Which Priest are you? by Brian Young Creation Instruction Association

Creation, Biblical Authority, and the Role of the Priesthood

And then I've got the Facebook, which is, there we go. Okay, I'm Terri Kammerzell, and I'm here on behalf of Creation Fellowship Santee. We're a group of friends bound by our common agreement that the creation account, as told in Genesis, is a true depiction of how God created all life, the world and all life, in just six days, several thousand years ago.

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All right. Thank you. I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen here and hopefully that all works out for you that you can see that.

We can.

Okay, perfect. But what I wanna do tonight, we're going to be talking about which priest are you. And this is going to be kind of one of those things that is more challenging to have people look at themselves and kind of see the way the world has gone, the way the church has gone and to just kind of examine where they stand.

Priests Who Distinguish Between Holy and Common

We're gonna kind of begin here by looking at this verse here in Ezekiel chapter 22. And this is a very important verse. It says this, her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things.

They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. And they have disregarded my Sabbaths so that I am profaned among them.

So here's a verse that we're seeing in Ezekiel and it's talking about the priests, how they made no distinction between what was right and wrong, ultimately clean and unclean. They weren't keeping the Sabbath.

And I see that that very thing is going on oftentimes in the churches today. It's very sad to say that, the Bible tells us that the church would become apostate in the end times. And when we read in Matthew 24 five, it even tells us that Jesus, when he's speaking about end times, he says, many are gonna come in my name claiming that I am the Christ deceiving many.

And I think for years, we've kind of interpret that saying that there's gonna be all kinds of people coming and saying, hey, I'm the Messiah, follow me. But I think there's another interpretation there that as time goes on, seems to be more and more convincing to me.

And that is this, that Jesus is saying in the end times, many are gonna come in his name, in the name of Jesus saying that Jesus is the Christ. Because remember, Jesus is the one speaking there when he says, I am the Christ.

So that many are gonna come in his name claiming Jesus is the Christ and deceiving many. That there is going to be this compromise that on one hand we'll have the name of Jesus, but on the other hand, not following his word or holding to it, having a form of godliness, but denying its power.

I think that that's much more in context of what we see throughout the scripture, whether it be the parable of the mustard seed, the parable of the yeast and the dough, Jesus saying, many are gonna come before him saying, Lord, Lord, we perform miracles in your name.

We cast out demons. And he's gonna say, depart from me, you worker of iniquity. I know not who you are. And that's kind of what we're seeing here is that it's the priest, it's the church, it's the godly people who are basically not doing what they have been called to do and make a distinction between right and wrong.

And so just because somebody is a pastor, just because somebody is a priest or whatever today does not mean that they're godly or that they're on the right track. And we really need to be careful and watch for that.

False Teachers in the Church and the Call to Biblical Truth

So when we look at false teachers, the Bible tells us that there were going to be false teachers that would come among us. We see in 2 Peter 2, verses one through three, it says, there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.

They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.

In their greed, these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. And so here again, he's saying that these false prophets, these false teachers, they're not gonna be the ones that are obvious.

They're going to be right there in the church. They're going to be the ones that are secretly in there, casting out demons, performing miracles in his name, but something's gonna be off. And what's off is holding to the word of God.

And today we see this in every way, whether it be the progressiveness in the churches, the denying of creation, the acceptance of the practice of homosexuality, to the list goes on and on. And so this is a serious issue here.

We also see in 2 Timothy 3 7 -8, he says they were always learning, but never able to acknowledge the truth. You know, I know a lot of Christians out there who are learning, they're reading constantly, but they never can really grab onto the truth of God's word.

They get their truth kind of from the parts that they like, and they distort what the truth is. And he says, just as Jonas and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. And there are gonna be a lot of people who will oppose even what I'm talking to you here about tonight.

But again, we need to find truth by what the word of God says, not by our experiences, not by some scientific interpretation, not to say that science doesn't support the scripture, but science does not interpret the scripture.

And so this is kind of the warning that we see. Today, the Bible tells us as well that we are all priests. And so when we talk about which priest are you, I'm talking to you because this is what the Bible says.

We read in 1 Peter 2, 4 -5, as you come to him a living stone rejected by men, but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

And so here we're seeing that because of Christ, through Christ, we are a priesthood. We are the ones that are to be serving God. And it says here in Revelation 1 -6, him who loves us and has freed us from our sin by his blood and made us a kingdom of priests to his God.

So we are a kingdom of priests. And as we move forward on that, I want you to kind of keep that in mind because it just, I guess, strengthens the idea that this message is for you. It wasn't just for the Levites of the time in the Old Testament.

