I wanna show you something interesting about this Psalm of David we’re immersed in right now.
One section points to Moses, God’s first mediator to Israel.
The savior who showed up before King David.
And another section points to Yeshua, God’s second mediator to Israel.
The savior who came after King David.
Here are the verses pointing to Moses:
“Adonai thundered from heaven,
Ha‘Elyon sounded his voice.
He sent out arrows and scattered them;
With lightning, he routed them.
The channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were exposed
at Adonai’s rebuke,
at the blast of breath from his nostrils.”
-2 Samuel 22:14-16
This is clearly referring to the splitting of the Red Sea.
And here are the verses pointing to Yeshua:
“Then the earth quaked and shook,
the foundations of heaven trembled.
They were shaken because he was angry.
Smoke arose in his nostrils;
and from his mouth, devouring fire,
with coals blazing from it.
He lowered heaven and came down
with thick darkness under his feet.
He rode on a keruv and flew,
he was seen on the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his canopy around him,
thick clouds in the skies dense with water.
-2 Samuel 22:8-13
Now, here’s the takeaway I’m getting from all of this.
Because of a whole lot of misunderstanding around Paul’s writings…
Many folks in gentile territory think Moses came for Israel…
And Yeshua (Jesus) came as some kind of universal savior for the whole world.
WRONG!
Both Moses and Yeshua came only for Israel.
Ya feel me?
The lesson here is simple.
A gentile can only be saved by partaking in the covenants that God made exclusively with Israel.
If you’re a gentile (and I’m right there with you)...
Never forget that your salvation comes from being divinely grafted into Israel’s covenants.
And that makes you, in effect, part of Israel.
Done.
CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
“He answered,
‘I was sent only to
the lost sheep of Israel.‘”
-Matthew 15:24
Amen.
Thank you, William.
Have a blessed weekend.
In Exodus 19:6, God tells Moses that he has chosen the Jewish people to be his nation of priests.
Now, God already chose the Levites to be the priests to the Jews, so who are the Jews to be priests to?
I mean, you can’t be a priest to yourself, right?
Obviously, the Jews are to be God’s priests to the world, which is why he gave us the Torah.
We are to learn it so that we can teach it to the world.
Yeshua came only to the Jews (as he said in Matthew 15:24) because it is through covenant with the Jewish people that Gentiles can be saved.
It all starts with, and ends with, the Torah, and the Torah is what God gave to the world through his chosen nation of priests.
No Torah, no chance.
Thanks for your comment, Steven.
I don’t disagree with anything you said here.
Technically, the Levites were separated from the rest of Israel to serve as priests.
Maybe that’s a picture of how Israel as a whole is meant to serve as a “nation of priests” to the world.
What do you think?
Shalom
The Blind leading the Blind! One lies and the other agrees!
Heb. 7 states that God, who gave the Priesthood to Levi, took it away and gave it to Judah, and that God used the Melchisedec Order, so Jesus is now the New Great High Priest. Seeing He has no genealogy; He is the Lord & Savior of all Nations.
The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World!
If you’re going to study, study cover to cover! If you stopped at Malachi are pick and choose what satisfies your fancy as Jews, then you’re not studying the whole counsel of God, the same mistake the Jews made the first time. You’re like your fathers!!!!
I think there is some confusion on your part regarding the relationship that Moses and Yeshua had, with realtion to the Nation of Israel.
Moses was both king and priest to the children of Israel in the desert, and when Yeshua returns, to complete the plan of salvation, he will be king, but as God’s son he will also be high priest, just like Moses and like Melchizedek.
That doesn’t mean the entire priesthood God established will be changed.
King and High Priest were pretty much filled by the same person (except the title ‘king’ was not used) up until Samuel (who had been pretty much both legally and spiritually the leader) made Shaul a king over the people, reducing himself to the role of prophet, alone.
The descendants of Levi and Aaron still existed and took leadership positions in the various cities and towns; I admit that I am not sure, but I suppose that there was a single Cohen HaGadol, who would have probably lived where the Tent of Meeting was, since that was the best pace for the High Priest to be.
