In this clip: Chadwick traces the concept of being set apart as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation from Exodus 19 and 20 through Deuteronomy, 1 Peter, and Revelation, explaining that God Himself sanctifies and separates His people. He concludes that being set apart depends on actually following God's instructions, not merely professing belief.
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Okay. So, again, friends, this month is going to be very important, but it does begin with being set apart, being set apart into these things. You know how many people don't understand these things that would love to know these things? And God has opened up your eyes. He's opened up my eyes to these things, and it's our responsibility to help other people open up their eyes to the biblical calendar, to be on God's time, His seasons, and to understand what He wants us to be a part of, because it's pretty phenomenal when we look at it. We find this concept of being set apart, friends, in the book of Exodus. We first find it there at Mount Sinai, right before the Ten Commandments were given, in Exodus 19:6. And this is what it says: "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." So, friends, we go through this on every new month, on every new moon, we go through this that this was first said at Mount Sinai.
So, there's a very important understanding there that He first said it at Mount Sinai. Why is that? Is because He was about to give them the commandments, okay? The instructions to follow to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. How can we be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation if we don't know how to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation? Right? We can't just be, "Oh, I'm a kingdom of priests and a holy nation because I believe in Jesus." Okay? No, you've got to understand what goes into that. What goes into being a kingdom of priests and a holy nation? What the Father has said in the Torah about the instructions to be that. Okay? So, that was first said at Mount Sinai. Exodus 19:6. Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments were given. And there's a great correlation with being a kingdom of priests and a holy nation with the commandments. That's just really awesome to understand that in Exodus 19:9, remember Yahweh told Moses that He was going to make the people believe Him forever.
He says, "Moses, I'm going to make them believe you forever." Talking about the commandments, okay? The instructions of God. So, Exodus 19 is a very pivotal chapter in theology. It really is just a pivotal chapter in theology that goes forward with the one new body and the one new man. But if we don't understand this, if we're not under, if we're not reading Exodus 19, if we're not reading Exodus 20, if we're not reading the instructions of God, then we're not going to understand what it is to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Because how could we? Because we don't have the education or the knowledge to understand that. So, my friends, it's first said at Mount Sinai, Exodus 20, right before that, Exodus 19, "You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." Why? Because I'm about to give you the instructions of the Father to you in Exodus 20, and you will believe Moses forever, as it says in Exodus 19:9.
In Deuteronomy 14:2, He follows up with a summary of the Torah right before He passes to the other side. Moses, he says, "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth." And let's go to the New Testament with 1 Peter 2:7-10, and let's see what Peter has to say about a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. "Therefore, to you who believe, Yeshua is precious. But to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word of God, the Torah, to which they were also appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Amen. So, my friends, nothing really changed at all, as you can see, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, from Deuteronomy, from Exodus, the Torah to the New Testament, the B'resheet. First Peter 2:7-10, he's just basically plagiarizing Moses. That's all he's doing is plagiarizing Moses and also Psalm 118, the builder, the stone that the builders rejected. So, all Peter's doing is just quoting Moses and David, is all he's doing here. And he wants everybody to understand to be set apart and be a kingdom, a priest, and a holy nation, just like he says. All he's doing is just going back to Exodus, going back to Deuteronomy, going back to the Torah to let people understand about the Father's instructions. Okay, so let's go a step further. Excuse me, one moment. Let me get the banner off here.
Let's go one step further. Let's go to the book of Revelation. Let's see what John says about this concept of being a set apart people, a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. In Revelation 1:6, it says, "To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. And amen." And so again, all the way from Exodus to the book of Revelation, you find the same concept of being set apart, being a kingdom of priests, being a holy nation, which all goes back into the concept of Exodus 19:6. That's where you first see it. You don't see it in Genesis. You don't see it with Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. You see it at Mount Sinai with Moses in Exodus 19, verse 6, which correlates it together with the instructions of God to be a Yeshua, Holy Spirit, and follow the instructions of God. That's the kingdom of priests and the holy nation that will be in the millennial kingdom.
Okay? So, again, we've got to understand the requirements, the prerequisites of these things, the standard, the values of these things. And Exodus 19 is that standard that carries you all the way through the Holy Scriptures to the book of Revelation with the kingdom of priests and also being a holy nation. Okay. So, who sets us apart and makes us holy? Does God set us apart, or do we set ourselves apart? In Psalm 4:3, "But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself; the set apart ones for Himself." Leviticus 20:7-8: "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep My statutes and do them, and I am the Lord who sanctifies you." In Leviticus 20:26: "You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you, or set you apart, from the peoples that you should be Mine." So, again, my friends, right here through Psalm, David, Psalm 4:3, Leviticus 20, He consecrates us for Himself.
He's the one who, He's the lawgiver. We are not the lawgiver. He's the one who separates us for Himself. Separates us from the world by His commandments. "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep them. Keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you." So, He's the one who sanctifies all of us and sets all of us apart. "And know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself." Well, how are we godly? By following the word of God, right? Godly, the word of God. Leviticus 20:26, "You shall be holy to Me, for I am the Lord am holy and have set you apart from the peoples that you should be Mine." So, my friends, if we're not set apart, if we're just being a part of the world, you know, doing what the world does, doing what religion is doing, all this, we're not set apart. We're just not. We're only set apart if we do what He wants us to do.
