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“For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.’ ”. Jer 33:17
We know about the 70 ad advent which destroyed the temple. So no more temple no more priest. What's this all about?😏😏
the ot was conditional based on what the people did the leviticle preists abode over Moses law
“Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day,
to go after other gods, which ye have not known.”
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 KJV
when you get into latter prophecy you have to follow what israel did to find out what they chose even there in Jeremiah it was God calling them to repentance to return to the law but they never did so later in prophecy you see him addressing. The leviticle order of priests you can see how it began with Levi a godly man who upheld the covenant but then you see the decline and curse come
note how it’s still based on thier response just as it was given
“And now,
O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
For the
priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
But
ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. Therefore have I also
made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.”
Malachi 2:1-9 KJV
Gods solution was to send Jesus who would purify the levites if they received him but if they rejected him that curse would come
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and
the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth?
for he is like a
refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And
he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.”
Malachi 3:1-3 KJV
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
Malachi 4:5-6 KJV
now consider what the preists did when the messiah came
this is just one of many examples in the gospel of what the Levite preists we’re doing
“And
the chief priests and all the council sought for
witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
…But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him,
Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?
And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.”
Mark 14:55, 61-64 KJV
rather than accepting the messiah and being purified they rejected him and killed him that was the last straw and nomination of desolation that left Israel’s temple and priesthood desolate and required a new priesthood which was always foretold
“But
last of all he sent unto them his son, saying,
They will reverence my son.
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh,
what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Jesus saith unto them,
Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Therefore say I unto you,
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”
Matthew 21:37-43 KJV
Each ot prophecy doesn’t exist in a vacuum they are all founded on the old covenant when promising Israel’s restoration it was always based on what they did when the messiah came and what they had already done all along
they chose the curse of the covenant
“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath
the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”
Isaiah 24:5-6 KJV
they could have blessed the earth and set Israel as the chief nation of this world but they chose the curse instead ultimately the priests were meant to keep the people in the way but they themselves didn’t keep the law and over time they became preists of false gods which the people worshipped even Aaron remember built a golden calf for worship
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