Friday, June 24, 2011

Hebrews 3

Heading up what we have spoken of, we have an establishing priest who settled down on the right of the head office of the greatest in heaven. The Special Priest of the true structure which is secured by the Master not by man. Every establishing priest is appointed to offer presents, sacrificing needing something to offer. In fact if he were on earth he would not be a priest at all because priests who offer gifts do it by the Law. Their working is an example, a shadow of heavenly reality, so Moses was advised about making the structure. He said "See you make everything by the model print which you were shown on the mountain" Ex 25:40 But he has hit on a different priesthood duty, a much better institution abitrating a better law giving. Finding fault with them he says "Look days are coming says the Master when I will bring to an end the arrangement with the house of Israel with Judah. Unused, not the arrangement made with ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain in the arrangement I will arrange with the house of Israel in the time to come says the Master. Giving Law into their minds written on their hearts (Note: the Greek word 'arrangement' found here is not the same concept as the Hebrew word 'covenant' and I am being true to Common every day Greek rather than what we know this passage to say in Hebrew) And I will be their God and they my people. They won't teach each his close one or his brother telling them 'Know the Master' because they will understand me from the smallest to the greatest of them. Favourable in respect of their failure and not being right, their being against the Law; I won't remember that" Jeremiah 31:31-34 In an unused saying 'He made the old first but the old grows old ages nearly disappearing'
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Therefore the first structure; Right rules for priests, special ordered arrangement, a structure prepared. So we have in the front -firstly lamps, a table and the setting of bread called Special. Next-second a covering structure called Special of Special. A gold incense carrier, the box of agreement coated with gold. Inside a pot of mana (Hebrew word means-'what is it'-Ed) and a rod of Aaron that sprouted and written plates of the agreement. Above it the 'Cherobim' (Another Hebrew word-Ed) Triumph overshadowing the place of mercy but lets not get too carried away with the detail. So all these things were prepared in the first structure area . Priest continually entering, service completed. In the second entering once a year alone the establishing priest but not without a blood offering for himself and the peoples ignorance evidence from the Special Spirit that the way to the Special place had not been revealed which is what this first structure says by way of protest. An illustration of the current time when the gifts and sacrifices are offered unable to make a complete conscence for the server. Only with food drinks and different immersions (Hey shouldn't that be 'waterboarding' for our American readers- we need to cater for their culture too in the things we translate-Ed Nah we changed it from 'Baptisms so 'Immersions' is good enough-paul) Right rules for flesh until the time of reformation is impressed. The Annointed arrives as establishing priest for the coming good a greater and more complete institution not human engineered not part of creation. Not by goat and cow blood but by his own blood he entered ultimately into the Special place where continuing repurchase is found. If the blood of bulls and goats and ashes of cows sprinkled the common purifying the flesh clean; How much more then the blood of the Annointed who in the continuing spirit offered himself authentic to God cleaning your conscience from dead effort so we can work for the living God. He brings an unused agreement as abitrator only so his death happening for our repurchase caused by the first arrangements deviations taking the promise for those called to a continuing possession. Where there is an arrangement the death of the arranger needs to be brought about. The arrangement when he dies is confirmed but could not be when the arranger lives. This explains why the first except without blood couldn't be innovated. So when Moses spoke of the requirements of the Law to the people he took goat and calf blood with water, red and with hyssop sprinkled the book and the people saying 'This is the blood of the arrangement which God has made with you' Ex 24:8 And the structure as well as all the things for duty he sprinkled with blood as well. Nearly with blood everything is cleaned by the Law for with bloodshed there is no dismissal needed. It was a model of things in heaven with the clean but in heaven is better sacrificing than this. Not by human engineering did the Annointed the special. It was a negative of the true but into heaven itself, in heaven he now to exhibit to God's face for us. Not needing frequently to offer himself. Just as the establishing priest enters the special place year by yearwith someone elses blodd of else he would be frequently fated from the conception of the ordered arrangement. But only once he brought to an end the continuing, abolishing failure by his sacrifice pephanerotai-What does that word mean ? For men is reserved once to die after that judgement. So the Annointed once was offered for many to bear failure. Amd then appearing a second time without failure for those expecting him for delieverance.

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  1. These two chapters go to the very heart of a possible seperate from the Jewish religion Christian identity.
    Today I wept my way through a conference organised here in New Zealand for us to think again about what had happened in the experience of the Maori people when they accepted the gospel from the 1830s so that by the mid 1840s on a Sunday about half the entire Maori population was at a religious service in worship of Ihu-Yeshua/Jesus.
    Yet by 1890 it was all over as the terrible treachery of our European history had undermined that work of God. I wept because we do actually have a treaty held in heaven by God between our two peoples. A treaty I saw (Pacific Portraits- Nayland School) when I spoke to the students and explained why despite them being 90% European they could speak and rejoice in our Maori heritage because my elder Muri Thompson in leading the Christians of Nelson up the mainstreet in 1972 had broken the curse of Wairau 1843 which had divided our two peoples until that day.Waikawa/Samuel Ironside/Treaty signing Malbourght sounds/Wairau
    The situation between Christians and the Jews who have preserved for us the Bible and the culture is worse than that. So these two chapters as I have faithful to the Greek words translated do not give a basis for a new covenant. Rather the Law still stands and The Annointed has as we read here gone through it to heaven providing a completion of that Law which we as mankind couldn't keep.
    Clear as mud, anyway weep with me so that we can in heaven and here in earth re-establish covenant. Here at the ends of the earth and in Jerusalem Shalom/Ka Ora ake ake ake

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