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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
OK. let's walk through this account concerning Mary in Mark 14.
The chapter begins with the chief priests and scribes coming together . . . . ends with Judas and soldiers coming from the chief priests . . . [i]n between these two is Mary anointing Jesus.
I read that to be a fulfillment of Psalm 2:2 "The kings of the earth set themselves . . ."
Now if you read Psalm 2:2 most everyone will readily admit it is referring to the crucifixion of Jesus. . . .
So then, immediately after this anointing they prepare to eat the Passover.
Now according to Paul, Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. . . .
In Mark's record immediately before this passover Mary anoints Jesus body for the burial. . . .
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All very true and meaningful. But not in a way that would change the meaning of Ezekiel 44. There is no priority of services designated. Nothing in it that would designate that we can choose one part over another. Or should place the parts in a chronological order. We probably can do that, but it does not provide such a directive.
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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I am not forcing these things together, Mark put them together.
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As I said to Ohio, if you think that I was trying to dismiss anything about the NT meaning of Mary's service, you are mistaken. I basically set aside the strictly NT analysis to find how it should be meaningful to arrive at Nee's conclusions that he got out of Ezekiel.
And even if you simply admit that Ezekiel 44 doesn't get you there, for all its specific and meaningfulness, I don't see how this story in Mark 14 does it either.
That is what I am saying. If you think I have been saying that Mary's story is irrelevant, then you misunderstood. It is only (as far as I can see) irrelevant to the kind of nearly prescriptive issue of priorities and "choice" of service as laid out in Nee's booklet.