{"id":8266,"date":"2016-11-02T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:27:59","slug":"who-were-the-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8266\/who-were-the-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Were the Priests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In chapter 19 of Exodus, the Lord spoke to Moses:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">22. Let the priests who draw near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">23. Then Moses said to the Lord, &#8216;The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai because you warned us saying, \u2018Set boundaries around the mountain and consecrate it.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">24. But the Lord said to him, &#8216;Away!\u00a0 Go down!\u00a0 And then you will come up, and Aaron with you.\u00a0 But let not the priests nor the people break through the boundary to come up to the Lord, lest He break forth upon them.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">25. So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My question is, since there were already Priests, were they in Israel before the Law was given, and before the tribe of Levi was chosen (after the golden calf was built)?\u00a0 Or, were they just the elders or leaders at the time over the tribes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy<\/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>They were just the heads of the tribes and families in Israel.\u00a0 Until God chose the Levites to be his priestly tribe, the firstborn son of each family was that family\u2019s priest (Num.\u00a08:14\u201318).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, In chapter 19 of Exodus, the Lord spoke to Moses: 22. Let the priests who draw near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them. 23. Then Moses said to the Lord, &#8216;The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai because you warned us saying, \u2018Set boundaries around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266"}],"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=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}