III: Exodus and Wilderness

Kingdom and Priests

the present priestly kingdom of the redeemed

Root
Exod 19:5-6 · mamlakah (H4467), kohen (H3548)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 19:6
  2. Isa 61:6
  3. Isa 66:21
  4. Dan 7:18, 27
  5. Rev 1:6
New Testament
Rev 1:6; Rev 5:10; Rev 20:6; Rev 22:3

At Sinai Yahuah called Israel: "ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" (Exod 19:6). Isaiah renews it: "ye shall be named the Priests of Yahuah" (Isa 61:6). Revelation 1:6 speaks in the past tense: the Lamb "hath made us kings and priests unto Elohim and his Father." The standing is present, held now through belief and obedience. Rev 5:10 places it "on the earth" and Rev 20:6 names its holders "priests of Elohim": priestly access and witness, not rule from heaven before or after the return. In the eternal state "his servants shall serve him" (Rev 22:3). Rev 1:6 names Yahuah the Son's Elohim and Father, which no co-equal Trinity can absorb.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 19–20, 76