Royal Priesthood

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. Exodus 19:5,6

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 1Peter 2:9,10

First off notice any similarities?

In Exodus 19:5,6 the people were told to "...obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a "

In 1 Peter 2:9,10 you see "ye are a CHOSEN generation, a royal priesthood"

The word "chosen" means = the chosen or "ELECT" of God, the best of its kind or class: applied to certain individual Christians.

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called (saved), but few "chosen". Mat 20:16

For many are called, but few are chosen. Mat 22:14

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. Rev 17:14

Take the time and look at all the verses on "elect"

The scriptures clearly reveal how ownership is one of the central thoughts in both creation and redemption, the link that binds them together. Two things are always inherent in ownership - PURPOSE AND RESPONSIBILITY.

Do you know that if a person makes or buys anything he surely has some PURPOSE in mind for it? And is it not also true that when a person makes or buys anything he has a RESPONSIBILITY to it?

REDEMPTION and RESTORATION IS God's RESPONSIBILITY.

The Father of ALL humankind, has provide REDEMPTION AND RESTORATION FOR HIS CREATION, the work of His love! And it is from this great fact of GOD'S OWNERSHIP of the world that He says, "Because all the earth is mine ... ye shall be a KINGDOM OF PRIESTS!

Because it is His, He has a plan to do something about the wreckage that sin has made. God has a purpose for, and a responsibility to, His creation.

The Royal Priesthood is the instrument through which Christ's redemption shall be ministered, restoring ALL into Him again.

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile ALL THINGS unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be THINGS IN EARTH, or THINGS IN HEAVEN. Colossians 1:20

And when ALL THINGS shall be subdued unto Him, THEN shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put ALL THINGS under him, that GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL. 1Corninthians 15:28

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them (no longer counting people's sins against them); and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation (restored relationships to tell others). 2 Corinthians 5:19

Adam put the blame for his sin on eve, eve shifted the blame to the serpent. BUT GOD, the great OWNER of all does not place the blame on others - HE HIMSELF TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITY for all that has happened to His creation.

We are not in this life because we willed to be here in this world. The whole human race is not here because of its will. God is RESPONSIBLE for our existence here in the flesh, lowered into the realm of vanity, sin, and corruption. Adam was not responsible for his existence, for God by HIS WILL brought him into being.

The whole race of humanity is God's responsibility. We are here because of His plans, desires, purposes, and will, and God is a God of PRINCIPLE. He having begun a work, will finish it and not throw it aside because it was marred by Satan and sin which He knew was to come.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64:8

For the creature (of individual things, beings, anything created) was made subject to vanity (what is devoid of truth and appropriateness), not willingly, but by reason of him (God) who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Romans 8:20, 21

While men are busy blaming others for the world's problems, and the devil for their own, God Himself as Owner of all takes His great responsibility for all and therein lies the basis of the whole scheme of creation and redemption.

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: ... 2 Timothy 1:8-10

For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen. Romans 11:36

I love this version ---> For from Him [all things originate] and through Him [all things live and exist] and to Him are all things [directed]. To Him be glory and honor forever! Amen.

God as Creator and Owner takes responsibility for the whole world. GOD IS RESPONSIBLE for every human being that has ever lived, is living, or who ever will live. And because He is responsible and has great purpose for His creation HE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL MEN unto me. John 12:32

Now that verse is not about singing in some church, its about Jesus the Christ being crucified upon the cross and in so doing He will draw ALL men unto Him. Because, God will save and restore a lost world!

"Because all the earth is Mine; God has provided the redemption of the world in the sacrifice of Calvary, and now raises up a Royal Priesthood, a many-membered Priest in union with the great and compassionate and faithful High Priest in the heavens, our Lord Jesus the Christ, to minister the claims and power and blessings and benefits of His redemption unto all men until all have been restored into His image.

God shall save ALL mankind for it is ALREADY DONE!

"... the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own PURPOSE and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: ...." 2 Timothy 1:8-10

I believe that God now loves ALL lost men. There are lost men in jails and prisons and insane asylums. They are in death and hell and soon judgement, and God loves them ALL. He still remembers them and remembers His Son the the tree, suffering and dying on their behalf. And in the redeemed body of this resurrected and glorified Son He now prepares a ROYAL PRIESTHOOD after the order of Melchizedek, a PRIEST COMPANY, to restore mankind into the image of God again. "Because all the earth is Mine, ye shall be unto Me a KINGDOM OF PRIESTS!"

The Kingdom of Priests are part of what God has already finished!

