The Pharisees had it wrong but other religious groups reading the exact same Torah at the time of Christ would have little or nothing to do with the bloody mindless rituals of the Pharisees. The considered the Pharisaical interpretation of the sacred scriptures to be a fiction and a fraud.[29]
The Church and the Church in the wilderness were always required to perform a duty to the needy of their society but provided those benefits by free will offerings, while civil institutions provided those benefits and services by compelled offerings imposed by the ruling judges of those societies.
This was the central division line between Christians an other welfare systems of the world. This was the key element between the Christian conflict with the world governments.
One of the reasons the politically established religious faction of the day at the time of Christ wanted to crucify Him was because of the conflict between those who promoted a socialist welfare system run by a government that called themselves a benefactor but exercised authority one over the other and the appointed Church of Jesus the Christ who operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.
Meant to be Priest to All Nations
All nations knew that the care of the afflicted was essential to create the bonds of society. To aid a fallen comrade in arms or in life has always been a social obligation of honor. Cain, Lemech, Nimrod, Pharoahs and Caesars of the world had one way and Abel, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, the Prophets and Jesus had another.
All those who know the LORD should know that God wants you to care for the needy by love, and there is no love without choice. The right to choose is the liberty endowed by God. God's "way" has always been by Freewill offerings through a network of national servants like the Levites in the days of Moses[30] and to the international dispersed ministers of the Church in the days of Jesus Christ and His Church.[31]
It was one of the major jobs of the Levites to attend to the business of social welfare and those who have the heart of God would easily see this in the Biblical text.[32]
The tithe given to the Levites was in support of their government, for there were no kings in Israel. The people supported the Levites and funded their mission the same as taxes do today. Their mission was not like the other nations, but to "all nations", which is seen as the sacrifice of the Red Heifer. Taxes pay for the everyday administration of the people who provide service of the government. They even supply aid for foreign nations also, like the Red Heifer sacrifice.
- "The Levites did everything from attending the tabernacle/temple, judging disputes, diagnosing illnesses, being the judicial system, etc. The Levites also operated their ‘social welfare’ system from the tithe money, when necessary."[33]
In effect they were tending to the Weightier matters, including judicial and legal appeals, as well as health, education and welfare.
People debate whether or not we should tithe in the New Testament Church. If you do not tithe, how will your society provide those essential services? The answer is taxes, which is tribute. This is why the Slothful should be under tribute. It is because they choose not to provide for those Weightier matters of Christ through Freewill offerings.
- "The so called Levite tithe... was to be contributed annually, according to Numbers 18: 20-32;[34] according to Deuteronomy 14:28-29[35] and 26:12-15[36] the term was to be only every three years and to the priests. The texts cited show very clearly that from the outset, it was a matter of social-welfare contributions."
The Library of Qumran: On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus, By Hartmut Stegemann
- "For Israel, the practice of social welfare is about choosing not to be like Pharaoh and choosing to follow God." God, Justice, and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible By Jonathan Burnside
Most citizens of nations pay far more than the 20% required by Egypt through their Corvee system of their yearly service to their government, yet they do not want to call it the Bondage of Egypt, but freedom.
Corban was always social welfare funds used at the discretion of the Levites. The better they did, the more people gave, but if the people did not freely give, neither would the Father in heaven bless them.
God's government was not dependent on the ownership of land but on the faithfulness of the People. In truth, God's government was to show all nations that the ways of love and charity were the best ways to govern a nation. All nations had to be both forgiving and generous to remain a free nation. The same responsibility of being a priest to all nations and to the faithful was true with the early Church which worked daily in the temple [37] and spread the message of righteousness and the Perfect law of liberty.
Christ is my minister
Many people suggest that Christ did away with the system of ministers and we are all ministers. Of course it is clear that Christ not only trained minsters but he appointed them a kingdom or government.