This is speaking to you today. Now, one of the purposes of the temple, I find fascinating that if I would ask nine out of 10 Christians, what was the purpose of the temple or even the tabernacle in the Old Testament?

I think most people would tell me, well, that's where all the sacrifices were done. You know, that's where the forgiveness was seen and so on. Some might even say, well, it was a model of heaven. That would be true.

All of those things would be true. However, it's interesting when we look here as well in Ezekiel chapter 43, it shows us that part of the design of the temple, part of what that was for was to bring shame to the people, to convict them of their sin.

Look what it says here. As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, that they shall measure the plan. And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangements, its exits, entrances, its whole design.

Make known to them as well, all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws and write it down. And so I think that's very important because if we are the temple, which is also what scripture says, not only are you a priest, but you are the temple in which the Holy Spirit now lives, then that means that you are what are to bring shame to those who look at you, who consider the design, who consider the Holy Spirit that is in you, that your very presence is going to bring shame to people.

And I've seen this. I have seen that some people don't like Christians simply because of the holiness. And they say, oh, you're just holier than thou. And you think you're so arrogant and so good and all of these kinds of things.

But bottom line is that's the spirit pricking their conscience because they want what you have, but they know that that's not who they are. And therefore it brings shame to them and it's uncomfortable and therefore they want to put you down to make themselves feel better.

But we are to bring shame to people. When we stand up for creation, there are gonna be others in the church who say, oh, no, he's just some holy pious, thinks he's something else, whatever it might be.

When we deny ourselves sinful pleasures, they look at you as if you're crazy, but that's because it's easier to point the blame at you than to look at their own lives. And this is what it's saying though, consider the plan, let them, show them the design of the temple, show them me in you so that you can consider this.

And then if you're ashamed of all that you have done, he's gonna reveal that plan to you in much greater ways. And so really a beautiful verse kind of talking about that, that we in a sense are that measuring line because we are the temple of God designed to bring shame to people's lives.

And so sometimes as well, I tell people, don't be afraid to offend people. Not that that's our intent, not that we're trying to be rude, we don't wanna be rude, we wanna be loving, but it doesn't matter if you are loving and as tactful and polite as possible, I guarantee you the word of God, truth offends people.

And so don't be ashamed to offend people with truth because you are revealing the temple to them. And that is part of what it is for. Anyway, moving on here, we wanna look at the Ezekiel 44, the very next chapter, and this is gonna start to get to the heart of what we're going to be discussing here.

It says that the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols, when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment. Notice these are Levites, these are priests, these are people who are pastors of the day.

It says that they went astray, it says they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them, because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel.

Therefore, I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment. They shall not come near to me to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that's to be done in it. Okay, notice this so far. God saying these Levites who have compromised, these pastors who aren't holding to the truth, I'm going to use them.

They're going to serve me, but they're going to serve the people. They're not going to come into my presence. They're not going to come near to me. They're going to be outside serving the people, doing what I want them to do, but they're not allowed to come near me because you see, they're not holy.

They're not coming near the holy things. They're not going to understand the holy things. They're going to be outside. It goes on here in verse 45, or actually chapter 45, verse one, just continuing on.

But the Levitical priests, okay, same thing we saw before the Levites, but there's two different types of Levites. Those that have compromised, and then here the sons of Zadok who kept the charge of my sanctuary.

When the people of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood. And so here we have two different lines of priests, the priests of Zadok, and as you're going to see, the priests of Eli.

Zadok, the priests of Zadok are going to minister in the presence of God for God's part, but those who went astray, the priests of Eli, they're going to minister before the people. And so I want to show you where all of this began because it is so important to see this.

What we find out is if you go all the way back to 1 Samuel 3, verses 13 through 14, we see that there was this priest named Eli. Now you remember Eli, we'll be talking a little bit about him, but Samuel, Samuel's mom brought Samuel to him.

And at first she came because she couldn't have a baby and she was praying, Eli thought she was drunk. And she says, no, don't think that of your servant. I'm just in great torment of my soul. And I just, you know, I want a baby.

And basically what ends up happening is Eli says, man, you know, whatever you've been praying for, let God grant that. So she goes home, she gets pregnant, but she says that I'm going to dedicate this child to you, Lord.

And so when the child was old enough to be weaned, she brings Samuel to minister before the Lord in the temple, but under the guise there of Eli. Now it says here, and I declared to him that I am about to punish his house forever.

