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Priesthood’s
Historical Footnote: In the patriarchal days the head of the family was also its local priest ministering
for the family, before the Lord. Thus the father was supposed to represent the great High Priest before
the family in the days of the Israelites and were a type of the gospel and of salvation through the
Messiah, the priesthood was confined to a special tribe, the tribe of Levi. The priesthood was divided
into two special divisions, one the high priest and secondly the common priest. The high priest was to
be God’s personal representative on the earth, a special type of Christ pointing forward to the time when
the Melchizadec priesthood would be established with Christ as our High Priest.
The Special Rights Given To the First
Born Son
Note: Deuteronomy 21:17 “But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that
he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.” God gave His first born for the redemption of the
world. This was given as a remembrance of the promise made to mankind of what He desired mankind to be, thus expressing His
love towards fallen race. The inheritance of the first-born was a double portion which was the priesthood and the first-born of the line
of descent from Isaac, this honor being the progenitor of the Messiah.
Did Cain Receive the First-Born Birthright As
His Inheritance?
Footnote: Genesis 4:7 And God warned Cain, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if
thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over
him.” But if Cain should cherish hatred in his heart towards his brother the First-Born birthright would
be given to another. (See Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
What Individual Took Cain’s Place as the
First-born?
Footnote: Luke 3:38 “Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of
Adam, which was the son of God.” We understand it was Adam’s son Seth which took Cain’s position as
the First-Born, receiving his double portion of the inheritance. This was the seed stock which our Saviour
came into this world through.
Following Several Generations of the First
Born Birth-right
• Esau the first born sold his Birthright to his brother Jacob as is written in Genesis 25:32,33
•. Reuben defiled his Father’s bed and Joseph received the double portion of the Birthright (Genesis
49:22-25)
• Num 3:12 “And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the
firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;”
• Note: And the Levitical priesthood continued for many years always pointing forward to the time when
the True Lamb of God would come and “take away the sin of the world” thus establishing the
Melchizadec priesthood.
The End of the Old Levitical
Dispensation
The Coronation Of Jesus as High Priest Jesus Our High Priest Lives And Officiates Today
As Aaron and His Sons Were Sanctified
(Leviticus 8:30) So Jesus Was Sanctified and
Made Holy By the Things He Suffered
Gethsemane: O my Father, if
it be possible, let this cup
pass from me: nevertheless
not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Tempted: I am innocent,
this should be you getting
beaten.
Hold Me tightly Father that I
will not fall.
The Death of the Testator is Now At Hand
FOR
Hebrews 10:4. “…it is not
possible that the blood of
bulls and of goats should
take away sins.”