- Genesis 17:1 "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
Abraham was to walk in The Way of God to become perfect. We are told the same in Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
Jesus did terminate the kingdom in the hands of the Pharisees and did not like their offerings because they were making the word of God to none effect.But he told them he was going to appoint that kingdom to another and He did just that.
Jesus was going to have a new order according to that order of Melchisidec.
- Hebrews 7:11 "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?"
People understood that this appointed kingdom was a government and gave regularly to the ministers of their choice.
Abraham tithed to the order of Melchisedec who was the righteous King of Peace because he was the head of a voluntary system of government that did not force the offerings of the people like Saul, Nimrod, or Cain and Caesar.
Abraham, Moses and Jesus all appointed such altars of unhewn stone.Jesus as high priest and king took the kingdom away from the Pharisees who sat in the seat of Moses by the words of their own mouth and appointed it to another. The Potestas, Imperium and Auctoritas of government belongs in each family, in the Pater Familias, where God intended it to be.[38] We gather in hope of His redemption.
So Jesus established another priesthood after the order of Melchisedec and the apostate priests and ministers which did not understand what Aaron was doing was going to pass away. The twisted interpretation of the Torah and the false teachings was coming to an end.
The early Church provided local and international aid through men like Paul and Barnabas and others.
We are obligated by the Father in heaven to dress and keep all that He gave us including our neighbor. The Way He has always done this was by living altars of Clay and Stone.
Abraham, Moses and Jesus all appointed living altars of unhewn stone, unregulated men. But the people with God dwelling in their heats and minds organized themselves so that they could serve one another in the name and character of Christ.
Jesus as high priest and king took the kingdom away from the Pharisees who sat in the seat of Moses through their claim to have no king but Caesar. and appointed those ministers in hope that people would be perfected in Him in hope of their redemption.
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- ↑ Many Marks
- Ezekiel 9:4-5 “4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark (תָּ֜ו TavVav) upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:”
- Revelation 13:15-17 “15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
- Revelation 14:8-12 "8... she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
- Revelation 15:1-4 “1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. 4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.”
- Revelation 16: “2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.”
- Revelation 19:20 “20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”
- Revelation 20:4-5, “4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”
- Philippians 3:13-18 “13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:” :
- ↑ : “Church. In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances.”
- “A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies.” Black’s Law Dictionary, 3rd ed. Page 325. also 4th, 5th 6th … Eds.
- ↑ Exodus 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
- ↑ Numbers 8:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. Numbers 3:12
- ↑ edah from ed meaning witness. It is translated congregation 124 times, company 13, assembly 9 times and multitude, people and swarm once each. It means a congregation, gathering
- ↑ Webster’s. “REPUBLIC 3. A state or nation with a president as its titular head.” [A person who holds title, especially without any obligations of office]. See Republic vs Democracy, The Covenants of the gods.
- ↑ 1 Samuel 8:
- ↑ Deuteronomy 17:14…
- ↑ Judges 17:6
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 05892 ^ריע^ ‘iyr \@eer\@ AyinYodReish or (in the plural) ^רע^ ‘ar \@awr\@ or ^ריע^ ‘ayar (#Jud 10:4) \@aw-yar’\@ a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); from 05782 spelled AyinVavReish עוּר ‘uwr [oor] a primitive root; n m; {See TWOT on 1587 @@ "1587a"} {See TWOT on 1615} AV-city 1074, town 7, every one 2, variant 6; 1089
- 1) excitement, anguish
- 1a) of terror
- 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
- 2a) city, town
- 1) excitement, anguish
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 04026 מִגְדָּל MemGimeDaletLamed migdal [mig-dawl’] also (in pl.) fem. מגדלה migdalah [mig-daw-law’] from 01431, Greek 3093 Μαγδαλα; n m; [BDB-153b] [{See TWOT on 315 @@ "315f" }] [{See TWOT on 315 @@ "315g" }] AV-tower 47, castles 1, flowers 1, pulpit 1; 50
- 1) tower
- 1a) tower
- 1b) elevated stage, pulpit
- 1c) raised bed
- 1) tower
- ↑ "If we search out the origins of Roman Law, we must study Babylon..." Sir Frederic Pollack and Frederic William Maitland, The History of the English Law Before the Time of Edward I, page 561, Cambridge Univ. Press 1968.