Now this is when the Lord God came to Samuel. Remember the story as it went on, one night Samuel goes to bed and he hears somebody say, Samuel, Samuel. And anyway, I'm having a brain thing here. Anyway, he says this and Eli basically, he comes up and he goes to talk to Eli.

And Eli is like, I didn't call you, go back to bed. And so he goes back to bed. Pretty soon he hears his name called again. And then he goes back. Eli says, I didn't call you, but he finally figures out the Lord is speaking to you.

So next time say, speak Lord for your servant is listening. And so this is where we pick up here. And it says, and I declared to him that I am about to punish his house forever. The iniquity that he knew because his sons were blaspheming God and he did not restrain them.

Therefore, I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever. Now, this is huge. A little more of a backstory that's important to understand is that Eli had a couple of sons that were not distinguishing holy from unholy, clean from unclean.

And as a result, they were sleeping with the women at the 10th of meeting. They were taking food from the sacrifices that they shouldn't be taking. And Eli went to them and said, hey, stop, this is a bad report.

I'm not hearing anything good about you, stop. And that's all he did. And he went on with life. What Eli should have done was he should have kicked them out of the priesthood, kind of a church discipline type of thing that the New Testament talks about as well.

And because Eli did not do that, did not kick his sons out, this is the message that Samuel has to go and give to Eli. That message being, I'm gonna strip you and your children out of the priesthood. Because why?

Because Eli considered his sons more holy than he considered me. You know, that's so often what we see in families today that we know the Bible speaks against homosexuality or abortion or pornography or whatever.

And then we find a loved one that kind of has that sin in their life. And rather than dealing with it and dealing with it, tough love, we tolerate and we accept it. And we just say, this is not good, but it's okay.

Let's just pretend that nothing's going wrong. And what was the result? Eli and his family are removed from the priesthood. Compromise creeps in. As a matter of fact, his two sons are going to be killed.

What we see in Proverbs 21, verse 17, here on your screen, it says that he who loves pleasure will become poor. Whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich. Eli, there's a very interesting thing stated about him.

It states that Eli was a very fat man because what's going to end up happening is, first of all, he's sitting in the temple. That shouldn't happen. If you study the tabernacle or the temple, there were no chairs there at all, but he's sitting down.

This is telling us something about Eli's character. The fact that he was a very fat man may also tell us something about his character. The Bible isn't recording that message just to shame him. It's telling us something about Eli.

And so his place of comfort, this chair that he's sitting in, is going to become his place of death as we will see here in a moment. The other thing is that I want you to understand that Eli refused to be a father to his children.

You know, he was a dad, but he refused to be a father. And what do I mean by that? Well, I'm going to give you a verse here coming up in just a moment that's going to explain it, but I just want you to think about that because I think that we have a lot of pastors today, but not many who are willing to be fathers to their congregation.

And I'm not talking about Catholicism or anything like that here either. So moving on here, let me just show you what I'm talking about on this. We see in 1 Corinthians 4, verses 15 and 16, Paul says this.

He says, for though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you then, be imitators of me. This is a big deal.

And this is what I mean about Eli not being a true father. He wasn't willing to hit the hot topics. He wasn't willing to be the hard disciplinarian that he was supposed to be as a leader in the church, as a priest.

Don't forget you are called to be priests as well. You see today, many pastors refuse to be fathers and talk about homosexuality. They refuse to be fathers and talk about pornography, talk about divorce, talk about the hard topics that are going on that seem to be just swept under the rug today in many churches.

But to be a father, and this is what Paul is saying, you got many guides, but not many fathers. And that I love this. He goes on to say, therefore through Christ Jesus, I became your father in the gospel.

And therefore I urge you to imitate me, do what I do. Can you imagine any pastor saying, hey, you need to imitate me? I mean, wow. You wanna talk about somebody who has confidence in Christ. Paul had it.

And this is the kind of thing we should be. We should be living a lifestyle that, oh, we'll fall, we'll fail. But when we fail, we get back up and we say, I sinned, I am sorry, we repent. And we grab onto the forgiveness that Jesus gives us.

We're a model of what failure looks like. And in so doing, you're a model of what success looks like, what a father looks like. And we can say, imitate us, because you see, I know that this is wrong, and I'm gonna preach against it.

Even though I might struggle with certain things in there, I'm gonna confess those things. I'm not gonna sweep it under the rug, but I'm gonna confess it. And we're gonna hit these hot topics. And we're gonna call a spade a spade, sin, sin.

We're not gonna call the holy things unholy and the unholy things holy and so on. So again, we need to be fathers to the gospel. The world, in a sense. Well, 1 Samuel chapter two, in verses 35 through 36, God promised us, he said, I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind, and I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.

