When the ark was returned to Israel by the Philistines who had captured it in war. It was not a problem that Israel saw the outside of the ark - the problem came up when they ventured to look inside it. God Himself made that distinction. It was His way of showing distinction.
The question is, What is that distinction? I say it is not what you say.
1 Cor 7:19 "circumcision is nothing, what matters is keeping the Commandments of God".
Rightly divide according to context. Paul rails about physical circumcision according to the Pharisee way, which is according to the flesh, and he rightly does so because it is a failure to heed the supernal, spiritual, and inward meaning, and deceives the one being circumcised according to the flesh into believing that he is fulfilling the commandment.
Romans 15:8-9 ASV
8 For I say that
Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,
9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.
Philippians 3:2-6 ASV
2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
beware of the concision:
3
for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence in the flesh:
4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
See also Deut 10:16 and Deut 30:6.
But circumcision for Jews is an actual commandment of God in the scriptures. Paul is showing that there is a distinction between ceremonial law and the moral law of God contained in the commandments of God.
That is the Pharisee understanding which is in opposition to Mosheh, Meshiah, Peter, and Paul.
These are not multiple choice suggestions but rather emphatic statements:
Romans 2:28-29 KJV
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
There is no refuting what Paul here plainly and emphatically states: you either believe it or not.
You need to actually address my quote and the text Heb 10:4-12 before you can claim to have found a flaw in it.
Just to be clear, I did not say I found a flaw in the text: it is speaking of the natural minded, outward, physical interpretations and understandings of those things. The Torah was not speaking in those terms to begin with, see Jer 7:21-31, as well as many other statements and passages from both the Prophets and the Psalms.
Referencing the Mark 9 teaching of Christ before the cross - is not the same as rightly stating the Heb 10 teaching of Paul where the text says "He TAKES AWAY the first to establish the second" - in reference to the work of Christ on the cross that ends all animal sacrifices and offerings.
Yes, animal sacrifices, which is a natural-man Chief Priest, Sadducee, and Pharisee understanding of the Torah: but the Torah is spiritual, (Rom 7:14), and likewise the offerings they offered which were also according to the natural mind of the natural man who cannot please Elohim because he does not hear the Father or His Torah.
The text you are not quoting says this --
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“You have not desired sacrifice and offering,
But You have prepared a body for Me;
6 You have not taken pleasure in whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come
(It is written of Me in the scroll of the book)
To do Your will, O God.’”
That's one of the very texts that proves what I am saying from the scripture.
Just believe what it actually says. If the Father did not desire sacrifice and offering according to the natural, outward, physical way of the Sanhedrin, Elders, Chief Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes: then how say you that it is the Torah instructions concerning those things that are abolished and not rather the faulty interpretations of those instructions foisted upon the people by the Sanhedrin, Elders, Chief Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, whose handwritten dogmas, decrees, ordinances, and injunctions, were incorrect and therefore against the people, and yet were binding upon the whole nation? In this you are siding with the interpretations of the Sanhedrin, Elders, Chief Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, in opposition to the Testimony of the Meshiah and the writings of his Apostles.
8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God
Amen, and "the first" is the same as "the old", (Heb 8:13, 2 Cor 3:14, Exo 34), which is the natural man outward and physical understanding and interpretation of the Torah, which is to choose death, (Dt 30:11-20, Rom 8:4-8, Rom 10:6-8).
Exodus 34:10-27 LSV
10 And He says, "
Behold,
I am making a covenant. I do wonders before all your people, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation, and all the people in whose midst you [are in] have seen the work of YHWH, for it [is] fearful—
that which I am doing with you.
11 Observe
for yourself that which I am commanding you today. Behold, I am casting out from before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite;
12
take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst;
13 for you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down its Asherim;
14 for you do not bow yourselves to another god—for YHWH, whose Name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.
15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and [one] has called to you, and you have eaten of his sacrifice,
16 and you have taken of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters have gone whoring after their gods, and have caused your sons to go whoring after their gods;
17 you do not make a molten god for yourself.
18 You keep the Celebration of Unleavened Things; [for] seven days you eat unleavened things, as I have commanded you, at an appointed time, [in] the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
19 All opening a womb [are] Mine, and every firstling of your livestock born a male, [whether] ox or sheep;
20 and you ransom the firstling of a donkey with a lamb; and if you do not ransom, then you have beheaded it; you ransom every firstborn of your sons, and they do not appear before Me empty.
21 [For] six days you work, and on the seventh day you rest; in plowing-time and in harvest you rest.
22 And you observe [the] Celebration of Weeks
for yourself, of [the] first-fruits of wheat-harvest; and the Celebration of Ingathering at the revolution of the year.
23 Three times in a year all your males appear before the Lord YHWH, God of Israel;
24 for I dispossess nations from before you, and have enlarged your border, and no man desires your land in your going up to appear before your God YHWH three times in a year.
25 You do not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with a fermented thing; and the sacrifice of the Celebration of the Passover does not remain until morning.
26 You bring the first of the first-fruits of the land into the house of your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk."
27 And YHWH says to Moses, "Write these words
for yourself, for I have made a covenant
with you and
with Israel according to the tenor of these words."
For yourself, for yourself, for yourself .....
This is not the same as the original: it is different because they made a golden calf and worshiped it. This entire renewal is predicated on whether or not they would make their way His Way which was already all stated and commanded before the golden calf incident. And what eventually happened? They did not choose what is pleasing to the Father, they did not make their way His Way, and the Prophets bear this out.
Isaiah 1:10-15 KJV
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear unto the law [Torah] of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of
your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12
When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14
Your new moons and
your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15
And when ye spread forth your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you:
yea,
when ye make many prayers,
I will not hear:
your hands are full of blood.
Your, your, your.......
not My, My, My.
Amos 5:21-26 KJV
21 I hate, I despise
your feast days, and I will not smell in
your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and
your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of
your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of
thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of
thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of
your Moloch and Chiun
your images, the star of
your god, which ye made
to yourselves.
Your, your, your.......
not My, My, My.
Isaiah 66:1-4 KJV
1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3 He that killeth an ox
is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb,
as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation,
as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense,
as if he blessed an idol.
Yea,
they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear:
but they did evil before mine eyes,
and chose that in which I delighted not.
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