Sunday, June 16, 2013

"Firstborn"

A COMMENT I RECEIVED ABOUT:
"Who Are Anointed?"

> Pearl!
> I have read part of this, but there's just to much in it, too much meat!
> Keep getting indigestion so to speck!!! I have tried a few time now
> Get to the first part! And there's times am walking beside you! And can understanding you.
> And then I find myself wandering off.
> Is there anything just that bit lighter? For me to study.
> Am trying to pace myself and sticking to the questions you put before me, without going off track!!
> And l don't want to move from here! till l come to an understanding.
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I have added this reply to that article as an addition.

MY REPLY:

I am sorry you are having trouble. You don't tell me which part is hard, but maybe if I tell you this....

Think of a family.
A father, a mother, and children.
The Father is God. The mother is a promise God makes, in His purpose to save us from sin and death.
(pearl-thewoman.blogspot.com)

The children are us, here on earth. But there is a difference between the children.
There is the child born first (the firstborn), and the children born later.
This follows the pattern God taught us, by means of the nation of Israel, and the Hebrew scriptures.
Listen to what God said of all the human children and animals on earth....
"Consecrate to me  every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal." Exo.13:2 (Exo.13:12; 22:29; 34:19; Lev.27:26)

  God then decided that he would choose a certain group to represent these firstborn. See who they are.....
"I have taken the Levites (priests) from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the LORD."  Num.3:12,13  (Heb.11:28; Num.8:15,16)

Even though the firstborn (Levites/Priests) belonged to God; they still needed to be purified/redeemed/consecrated (Num.18:15,16; 3:46,47; Exo.13:2,15; Num.8:6,21; Neh.13:22) unless they were already designated as clean (Num.18:17; John15:3; 17:17,19; 13:10; Eph.5:26).
As you can see, these "holy" clean animals, were destined to be sacrificed to God (Num.18:17; Lev.3:2; 17:6; Psalm44:22).
While alive, these were not to work mundane labor/commercial business, nor have their hair/wool shorn (used for profit/exploited) (Deut.15:19; Num.6:5; Judges13:5; Col.2:20; 3:2,16,17; Eze.44:15-20). These priests lived and served, as if it were always God's Sabbath Rest, by which these ones were owned (1Chron.9:33; 1Cor.7:23; 6:20; 5:7; Matt.12:8).
(pearl-sabbath.blogspot.com)

The Levites of Israel were like a shadow of the real firstborn priesthood to come (Col.2:17; Heb.8:5; 10:1; 1Pet.2:5,9,10)
God now invites the ones He chooses, to be candidates/electives, for the "firstborn son" position and it's priestly work (James1:18; John1:13; 15:16; 2Cor.1:21,22; 1Pet.1:3,23; 2Tim.2:15; Rev.14:5,4).
If they prove faithful through Satan's testing (Luke22:31; 2Cor.11:3; 10:4; Eph.6:12; 2Tim.4:7; 2Cor.13:5; John16:33; 3:33,34; Heb.12:2,3,4; James1:12) they are sealed into the reality of a new priesthood of "firstborn sons" (Heb.12:22,23) under a new High Priest (Heb.9:11; 4:14,15),
of which the original Levites only foreshadowed (Rom.8:23; 2Cor.1:22; 5:5; Eph.1:14; Rev.5:9,10; 20:6).

Like the firstborn "holy" animals meant for sacrifice (Num.18:17); these priests also must give their lives on God's altar (Zech.11:4; Rom.8:36; Ps.79:11; Rev.6:9,10,11; 12:11) if they are to fulfill their full purpose and assignment as belonging to God. Jesus set the example in this, for those who would come to belong to the true priesthood reality (not the shadow example of the past). (John10:15,18; 15:13,12,17; 1Pet.2:21; Rom.6:3,5; 8:17; Acts20:24; 1Cor.4:9; Phil.3:10).

Who are anointed?
They are those chosen by God to run the race for life now....
to be among his "firstborn sons" in God's earthly family. These firstborn will receive a double inheritance and responsibility (Gen.25:31; Deut.21:17; Rev.12:5; 2:26,27; Psalm2:8,9; Dan.7:18; Rev.3:12; 20:6,5)......
to restore creation (the rest of God's earthly family) to freedom from sin and death (John14:12 Rom.8:19,21; Matt.17:11; Acts3:21)
in the Kingdom to come (Jer.33:1-26; Rev.22:1-21).
(pearl-holycity.blogspot.com)
(pearl-materialize.blogspot.com)

I hope this helps you to know who the anointed are.
Love,
Pearl
Please send me any questions.

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2 comments:

  1. Here's an account at Matthew 15:21 "Leaving there, Jesus now withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Si´don. 22 And, look! a Phoe·ni´cian woman from those regions came out and cried aloud, saying: “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is badly demonized.” 23 But he did not say a word in answer to her. So his disciples came up and began to request him: “Send her away; because she keeps crying out after us.” 24 In answer he said: “I was not sent forth to any but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 When the woman came she began doing obeisance to him, saying: “Lord, help me!” 26 In answer he said: “It is not right to take the bread of the children and throw it to little dogs.” 27 She said: “Yes, Lord; but really the little dogs do eat of the crumbs falling from the table of their masters.” 28 Then Jesus said in reply to her: “O woman, great is your faith; let it happen to you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour on."

    The question is, how does it come to be the little dogs having faith and is shown mercy and where are they placed in Gods kingdom? As the other scripture puts it Revelation 22:15 "Outside are the dogs and those who practice spiritism and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone liking and carrying on a lie.’"

    Matthew 7:6 puts it "Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw YOUR pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open."

    At mark 7:27 But he began by saying to her: “First let the children be satisfied, for it is not right to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little dogs.”

    Please tell me what you see base on this scripture given.

    ~slave to Gods law

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    1. My reply to you is too long to post here. I will put it on the main page. The link is: http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/06/dogs.html

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