This is in the message that God is giving to Eli. And he says, though you are priest, he says, I'm gonna make a priesthood that's better than yours, one that has a heart for me. And in essence, he was pointing to the fact that I'm gonna make another priesthood.

It was a prophetic message that there was another priesthood coming. And do you know that we're not gonna see that for years and years and years? I can't remember what the exact thing was, but I think it's like a couple hundred years before you're going to see the fulfillment of this promise of God.

Not until the time of David do we actually see this really being fulfilled. But for now, there's a prophetic message that there's another priesthood that is coming. When is this in David's time? It is when King David, we see that while he is reigning, there are two priests.

Now, this is the unusual. That wasn't the normal case. But in David's early years, we see there were two high priests. Remember, David had a couple of sons and two of them are going to go through major rebellions.

Well, when Absalom, the first son that rebelled, when he rebelled against David, basically David had to flee Jerusalem and Absalom stayed back and was sleeping with his concubines and doing all of this stuff while David fled.

Well, these two priests are going to follow David. They're going to go with David. They're going to be loyal to him. Now, keep in mind as well, David is a picture of Christ in scripture. And so all of these things, these priests following David is a picture, a foreshadowing of people being loyal to Christ.

It says, and all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by. And the King, King David, crossed the Brook Kidron and all the people passed on toward the wilderness. And Abiathar, who was one of the priests here, came up and behold, Zadok came also.

Zadok is the other priest. So the two priests are Abiathar and Zadok. And it says, with all the Levites bearing the Ark of the Covenant of God, and they sat down on the Ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.

Then the King said to Zadok, carry the Ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he'll bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, I have no pleasure in you, behold, here I am.

Let him do to me what seems good to him. Don't you wish people had that attitude rather than blaming God saying, whatever God sees fit. This is my lot in life. Anyway, it goes on. The King also said to Zadok the priest, are you not a seer?

Go back to the city in peace with your two sons. And it says, wait there. So Zadok and Abiathar carried the Ark of God back to Jerusalem and they remained there. So both of these priests are faithful to King David.

Zadok, a valiant warrior. And what's important to know is when you trace his line, and we see that he is in the direct line of Samuel. Now, Abiathar, the other priest was in the line of Eli. And you can trace that back scripturally as well.

So God is basically, he has, from just like Samuel and Eli were together, we now have those two lines serving David side by side. Remember Ezekiel said, there are gonna be two types of priests serving me.

One that's gonna serve the people and one that is gonna stand before me. Right now, both of them are standing before King David. Well, one of them though is about to be taken out fulfilling the prophecy that God gave to Samuel to give to Eli.

And so a huge connection here to the book of Samuel and the prophecies that were given there earlier. The second son that rebelled against David later on, because we know that Absalom, if you go read the story, you see Absalom is going to be killed.

David is welcomed back into town and it's not too much later. And we see another son rebelling against his father, David. And his name was Adonijah. And it says this, that Adonijah the son of Hagath exalted himself saying, I will be King.

By the way, kind of an antichrist picture here as well. He prepares for himself chariots and horsemen and 50 men to run before him. His father had never at any time displeased him by asking why have you done thus or so?

He was also a very handsome man and he was born next after Absalom. He conferred with Joab, the commander of the army, basically the son of Zariah with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.

But Zadok the priest and Ben-Ananiah, the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Re and the David's mighty men were not with Adonijah. So here we see Adonijah rising up. He's the newest, he's the greatest, he's the rock star of the day.

And we see many of those type of pastors rising up today in some of these mega churches. You know, they're rocking it out and they've got all this huge following. That's Adonijah right there. And what I want you to see is that exact same self-exalting, lazy spirit of Eli is now going to be right here with Adonijah and Abiathar the priest.

Zadok chose to be with David to follow the Lord's anointed, to be faithful and loyal when things are looking down. Because keep in mind, David's an old man. And here's this priest and he's thinking, man, David being an old guy, my dad's about to die.

We need somebody new. And Abiathar is looking at Adonijah and thinking this guy's got it. I mean, man, the people love him. This guy is definitely gonna be the leader. I wanna get on this wagon, I wanna follow this because if I don't, I'm gonna be out.

And so he was looking for himself, that self-exaltation. He was looking for his own opportunities to build his own kingdom here on earth. So that's important to understand because Zadok is the opposite.

He chose to be with the Lord's anointed. What happens, happens. If David's not gonna be king anymore and I don't get to be priest, so be it. But I'm gonna be loyal, I'm gonna be faithful. I'm not gonna compromise and try to build my own thing, my own kingdom here on earth.

