jesus Christ roots are jewish . to be in the tribe of levi, you had to have your ancestral blood line to Abraham, some say adam.(and be able to prove this, to be excepted to the priesthood ) john the baptist also has his roots to the tribe of levi also.
to the people that don't know, jesus and john, could have served in the priesthood of levi.
in book of Hebrews,it tells why jesus, could go in to the most holy place, in the temple in heaven.
read your bible, if john and jesus are related, then jesus can be in the levi priesthood as well. the order of melchizedek, has nothing to do with the blood line, that said in the degrees, that to be in the tribe if levi, you have to have your blood line going back to Abraham. yet there is only two places in the bible that talks about melchizadeck. yet even paul said he has the blood line of david. Hebrew we don't know who wrote this book. however we do know who was given the law and the degrees. to be in the levi priesthood, you need your blood line to go back to Abraham. and for the record you need 12 men to start a synagogue. so again go back and study your bible. and I wonder who had 12 men to start one. lol
he entered at 12 years old, mary and joseph could not find him. so he did enter the temple proper, just don't say what he did when he was in there.
they gave his blood line for a reason, when ask why are you teaching this, the teachers of law and Pharisee had no complaint.
jesus is a jew and also taught in synagogue. this is not a christain church,. I mentioned levi because of the priesthood was attached to it. I looked again and in numbers levi was not a tribe. and every first born of isreal belonged to god num 1 47-54.
30 year old he started his work , being called rabbi, teacher, etc just like danel 30 years old.
ie is the tent of holy place in the Hebrews, is that symbolic for the tent of holy in the temple on earth.
if he had to die, there was no need for him to enter the worldly one. because animal killing god did not want, but because he was sent to a jewish people,(to save them under law) he had to follow the law of moses and forfill it as a jewish person. and as he was a rabbi, teacher of the law, etc he knew the scripture of the old testament. and this is showen by his age.
age of time of baby, man at 12 years old, and 30 years old to start his ministry, fit with jewish customs. or following in the priesthood like that of the levi.
the genealogy of jesus is there for a reason. sorry you cant see this, he did enter the temple, did he have to die or be killed for that to happen, be rejected so that the gentiles could receive him. I have a bible too. just because you cant see, don't mean other can see. why else did the apostel put his blood line in the gospel.
The Levitical priesthood has to be traced back to Abraham? To Adam? Heck,
everyone can be traced back to Adam, yes? So that's just silliness. And the
'12 men to start a synagogue' bit? That's no where in the Scriptures! And Christ did not come to establish synagogues, but to establish His Body, the Church. Someone else covered Christ teaching in the Temple, so I'll limit my comments to the lineage of Christ.
The tribes of Israel didn't even exist until Jacob, and the priesthood for the Old Covenant didn't exist until Sinai (430 years after Abraham).
The priestly line came from Aaron, a Levite, not from Abraham or Adam, who had no tribal affiliation in the nation of Israel.
As for John the Baptist being a Levite and being related to Jesus,
'so Jesus can be in the levi priesthood, too', no, it does not work out that way.
Here's why:
Christ's mother Mary was a cousin of Elizabeth, who was the daughter of a Levite. According to Jewish
tradition, lineage is determined through the mother, but according to
Biblical Law, tribal lineage is determined through the father's line (patrilineal).
Here's how it breaks down:
- Mary and Elizabeth had mothers who were sisters, making Mary and Elizabeth cousins.
-or-
- Mary's mother and Elizabeth's father were sister and brother, making Mary and Elizabeth cousins.
Elizabeth was married to Zechariah, a priest in the Temple, making him a Levite. As a Levite priest, Zechariah had to be married to a Levite (per Lev. 21). So . . .
- We know that Elizabeth had to be a Levite.
- That does not mean that Mary had to be a Levite, however, because her Tribal affiliation was determined through her father's bloodline, not her mother's bloodline, and her father was of the Tribe of Judah.
Again, while 'Jewishness' in 'modern times' is determined by the maternal line, Tribal affiliation was determined I
N THE BIBLE by the paternal line.
So even though
Mary's father (Heli, of the Tribe of Judah) likely did marry the daughter of a Levite (which would make it possible for Elizabeth to be Mary's relative - some say cousin, some say aunt, also being a Levite, able to marry a Levite High Priest, Zechariah),
Mary's Tribal affiliation was determined by her father's Tribe, not by her mother's Tribe.
Is it possible that Levite blood coursed through Messiah's veins?
Yes - Gentile blood also coursed through Messiah's veins, as there are several Gentile women listed in the line of David.
Those Gentile women's presence in the line of David does not make Messiah a Gentile any more than the presence of a Levite in the line of David through Mary makes Messiah a Levite.
Christ is of the Tribe of Judah, of the Line of David,
determined by the Paternal line.
His Tribal affiliation, through His female flesh-parent, was determined to be Judah through her patriarchal lineage,
as all lineages throughout the Bible are determined.
Hebrews 7:11-16 clearly states:
11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law.
13 For He of whom these things are spoken
---> belongs to another tribe, <---
from which no man has officiated at the altar.
14 ---> For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, <---
of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest 16 who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.
And here is gets really interesting, for the Scriptures put Jesus' lineage in the Flesh from the line of Judah, but what of His Father's Seed?
Surely you all understand that God is not of any fleshly tribe of Israel or any other nation, right?
The letter to the Hebrews tells us that Christ Jesus became our Perfect High Priest - His flesh of the Tribe of Judah on His mother's side - His Spirit begotten of God and Christ's Priesthood in the likeness of Melchizedek -
a priest with no recorded lineage. There is much more to explore in the reference to Melchizedek, but for the purposes of this post, suffice it to say that Melchizedek was a priest hundreds of years before the Old Covenant fleshly Priesthood was defined and established at Sinai.
What does all that mean?
It means that Christ is our Perfect, Permanent, Forever High Priest of the New Covenant, that's what it means! \o/
-JGIG
