Preisthood of Jesus

Hi, my name is Mike Sullivan. I'm the brother is Steve Sullivan who usually plays bass and art? They're sorry, better. Make sure everyone here is me too. Thank you.

Steve and I are dad was one of the founding members of this church back. Many years ago he's passed away now but my background, I'm retired. But for 40 years I was in the business of the media relations newspapers and database technology riding and speech writing for executives at NCR Corporation in teradata. That's what I did. But one of the most interesting jobs, I had was an editorial adviser for this magazine Jerusalem perspective, if it was published and edited by a man named What was his name? He was David Niven, David and it was a magazine dedicated to more than hebraic Roots. But it was dedicated to discovering and teaching about Jesus, Yeshua and David was a scholar of the Jerusalem school and he worked with famous and extremely bright Scholars. Like, David flew through a guy by the name of Dwight Pryor who you may have heard of. And, but anyway, as an editorial adviser, I used to read drafts of Articles and make Corrections and grammatical so long because I was, my Master's is angulation. I had that as a master's in English. I did one of those things that people didn't like studying grammar and diagramming sentences, but what I do now is write books and I've written, for of my latest one is the Messiah of optimism, which is about Jesus, the most optimistic person who ever lived. And once you understand the optimism and the bright Fascinating personality of Jesus. You'll be an optimist today, we're going to start off and it with the weekly reading, which starts our sins, Leviticus Chapter 6. I don't know if you read it yet, but that first part of Leviticus is dedicated to The priesthood and understanding the ritual responsibilities of a priest. So today, the subject is the priesthood and I'm going to talk about priests and why, the priests have sent you a such a central role in everything pertaining to your Shula. And that one of the things that I want to mention is who is a priest, what is a priest that they just perform rituals in the temple and Tabernacle and end where the priest is? So much more. If you look at that, Italian book in the Old Testament, milatchy, actually, it's pronounced Malachi and it's not Italian, its Hebrew Malachi meaning. But in 2:7 it explains, what a priest is and what a priest does and it should increase your respect for the priesthood because it says that a priest is a messenger of God whose job is to cultivate and manage and guard quote on quote knowledge. The knowledge of God and that verse also says that a man should seek the instruction of a priest. because of what he knows and that he's a great counselor, priest is meant to be a counselor to people so That is really an important role. And today I want to continue the discussion of what a priest is by pointing out that

The author of the 4th gospel, who's anonymous?

But we've identified him as John, the Beloved disciple. He was a priest. He was a cetacean levitical. Priests he was a young man, so he was, and he was from a Priestly family. Now, the priests in Jerusalem, we're basically out of character. Write this in a casual way. They were the country club. They were the elite. They were the aristocrats. The priests were the aristocrats. In ancient Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. And when a priest walk by you, step back and respected that priest. Because a priest was so important and had such a status in that time, but there's an article that came out, that my dad who is also a scholar in Hebrew, gave me to read years ago. And I've kept a copy of it because it identifies and shows for the fact that the author of the fourth gospel. John was a priest. He was a young priest and he was a member of the aristocracy. He lived in a large house with an upper room in the inner city of Jerusalem within walking distance of the Temple. And the article, I can't go through all of it in detail because it's 10 pages of demonstrations examples and proofs that John the Beloved disciple was a priest and that beloved has translated, that's an awkward translation. The word, the disciple whom Jesus loved really was the disciple whom Jesus confided in. John was Jesus best friend and closest Confidant, Jesus, trusted, John and respected him. He respected all the disciples, but he placed John up here and they were close friends, much like in the Old Testament, the friendship between Jonathan and David, you know, Jonathan and David loved each other. And they were very close friends. And John the Beloved disciple. Was that close to Jesus? He heard he was told things the other disciples weren't told. and so it's important to understand he was a, like I said, a sadducee from an influential Priestly family and it was a well-to-do household that none of the disciples Were uneducated peasants so many academics today and Scholars over the years, have mischaracterized, the disciples and they weren't that way. The worst mischaracterization in Christian history is the academics who say Jesus was a peasant coming from an meaningless, little town called Nazareth and I won't go into that. I'll save it for another teaching but Nazareth was not a little backwoods town. It was a colony of people who had the Vedic Heritage just like Joseph and Mary. If you read their Jenny genealogies, they were both in the line of the davidic line of David and they were very proud of that. But anyway, Jesus was came from a well-to-do family. He lived a privileged life and was never anything like a peasant. So don't believe anybody, who tells you different? By the way, if you're interested in this article by Ken Hansen, about the priesthood of David, I mean, skews me of a John. It's he said, Ken Hansen. He's a member of this Society of biblical literature and total professional an author and just if you do the research you find out. But anyway, the Gospel of John doesn't identify. It doesn't start off with. This is the Gospel of John. John had to hide. His identity is a priest. Because they were dangerous risks for any upper-class Jew, particularly a levite. Associated with promoting Jesus as the Messiah, you didn't do that. You could be literally imprisoned, and, or executed for promoting, Jesus as the Messiah at the time. So it was in John's house. A very, at least two stories, maybe three stories. It was a big house with a big up, a room. And lots of entertainment went on there and in fact of having guests because the upper room is also where the second chapter of Acts Had the Holy Spirit fall upon them, so it had to accommodate a lot of guests and it was a it was a big upper room and a big upper class home in the Inner City. there are many proofs as to John John's priesthood, but two of the cute ones as when Jesus was captured and taken to the high priest of Judea which was the priest anise, a n, n a f, Peter, and John went there, and they wanted to go in and watch the trial of Jesus. After he had been captured, John was welcomed in Peter was told, no, you wait, outside. Why was John welcomed in to the court house on us, the high priest? It was because only a fellow priest would have been welcome in the high priest Court. So, Peter was told to wait outside but John was invited and welcomed in Now that's one of the things, another thing that happened when after Jesus was crucified Peter and John. Raced to the tomb. and John got there first but he paused And Peter Then followed him. But Peter went into the tomb. John did not go in. Why wouldn't John go into the tomb?

