Today I’d like to talk about how the Levitical Priesthood serves as a model for the New Testament believer in Yeshua today.
There are three key principles we can glean in terms of how we are to live our lives as believers whose sin debt has been paid for by the Messiah.
FIRST, we are to view the Lord as our inheritance in BOTH this world and the next.
While the rest of humankind is in a mad rush for power, sexual pleasure and money, our hopes, our joy and our shalom is to be in Hashem alone.
This is to be our mindset before the holy God we worship.
SECOND, from what I can glean from my study of the Levitical priesthood, it would seem that the Lord’s ministers are to be provided for by those to whom they minister.
Now is this principle supposed to carry over to the New Testament church?
My answer is I don’t know.
I think it’s debatable because I tend to take the Scriptures quite literally.
Gentile pastors and preachers ministering to a flock are obviously not Levitical Priests.
But that doesn’t mean their flock can’t choose to support them if they want to.
We do know that the 3rd temple will be rebuilt and the Levitical sacrifices will begin again.
When that happens, you had better believe there ain’t gonna be some gentile pastor presiding over those sacred rites in Jerusalem.
That would be an abomination.
So my contention is that Priests will only be from Levi until the world is renewed and that’s a long way off.
Onward.
THIRD, as believers or servants of God ministering to others, we are not to take economic advantage of others.
So I think this might call into question all of the Kenneth Copeland’s, Joel Olsteen’s and Reverend Ike’s out there with their “Name it and claim it” or “Blab it and grab it” prosperity theologhy.
Alright, that does it for today.
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