{"id":14819,"date":"2024-06-30T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14819"},"modified":"2024-07-01T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:30:19","slug":"the-levitical-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14819\/the-levitical-priesthood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Levitical Priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During the time of Exodus 19, the Levitical priesthood had not yet been established.\u00a0\u00a0So my question is, what priests were God referring to in Exodus 19:22 and 24?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Billy H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Billy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Before the Levitical priesthood began, the head of each clan\/family acted as priest for that clan\/family.\u00a0\u00a0That is why Moses\u2019 father-in-law offered the sacrifice instead of Moses or Israel\u2019s other elders in Exodus 18:12.\u00a0 He was the elder in Moses&#8217; family, and Moses was considered the head of Israel.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Incidentally, in case you are wondering about it, God changed the system from having the elder of each family to having the Levites as His priests in Exodus 32, after the golden calf incident.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1807798644554256616\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1807798644554256616<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, During the time of Exodus 19, the Levitical priesthood had not yet been established.\u00a0\u00a0So my question is, what priests were God referring to in Exodus 19:22 and 24? Billy H. ========== Hi Billy. Before the Levitical priesthood began, the head of each clan\/family acted as priest for that clan\/family.\u00a0\u00a0That is why Moses\u2019 father-in-law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14822,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions\/14822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}