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one name on each jewel of the breast piece. The principle of jewels on the garments is the same as that of the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:19-20).

And then the priests wore a turban. The forehead part was broad in order to put a mark made of pure gold. ‘HOLY TO THE LORD’ was engraved on the gold mark and it was fastened with a blue cord to the turban (Ex. 28:36-37).

Dear people, Revelations says that the 144,000 will have seals on their forehead. John the apostle heard the number of those whose forehead would be sealed (Rev. 7:4). They are 12,000 in each of the twelve tribes. It is the same as the priests had the mark ‘HOLY TO THE LORD’ on their forehead whenever they entered into the Holy Place.

Then who are the 144,000 who will have seals on their forehead? They are those who will serve as priests in heaven. But they are not in the order of Aaron. Aaron, who was the first priest, was a descendent from Levi. And Jesus, who was the first priest in the order of Melchizedek, was from Judas.

After a priest in the order of Aaron died, the next one inherited the position. But they were not perfectly clean and pure;

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therefore their sacrificial offering was not perfect as well. Hebrews 7:11 says, “If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come - one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?”

Therefore, the priests in the order of Aaron became unnecessary when the priest in the order of Melchizedek came from the tribe of Judas. That’s why the curtain between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place was torn out when Jesus passed away on the cross (Matt. 27:51, Heb. 10:20). When the priest changed, the entire sacrificial system and the Moses’ law also changed (Heb. 7:12).

Jesus Christ became the first fruits of the priests in the order of Melchizedek (1Cor. 15:20, Heb. 6:20). Like Jesus, the 144,000 enter the Most Holy Place in heaven as the priests in the order of Melchizedek (Rev. 20:6). God commanded these priests in the order of Melchizedek to wear fine linen (Rev. 19:8).

The brides of the Lamb wear fine linen, bright and clean, and they have the seals of God on their foreheads as the priests

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