⁴ Just look at how great this One was (so much so) that even our father Abraham gave a tenth of his finest spoils from the battle with the Kings.

* 500 YEARS BEFORE SINAI  ... TITHE = A TENTH ... SHADOW OF GIVING OUR BEST TO YAHUSHA!

* ABRAHAM OFFERED TO YAHUSHA - SO WILL THE TRUE SEED OF ABRAHAM PAY TITHES ??

  (OF FIRSTFRUITS OF OUR SPOILS TO YAHUSHA - NOT JUST  $$$  BUT OUR WHOLE LIFE) ...

* CHRISTIANS GET BASHED! ... "THEY PAY TITHES BUT DON'T DO THE 10 COMMANDMENTS!" 

*  TITHING CAME BEFORE THE LAW - IN THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD - NOT LEVITICAL !!

IF YAHUSHA OWNS YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS 'ON LOAN', HOW MUCH OF YOUR LIFE, TIME, RESOURCES, MONEY, ENERGY IS USED FOR HIS SERVICE & WORK ??    % %% 

"ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY",

"BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS ... I AM!" AB SAW YAHUSHA!

⁵ Now the Divine Laws say that those from the Tribe of Levi (who become Priests) must get a tenth/tithe from their own people, even though they and their people are both from the loins of Abraham.

1. FAMILY PRIESTHOOD - FROM ADAM TO ABRAHAM

2. BRIEF VISIT FROM THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD

3. NEXT INTERIM PRIESTHOOD OF LEVI (A REPLACEMENT)

EXODUS 4:

"Alahim said to Pharoah,

'Yisharal is My firstborn son'" ... 

YAHUAH DELIVERED HIS SON OUT OF EGYPT THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE PASSOVER LAMB AND THE WATERS OF THE RED SEA... FROM THEIR HARSH-TASK-MASTERS, TO SERVE HIM AND BE A WITNESS OF HIS LOVING-POWER AND BLOOD-DELIVERANCE TO THE NATIONS.

* PASSOVER (EGYPT) WAS FOR THEIR

   DELIVERANCE

* PENTECOST (SINAI) WAS FOR THEIR

   PURPOSE AS YAHUAH'S ASSEMBLY.

EXODUS 4:

"Today ...If you will obey My voice..."

          AND KEEP THE BLOOD-COVENANT BETWEEN ME & YOU! 

* NO FORMAL LAWS GIVEN  ... JUST OBEY!

* KEEP MY COVENANT ... WHICH ONE ?

* MOSES HAD NO COVENANT EXCEPT ABRAHAM'S :

* AT THE BURNING BUSH YAHUAH TOLD MOSES THAT

"I HAVE REMEMBERED MY BLOOD-COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, AND I'VE COME TO DELIVER MY PEOPLE". 

YISHARAL'S DELIVERANCE WAS BASED ON AN ANCIENT PROMISE MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS, A COVENANT OF BELIEF AND FAVOR - NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR INITIAL OBEDIENCE ... THEY WERE PAGANS!! THE WAY THEY WOULD KEEP YAHUAH'S COVENANT WOULD BE THROUGH CIRCUMCISION (ABRAHAM'S COVENANT).

ALAHIM'S WHOLE PURPOSE FOR HIS SON YISHARAL WAS  `You WILL BE a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people. For all the earth is Mine and you will be a Kingdom of Priests and a set-apart Nation".

HE JUST WANTED THEM TO HEAR HIM - KNOW HIM - LOVE HIM !

1 PETER 2:

"But YOU ARE a chosen generation, a Royal Priesthood, a set-apart nation, a peculiar people, that you should show forth the praises of Him Who's called you out of darkness into His marvellous light"

IT COULDN'T BE ANY CLEARER WHAT YAHUAH WANTED FOR HIS FIRSTBORN SON YISHARAL. THERE WERE NO `DIVINE LAWS' OR `TEN COMMANDMENTS'... THERE WAS ONLY ONE CONDITION: OBEDIENCE TO HIS VOICE (JUST LIKE ADAM HAD TO DO). INFACT ALL COVENANTS LIFTED UP BEFORE MOSES WERE TO SHOW WHAT YAHUAH COULD DO FOR MANKIND ... BUT AFTER YISHARAL TESTED AND PROVOKED YAHUAH TO RAGE, THROWING HIS DELIVERANCE BACK IN HIS FACE, THE COVENANT THEN GIVEN TO MOSES WAS WHAT MANKIND MUST DO ... (AND USUALLY THROUGH SELF-EFFORT & EGO!)