I'm gonna be faithful. Well, 1 Kings 1, we see this. King David said, call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaniah the son of Jehoiada. This is now when Adonijah has rebelled and David is once again in trouble.

And Adonijah is gonna proclaim himself king. And you can go read the story a little bit more here in 1 Kings if you'd like. But what ends up happening is we see in verse 34, he says, let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel, talking about Solomon.

Because when Adonijah was trying to proclaim himself as king, word gets back to David and David says, nope, Solomon is going to be king. And so let's get this done right now. And as the story goes, giving you some of the details, we know that all of a sudden everybody's praising that Solomon, the trumpets are blowing.

He is king and the people that were with Adonijah that had followed him, hear all of this noise and they're going, what's going on? What's going on? And they go, oh, the king just anointed Solomon as king.

And they're like, oh no, what are we gonna do? So that's what's going on here. And the point being that's important for you to understand is that Zadok the priest was faithful to David. Zadok goes and he anoints Solomon then with oil.

Even though the culture was following Abiathar, the culture was following Adonijah, the culture was following these young hip compromisers. Zadok chose to stick with the Christ figure, to stick with what was right, what was true.

And this is where we have to ask ourselves, what are we willing to do? The culture is trying to get us to compromise on our values to say, oh no, we're not gonna stand on creation. Or, oh no, no, we're not gonna stand against homosexuality.

We're not gonna stand against abortion. Oh, pornography, it's okay as long as it's within a marriage. No, these are all compromises. These are all the self-exalting lazy spirit of Eli. And these are the priests who will not be serving before Christ, before God himself.

So what are you gonna do? Are you gonna go with the culture or are you going to go with truth? Now, we read on here and it says, it looks like my slide's a little bit messed up but it says to Abiathar, the priest, the king said, go to Anathoth to your estate for you deserve death but I will not at this time put you to death because you carried the ark of God before David, my father because you shared in all my father's affliction.

So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. That very prophecy that I gave you earlier, it says this is being fulfilled.

And so this is a major deal after hundreds of years but Abiathar, notice he wasn't put to death. He says, you're kicked out of the priesthood. Go home, go to your estate. You deserve to die, but I'm not gonna kill you because you served David when he was at first but you've compromised, you've grown tired.

You chose to follow the upcoming rock star, the culture of the day. I see many in the church doing that, they're tired and they see all this old traditional stuff, whatever, even though some of it's biblical or what, we're done with that, we don't wanna do that.

We need something hip, we need something hot. We need something that's gonna grab people's attention. We need to have it your way, make a Burger King church. That's Abiathar. So another interesting thing here, when Solomon became King there, this was the first time that he becomes or is anointed King.

If you read on, you're gonna see Solomon is going to be anointed King twice. That's important because Solomon too is a Christ figure and Christ is going to come twice. So kind of just another Christ picture in this story.

I think sometimes we focus so much on the kingship of Solomon, but we should be actually looking here at the priesthood of Zadok and Abiathar. Solomon, again, did not put him to death, as I said. In essence, you might say that spirit is still alive today.

God is still allowing corrupt priests, shepherds of the spirit of Eli to pastor churches today. And so keeping all of this in mind that we are priests, that we have to ask ourselves, what spirit are we following?

And not always looking at what the pastors are doing wrong, but asking, what am I doing wrong? What has God asked me to do? Am I standing up against sin in the church? Am I standing up against falsehood?

And so again, take this personally. I think it's important to do that. Moving on here as well, this is another good verse. It says this, but to the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, going back to Ezekiel 44, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me.

Again, the picture that you see of David being a Christ figure here is so plain that the sons of Zadok kept the charge of the sanctuary. They were holding to truth when everybody was going astray. They were gonna minister before me, before David, King David.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. You know, I don't think there's many people in the church today who can do that, who knows what is clean and unclean, what's holy and what's unholy.

The Sabbath, are we keeping it? Oh, those are the 10 commands. We don't need to do those things anymore. When did Jesus say that the 10 commandments were gone? He never did. Matter of fact, he said not one jot or tittle is gonna pass away as long as heaven and earth remain.

And somehow we have allowed a spirit of lawlessness, which is exactly the spirit of Eli and Abathar and all these others, a spirit of lawlessness to creep into the church. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the law saves you, it never can.

You can't keep the law, but you should have a heart for it because God has placed it in your heart. When we read in Jeremiah 31, a prophecy of the new covenant that was to come, it says this, I'm gonna make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.