A PRIEST WITH URIM AND THUMMIM

November 26, 2000 pm
MF BLUME

Exodus 28:29-30  And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually. And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

Ezra 2:61-63  And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name: These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.



After coming from Babylonian captivity, among the people of Israel were priests who were called of God to minister and to go into the holy place and eat most holy things.
Exodus 40:9-10  And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
But when Israel came from Babylon, confusion, the people who knew they were priests did not have a genealogy to prove it. So many people today who are born again, and are therefore priests unto God feel that they are unclean and polluted. Babylon is confusion. When you come out of confusion and enter into peace, there are going to be some changes occur, and life is going to be lived differently for the better. Ezra said that the priests would be considered as unclean and polluted UNTIL a priest stand up with urim and thummim.

URIM AND THUMMIM means LIGHTS AND PERFECTION.

We are all priests if we are new creatures in Christ.

Revelation 1:5-6  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Among us priests is rising up some priests with urim and thummim. LIGHT AND PERFECTION.

There is a ministry today of preaching the full glory of the gospel and showing people who they are in Christ Jesus.

The people of God are afraid to enjoy the most holy things that is their’s because due to the confusion many of them have come from they are as polluted in their minds.

And God’s Spirit led ministry is preaching and preaching who we are in Christ.

There is so much preaching that is off the issue today.

When I studied this morning’s message concerning the first curse-free birth, I referred to how Isaiah 6:7-8 says that an unprecedented event occurred.

“Never in the history of the world had such a thing happened before, but God keeps His word.  As definitely foretold here and in Ezekiel 37:21-22 and 38:10-11, Israel became a recognized nation, actually ‘born in a day.’ After being away from their homeland for almost 2000 years, the Jews were given a national homeland in Palestine by the Balfour declaration in November 1917.  In 1922 the league of nations gave great britain the mandate over Palestine. On May 14, 1948, Great Britain withdrew her mandate, and immediately Israel was declared a sovereign state, and her growth and importance among nations became astonishing.”

What concerned me about this note was that nothing was thought about concerning the Church!

Even if there is a dual prophecy to be seen of natural Israel and spiritual Israel, the Church, why is nothing said about spiritual Israel, by far the greater and more important issue?

And we can get so confused and off the main subject.

But a ministry is occurring in which the main things are being taught and the main things are being stressed. This priesthood has urim and thummim. Every born again believer is a new creature in Christ. In Christ we are perfect so far as our pleasing God is concerned. One man asked me a question, who has been studying this truth for sometime on our website, “What exactly died with me when I died with Jesus?”
Romans 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
All of us will die one day due to sin.
Ezekiel 18:20  The soul that sinneth, it shall die
If we had never served God, and we grew old and died, the penalty would have been paid.

That is the reason Jesus Christ died on the cross.

So that we could take His death and say we already died.

Though the world cannot see a different face on you than the one you had as a sinner... In God’s eyes, we died and are new creatures. ANOTHER TRANSLATION READS ROMANS 12:2 AS FOLLOWS:

Stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your inner being and patterned after this age.  But change your outward expression to the one that comes from within and is representative of your being by the renewing of your mind.

This brother called me from Tennessee Thursday night after bible study here at the church and thanked me again and again for these studies I have on the internet.

Folks, this man had his thinking changed. The real is deep inside you in your inner man. Our deep inner creaturehood must come out through into our minds and then be expressed. We take communion and some will not take it. In your minds you will be polluted because we are so accustomed to living by what we see and what others see in us that when we are changed in our spirits deep inside, we cannot tell, and with the devil saying SEE?  YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME AND YOU STILL ACT THE SAME.... then we believe we are the same and nothing has changed.