THESIS 32: THE TEMPORARY CHARACTER OF
THE FIRST "CHURCH OFFICERS"

Judges were appointed to ease the burden of Moses' mediatorial task.[106] Israel's mediators were given a measure of Moses' Spirit.[107] It was Moses' desire that all believers would have the capacity to make judgments.[108] While Moses' immediate purpose was to resolve disputes, his ultimate purpose was to teach the people the principles of God's Law and make them competent therein.[109] Not until the New Covenant did God's people become a kingdom of priests.[110] Prior to this, they lacked the Spiritual power which comes only through Christ.[111]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

106. Exodus 18:21-26

107. Numbers 11:17

108. Numbers 11:29; 35:24; cf. Acts 2:17f.; Deuteronomy 5:29-31; Proverbs 6:6-8; 30:24,27

109. Exodus 18:16,20

110. Exodus 19:5-6; Hosea 1:9; 2:23; 4:6; 1 Peter 2:5-10; Revelation 1:6; 5:10

111. Romans 8:3-5; Hebrews 7:19; 8:8-13; John 1:12,17

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