Book of Jeremiah
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Jesus is Melchizedek but if you do not recognize him as Messiah you would not recognize him as the first High Priest either, HaShev.
While it is a blessing that you can say you are a Cohen and a direct descendant of Aaron and your friend, Shimone comes from the tribe of Levi and has been blessed with a rich heritage - I must tell you that the LORD could raise up stones to become his own Children - indeed he has - as the church are known as living stones.
It is written:
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5
On the matter of lineage - God can raise up a harlot and put her in the lineage of David (even as Rahab was) or a daughter of Baal worshippers as Ruth the Moabite was. Look at what became of Ruth once she told Naomi, Wither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge, thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee from me. (end of scripture) Now that is determination! Ruth came from a land full of idolaters - people who worshipped false gods - and turns from that idolatry to follow God - this is a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ and his offer of salvation, his invitation to become a child of God, this is God's desire to give us a hope and a future! To even put our names into his own book of life and into the bloodline of a chosen people - a people he chose before the foundations of the earth to bless! I know what this means because I have been grafted into the family of God and am now a daughter of Abraham too!
Ruth married Boaz...............and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. Therein King David could say that he was in the bloodline of Boaz and Ruth.
Do you understand what it means to justify yourselves before men?
Jesus knew the heart of the Pharisees who were covetous and seeking the praises of men (instead of the praise of God). Listen to the words of Jesus:
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 16:15,16
While it is a blessing that you can say you are a Cohen and a direct descendant of Aaron and your friend, Shimone comes from the tribe of Levi and has been blessed with a rich heritage - I must tell you that the LORD could raise up stones to become his own Children - indeed he has - as the church are known as living stones.
It is written:
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5
On the matter of lineage - God can raise up a harlot and put her in the lineage of David (even as Rahab was) or a daughter of Baal worshippers as Ruth the Moabite was. Look at what became of Ruth once she told Naomi, Wither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge, thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee from me. (end of scripture) Now that is determination! Ruth came from a land full of idolaters - people who worshipped false gods - and turns from that idolatry to follow God - this is a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ and his offer of salvation, his invitation to become a child of God, this is God's desire to give us a hope and a future! To even put our names into his own book of life and into the bloodline of a chosen people - a people he chose before the foundations of the earth to bless! I know what this means because I have been grafted into the family of God and am now a daughter of Abraham too!
Ruth married Boaz...............and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. Therein King David could say that he was in the bloodline of Boaz and Ruth.
Do you understand what it means to justify yourselves before men?
Jesus knew the heart of the Pharisees who were covetous and seeking the praises of men (instead of the praise of God). Listen to the words of Jesus:
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 16:15,16
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