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Therefore, as there is one God, there is one Mediator between God and men, the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ brings you access to the Eternal Throne of God; dear brethren, no Nazarite can have access to God, but by Jesus Christ. Thus, if you sin, you now have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. You now therefore have boldness to enter into the Holiest with your prayers, in the name of Yeshua, as He is your High Priest over the eternal House of God. He is your High Priest, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
Therefore, the Apostle and High Priest of your Nazarite profession is Jesus Christ — Yeshua, who has Life and has always been separate from death. He is the merciful and faithful High Priest, making reconciliation for your sins and blessing your works of faith, even as Melchizedek of Salem blessed Abraham, the father of your nation. Thus, you are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls; and yes, fellow Nazarite, He shall now exceedingly bless your works of devotion unto him.
Being eternal, and sitting at the Right Hand of the Father, He has made his name to be remembered in all generations, therefore shall you Nazarites praise thee for ever and ever, just as Christians have praised him for two thousand years. Thus, the spiritual Temple of the Lord is no longer partitioned, as He has made one Temple out of Nazarite Palestinians. We are collected and gathered into one Body — the Gentile Church and Palestinian-Nazarite Temple, as Christ dwells in our hearts by faith, being rooted and grounded in love. Both Jew and Palestinian are hereby reconciled to God; Christ is faithful as the Son over our House of Believers, both Jew and Gentile.
Within his Body there is neither Jew nor Gentile, for we are all one in Christ; thus, today’s Nazarite Jew is a Christianized Jew. Christ has broken down the middle wall of partition between us, making of two (Jew and Gentile) one new man, born again and in peace — Nazarite Jew and Nazarite Palestinian. We both have peace with the provoked and offended God; we both enjoy his favor.
This is the reconciliation of Jew and Gentile, as He has made in himself of twain one new man, as we have a common Head: Christ, and a common renewing energy: the Holy Spirit. Of the same Body: Christ, we are united in the same Building: whether you call it the Gentile Church or the Jewish Temple, being equally reconciled though Christ, the Savior of the world, and equally united in the Holy Spirit. And as Nazarite Priests, through Christ, we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father, and as God dwells in the Temple at large, so dwells He in every Christian Nazarite, Jew and Gentile, in particular.
We comprise the spiritual Temple of God, of which the tabernacle and the temples of both Solomon and Zerubbabel were only symbols; yes, this is the Temple which is also known by the Gentiles as the Church Universal, the Body of Christ. Whether called the Body, the Church, or the Temple, this is the household of God: God’s House.
This is the Living Temple, consisting not of dead materials, but of living parts, his family of sons and daughters; the unique habitation of God in the world, and the theater of his justice, mercy, goodness, and truth. In particular, every child of God, born again of the Holy Spirit, Jew and Gentile, is also a living temple, the habitation of God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
We are one Household, and our Temple is founded on both the Old and the New Testaments of the Holy Bible and thus, having but one Sacrifice, the Lord Jesus, that takes away the sin of the world. Our foundation is the inspired writings and doctrines of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Corner Stone. He supports the ongoing construction of this Temple by his strength. This is the spiritual commonwealth of Israel/Palestine, now Jew and Gentile, with a common Savior, Spirit, and Father; fellow-citizens in the household of God. As a superstructure, we fit exactly together, in perfection; fitly framed together unto the Holy Temple of the Lord, the living habitation of God through his Holy Spirit.
Therefore, Listen up! There shall no more be division between the Nazarites of God! Jewish Nazarites and Gentile Nazarites, listen up! He has made both of us to become one! The middle wall of partition is no more! We have one God, one Savior, and one Mediator between God and man, and one inspiring Spirit; so there is one Temple, universal, incorporating Jews and Gentiles alike. In vain are all pretensions among different sects and parties, both Jew and Gentile, if they are not the doctrine and life of Christ crucified and resurrected unto the Throne of God. All traditions and legends are not apostolic doctrines, and all showy ceremonies are not the life of God in the soul of man.
Dear Nazarite, know this: The love of Christ is so absorbing, and the dependence upon his blood so entire, that we are to now lay aside all alienations and contentions! We are to lay aside all malice, now! No more enmity between Jew and Gentile! We now worship the same God! We have the same Savior! We depend upon the same Atonement! We belong to the same redeemed family! We are reconciled with one another! All alienations are now healed! We have no contentions! We have a bond of union! The Palestinian Nazarite is as close to God as is the Jewish Nazarite! Therefore, our reconciliation is now complete!
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