SO YISHARAL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A NATION OF KING/PRIESTS AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, HAVING THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEDGES OF THE FIRSTBORN ...

ALL THAT MELCHIZEDEK WAS TO ABRAHAM, YISHARAL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TO THE NATIONS, WITH HIM AS THE HEAD.

BUT WHAT HAPPENED? DID THEY FULFIL THEIR DIVINE CALLING?  NEVER! YAHUAH COULD SEE 'THE WRITING ON THE WALL' AND DECLARED THAT THEY WOULD NEVER ENTER INTO HIS REST ... EVENTUAL DIVORCE!

YISHARAL:

* FAILED TO KEEP THE COVENANT!

* FAILED TO OBEY YAHUAH!

* BECAME LIKE THE SURROUNDING NATIONS!

* BECAME EXCLUSIVE AND NATIONALISTIC!

* CORRUPTED THE KINGSHIP AND KINGDOM!

* CORRUPTED THE PRIESTHOOD & SERVICE!

* WERE DEFILED & WORSE THAN

   ALL THE SURROUNDING NATIONS!

AND ALL THIS HAD IT'S ROOTS AND SEEDS IN THE EVENTS AT THE FOOT OF MT SINAI. YAHUAH SAW THEIR HEART CONDITION AND KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. SO WHAT DID HE DO?

PLAN A:

MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD (MEAT)

REPLACED WITH

 PLAN B:

LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD (MILK)

* COVENANT GIVEN TO MOSES WAS ALMOST A PUNISHMENT!

* EVEN THOUGH HE ESTABLISHED, ORDAINED AND BLESSED IT, THIS WAS

   NEVER HIS PERFECT WILL ... FOR IT WAS CARNAL, SECONDARY AND

   ULTIMATELY SEPARATED HIM FROM HIS PEOPLE EVEN MORE.

* YISHARAL (AFTER REJECTING YAHUAH'S INVITE) FINALLY DECLARED 

"ALL THAT ALAHIM HAS SAID, WE WILL DO!" 

* PREVIOUSLY THEY HAD TO DO NOTHING BUT HEAR AND FOLLOW.

* THEIR SPITEFUL REJECTION BROUGHT ABOUT THE HARSH SCHOOL-MASTER

  OF HIS DIVINE TORAH-LAWS ... WHICH WOULD ULTIMATELY EITHER CRUSH

  THEM OR LEAD THEM TO MESSIAH ... DEPENDING ON THE HEART CONDITION!?

FALLING FROM THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD OF LOVING-FAVOUR AND BELIEF AS KINGS AND PRIESTS, YISHARAL RECEIVED A REPLACEMENT, INTERIM- LEVEL AARONIC PRIESTHOOD, AND THE TRIBE OF LEVI IS SEPARATED AS PRIESTS AND JUDAH GETS THE KINGSHIP (LATER THEY GOT A SUBSTITUTE KING ALSO - BUT NOT FROM THE RIGHT TRIBE).

WHOLE NATION OF

KINGS & PRIESTS

   JUDAH        LEVI

     KINGS         PRIESTS 

 

YAHUSHA WANTED TO BE THEIR EVERYTHING, SO CLOSE, INTIMATE AND LOVING - BUT AT EVERY TURN THEY CHOSE A WORLDY PRIESTHOOD, WORLDY KINGSHIP -THE RELIGION OF IDOLATRY AND FLESHLY LUSTS ... AND BROKE HIS HEART OVER AND OVER !