- ↑ "Civil law stems from Babylon and is inquisitorial, encouraging and requiring the state's violation of one's freedom of conscience. This ever-present trait arises from the Babylonian system's dependence upon the priest's judicial power to examine its subjects in the Babylonian deity's name. In theory, the Babylonian deity, using various names worldwide and personified in the state or its demagogue, invested his priests with the power to examine the consciences of devotees by whatever means necessary, granting absolution or condemnation according to their imperious pleasure. By entrusting themselves to a totalitarian state, the Babylonian settlers established statism." Brent Allan Winters, Excellence of the Common Law, Compared and Contrasted with Civil Law in Light of History, Nature and Scripture, Page 63, 2008.
- ↑ Jeremiah 26:15
- ↑ Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:2-3 ,Ezekiel 24:6-9
- ↑ Hosea 6:8
- ↑ Nahum 3:1
- ↑ Habakkuk 2:8, 12,17
- ↑ Revelation 14:20
- ↑ Priest, is derived from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- ↑ 07778 רעושׁ show‘er sho-are’ ShinVavAyinReish or רעשׁ sho‘er sho-are’ active participle of the word for Reason or "calculate" ShinAyinReish 08176 which connects them to gate 08179, measure hundredfold 08180, hair 08177, storm or tempest 08178; n m; {See TWOT on 2437 @@ "2437b" } AV-porter 35, doorkeepers 2; 37
- 1) gatekeeper, porter
- ↑ Matthew 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few [are] chosen.
- ↑ 0899 ^דגב^ beged \@behg’- ed\@ from 0898 (to act treacherously, deceitfully,) of the same letters ^דגב^; n m; AV-garment 107, clothes 69, cloth 13, raiment 12, apparel 4, robe 4, wardrobe 2, very 2, clothing 1, lap 1, rags 1, vestures 1; 217
- 1) treachery, deceit
- 2) (CLBL) garment, clothing (used indiscriminately)
- Note: Why does a word ^דגב^ with the Hebrew letters BeitGimelDeleth mean garment and deceit? See Holy Spirit.
- ↑ 08278 שֶׂרֶד sërad [ser-awd’] from ShinReishDalet which is supposed to mean "escape or survive" 08277; n m; [BDB-975a] [{See TWOT on 2286 @@ "2286a" }] AV-service 4; 4
- 1) plaited or braided work
- ↑ 08277 שָׂרַד sarad ShinReishDalet[saw-rad’] a primitive root; see 8277; v; [BDB-974b] [{See TWOT on 2285 }] AV-remained 1; 1
- 1) (Qal) to escape, survive
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
- ↑ Joshua 10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest [which] remained <08277> of them entered into fenced cities.
- ↑ 08334 שָׁרַת sharath [shaw-rath’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-1058a] [{See TWOT on 2472 }] AV-minister (v) 62, minister (n) 17, serve 8, servant 5, service 3, servitor 1, waited 1; 97
- 1) (Piel) to minister, serve, minister to
- ↑ Adventures of Artifice in Languageland http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/sacrifice.php
- ↑
- Genesis 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
- Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
- Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
- Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
- Deuteronomy 26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
- Deuteronomy 28:1 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
- Deuteronomy 30:1 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
- Psalms 67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
- ↑ : Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
- Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
- Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
- Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
- Luke 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
- John 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
- ↑ : Deuteronomy 14:27 And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. [the following verses talk of the seven year release]
- Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
- ↑ http://www.bible.org.nz/should-we-pay-tithes/
- ↑ Numbers 18:20 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD’S heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
- ↑ Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
- ↑ Deuteronomy 26:12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing, and hast given [it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- ↑ Luke 19:47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, Acts 5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
- ↑ God warned that the desire for power over others would bring their own punishment.
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