Fri.’s Devo - Jesus, Our High Priest

Read: Leviticus 16:29:18-30; Mark 7:24-8:10; Psalm 41:1-13; Proverbs 10:15-16 The tenth day of Tishri is the Day of Atonement which was the only day the high priest could enter the Holy of Holies. He made atonement for himself and his family first then for the people. Hebrews 7 tells us that the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did. Jesus was the surety of a better testament. The priests of the Old Testament died but Jesus’ priesthood continues forever. In the Old Testament the priest had to offer up sacrifices daily for their sins and the sins of the people. Jesus offered up himself once and for all and his blood never loses its power to cleanse, heal and deliver. It gives us eternal life. They were told not to offer animals as sacrifices anywhere but the Tabernacle and by the priests. To do so would be considered murder. They were never to eat an animal without first draining the blood from it. Its life is in its blood and to drink it would be to bring its life into them. God gave them a whole lists of the people they were not to have sex with. Semen was like blood carrying life in it. Today, we would say it carries their DNA. DNA is not to be mixed or mingled or tampered with except how God intended. A marriage covenant needs to be made for it to be legal and even marriage had to be one sanctioned by God. They were never to offer their children to Molech which brings shame on the Lord. He is our God not Molech. Having sex with animals is perversion. All these practices he told them not to practice were the things the people who lived in the land did. He was driving them out so they could take the land and make it clean again. If they did practice the evil things the people did before them the land would vomit them out too. This is what is happening in our day. The land is vomiting out the ones who practice these things. We are witnessing a cleansing of the land. In Mark we read the story of the Syrian Phoenecian woman who brought her daughter who was possessed by an evil spirit to Jesus. She begged him to cast it out of her. Jesus told there that he came first to the Jews and then the Gentiles. She said that even the dogs (which was a name they called her people) got to eat the scraps that fell from the table. Jesus commended her on her answer. It was like he needed her to plead her cause first. She did and then he could meet her need. The girl was delivered. When the man came to him who was deaf and couldn’t speak. Jesus took him aside. He spit on his own fingers and touched the man’s tongue with his spit. Was he not transferring his DNA to this man? That would have been forbidden by the law and considered unclean. In our day that would have been frowned upon. The man was instantly healed. Once again, the people were hungry and Jesus wanted to feed them. They had seven loaves and a few fish. Jesus blessed them and told the disciples to distribute them. The disciples saw the multiplication happen in their own hands this time. They fed 4,000 men and had seven baskets of leftover food. Immediately, Jesus had to get out of there and went across the lake to the region of Dalmanutha. Lord, please cleanse our land and bring a revival to our nation and the nations of the world. Thank you that you are our High Priest forever.