THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY CAN LEARN A LESSON WHEN AN UNKNOWN PROPHET CAME TO ELI AND PROPHESIED THAT HIS ARM WOULD BE CUT OFF (1 SAMUEL 2:27-36). IN VERSE 30, IT MAKES MENTION OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT THAT GOD MADE WITH PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR... I DID INDEED SAY THAT YOUR HOUSE AND THE HOUSE OF YOUR FATHER SHOULD WALK BEFORE ME FOREVER; BUT NOW THE LORD DECLARES, FAR BE IT FROM ME FOR THOSE WHO HONOR ME, I WILL HONOR, AND THOSE WHO DESPISE ME, I WILL LIGHTLY ESTEEMED. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS PROPHET THAT CAME TO ELI WAS SPEAKING AN END TO THE PRIESTHOOD THAT CAME AT A LATER TIME AND REPLACED BY ZADOK (1 KINGS 2:35) WHICH WAS ACTUALLY A TYPE AND SHADOW OF A GREATER REPLACEMENT THAT WAS YET TO COME. THE NAMELESS PROPHET WAS NOT LITERALLY SUGGESTING THAT ELIS ARM WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE REMOVED, BUT HIS WORD SPOKE OF THE PROPHETIC OFFICE THAT WAS GIVEN FULLY TO THE ORDER OF PROPHET/PRIESTS OF MELCHIZEDEK AND THE CALLING AND POWER OF THAT CALLING WOULD BE REMOVED FROM ELI. WE MUST NEVER THINK THAT A DIVINELY CALLED OFFICE CANNOT BE REMOVED OR REPLACED!!!
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 01:04:57 +0000
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