Of course Jesus holds the “offices” of Prophet, High Priest, and King.
He just doesn’t do that during 1000 year reign on earth, He does that forever in heaven.
Thanks for the response.
peace to you
So you claim forever in heaven, yet provide no verse that backs up your claim.
"Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man."
The Lord God will be on the throne visible in both Paradise on earth at the Second Coming. Revelation 6:12-6
"For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount."
The Cross did away with the earthly tabernacle.
"But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with
them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."
There is a "third covenant". The Second Covenant was the completion of the First Covenant. The One Covenant was only One Testament split into two parts. The First Covenant is not the Law of Moses. The Law of Moses was a subset of the First Covenant. That is the mistake most make. Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah. He represents both the Covenant of Noah and of Abraham. That is the First Covenant. The Law of Moses completed the 3rd part of that Covenant. Noah was the Covenant of Adam that though his seed, the Messiah would be born. The church is the whole of the OT covenant, not just a priesthood under the Law of Moses.
But Hebrews chapter 8 claims there is a new covenant, not even related to the church, which was the finished work of the Cross. The Cross was not made solely to the Jews, it was for the fulness of the Gentiles to be brought into the OT Covenant.
This dispensational view of the Replacement theology that many deny is dispensational, but is, claims the church is Israel. That is pure dispensationalism. Israel is not the Covenant. Israel is the Law. The church is not the Covenant. The church is Grace. God is the Covenant that started with the prophecy of Genesis 3 to provide the Atonement that Adam's disobedience required. The Covenant preserved by Noah, that Abraham obeyed in faith, that Jacob wrestled for to become Israel, that was the economy of the Law, that was finished at the Cross, the physical point of the Atonement. Those dispensations each a stepping stone to completion on the Cross.
There is no such thing as the dispensation of replacement Covenant. That is human theology. The Cross did not replace any Covenant. It was the completion of God's Covenant starting with Adam and Eve when they were punished.
Show me a verse that claims the Law was a Covenant. Hebrews 8 does not give the length. It does prophecy there will be a new covenant with Israel and it backs up the promise given to David that there would be a forever kingdom on earth. It starts 1000 years prior to the GWT, per Revelation 20.
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."
This cannot happen until the Gentile church is completed at the Second Coming. Christ the Lamb has to complete the 70th week in person on earth. The final harvest. The church is not on earth for the 1000 year reign. The church is completed: the final harvest. The Atonement Covenant is completed. It will wax old and be forgotten as promised. This waxing old is the 1000 year reign of Christ. Only at the Second Coming will Daniel's 70 weeks be complete and the promise given to restore and remove Israel's transgression. Not the church. Israel is still a small part called out of the church. That is the 144k of Revelation 7. They rule and reign with Christ on earth for 1000 years. Not the church, who is all of the Redeemed from Abel to those raptured at the Second Coming. The church is in Paradise the temple of God with that original alter made for Adam and Eve, that Abel was the priest of, and was slain on. Shem knew of that alter from before the Flood. Then he built Jerusalem after the Flood. That is the one and only Covenant completed by Jesus Christ. The Next Covenant will still be on earth after the Second Coming when fire burns up all the evidence of the here and now, just like the water did of Noah's Day.
