Why and when did YHVH institute the Levitical priesthood and sacrificial systems and for how long? What was their purpose? Were they permanent or temporary? As time went on, did they accomplish what they were supposed to or did they fail? How did YHVH feel about this and what did he have to say about it? If they were for a temporary time and failed to achieve their intended purpose, then what replaced them? Like a road sign or a mileage marker, did they prophetically point to a spiritual destination that was further out and at a higher level? What of the Levitical priesthood and sacrificial systems today? Are they still in effect?
The answers to some of these questions may surprise you, and will definitely enlighten you as we cruise through more than 1,500 years of biblical history starting in Leviticus, then trek through the Psalms and Prophets and then end up in the Gospels.
In part two of this series, go through the Epistle to the Hebrews line-by-line and discuss why the Levitical priesthood and sacrificial systems failed to change the hearts of the people, atone for sin and ultimately reconcile man to Elohim, and why a new or renewed covenant was necessary, and how these two systems are, in reality, still in effect today but at a higher level through the Person of Yeshua the Messiah. This was YHVH’s Elohim’s plan all along.
We will also discuss that in Yeshua’s fulfillment of the Levitical priesthood and sacrificial systems and his instituting the (re)new(ed) covenant , that this in no way invalidated YHVH’s Torah-law/instructions in righteousness. The Book of Hebrews is clear on this, even though false teachers in the mainstream church, to their shame, teach otherwise as they twist Scripture to line up with the anti-Torah and anti-Semitic biases of the so called early church and proto-Roman Catholic church fathers. It is time that these lies be exposed and the light of truth shine forth out of the darkness of men’s false teachings and traditions that make of none effect the Word of Elohim as Yeshua warned us against in Matthew 15:6, 9 and Mark 7:9, 13.
Over the years, many people have asked me to give a teaching on this subject, and so here it finally is!
