PRIESTS WHO ARE KINGS!!!

Exodus chapter 20







Today we are walking in: Priests Who Are Also Kings









Today we look to the word-NATION-H1471 gowy--nation, people; usually of Hebrew people; of descendants of Abraham; of Israel













The Torah testifies.........……




Exodus 19:6




And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. H1471 These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.












The prophets proclaim..................








Isaiah 2:2




And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations H1471 shall flow unto it.

















The writings bear witness............






Psalm 66:7




He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations:H1471 let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.










THE POWER TO CHANGE OUR LIFE




Being saints also means that we are equipped and empowered to live in victory and exercise our dominion authority right now, in our everyday lives. We don’t have to wait until we die or until Yahusha returns to start enjoying our Kingdom benefits. That means we can take charge of our situation. It means we don’t have to just scrape by from day to day barely making ends meet and desperately hanging on by our fingernails until the weekend or our next paycheck. We have Kingdom authority, and the The Most High wants us to use it. He wants to bless us and bring us into the full potential He planted in us. He waits for us to avail ourselves in faith of all that He has made available to us. The choice is ours. It is a matter of grooming our Kingdom mentality, of learning to think, talk, and act like the royalty we are rather than like the galley slaves the devil has told us we are.




Unfortunately, this is not a natural mindset for us, and most believers have trouble making the change. So many look at their daily struggles with an attitude of despair or resignation, assuming that their circumstances will never improve, and they should simply try to make the best of it. They look at their mortgage or their water bill, then look at their empty wallet and ask, “How am I going to pay this?” Every day is filled with worry and stress over making ends meet. Is that any way for a king to think? What kind of a king complains or worries about paying his bills? It is all a matter of mentality.




Kingdom mentality says, “Bring on the problems. Let’s have those challenges. I was born for this! This is just my kind of situation. Yahusha and I are ready for anything. Come on; bring it on!” In a very real sense, Kingdom mentality is a warrior mentality. When necessary, kings go to war to defend their domain. They are willing to fight to the death in order to preserve their kingdom or to repel an attacker.




Kingship is all about protection, exercising authority, and reclaiming conquered territory. Sometimes it is even about taking the war right into the enemy’s camp. The enemy is always lurking about somewhere, seeking to divide and conquer, to destroy our lives and to devour our substance. A slave mentality simply rolls over and yields to the enemy’s demands, by assuming there is no other choice. Kingdom mentality faces the enemy square on and says, “No way! This is mine, and you are not going to rob me anymore! I am a king and a child of the King, and He has given this territory to me!” We must be willing to fight for what we know is ours. We must be ready to stand firm, take authority in Yahusha’ name, and reclaim what is ours by right.





PRIESTS WHO ARE ALSO KINGS




The Most High Yah is after building on earth a Kingdom of kings and priests; not two separate classes or castes, but two offices combined in the same person. Except for Yahusha Hamachiach, such a combination has not existed since Adam. A king is a royal executive, an administrator who exercises rule and judgment over a domain, while a priest is a spiritual representative between The Most High Yah and His people, and responsible for the spiritual well being of the nation. Adam needed neither a king nor a priest because he was already both. Before the fall, Adam was a king with administrative authority over the earthly domain, but was also a priest who enjoyed immediate, direct, and open fellowship with The Most High Yah.




The Most High Yah’s original plan was for both king and priest to be the same person, but ever since the fall mankind has been trying to keep the two separate. When The Most High Yah delivered the nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt and called them to be His own people, He told them:




Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exod. 19:5-6).




It was The Most High Yah’s desire to bless all the nations and peoples of the earth through Israel, as He had promised Abraham centuries earlier. That is why He called the Israelites a “Kingdom of priests;” they were to be His representatives before the rest of the world. Although the nation of Israel as a whole failed in this regard, The Most High Yah did not abandon His original plan and design. In the fullness of time Yahusha came, in the flesh a son of Israel, but in the Spirit, The Most High Yah’s promised blessing to the world.




The Most High Yah has always wanted a priest with a crown. The problem with a democracy, republic, monarchy, dictatorship, or any other system of human government is that they separate the offices of king and priest. In a fallen world, it is probably a wise and necessary concession, because with sinful people the power of the state combined with the power of religion easily becomes overwhelmingly oppressive. Separate offices of king and priest can serve as balances against each other.




KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS




This separation is not what The Most High Yah originally designed or intended, and His purpose is to restore the offices of king and priest into one. Yahusha fulfilled this when He came to earth. Like Adam, Yahusha was (and is) a King. When Pilate asked Yahusha, “Are You the king of the Jews?” (John 18:33), Yahusha replied, “My Kingdom is not of this world....My Kingdom is from another place....You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth” (John 18:36- 37a). He is the one the Book of Revelation calls “King of kings and The Most High of The Most Highs” (Rev. 19:16).




At the same time, Yahusha is also a priest. The New Testament Book of Hebrews presents Yahusha as the great high priest who intercedes for us before the Father:




Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Yahusha the Son of The Most High Yah, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need (Heb. 4:14-16).




Yahusha is the example, the prototype of what The Most High Yah desires for all His children. He wants us to be like Yahusha, kings and priests in the world: kings to faithfully represent His government and execute His authority on the earth. He wants us to be priests who will represent His love, grace, and mercy to a world of people stumbling in the darkness with no knowledge either of Him or of His Kingdom. This is the purpose that lies behind His call to each of us when we came to Hamachiach. As Peter wrote in his first New Testament letter:




But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to The Most High Yah, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of The Most High Yah; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy (1 Pet. 2:9-10).





THE MOST HIGH YAH’S SUPER AGENTS IN A DARK WORLD




We, the Church, the “called-out ones” of Yahusha Hamachiach, are “a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” called of The Most High Yah to “declare” His praises to a dark world. A royal priesthood is another way of saying that each one of us is both a king and a priest. Our The Most High has called and commissioned each of us as His ambassadors—His agents —in leading those still trapped in darkness into the “wonderful light” of His Kingdom. Paul described our special calling this way:




Therefore, if anyone is in Hamachiach, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from The Most High Yah, who reconciled us to Himself through Hamachiach and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that The Most High Yah was reconciling the world to Himself in Hamachiach, not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Hamachiach’s ambassadors, as though The Most High Yah were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Hamachiach’s behalf: Be reconciled to The Most High Yah. The Most High Yah

made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of The Most High Yah (2 Cor. 5:17- 21).




As followers of Hamachiach, children of The Most High Yah, and citizens of His realm, we have no priority greater than proclaiming His Kingdom. Yahusha devoted His earthly ministry to proclaiming the Kingdom, and His priority is ours as well. When Yahusha came, He fulfilled the first part of His Father’s plan of the ages: He restored the Kingdom of heaven on earth. Through His Spirit He has called each of us back home to our rightful place as royal citizens so that we can exercise our rights and authority right now and experience the victory of Kingdom living on a daily basis. He has also invited us to join Him in His work of reconciling the world to Himself. This is His focus and it must also be ours. Everything else is secondary. The Kingdom of The Most High Yah is all that matters, and apart from the Kingdom of The Most High Yah, nothing matters.




Yahusha’ command to us today is the same as that which He gave to His disciples 2,000 years ago: “As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near’” (Matt. 10:7). We are His people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an army of ambassadors commissioned to bring reconciliation between The Most High Yah and the nations. Let us be careful to heed our The Most High’s command. Let us preach the Kingdom of The Most High Yah!




CHAPTER EIGHT PRINCIPLES

• The Kingdom of The Most High Yah must be our highest priority; Yahusha gave us no other commission.

• Whatever we see in the physical world has a corresponding greater reality in the spiritual world.

• The Most High Yah sent Yahusha Hamachiach, His only begotten Son—the second “Adam”— to undo the curse brought upon mankind by the first Adam.

• Our Father is always working, and we should be working also.

• Only The Most High Yah can give life, and since the Son of The Most High Yah is of the same essence—the same “stuff”—as the Father, the Son can also give life.

• Because He fulfilled His father’s will perfectly and without sin, Yahusha the Son of Man was qualified to judge the race of man.




• In Hamachiach, we are authoritative on earth because we are human, just as He was.

• If you are a believer, you are a saint, and if you are a saint, you are an heir to the Kingdom of The Most High Yah.

• Kingship is all about protection, exercising authority, and reclaiming conquered territory.

• The Most High Yah’s purpose is to restore the offices of king and priest into one.

• The Kingdom of The Most High Yah is all that matters, and apart from the Kingdom of The Most High Yah, nothing matters.