For there to be a temple again there must be a priesthood again.
For 2000 years the only thing that identified a kohanim or a priest
was the tradition passed from father to son
or in some cases the name.
Enter in too the last name, into 20th century
breakthroughs in genetic technology mapping the human
gene. For there to be a temple again there must be a priesthood
that has survived.
The following is from the New York Times.
In an unusual marriage of science and religion
researchers have found biological evidence in support of an ancient belief:
that certain Jewish men thought to be
descendants of the first high priest
Aaron, the brother of Moses, share
distinctive genetic traits,
suggesting that they may indeed be members of a single line
that has endured for thousands of years.
The men are known as Jewish priests, kohanim,
a designation that since the time of Aaron,
3.3 thousand years ago, has been passed down
through the generations from father to son.
The only way to become a priest to be born of one.
They differ from the rabbis, this is all New York Times,
though a priest may choose to become a rabbi.
Historically certain blessing the riches
could only be performed by priests and
some congregation still maintain that.
Many priests have the surname Cohen,
which in Hebrew means priest, or related
names like Kahn or Kahane.
Those with other surnames generally have word names like
"ha'kohen" for "the priest" on their gravestones,
sometimes through the image of the hands raised in the characteristic
of the gesture of blessing. Even in
families where priests no longer perform
the traditional religious duties
knowledge of the heritage is often
preserved. It was the
father's line, nature of the Jewish priesthood that
that, that aroused the curiosity of a
research team from England, Canada, United States and Israel.
Knowing that another bit of a man's identity is passed strictly
from father to son, namely the Y chromosome,
which carries the gene for maleness.
They set out to determine whether that chromosome might carry a
special feature that would link the priests to each other
and set them apart from other men confirming the priests'
particular line.
A unique aspect of the Y-chromosome lends itself to this sort of research;
that the Y does not swap stretches of DNA with other chromosomes.
Changes that occur in the Y tend to persist over a long period of time.
The subject of the study were 188 Jewish men from
Israel, North America and England.
The researchers obtained Y chromosomes,
extracted them from the cell samples. They studied two sites and markers:
known from various regions of DNA to find out whether the
priests and Israelites differed.
They did.
"The simplest, most straightforward explanation is that
these men have the Y-chromosome of Aaron,"
said Dr. Skorecki, a co-author of the report conducted in Israel.
Amazing!
DNA. This is after 3.3 thousand years
we have DNA bearing out
the Bible, bearing out Aaron existed,
for those who are mockers,
because it goes back when they, when they, when they also
looked at another, another,
point was that it seemed to all point to a man who existed around that time.
And so all over the world it's there, and according we know
it's also part of prophecy
because we know the temple is to be rebuilt, and you need the priesthood.
DNA has confirmed it.
Now let me share my own history or
experience with this. But it has
everything to do with you as you will see.
At one point growing up,
I don't remember exactly when,
my father told me we were of the line of the priests or the Kohanim.
I grew up knowing that.
The ancient Hebrew priest, but I didn't really know what it meant
to, to be a Jewish priest. The only picture I had of priest were those of
Father Malkaney in St. Anthony's down the road. I,
I didn't know what that meant; a Jewish priest.
If we were descended from Irish Catholics, I didn't know what that meant.
My father told me that the line of
the kohanim, it, he told me just basically there were certain things: you
weren't supposed to go into a cemetery because you're to avoid anything that is dead.
but that didn't mean much to me growing up.
And I grew up
not, not following the ways of God. And as a teenager certainly not. And
had a rock band all that. I didn't see myself as
spiritual or having anything to do with
what people saw as religion or ministry above all.
Certainly not for me. And when
I was about 8, I became an atheist. I was against religion.
The word minister is Hebrew,
is kohen, same word, priest, minister.
It's a priest. When I came to the Lord,
I came when I was in college.
It was very soon after that I was called to go into ministry. I knew it.
I knew it.
And then I remember going to a small church.
I mean just visiting and there was a woman there
who had been a prostitute before she knew the Lord.
And she had this gift and she called me out of the congregation,
and spoke things about ministry and things. She didn't know me from anybody.
But, and I didn't look like anybody. And she, she, she, she just spoke to me and said things that have come true now.
But I knew I was to go into ministry, but I didn't know how. I didn't know what.
And when I graduated college, I
searched. I went one, one day I went into the city with Jews for Jesus but
that's not what it is for me. And
God blessed them but it wasn't my calling. And then I
went with ABMJ, which is now called Chosen People. That
didn't click. It was a good job. But finally I said
Lord just give me a job
that You would do.
And He gave me a job working with disabled children.
And I ministered and shared and it was a humbling thing.
It was my preparation for ministry. I led a
bible study and many other things. But
that was what God had me
to learn of ministry, of serving.
You know many people
wait for a ministry in order to minister.
Don't wait for a ministry to minister;
minister and you'll have a ministry.
Until then you're a kohen.
In Hebrew, the word for minister and ministering and it's, it's
the same word. The priest is simply the one who does
ministry. Serve God anyway. Serve
God however you know to serve God. Do His will.
That's ministry.
When you do the will of God it's ministry in some way.
Your ministry can start right now and nobody can stop that.
I mean we're not trying to stop, we're trying to start ministries with people.
That's the big thing. But
you need to start. You need. If you are
born again you need to be ministering.
There's no such thing as a laity and a clergy. It's all
you are born again, you are called.
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