Friday, November 15, 2013
Heavenly Priesthood of Jesus
Dear Friends,
A reading from the Book of Hebrews (8:1-13):
The main point of what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.
Now every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus the necessity for this one also to have something to offer. If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law. They worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” Now he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry as he is mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second one. But he finds fault with them and says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they did not stand by my covenant and I ignored them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and I will write them upon their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen and kinsman, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know me, from least to greatest. For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.”
When he speaks of a “new” covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing.
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We had sun for a time yesterday but it clouded over in the evening. Today it should be sunny and the temperature will go up to 8 degrees Celsius.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Saviour given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“I am your High Priest according to the New Covenant I brought about in My blood. I call you all to accept Me as the High Priest, My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters who belong to My Church. Before My coming into the world, there was the Old Covenant which My Father made with Moses on the mountain. He made this covenant with the Jewish people as they were returning to the Promised Land after spending over 400 years in slavery in Egypt. It was while they were in the desert that He called Moses to climb the mountain and he stayed with Him for forty days and taught him all about the covenant. Afterwards, Moses came down and established the covenant with the people as the Father had told him. The Jewish people however did not follow the covenant and they had to be exiled more than once.
“At the end I came into the world and I established a more perfect covenant with the people who believed in Me. All have to believe in Me, their Savior, and be active members of My Church and to love one another. In this way they will become My brothers and sisters and I will help them while they are on earth and at the end I will come to get them and bring them to heaven, to the place I prepared for them. I bless you all.”
Father Melvin