Hem of the Garment, High Priest

CHRIST, OUR HIGH PRIEST, TOUCHING THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT,
PARALLEL'S THE `BANNER` IN THE WILDERNESS . . .

by : Betty C. Clark
Sunday, 11-09-08


The bleeding woman story, in the New Testament, believed she should touch the hem of the garment of Christ . . .


Matthew 14:36


King James Bible
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.


WHAT WAS THIS BELIEF BASED UPON ?

ANSWER :

The blue string attached to the wing of the Priest garment [shawl],
was a Hebrew custom. To understand this custom of garment attire,
please review the following study :



http://www.messianic-torah-truth-seeker.org/Torah/Kohen/kohen-garments.jpg


The New Testament clearly defines Christ wearing a prayer shawl
with the traditional blue tassel (cord/string) attached to the wing
of the hem of the garment.





http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bd/h/36

Hem of Garment

An important part of an Israelite’s dress, owing to the regulation of Num. 15: 38-39. It was really a tassel at each “wing” or corner of the tallith or mantle (Matt. 14: 36). The law required that it should be bound with a thread of blue, the color of heaven. The strict Jews to this day wear these tassels, though they are usually concealed. The Pharisees made them conspicuously large (Matt. 23: 5). It would be the tassel that hung over the shoulder at the back that the woman with the issue of blood came and touched (Luke 8: 44; also Ex. 28: 33-34).



The Leviticus Law of the Breastplate of Judgment and all the High Priest garment requirements, carry forth the theme of the blue cord
attached to the wing of Jesus’ prayer shawl.



Without Jewish study of the Old Testament High Priest garment
requirements, the reader will not understand why the bleeding woman in the New Testament, was compelled to touch the hem of Christ garment.




The Prayer Shawl is a symbolic garment [cloth] of Light, the hem of the Priest is a symbolic garment of Light, the handkerchief’s and apron’s of Paul were garments of Light.

The Prayer Cloth is symbolic of a garment of Light.


Psalm 104:2
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:


The understanding of a garment of Light, is why the High Priest was under the strict atonement rules in clothing attire.



How does the Biblical banner, apply to the prayer cloth ?


B A N N E R :

The word `banner` means, flag.



EXCERPT:
http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T1143

The English word "banner" is from banderia, Low Latin, meaning a banner (compare bandum, Latin, which meant first a "band," an organized military troop, and then a "flag"). It has come to mean a flag, or standard, carried at the head of a military band or body, to indicate the line of march, or the rallying point, and it is now applied, in its more extended significance, to royal, national, or ecclesiastical "banners" also.

(1) in the singular, "Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain" (Isaiah 13:2 the King James Version); "a banner to them that fear thee" (Psalms 60:4); and

(2) in the plur., "In the name of our God we will set up our banner" (Psalms 20:5); "terrible as an army with banner" (Song of Solomon 6:4).



A flag is made from cloth.

When the American Flag is flying, we salute it. When we see Babylon and the spirit of Balaam, burning the American Flag, we are
moved in our soul to reject this image of defamation of the flag [banner], correct ?






However, burning of the flag [banner] does not destroy our American patriotically inspired memories. Praise God [IHVH] !








The cloth of a banner [flag], is indeed a cloth with material value and a prayer cloth is a cloth with material value !

The anointing of the hem of Christ garment, is a prayer
shawl clothing item, a cloth of material value.

The handkerchief’s and apron’s of Paul are clothing
items, with material value.


Acts 19:11-12
11 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.


The faith the bleeding woman pursued to seek out Christ, to touch the hem of His garment, is what healed her, per Christ statement as follows :


Mark 5:34
34And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.



MOSES’ BANNER POLE :


Numbers 21:8
8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.


Just as Moses raised the banner pole in the wilderness, to represent
Christ being raised on the pole [tree] of crucifixion, the tree Christ
died on is a material tree.


Galatians 3:13-14
13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." 14He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.



The garment called, `a robe`, that the Roman’s placed on Christ was
a material cloth item.

The burial Shroud of Christ, was a garment of material.

However, when we believe in Christ resurrection from the banner (flag pole), the tree of crucifixion is not our focus. We elevate our thinking from the material world, into the realm of faith.







Our focus is Christ our Messiah, resurrected as the Lord of Lord’s, The Son of God [IHVH], the `LOGOS`, `the WORD` made flesh.

Hebrews 4:14
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens,[a] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.


Hebrews 7:24
but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.


Hebrew 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.


The prayer cloth is a piece of cloth . . . the material realm.

The example of faith with works, of the bleeding woman, elevates her
action of touching the hem of Christ garment, becoming an example of the manifested healing.

The clothing material of the hem of the garment, was not the objective of the bleeding woman.

THE OBJECTIVE WAS AN ACT OF FAITH.

The tangible becoming intangible.

Amen !

The laying on of hands, starts with a tangible material action, by laying the hands on the sick, ending with intangible results of faith, not visible, not tangible.


Seek The Understanding Of The Apostolic Age, message
of tangible/intangible : HOLY GHOST GIFTS
http://www.christian-forum.net/index.php?showtopic=24189&hl=



Hebrews 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.


James 5:15
And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.