Monday, 07 December 2009 02:00 | and posted in Mount Sinai
“‘Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.” Exodus 19:6
Wow this sounds like New Testament language! But here it is in Exodus.
Priests mediate between people and the divine. They show and tell others what the divine is like. God is inviting all the Israelites to be his earthly representatives (priests).
Israel is also to be a holy nation. We could say that a holy nation is a nation that lives the opposite way to the oppressive Egyptian Empire.
