At the wedding feast at Cana Jesus performed his first miracle by changing the water into wine. The new wine is in contrast to the water of the old traditions. Jesus later went on to introduce the new Passover symbolism of the bread and wine.
What is described in this upcoming document as “the Church”, is the New Creation in Messiah YaHUsha as the “Israel of Elohim” (Gal. 5:15 – 16).
It is therefore not simply the physical Israel of the Old Testament (although they were an example and type, 1 Cor. 10:1 – 11), because not all are “Israel” who are from physical Israel (Rom. 9:6 – 8).
The Israel of Elohim in Gal. 6:15 – 16 is in YaHUsha who is the Head, with the Believers in Him as the Body. He was called from Egypt as the “Son” of YaHUaH (Matt. 2:15) just like with physical Israel whom was also called YaHUaH’s “son” with the exodus from Egypt (Hos. 12:14, Ex. 4:22 – 23).
With the events at the Wedding in Cana, the “My-Covenant” of the Melchizedek priesthood is symbolised and prophetically implemented as the “best wine”.
The Melchizedek order operates through Firstborns and was interrupted when the Levitical priestly order was instituted as a result of the worship of the Golden Calf while Moses was on the mountain, after which Firstborns were then redeemed and exchanged with Levites (Num. 3), but this would only last until YaHUsha would come to make a final correction and a transformation of the priesthood as His “servants”, as it is indeed happening here symbolically at the Wedding in Cana.
Water symbolises the Levitical dispensation and the change to wine represents the transformation to the spiritual as the “better wine”. It is indeed the “Best Wine” that was left for last.
A wedding is about the making of a covenant. The Wedding in Cana alludes to the “My Covenant” between Elohim and “His” transformed Israel (Gal. 5:15 – 16) and to the Wedding of the Lamb (compare Ex. 19:1 – 25) which involves a kingdom OF priests , not a kingdom WITH Levitical priests (compare Ex. 19:5 – 6 with 1 Pet. 2:9). The Melchizedek order (best wine) is accompanied by the “My-Covenant” as the Eternal Covenant and it is opposed to the “A Covenant” which is the physical and obsolete Levitical system (water). The two covenants were not the same from the beginning.
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