Dear Family,
Today is Wednesday, June 1, 2022, Day 4 of Week 7. This is the 46th Day in our Count to Pentecost.
The Holy Bible provides information that Jesus Christ has been very involved in building His Church.
To do so, He has been fulfilling many roles. One of those roles is that of High Priest.
Many have wondered what Jesus Christ was doing during the 10 days between His ascension and the Feast of Pentecost. And, we have wondered what He is doing now. Although we do not yet know exactly what Jesus Christ was doing during the 10 days between His ascension and the Feast of Pentecost, we know Jesus was fulfilling Scriptural promises and prophecies.
We know earthly priests were to be very diligent about their duties or suffer severe consequences.
We can only conclude that the manner in which our Glorified Everliving Savior Jesus Christ fulfills His priestly duties is exact, meticulous, i.e., perfect.
The assignment of the priestly duties, the design of the ark, the tabernacle, and all of the vessels of the sanctuary were to be very carefully crafted in exact duplication of the pattern God showed Moses on Mt. Sinai. These were a “shadow” to serve as prototypes, until the “heavenly” vessels and Everliving Priest should fulfill their true meaning and purpose in the heavens, once and for all eternity.
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Although Jesus has presented Himself as the Perfect One-time Sacrifice, He remains a Priest forever in our Father’s presence. He is there now to intercede, mediate, and advocate for us because He is building and protecting His Church. Not even the gates of hell will prevail against us. He promised.
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee; That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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