URIM AND THUMMIN : EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK @ALL INCLUSIVE CHRIST: BY WITNESS LEE

THE PRIESTHOOD WITH THE URIM AND THE THUMMIN
The second governing principle is the priesthood under the anointing with the urim and the thummin. What is the priesthood? This is a wonderful and glorious matter. The priesthood includes fellowship with the Lord and life and service in His presence. The priesthood is a group of people who are in constant fellowship with the Lord. They continually commune with the Lord and serve in His presence. They live, walk, and do anything in this way. When we have fellowship with the Lord, when we commune with the Lord Day by day and moment by moment, and when in this living fellowship we live we serve, and we act, we are a priesthood.
If we lose the priesthood, e lose one of the governing principles. This governing principle is not for guidance, but for judgement. The Lord’s presence in the pillars of cloud and fire is for guidance, while the priesthood in the anointing with the urim and the thummin is for judgement.
Let us illustrate. Suppose two brothers are quarrelling and fighting with one another. What shall we do? We are the Lord’s children, we are the Lord’s people, but something of such a nature exists among us. How can we solve the problem? How can we arrive at the proper judgement? Shall we call a meeting and decide the matter by vote? Of course not. All such problems can only be solved by the priesthood. They require a group of the Lord’s children who are always in fellowship with the Lord, who serve the Lord in His presence and who are continually before Him, no matter where they are or what they are doing. Such a group is under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and has the urim and the thummin. Thus, they can obtain the judgement, the decision of the Lord. They will be able to judge and decide any matter that may arise by the urim and the thummin with the priesthood.
The priesthood includes three things: communion or fellowship with the Lord, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and urim and thummin. We can only speak briefly here concerning the last item, the urim and thummin. Urim in Hebrew means light, while thummin means perfection or completion. About thirty years ago I read an article by a Hebrew writer, saying that the thummin is a precious stone with four letters of the Hebrew alphabet carved upon it. Upon the breastplate of the high priests were the names of the twelve tribes of Israel carved upon twelve stones. The names of these twelve tribes contain only eighteen of the twenty two letters in the: light and perfection.
How then were the urim and the thummin used? When some problem or question arose among the children of Israel, the high priest brought the matter to the Lord to get the answer by the help of the breastplate. The Hebrew writer in this article says that when the high priests went before the Lord, certain stones on the breastplate with their respective letters would shine and at other times other stones and their letters would shine. The high priest took down all the letters from the various stones as they shone, and in so doing formed words and then sentences. Eventually he received a complete message or judgement from the Lord. It was in this way, the article says, that Achan was apprehended from among all the children of Israel for his sin. (Joshua 7)
Thus, what is the governing principle for the Lord’s people to solve their problems? It is that among them there should be the priesthood that brings all the Lord’s children upon the breast before the Lord. The priesthood must bring them in love into the Lord’s presence and read them there as letters, Thus with the light of the scriptures, the priesthood would learn the mind of the Lord and receive some word from Him regarding the situation of His children.

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FLYING WITHOUT WINGS

I have been away now for two months and on a busy schedule hence I have not been able to make new posting on this blog. However I am delighted to be back and to acquint my readers with what I have been up to. I left the United Kingdom for Nigeria and on my way back during the six hours flight I took time to take some pictures with the use of my handset camera. I had the advantage of sitting alone eith the sit next to me vacant in the economy class that in which I travelled. I guessed the lady that was to share the no 62 sit with me vanished after making a phone call. I suspected she was moved to a higher class by one of the cabin crew or someone in
the best position to do so. That put me at an advantage to move freely and satisfy myself in the things that I enjoyed doing. I took the advantage of available facilities to make the journey exciting. You know what we all think in our mind each time we fly. The possibility of a plane crash mixed with the thoughts of safe landing and happy reunion with love ones.
As a Christian I always believe that such misfortune as being involved in a plane crash should not be my portion. To get reassured, a constant recertation of "the Lord is my Shepherd" Psalm 23. gives me the confidence that I am secured. I washed the film titled "Australia" and couple of others. I took some photograph of the thick clouds below seizing the advantage of sitting by the window. I always sit by the windows each time I fly. I always demand for it and I always get it if they are still available. I dedicated the vacant seat by me to the Lord and I am very sure He was there sitting with me. The flight was smooth and the Air Bus aircraft crused well. Thank God. We landed at heathtrow airport at exactly 5.00pm. It was a sunny day and it was delightful flying on the Virgin Atlanti airline. Now that I am back my blogs are coming alive again. Follow me.