="posthuman, post: 3618375, member: 170505"]
The person you are cutting and pasting from doesn't understand or believe God's Covenant with Abraham. Nor do they understand the "LAW" that was "ADDED" 430 years later.
I find is fascinating that you preach we can't separate the Priesthood duties from "Love your neighbor as yourself", but you can preach the Word which became Flesh is different that Jesus.
God, not man, separates His Covenant with Abraham from His Commands specifically for the Levites over and over again.
Numbers 2:
33 But the Levites were
not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Num. 3:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest,
that they may minister unto him.
7 And they shall keep his charge, and the
charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation,
to do the service of the tabernacle.
8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons:
they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons,
and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 And I, behold,
I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel:
therefore the Levites shall be mine;
Paul understood this.
1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
10 For as many as are of the
works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed
is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Am I forgiven because I Love the Lord with all my heart? Is that what Paul is speaking to here? Or are the Jews saying you can't be forgiven unless you submit to the Priesthood and it's "works of the Law" for remission of sins?
And if I am relying on the Priesthood, that Jesus promised to change in Jer. 31, then I am truly cursed. Because we have all been taught.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Since I have already sinned, I am cursed because the Priesthood "works of the Law" can not justify me, so I must not transgress. But I have already transgressed. So "continuing in "all" things wouldn't save me even if I could do it. My past sins are still there and they curse me.
This chapter is speaking about the Priesthood "works of the Law" for remission of sins.
Gal. 3:
17 And this I say,
that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, (Because Abraham's sins
were NOT forgiven by the duties of a Levitical Priesthood)
it is no more of promise: but God gave
it to Abraham by promise.
19 Wherefore then
serveth the law? It was added
because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
It is a deception to preach God's Laws and Commandments that were given to Abraham and his children, can not be separated from the "Service of the Priesthood" the Pharisees couldn't let go.
Even this statement is ignorant of Paul's understanding.
Rom. 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law
are just before God, but the
doers of the law shall be justified.
Does this include the Service of the Priesthood? Are you really preaching that "Love the Lord with all your heart" is not a "LAW of Faith"?
How about purchasing the atonement of your sins with the best goat of your flock given to a Priesthood of a certain DNA. Would that be considered a "Law of Works"?
Jesus didn't give up on me Post, therefore, I'm not going to stop posting these truths. Somebody will see them and be encouraged in the Lord.