KTC: Priestly Kings and Queens

​Thoughts on Davidic Kingship.

In last week's post, we reviewed the system of covenants set out in the Bible, which defined various types of Relationships one can have with God.  This week we will look at the first three covenants of Sanctification - the Abrahamic, Threshold and the Priesthood Covenants - under our review of Keeping The Commandments.
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The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

                                                                     Individual Salvation
                                                                             Born Again
​                                                       (Redemption / Sanctification)
          Born of the Blood / Born of the Water > Keeps the Commandments > Born of God/Spirit

                                                                       Married Exaltation
                                                                     Going Onto Perfection
                           Becoming Perfect > Reaches the Full Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son

Abrahamic Covenant
When Jehovah set out  to renew/restore His relationship with Israel, the very first thing He required of Israel was that all males be circumcised - for being circumcised was required to participate in Pesach/Passover.  This requirement stemmed from the Covenant that God made with Abraham that Israel had the responsibility to bless the world with God’s Law and Word, which creates and maintains order, but also brings life, liberty and happiness to mortal man. Moreover, this mandate with Israel still exists today.

Why the covenant sign is borne by males reveals the principle and sequence of covenant responsibility, which was established in the Garden of Eden.  In the Garden, we see God create Adam first giving him the responsibilities to establish and to maintain order. Initially, Adam's responsibilities to maintain order included dressing and keeping the Garden, not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge and naming the animals. When Eve then Adam partook of the forbidden fruit, it was Adam that God went to first for accountability for their transgression for taking from the Tree of Knowledge. Further, we see in the writings of the Apostle Paul this sequence of accountability to maintain order when he writes that the head of the woman is the man, the head of the man is Messiah and the head of Messiah is God - 1 Cor. 11:3.  

Arthur Hertzberg wrote in his book, Judaism, “To be like God…means to be His partner in ruling the world and in carrying forward the work of making order,…” (p. 178). 

So when it comes to the responsibilities of establishing and maintaining order, this is what our flow of responsibility looks like:​

The Most High God - Our Father in Heaven

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Jehovah-Yeshua - The God of this World - The Son

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Man

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Woman

Threshold Covenant (Passover)
The man’s responsibility to maintain order is further defined by Jehovah as Jehovah restores His relationship with Israel through His use of  the Threshold Covenant. Anciently, the father’s responsibility to maintain order included recognizing and entering into a compact with the deity that he recognized as his god.  This compact was executed at the door threshold, which represented the boundary of dominion of the father over his family and by the deity he recognized as his god over the whole world.  Concepts of sovereignty and kingship were terms used to describe these responsibilities of maintaining order in their realms of responsibility. Moreover, Jehovah used a male lamb without blemish to represent Himself as Israel's Savior-God and also later when He would condescend as Yeshua to be  the Redeemer of all mankind, which lamb the father sacrificed and applied its blood to the door frames of his home.​

> Jehovah Sovereign and King over the World >

The Sacred Boundary of Dominion.

< Fathers Sovereign and King over the His Home and Family < ​ ​

We also see similar elements of the Passover in the New Testament with the Last Supper.

Today, we post the Name of God on our doors instead of sacrificing an animal to recognize the god that we are in covenant with.

In addition to the father's responsibility to maintain order, fathers of families are to be the providers and protectors of the family.​

 
Priesthood Covenant
When we consider biblical priesthood, the Bible seems to identify the priesthood with men who offered sacrifice. In Genesis, we see Abel and Cain, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all offer sacrifice to Jehovah. Then at Pesach/Passover we see fathers sacrifice a lamb representing Israel’s Savior-God.  Jehovah calls Israel a nation of priests - Ex. 19:6.  Anciently, the door threshold was considered a home altar.  Later, after Israel sinned with the Golden Calf sacrifice and hence, the priesthood, shifts to the descendants of Levi and Jehovah institutes a sacrificial system.  Priesthood appears to be further defined with the Levitical Priesthood to include the responsibilities of not only administering the ordinances of sacrifice, but include maintaining purity, teaching the Law and answering for the sins of the people. 

In the New Testament, the priesthood appears to revert back to a pre-levitical condition, where fathers hold Melchizedek Priesthood that is obtained not by lineage but by the making of an oath - Hebrews 7, 1 Peter 2:9, which means that fathers again assume the responsibilities of priesthood in their families as priests.

These responsibilities include:

Striving to keep himself pure.
Baptizing family members
Administering a memorial to Yeshua’s sacrifice.
Placing the Name of God on the family.
Teaching the Law
Answering for the transgression of his family.
Making offerings of tribute, peace and thanksgiving.

The father as priest uses an altar to administer his priestly duties, which is the sign of the covenant.


Mothers as Queens and Priestesses
Because wives and mothers are to become “one flesh” with their husbands and are to be their “help meets”, the mothers role as queen and priestess is implied.  They assist in the fathers responsibility to maintain order and teach the commandments to her children along with their sacred role to carry and bear physical and spiritual life.


Davidic Kings and Queens
The roles of fathers and mothers to be kings and queens and priests and priestesses to their families is not to be confused with the roles and responsibilities of Davidic Kings and Queens and High Priest and Priestesses.  Davidic and High Priestly roles assume greater responsibilities as heads over family organizations and/or covenanted communities. These have reached the full statute of Yeshua and are proxy-saviors.  Those so blessed perpetuate ruling dynasties.

Parents Role Titles Under Sanctification	Parents Role Titles Under Exaltation
Fathers as Kings and Priests Mothers as Queens and Priestesses	Fathers a Davidic Kings and High Priests ​Mothers as Davidic Queens and High Priestesses