Because he, yes, you get an A because John was a priest and they weren't allowed any contact with the dead. So John stood outside the tomb and looked in and as soon as he was certain that there was no dead body in there, then he went in But to this day, our priest is not even permitted to walk through a graveyard, that's how sensitive they are about contact with the dead. So John exhibited the characteristics of a priest and that's interesting. Now, getting to some interesting part Jesus At The Cross.

When Jesus was at the cross. he looked at, Mary and he said, behold thy son.

And he said to John, behold your mother. And Mary went to live with John. That's kind of over told about it, but there's got to be much more to that story, and then there really is John after this went on to write the fourth gospel. But conceal, his identity and I'm Mary was important. She was not A plain and simple teenager when she was met by Gabriel. And told you're going to be the the mother of the god, of the Son of God. She was a very well educated and well-to-do teenager. And she had read and understood the tour of the Tanakh. She was extremely well-educated. She was multilingual, she spoke and wrote in these languages and the so-called Annunciation that she wrote about my soul, glorifies the magnifies. The Lord that's considered by Scholars to be one of the most beautifully literary poetic writings in the Bible because Mary, as a teenager was very well-educated and she knew how to write and communicate in Hebrew and Aramaic. And so Mary was a literary genius. She was smart. We just don't have a lot written about her and I wish we had more, but we know from tradition from the rabbinic traditions in early, Christian Traditions is a she was a great lady. So she wouldn't just go live with John and then become a servant like a household housewife, or something. Know she worked with John and she knew Jesus better than anyone. So where did Luke when he wrote the Gospel of Luke? Where did he get his information about the early life of Jesus, his childhood?

Wow. You come from a very well educated and smart family and you're a smart young man because Luke got his information from Mary. Mary was the one who is there at the beginning. As you all know, and I suspect that Matthew also got his information about Jesus from Mary. Mary was the one who knew about the Shepherds of the wise. Men, all of these things that happened did Luke not likely and Matthew maybe because Matthews Matthew was also known as Levi, a priest. But anyway, Before I get off on a tangent. The gospel of Matthew was circulated first and then the other gospels came along. I moluccan prioris myself. I think Luke was written first by John. I believe the Gospel of John had to be Had to be anonymous.

But John being a priest. And this might blow your mind work with Mary. To produce another Fifth Gospel that gospel is known as the book of Hebrews. If you look at the book of Hebrews, we already know. It wasn't written by Paul because Paul did use the language, he didn't have these sophisticated literary skills of John, John's gospel and the book of Hebrews are both written in extremely sophisticated and perfect Greek. and once, Colorado did say, John wrote in Greek, but he thought and Hebrew and that's because the book of Hebrews is a very Priestly book, it's almost totally focused on the priesthood and being a priest.

And rather than go on too long because our time is limited. I will mention that Mary had to if I think co-authored with John, this is my proposition. I wish I could prove it but I think that John most likely wrote Hebrews. It is so focused on the priesthood and of course, what's the most improved? The most important priest that ever lived.

Jesus. Jesus Hebrews is about the priesthood in it, it announces and introduces reintroduce is Jesus, as the high priest of God. LOL, Ian God, most high after the order of Melchizedek, have you all heard melchisedech? You have, okay. His name is translated to mean king of righteousness, but according to a Jewish scholar who says righteousness has a tragic, missed translation righteousness that word is translated righteousness, but it's Sedaka, and it actually means the king of Grace loving, kindness mercy, so Jesus. In the order of Melchizedek, what goes back to the time of Abraham was our priesthood. In which he was king of Grace king of Sedaka. And one other thing I want to mention about the priesthood because we don't have time, is it? There was a book written a couple hundred years before. Jesus was born, it was called The Testament of the 12 Patriarchs and in it was one Testament of priests name, Levi, And in that Testament, Levi says that this again is a prophecy. That. 1, a king would rise out of Judah and he would establish a new priesthood. And he would be a beloved presents. And the priesthood would be For All Mankind, all the nations. And that amazing prophecy was not included in the Bible, and it's not even promoted by you, is called her three much because it's so Messianic and nature that if I supposed trouble them, that people might think Jesus was the Messiah, but having an introduced. All of that I could go into more about the important priesthood of John and the book of Hebrews. But you'll see the parallels if you read through Hebrews Almost every chapter goes into details on the importance of the priests. So starting with our weekly reading and chapter 6, The rituals of a priest, it's important to understand how high the status of a priest is and how super high the status of your shoe. On my she talk, The high priest of el elyon. and you ordered melchisedech is that's what I had tonight.