Two Goats and The Cross

[The Anointed]

Many times people sought the High Priest to get answers from God. They interceded for the people. They presented the offerings.

"Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent thepeople in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. New Living Translation Every high priest is a man chosen to represent other people in their dealings with God. He presents their gifts to God and offers sacrifices for their sins."
Hebrews 5:1 Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

To represent the people, not to represent God. But the priesthood has now been taken from Aaron.

Hebrews 5:1; Every high priest is chosen from his fellow-men and appointed to serve God on their behalf, to offer sacrifices and offerings for sins. 2Since he himself is weak in many ways, he is able to be gentle with those who are ignorant and make mistakes. 3And because he is himself weak, he must offer sacrifices not only for the sins of the people but also for his own sins.

It was because of that weakness that the priesthood was taken away from Aaron.

Now, if the work of the levitical priests had been perfect, there would have been no need for a different kind of priest to appear, one who is in the priestly order of Melchizedek, not of Aaron. 12For when the priesthood is changed, there also has to be a change in the law. 13And our Lord, of whom these things are said, belonged to a different tribe, and no member of his tribe ever served as a priest. 14It is well known that he was born a member of the tribe of Judah; and Moses did not mention this tribe when he spoke of priests.

Of course any serious student knows that Jesus was born a son of King David, through his adopted son Nathan, who was born of Bathsheba the Levite descendant of Obed-edom, a descendant of Moses, who was to be as God to Aaron.

 

[Kenny]

To represent the people, not to represent God. But the priesthood has now been taken from Aaron.

Hebrews 5:1; Every high priest is chosen from his fellow-men and appointed to serve God on their behalf, to offer sacrifices and offerings for sins. 2Since he himself is weak in many ways, he is able to be gentle with those who are ignorant and make mistakes. 3And because he is himself weak, he must offer sacrifices not only for the sins of the people but also for his own sins.

It was because of that weakness that the priesthood was taken away from Aaron.

Now, if the work of the levitical priests had been perfect, there would have been no need for a different kind of priest to appear, one who is in the priestly order of Melchizedek, not of Aaron. 12For when the priesthood is changed, there also has to be a change in the law. 13And our Lord, of whom these things are said, belonged to a different tribe, and no member of his tribe ever served as a priest. 14It is well known that he was born a member of the tribe of Judah; and Moses did not mention this tribe when he spoke of priests.

Of course any serious student knows that Jesus was born a son of King David, through his adopted son Nathan, who was born of Bathsheba the Levite descendant of Obed-edom, a descendant of Moses, who was to be as God to Aaron.

Agreed that Jesus is now eternally our High Priest... but again, not what we were talking about.

The earthly High Priests did represent the people to God but they also represented God to the people (as I quoted)

 

[The Anointed]

Agreed that Jesus is now eternally our High Priest... but again, not what we were talking about.

The earthly High Priests did represent the people to God but they also represented God to the people (as I quoted)

The Catholics of the Roman church of Emperor Constantine, may believe that their High priest, the Pope, is the physical representation of God on earth, but the Jews never did.

 

[Kenny]

The Catholics of the Roman church of Emperor Constantine, may believe that their High priest, the Pope, is the physical representation of God on earth, but the Jews never did.

Very true.

As I see it, no one person, today, is our High Priest except one:

Heb 6:20 where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

Once and forever our new High Priest.

 

[The Anointed]

Very true.

As I see it, no one person, today, is our High Priest except one:

Heb 6:20 where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

Once and forever our new High Priest.

Correct! Of course any serious student knows that Jesus was born a heir to the throne of King David, through his adopted son Nathan, a descendant of Moses, who was born of Bathsheba the Levite descendant of Obed-edom, whose descendant Neri, a descendant of Nathan, married Tamar the descendant of King Solomon, who bore to Neri a son named Shealtiel the ancestor of Jesus.

Jesus, a descendant, of Moses from the priestly tribe of Levi, and a descendant of King David of the Kingly tribe of Judah, has been appointed as our King and High Priest.

According to Torah law, Nathan the adopted son of King David, and Nathan’s descendants, were legitimate heirs of King David, but not in the ancestral line of the promised Messiah, who was to be born of the seed of Solomon, until Naria the descendant of Nathan coupled with Tamar the descendant of Solomon, to produce Salathiel the ancestor of Jesus, who has been made High Priest (From the tribe of Levi=Nathan) and King (From the tribe of Judah=Solomon) in the order of Melchizedek.

David Hughes the noted Genealogist of the Ancient World Lineages, states that King Jeconiah’s only son, with Queen Tamar, ‘Prince Zedekiah,’ died prematurely in childhood, and in 586 BCE King Zedekiah, the last king of Israel, whose original name Mattaniah, was the son of Josiah and the uncle of Jehoiachin. King Zedekiah/Mattaniah, was taken prisoner and his sons were executed in front of him, after which, his eyes were gouged out, and there in Babylon, he remained blinded in exile for the rest of his life and it appeared that the entire royal lineage of King David through God’s chosen son, Solomon, had been exterminated.

With all the known direct lineages of male heirs to the lineage of King Solomon the son of King David and Bathsheba now extinct, Queen Tamar II became the dynastic heiress preserving not only the Lineage of King Solomon, but also became the inter-dynastic link, or the vital crossover heiress merging the non-royal Nathan lineage with the royal lineages of King Solomon. With the addition of Tamar representing the mainline descendants of King David, we now can understand the linkage between the two prime royal and non-royal lineages to the ancestry of the Jewish Messiah Yehoshua ben Yosef (Jesus son of Joseph the son of Alexander Helios a descendant of Nathan).

Jesus carried in his genes the potent fusion of Davidian and Zadokian bloodlines. He carried the potent bloodline of the royal mantle as a Priest-King of Israel and the messianic mantle as the Maschiach Yisra’el (Messiah of Israel) of the House of David.

Hebrew 5: 10; “And God declared him (Jesus) to be high priest according to the priestly order of Melchizedek.” Melchizedek held the titles of both King and high priest. Hebrew 5: 5; “In the same way, Christ did not take upon himself the honor of being high priest. Instead, God said to him, ‘You are my Son; TODAY I have become your Father.’”