THE VOICE OF YAHUAH TO MOSES AND THE TORAH OF SPIRIT & LIFE WAS A BEAUTIFUL REFLECTION OF ALAHIM'S ULTIMATE PLAN OF DELIVERANCE, HOWEVER THIS WAS SMASHED, HIDDEN AWAY IN THE ARK AND YISHARAL RECEIVED THE BOOK OF DIVINE LAWS: THE TORAH OF SIN AND DEATH, COMPLETE WITH SLAUGHTER-HOUSE TABERNACLE AND SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM TO REMIND THEM (ON A DAILY BASIS) JUST HOW FILTHY THEY TRULY WERE AND HOW PERFECT YAHUAH IS ... AND WHAT THEY MISSED OUT ON IN THEIR REBELLION !

⁶ However Melchizedek was not even from the Tribe of Levi, yet Abraham gave him a tenth of what he had. And Melchizedek blessed Abraham - the one who had Alahim’s promises.

⁷ And everyone knows that the more important person always blesses the less important person.

PAUL'S DESIRE THROUGHOUT HIS LETTER OF HEBREWS IS TO CALL ALL BELIEVERS OUT FROM THE `LESS' INTO THE `MORE' AND `BETTER'. THE LESS IS SEEN IN THE OLD TORAH, TABERNACLE, SACRIFICIAL PRIESTHOOD  SYSTEM, WHILE THE BETTER IS SEEN IN YAHUSHA AND HIS MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD AND DELIVERANCE PATH.

⁸ So those Levite Priests get a tenth to support them, even though they're only men (who live and then die). But Melchizedek, who got a tenth from Abraham, CONTINUES TO LIVE (as the Scriptures say). AND CONTINUES TO COLLECT THE TITHE (NOT NECESSARILY $$$) OF ANYTHING AND WHATEVER HE ASKS OF US IN OUR COMPLETE SURRENDER TO HIM! TITHING WASN'T UNDER THE LAW.

⁹ Now those from the family of Levi are the ones who get a tenth from the people, but we can say that when Abraham paid Melchizedek a tenth, then Levi also paid it.

¹⁰ For even though Levi was not yet born, he already existed in his father Abraham's loins when Melchizedek met him.

* ALL CREATION WAS 'IN THE LOINS' AND CYCLE OF IT'S FIRST

  CREATION ORDER ie plants, animals, fish, birds, mankind

  (who all sinned with Adam) ALL COVENANTS WERE ACTUALLY

  `IN' AND THROUGH ABRAHAM'S COVENANT ... MEANING AN

  UNBORN LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD (WITHIN ABRAHAM'S

  LOINS) ACTUALLY PAID A TITHE TO A HIGHER MELCHIZEDEK

  ORDER ... EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T REALISE IT!

YAHUAH MORPHED AND BECAME A NEW CREATION, THE FIRSTFRUIT OF A WHOLE NEW CREATION ORDER, BEING BORN UNDER THE LEVITICAL LAWS (FROM THE LOINS OF ABRAHAM) TO FULFIL EVERY JOT AND TITTLE OF THE OLD TORAH LAW AND DELIVER ALL THOSE UNDER IT ALSO ...  AND AS THE SERVANT SON AND SACRIFICIAL LAMB HE SUBJECTED HIMSELF TO THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD IN ORDER TO LIFT THEM OUT OF IT THROUGH HIS NEW PERFECT BLOOD ON THE TORTURE STAKE (100% TITHE), USHERING IN THE HIGHER ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK (100% TITHE)... FOLLOW!

YAHUSHA (LIKE PAUL) WAS CIRCUMCISED, OBSERVED ALL THE OLD SHADOW-FEASTS, SABBATHS, LAWS AND TRADITIONS, IN ORDER TO LEAD AND DELIVER PEOPLE OUT OF IT COMPLETELY - TO GREENER PASTURES!

So Paul is encouraging us not to despise Yahusha's Priesthood or the gathering together of His Assembly. For Yahusha was after the Order of Melchizedek which is far greater and superior to the Aaronic Order. It was the first in existence. He encourages us to see beyond Moses (who got the Aaronic Priesthood) and to cast our minds back to Abraham our Father, who was subject to Melchizedek also. So He is our head and representative, and far greater than Aaron or Levi.