Isaiah 56:7
7 athese I will bring to bmy holy mountain,and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
ctheir burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for dmy house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
Isaiah 61:6
6 ebut you shall be called the priests of the Lord;they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
fyou shall eat the wealth of the nations,
and in their glory you shall boast.
Ezekiel 43:19-27
19you shall give to gthe Levitical priests hof the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God, ia bull from the herd for a sin offering. 20And jyou shall take some of its blood and put it on kthe four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon lthe rim all around. mThus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it. 21You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and nit shall be burned in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area. 22And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull. 23When you have finished opurifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and pa ram from the flock without blemish. 24You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests qshall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. 25 rFor seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided. 26Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it. ▼▼Hebrew fill its hand
27And when they have completed these days, then tfrom the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your upeace offerings, and vI will accept you, declares the Lord God.” Ezekiel 44:9-11
9“Thus says the Lord God: wNo foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary. 10But xthe Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols ywhen Israel went astray, zshall bear their punishment. ▼▼Or iniquity; also verse 12
11They shall be abministers in my sanctuary, having oversight acat the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and adthey shall stand before the people, to minister to them. Ezekiel 45:5
5 aeAnother section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in. ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew as their possession, twenty chambers
Romans 1:21
21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they agbecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.Romans 15:16
16to be aha minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles aiin the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that ajthe offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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