It seems that you think that Yehsua and the priesthood are exclusionary, and when Yeshua takes charge that he will be not just the High Priest, but the only one. I may be wrong, and if so I apologize, but that what it sounded liek to me.
Speaking of apologies, I think you owe one to Rich after making a rather nasty accusation, i.e., that Rich is bigoted and rejects the New Covenant writings.
Well, he doesn’t, I can verify that.
Actually, talking about not incorporating the entire Bible when giving a message or making a statement, you are basing your belief solely on what was in a letter written by…no one knows who!
God never reassigned the priesthood, but this guy, whoever he was, seems to be all you need to justify that the priesthood God established has changed.
Sorry, but how can you accuse Rich of ignoring the New Covenant while it seems you are willing to overrule what God said in the Old Covenant by accepting what a human being wrote, a human being who is not even identified, and says something that isn’t found in any of the rest of the Bible.
Let’s extract that log before writing about someone else’s splinter, shall we? 😉
The original set-up was God to a person (Abraham, Noah, Moses).
Later, when the people became a nation, God chose the Levites to be his intermediary between himself and the people, serving in the role of priests to the children of Israel.
Moses took the leadership role, serving as both religious leader (even though Aaron served in charge of the Levites and performed the services) and king.
Later, that changed when the people demanded a king, and the dual role of religious leader and legal ruler, which had been held by the prophet, was split into two positions, king and prophet.
When Yeshua returns, he will regain the position that Moses had, which was also what Melchizedek had, which is religious leader and legal leader- King and High Priest, both.
But that doesn’t do away with the priesthood God established, it just returns things to where they had been.
Thanks, Steven.
Ro 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith.
Gentiles are grated into the Root not Israel who is also a Branch, but not the tree.
Mt 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Pr 12:15 ¶ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Pr 17:10 ¶ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
The Correction keeps coming, but you’re not studying the word of God.
Sorry to be firm here, Tony.
But your final words in your last message to me: “The Correction keeps coming, but you’re not studying the word of God.”
I feel like they apply to you if you continue to hold to this anti-Semitic position.
And as for me not studying the Word of God?
I’ve been diligently blogging through God’s Word, starting from Genesis Chapter One, for over a decade.
The evidence is right here in this blog.
So surely you must be talking about someone else.
Furthermore, my understanding of Scripture is probably why I’m not handcuffed or blinded by anti-Israel doctrines or ideas that have infested the body of believers for centuries.
Be blessed.
Your problem with not studying is that you omit the New Testament understanding of the New Covenant, where Jesus said the Jews have been rejected because of their unbelief. Antisemitic is the rejection of the “Race”. Rejection of the Jews is because they don’t believe as a Nation, they have rejected Jesus! Therefore, they have been denied for reasons of their religion of the Law, and not Faith in Jesus Christ.
At this present time, they ARE BROKEN OFF! AND YOU, AS YOU EMBRACE YOUR DECADES OF STUDY, ARE STILL BLIND NOT TO SEE PAUL’S REVELATION OF Jews AND Gentiles IN ONE BODY OF CHRIST. By the WAY, THE PRIESTHOOD NO LONGER BELONGS TO Levi or AARON, IT belongs to Judah, AND Judah represents both Jew AND GENTILE.
It’s a shame that all your studying is a waste, and you’re still blind. Your own enemy is your plate at the table.
Dr. Anthony Tudela 55 years, BA; MA; 3-Ph.D.
Hi Tony,
If you have a problem with what I write on my blog, I have a suggestion for you.
Stop following me.
I see you’re playing the “RACE CARD.” You boast of your race as a Jew and are not. Religion and race are two different subjects.
In Christ, there is no race or even gender, but One New Creature!
Please keep it coming; perhaps the scales will fall off your eyes.
Is that YOUR ANSWER? WHERE’S YOUR DOCTRINE COMEBACK? I might BE YOUR ONLY HOPE SENT BY THE Lord Jesus.
Do you post my responses to others, are do you keep them secret? Why don’t you expose all your reactions, so we know what the Voice of the many agrees or disagrees with? You might learn something the Jews won’t want you to hear. After all, “They didn’t want to hear the Voice either.”
Yes, that’s my answer.
And it is my FINAL answer.
Take care.