Being Set Apart as Kings and Priests

The first time that we see being set apart, the concept of this, is in Exodus 19:6. This is a very powerful understanding to go back to Exodus. Go back to Exodus 19. This is a very pivotal chapter in the Holy Bible with the one new body, the one new man, when both Israel and the Gentiles, the Egyptians, and whoever else was at Mount Sinai, the mixed multitude was at Mount Sinai. People forget that it wasn't just the Jewish people or the Israelites. It was also the Egyptians. Even Pharaoh's daughter, the one that raised Moses in the palace of Egypt, she crossed over with him. You can find that in 1 Chronicles 4. So, it wasn't just the Israelites that was there. It was the mixed multitude there. This is when the new one new body and the one new man should have begun with the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles. It's really beautiful. We know what happened after that in history. But my friends, at Mount Sinai, in Exodus 19:6, this is the first time that we see this understanding. And it says, "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." So, my friends, again, He said that the first time at Mount Sinai. He didn't say that with Abraham in the promised land. He didn't say that with anybody else. He said it with Moses at Mount Sinai, right before He gave the Torah to them, the ways of Yah. He told them that He wants them to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. And that does depend on the Torah, that depends on the words out of God's mouth on Mount Sinai to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. And that's very important to realize. In verse number nine in Exodus 19, He said that He's going to make the believers believe Moses forever. He said, "I'm going to make the people believe you forever, Moses, whoever loves Me." So, again, whoever loves Yahweh is going to, and Yeshua, is going to love Moses forever. Not till the first coming, not till the second coming. He said forever in Exodus 19:9 to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, and that depends only on the Torah, and Yeshua as well, of course. In Deuteronomy 14:2, when He was summarizing everything that He told the people for 40 years, this is what Moses told them in Deuteronomy 14:2: "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." What does that have to do with? Well, it has to do with being set apart. It has to do with following the ways of Yahweh. To be set apart in Him, we can't be set apart and go follow the world and the things of the world and the paganism of the world. That's not being set apart. That's being a part of the world. So, we've got to be set apart out of the world and follow His ways. Whether one is a Jew or whether one is a Gentile or whether one loves Yeshua, you've got to follow the Father. You've got to follow the Father's commandments. 1 Peter 2:7-10, if you want to read that for yourself, Peter says the same thing in the New Testament: "For you are a holy people." Who was not a holy people? The Lord has chosen you a special treasure above all the people. So, Peter confirms that in 1 Peter 2:7-10 in the New Testament. Let's go to the Apostle John. Let's look at what Yeshua told John to write in the book of Revelation, the Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah. And look how consistent this is from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Peter, to Revelation, Old Testament, New Testament, if you want to call them that. Revelation 1:6: "To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, Yeshua, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." So, my friends, again, my Jewish friends and my Christian friends, it's time to wake up to understand that Yeshua says this, and John wrote it, "To Him who loved us and washed us in His blood, our sins in His own blood, Yeshua, and has made us what?" Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 14:2, 1 Peter 2:7-10. He's made us kings and priests. We cannot be kings and priests without Yeshua and following the commandments. There's no way. It says it right here in all of these scriptures from Exodus to Revelation. Only things missing is Genesis, right? So, Exodus to Revelation, He tells you four times to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. And the way we do that is to believe in Yeshua and follow His Father's commandments. Just like He says, "To look to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and has made us kings and priests." Exodus 19:6. "To His God and Father. To Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Amen. And amen."

So, my friends, as you can see, this is very important to realize. All through the scriptures are very consistent. And I tell people that it's the same. It's very consistent. We have a consistent God, not a schizophrenic God. We have a consistent God. And He wants us to be kingdom priests and a holy nation. How do we do that? Yeshua, the Messiah, blessed Holy Spirit, and follow the Spirit of Truth into the truth of Yah. It's very important as we continue forward. Now, who makes us holy? This is very important because of pride and egos and things like that. But who sets us apart and makes us holy? Does God set us apart, or do we set ourselves apart? In Psalm 4:3, it says, "But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself." So, the Lord is the one who sets apart the godly for Himself, the kingdom of priests and the holy nation. In Leviticus 20:7-8: "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you." So, again, who sanctifies us? Obviously, Yahweh sanctifies us through the blessed Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, to convict us, to lead us to the Torah, the ways of God, to be in obedience to Him so that we are set apart in Him. Right? So, consecrate yourselves, everybody, myself included, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Amen. Keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies all of us. In Leviticus, the Lord says, "I am holy and have separated you from the peoples that you should be Mine." So, again, He wants to separate us. It's going to be a lonely journey out there. It's going to be a lonely journey with all the lonely believers all together. It's not going to be the world. It's not going to be the mega churches. It's not going to be the mega synagogues. It's going to be the holy ones that He has set apart for Himself. Just like He says in Psalm 4:3 and Leviticus chapter 20. Super important to realize. I mean, I can set apart myself to anything that I want to and say, "Oh, I'm set apart." You know, but am I really set apart? I'm set apart by understanding where my life is comparable to the holy scriptures and the commandments. I'm either holy or I'm not. Right? I'm either hot or I'm cold. I'm either good or I'm evil. Right? That's throughout the Holy Bible. I'm wise or I'm foolish. That's the difference. There's no lukewarm. There's no one foot in, one foot out, and I do the hokey-pokey. None of that. It's either hot or cold. Yeshua says it in Matthew 25. Good or evil, wise or foolish, hot or cold, and I'll spit you out of My mouth, being lukewarm. Right? So, again, we all know what Yeshua says with this. So, I'm not sure why our Jewish friends and our Christian friends are not really understanding that it's got to be, we've got to be set apart. We've got to do a better job, including myself, being set apart from this world that will suck you in. And before you know it, you will be not set apart, or I will be not set apart either, if we get tangled up in the world and the mega churches and all of these things.