KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION

GCU

BIB-501

Travis Tenor

February 5, 2014

KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, AND A HOLY NATION INTRODUCTION BLESSINGS COVENANTS LAW COMMANDMENTS RITUAL OBSERVANCES DEUTERONOMY THEOLOGY PROPHETS AND LAW CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

God’s People are delivered and called to Holy (Leviticus 11:44-45)

By way of Covenant – Agree on terms (Deut 29) In wilderness given way to worship and way to livePrior to entry, given laws for land/communityExodus into Land under Promise shaped around CovenantPurity and Unity (Exod 34:12)Ways to remember God, give gratitude, honor Him (Psalm 103:18-19)

BLESSINGS God’s people are given Promise

God wants to be One with His people (Jer. 31:33) – Dwell in Peace (1 Kings 8:56).

God’s Good and Glorious (Isaiah 6:3)

Standard is Holy (Lev 11:44) and Just (Psalm 25:8)

God blessings for obedience (Prov. 10:22, Leviticus 26:1-13). His presence, His Provisions Offers protection, guidance (Ex 3:11-12) Land, descendants, great nation (Gen 12:1-7; 26;4)

God’s Covenant Unconditionally to establish His throne over a great nation (Isaiah 14:24). Conditionally dependent on man’s obedience (Deut. 11,12).

COVENANT Agreement regarding relationships and obligations

God gives ways for man to meet requirements Living standard Holy Communion Atonement Regular worship and sincere celebration

Honor God and what He has done Commandments & Moral, Civil Law With Religious Observances

Sacrifice Priestly rituals Feast Days Repudiation of false gods

Agree on what God has and will do for His People.

Honor God’s Law for conditional requirements met by man.

God Honors His faithfulness.

as sovereign Lord.

“When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests”

(Deut 17:18, NIV).

LAW

10 CommandmentsMoral LawLaw of LoveDecalogue

Mosaic Law/OrdinanceWorship/offeringPurificationPriest/RitualsSacrificeHoly Days /Feasts

PERSONAL COMMANDMENTS To set apart for Him

Responsibility and privilege of loving and honoring God

10 Commandments (Exodus 20; Deut. 5) Love and honor God / His Holy Day God Alone, worshipped, as He prescribed Major ethical concerns

Commands practical living and worship Civil, moral, tabernacle

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength“ (Duet. 6:5, NIV) .

LAW COMMANDS

Moral & Civic Personhood and property

Justice

Welfare

Society

Relations

Observances for Holy Communion

Priest to meet with God

Sacrifice

Atonement

Community to worship God

Praise offering

Remembrance

RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCESLaws relating to sacrificePriestly RitualFeast Days Repudiation of false gods

LAWS RELATING TO SACRIFICE Sacrifice significant to covenant

Specific to Mosaic Law

Sacrifices Voluntary Offered for Worship

Sacrifices Demanded for Sin and Guilt (Lev 1, 4 & 5) Blood (Lev. 17) Purify and cleanse For reconciliation

Directed by Priests (Lev 6-7) Requirements Strict: i.e. no defect, perfect sacrifices (Lev 22)

PRIESTLY RITUAL God promised a kingdom of priests and holy nation (Exodus 19:6)

Priest anointed position to face God (Deut. 31,32) as mediator (Lev 8) Consecrated (Lev 8-10) and ritually pure (Lev 11-15) Set Apart for Holy (Lev 17-26) Keep presence with people and atones sin (Lev 16)

Priest Duties the teaching of the Law (Lev 10:11) offering the sacrifices (Lev 9) maintaining the Tabernacle and the Temple (Numbers 18:3) officiating in the Holy Place (Exodus 30:7-10)

Holy of Holies

Holy Place

Court

TABERNACLE Most Sacred and Most CleanEntered by High Priest Day of AtonementBlood of sacrifice sprinkled on Mercy Seat Only Priests enter tabernacle

chamber closer to God. Daily incense. Bread eaten on Sabbath by Priests for Prayer and Worship

Purification rituals with basin before entry in to Holy Place

Gold, Ark of CovenantVeiled,

Table for Bread of Presence, golden lampstand, altar of incense. Veiled.

Burnt offerings & sacrifices confess

Feasts

Commoners Worship, Experience Presence, Fellowship

Entry

Sacrifice

Cleanse

Worship

Encounter

Bronze alter and basin. Fenced.

All outside of court deemed unclean

FEAST DAYS Appointed feasts of the Lord- Sacred Assembles (Lev 23:1) Weekly and annual Passover and Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12, Lev 23) First Fruits Feast of the Weeks Feast of the Trumpets Day of Atonement Feast of Tabernacles

PASSOVER AND UNLEAVENED BREAD Remembers Delivery and Honor God for Exodus Remembers lamb sacrificed and life given Remembers the freedom from slavery Bread for when in wilderness / God provides Recall and hope for Promise Peace

FEASTSCelebrate being brought from slavery, out from wilderness

Celebrate the provisions and abundant gift of lifeTurn attention to covenantDay of sacrifice and no feast

REPUDIATION OF FALSE GODSCommandmentsOne Place of Worship Destroy idols (Deuteronomy 12)Reject other gods, idols, practices (13,17)Remember what is HolyLoyal to His Laws

LAW (SECOND-ADDRESS) 10 Commandments – ratifies Covenant to Moses on Mt Sinai (Exodus

24:28)

Civil and Moral Laws

Mosaic Law - Ceremonial Of sacrificial system Use alter, offerings, for worship Tabernacle for Communion Priesthood for atonement rituals Feasts to commemorate Repudiation of false gods

“Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord”. (Exodus 19:8, NKLV)

DEUTERONOMY Aim and Scope of Deuteronomy.

Laws, love, loyalty, life

“Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD” (Lev 17:5, NIV).

Compliance in Theology by Prophet

LAW AND PROPHETS

Judging Prophets (Deuteronomy 18.15-22 )

Isaiah, God’s Glory, Judgment and Salvation, Redemption; Obey, Better than Sacrifice (1,2); Sin and Savior; False Gods; All Nations; God gives justice, understanding

Jeremiah warming (34); God/His relationship to world; Levitical responsibilities.

Daniel. Follows Laws to serve God, deny gods, seeks restoration

CONCLUSION Why covenant established

Generally Significance and specifications

Relationship between covenant and law Law testifies to covenant

“The loving nature of God and creator (whose righteousness is perfectly poised between justice and mercy, goodness and severity (see Exodus 33:18,19---34:5-7-----Deuteronomy 5:9,10 )

ensures that His "mercy rejoiceth against judgement, (James 2:13”

(Bible Education, 2005).

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