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anna peterman

3/26/2016 03:41:48 pm

Shalom....J.A.
First of all - I need to let you know - that I am slowly reading myself through all of your writings and love them....
as to the tzitziyot - (even though I love them) I am not so sure that this part of the Torah still applies to the Covenant Torah that was restored when the Seed:; Yahushua came - I think that this is part of the Levitical Law - that was "done away with" according to Hebrews, Galatians... etc... when our Melchizedek High Priest ratified the New Covenant and we are now BACK in the Covenant of Promise.
So... as much as they (the tzitziyot) were a great reminder to keep the Laws of YAHUAH... we now have the Ruach HaKodesh living INSIDE of our Hearts... doing a MUCH better "job" (if I may use such a mundane word) and keeping us living Kodesh lives... and for those...who follow YAHUAH their Creator and YAHUSHUA their King - who is their High-Priest after the Order of Melkizedek... and who’s hearts have been circumcised from a heart of stone to a heart of flesh to have HIS COVENANT - His: (ROYAL) TORAH inscribed on it by the the Finger of the Living YAHUAH so that after our Free JUSTIFICATION - we can now work out our SALVATION with fear and trembling... and PUT TO DEATH... on the ALTAR OF OUR HEARTS”... ( the Holy of Holies inside of our LIVING TEMPLE)... all the DEEDS OF THE FLESH.... that the "RUACH OF HOLINESS" convicts us of - every single day of our life...(ROMANS 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live) - So... That is my "TAKE" on wearing the tzitziyot in the "New Covenant" -
If in ANY WAY - I would think that this would be a "LAW" of the NEW COVENANT of PROMISE... - of Course I would wear them....
but it is clear to me - that this is one of those "OUTWARD" things that I do NOT do.... because it was a "SHADOW" of what now the Ruach is doing... and of what HAS TO BE " EVIDENT"... WITHOUT any "TASSELS" ON MY BODY..... by the way I am living... "the NARROW PATH that leads to LIFE"
sincerely... and with great respect
anna peterman

J. A. Brown link

3/30/2016 08:36:16 am

Shalom, Anna. Thank you for taking the time to read the article, and any/all others you've perused.

As to your comments, I will state that I respectfully but wholeheartedly disagree. I find Matthew Nolan and David Perry's theories regarding the Priesthood to be not only divisive, but unsound, un-Biblical, and entirely out of Cultural and Textual context. There is a reason this teaching has never existed before. Outside the book of Hebrews (the author of which is still unknown), there is no reference to Messiah being of the Order of Malkitsedeq.

The covenant with Aaron, Eleazar, Phineas, Zadok, and the priests of the line of Zadok was and will continue to be valid. For fleshly, earthly humans still on this planet. Yeshua is not a Priest for an earthly Temple, as Hebrews 8:4 states. Yeshua's Priesthood, being of the Order of Malkitsedeq, is for the Heavenly Tabernacle. When He returns and the Millennial Reign begins on earth, the Earthly Temple will be rebuilt (per Ezekiel 38-48, Isaiah 2, Micah 4, etc.), and the Levitical Line of Zadok will operate as Priests in the House of Yahweh (see Ezekiel 44).

However, those of the First Resurrection, those that receive immortality at the return of Yeshua (1 Cor. 15), that rise to meet Him in the air as He heads toward Jerusalem (1 Thess. 4), will be incorruptible (1 Cor. 15), will be Born Again (John 3), and will no longer sin (1 John 3:9; 5:18). Thus they will not need an earthly priesthood and an earthly Temple for offerings. Everyone else, however, who can still sin (Zech. 14), and who are still mortal for the 1,000 years that Satan is locked away (Rev. 20), will need a Temple and an earthly Priesthood. Isaiah 66 states that when Yeshua returns, He will take from among the people, for priests.

So back to the topic of the article, I must ask you a rhetorical question: are you "Born of Elohim"? If you are, then per 1 John 3 and 5, you no longer sin. However, if you still sin, you are not yet "Born of Elohim." Which simply means you have not been resurrected into an incorruptible form yet. This is obviously the case, as Yeshua has not yet returned, and the First Resurrection hasn't happened yet. So then we are still duty-bound to wear tsitsiyot. If there WERE a valid Temple, we (like Paul in Acts 21) would be duty-bound to offer our offerings at it, and to be present in Jerusalem for the three pilgrimage Feasts. The Law is for the Law Breaker. As long as sin is still in our nature, as it will be until we are resurrected incorruptible, we will still be bound to obey the whole Torah.

In our state of exile that is tricky, since much cannot be observed today, given the restriction we have by not living in the land, not having a Temple, priesthood, etc. Nonetheless, the command to wear tsitsiyot is easily observable. And I don't know about you, but I still need these physical reminders sometimes. Having the spirit in you to remind you doesn't annul the necessity of the required physical reminder. The spirit was inside of Moses. It was inside of David. Yet clearly he needed something more than that, as David sinned multiple times.

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