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====== Gospel ordinances limited to righteous church members ====== | ====== Gospel ordinances limited to righteous church members ====== | ||
- | === Exodus 12:43-46,48 === | + | * Exodus 12:43-46,48 - strangers cannot partake in the ordinance of the passover, but if they are converted, they may. I believe that in this case, that circumcision symbolizes that they have joined the church. |
- | + | * Leviticus 22:10 - strangers cannot partake of the items consecrated to God's servants | |
- | * strangers cannot partake in the ordinance of the passover, but if they are converted, they may. I believe that in this case, that circumcision symbolizes that they have joined the church. "And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no bstranger eat thereof: But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.", "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." | + | * Leviticus 22:12 - marrying outside the covenant forfeits rights |
- | + | * Numbers 16:40 - strangers cannot perform priesthood ordinances | |
- | === Leviticus 22:10 === | + | * Deuteronomy 17:15 - a holy nation has a ruler chosen of God |
- | + | * Ezekiel 44:6 - strangers cannot go into the temple; not just strangers though, but anyone whose heart is not right as well: "No stranger, **uncircumcised in heart**, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel." | |
- | * strangers cannot partake of the items consecrated to God's servants "There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing." | + | |
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- | === Leviticus 22:12 === | + | |
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- | * marrying outside the covenant forfeits rights, "If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things." | + | |
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- | === Numbers 16:40 === | + | |
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- | * strangers cannot perform priesthood ordinances "To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord" | + | |
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- | === Deuteronomy 17:15 === | + | |
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- | * a holy nation has a ruler chosen of God "Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother." | + | |
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- | === Ezekiel 44:6 === | + | |
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- | * strangers cannot go into the temple, not just strangers though, but anyone whose heart is not right as well. | + | |
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- | * "No stranger, **uncircumcised in heart**, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel." | + |