As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4,5

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years. Revelation 20:6

The earth, the world, and all they that dwell therein belong to God, first because He made them, and second because He redeemed them.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and to come unto the KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for ALL, to be testified in due time. 1 Timothy 2:3-6

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the WHOLE world. 1 John 1:1,2

I see a stirring in the atmosphere, I see a people being taught of Him, purged, processed, perfected, taking on the mind of Christ, transformed again into the image of God, taking their rightful places as His sons, Kings and priests. They have received a vision of what they are destined to be in God, and of what they are being prepared to do for creation. The message of the hope of sonship and the high calling of God is going forth in POWER in this hour and circling the globe as thousands of the LORD'S PEOPLE HEED THE CALL.

The conclusion of the matter is that the Royal Priesthood is rooted in the redemptive work of Calvary. Through death our Lord Jesus the Christ actually brought back THE WORLD, ALL OF IT, unto Himself.

Notice if you will, He did not reconcile only a few believers unto Himself. ... God was reconciling the world to Himself IN Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us (Royal Priesthood) the message of reconciliation. Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:18, 20

"This is indeed the Christ, THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD," 1 John 2:2, He is the propitiation for OUR (the called out) SINS: and NOT FOR OURS ONLY, BUT FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD." The scriptures are clear - the WHOLE WORLD belongs to God first by creation and second by redemption. The ministry of the Royal Priesthood is to minister to the creation on behalf of God that He might have entrance to possess all of what He has paid for as His habitation. God's Priests know and understand that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein.

God's Priesthood knows that the Lord has a right to every heart, and the devil has a right to NONE.

that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. Ephesians 1:8-10

For as in Adam ALL DIE, so in Christ ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE. 1 Corinthians 15:22

It is THE WILL of God that all men shall be saved. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:4 By ALL MEN, in this verse, is undoubtedly to be understood all the human race. Salvation comes through the belief of the truth. God wills that all men should come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved thereby.

Jesus the Christ came to do the will of God. "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to FINISH His work. John 4:34

"Lo, I come to do thy will, O God" Hebrews 10:9

The will of God is, that all men be saved. This is His will, by way of distinction and preeminence. Jesus the Christ came to do this will. He came as the Savior, as the Savior of all men. He came as the good Shepherd, to seek and save that which was lost. And what was lost? ALL MANKIND!

Jesus the Christ truly came to save ALL MEN, not only those who lived on the earth while He was here, but all who lived before, and all who have since lived, and all who shall live. Jesus the Christ gave himself a ransom for ALL; he tasted death for *every man*; and unto him, at last, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess him Lord, to the glory of God Father.

Such is the way in which Jesus the Christ does the will of God.

"... He does as He pleases ..." Daniel 4:35

Who can resist a being of Almighty power? What God wills to take place, must take place. He wills the salvation of all men because it is right. A God of purity cannot desire endless sin and rebellion. If He wills the salvation of all men, He wills all the means by which it shall be accomplished; it must therefore take place.

God has no other will besides the will to save all men. But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires. Job 23:13

ALL .... EVERY MAN, THE WHOLE WORLD.

Because God not only wills the salvation of all men; not only hath purposed to save them all; not only hath promised it; not only hath confirmed that promise by an OATH; but also hath provided the means, in the death of Jesus the Christ, for the salvation of all men.

Jesus the Christ "...who gave Himself as a ransom for all ..." 1 Timothy 2:6

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:9

He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 John 2:2

The Royal Priesthood shall claim that every foot of this earth and every man upon this earth and under the earth belongs to Christ, for He made the earth and He made every man and He "tasted death for every man." Those who receive the call to the Royal Priesthood will preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and of the triumph of the Kingdom in every realm.

Through His Royal Priesthood God is going to reign in mighty Spirit power and authority over the earth, not to be little human dictators but with an outflow of life and light and love, touching God with one hand, and humanity with the other, bring the two together, that God may indwell men by His Spirit and live and rule in them in power and glory. The Kingly nature within His Priests is not to dominate over men's lives, but to deal with and break the power of self-hood and rebellion and sin and the devil that men may be reconciled unto God.

Kings have power and authority, priests reconcile in mercy and love. But once the reconciliation has taken place, and the Christ is enthroned, we deliver men up to God, even the Father, that GOD IN THEM MAY BE ALL IN ALL. That is the principle of the Kingdom. The Priests rule only to subdue all unto God- then God rules in ALL.

He rules through us, that He may rule finally in them.

The covenant of God still stands today: Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

The manifestation of the sons of God for which all creation is in travail is nothing more nor less than the FULL MANIFESTATION of God's fully developed and empowered body of KING-PRIESTS AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. THOSE APPREHENDED UNTO THIS MINISTRY ARE, INDEED, A PEOPLE FOR A PURPOSE!