Priests as the New Levites – Shameless Popery
That the New Covenant would include priests was prophesied in the Old Testament countless times. For this post, I’m looking only at the Levitical prophesies: the times when God prophesies that within the New Covenant, He will set apart some (but not all) Christians to serve as His priests, as the new Levites.
I. Genesis 22 and Jeremiah 33
The role of the Old Covenant was to use Israel to proclaim the Gospel to the ends of the Earth. They were chosen to be a nation which was set apart and which ministered to the world. This is clear from the inception of the Covenant in Genesis 22:15-18,
The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said,
“I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have
not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your
descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.
Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your …
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