Bread, Wine, and the Priest-King Witness

Exhibit E — The Salt Covenant#

Large passage references:

• Leviticus 2:13

• Numbers 18:8-19

• 2 Chronicles 13:4-12

• Ezekiel 43:18-27

“neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering” Leviticus 2:13

“It is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.” Numbers 18:19

“the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt” 2 Chronicles 13:5

In the main study, the salt covenant should be treated as a covenant witness, not as a flavor detail. The offering is not merely made edible. It is marked by the covenant language God Himself gives.

The reader should not be asked to accept a vague symbol. The text gives the language: salt of the covenant. The study may then explore what that covenant witness means inside the bread-and-wine pattern.

Exhibit F — Peace, Fellowship, and Eating Before YHWH#

Large passage references:

• Leviticus 3:1-17

• Leviticus 7:11-21

• Deuteronomy 12:5-7

• Deuteronomy 27:6-7

• Numbers 25:10-13

• Ezekiel 37:24-28

“And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto” Deuteronomy 12:7

“thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.” Deuteronomy 27:7

“Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace” Numbers 25:12

“Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them” Ezekiel 37:26

This exhibit protects the wording. The meal/grain offering belongs to the fellowship of presence because it is provision brought near, remembered before God, and shared as priestly food. The peace offering gives the more explicit table-fellowship evidence: eating before YHWH, rejoicing, thanksgiving, and covenant peace.

Exhibit G — John 6 and Believing in the Eternal Son#

Large passage references:

• John 6:26-71

“This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” John 6:29

“He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” John 6:47

“The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” John 6:51

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63

“Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.” John 6:68

The first and last thirds of John 6 keep the doctrine clear: believe on the One sent by the Father; His words are spirit and life. The middle section is mystery to the hearers before the cross. It exposes wrong motives and prevents the crowd from enthroning Jesus according to their own earthly expectations. After the cross and resurrection, the bread/body and blood/cup language can be recognized in New Covenant fulfillment.

Exhibit H — Water, Spirit, and New Life#

Large passage references:

• Ezekiel 36:22-38

• John 3:1-21

• John 4:1-26

• John 7:37-39

• Isaiah 44:1-5

• Titus 3:3-7

“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean” Ezekiel 36:25

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” Ezekiel 36:26

“Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:5

“the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:14

“If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” John 7:37

“this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive” John 7:39

This exhibit supports the claim that water, Spirit, cleansing, renewal, and life are not imported into the study from outside Scripture. They belong to the restoration promises and to Jesus’ own teaching. Bread naturally carries water in its making, but the study does not claim Leviticus 2 states water as an ingredient. It says the bread side harmonizes with the larger water-and-Spirit restoration field.

Exhibit I — The Hand of YHWH and the Pierced Hands#

Large passage references:

• Exodus 6:1-8

• Exodus 13:3-16

• Exodus 15:1-18

• Psalm 22:1-31

• Zechariah 12:10-14

• Luke 24:36-49

• John 20:19-29

“I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments” Exodus 6:6

“Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power” Exodus 15:6

“they pierced my hands and my feet” Psalm 22:16

“they shall look upon me whom they have pierced” Zechariah 12:10

“Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself” Luke 24:39

“Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands” John 20:27

“My Lord and my God.” John 20:28

The hand-thread matters because the study repeatedly contrasts human labor with divine provision. The covenant table is not produced by Adam’s hand. The hand of YHWH redeems. The hands of Christ are pierced. The risen Lord shows His hands, and Thomas identifies Him as Lord and God.

Exhibit J — Revelation Completion#

Large passage references:

• Revelation 1:4-8

• Revelation 5:1-14

• Revelation 7:9-17

• Revelation 19:6-10

• Revelation 21:1-7

• Revelation 22:1-17

“Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God” Revelation 1:5-6

“thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood” Revelation 5:9

“the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters” Revelation 7:17

“Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.” Revelation 19:9

“I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Revelation 21:6

“a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb” Revelation 22:1

Revelation does not merely end with escape from judgment. It ends with blood-bought people, kingdom-priest identity, living water, supper, throne, dwelling, and the Lamb. This is covenant completion. The table and the waters reach their final form in the presence of God and of the Lamb.

Exhibit K — Pictographic Method and Limits#

The Hebrew phrase translated bread and wine is lechem v-yayin. Hebrew is written with consonants, and the older letter forms also carried simple picture associations. The letters form normal Hebrew words first. The picture associations are a secondary observation, not a substitute for grammar, context, or Scripture.

The cautious visual statement is: “The Shepherd encloses and preserves life through the waters; through the piercing, the hands work out life.”

This should be stated carefully. The pictographs do not prove Melchizedek, John 6, the Upper Room, Revelation, or the priest-king pattern. Scripture already carries that doctrine. The old-letter observation simply agrees with the pattern in a quiet way after the doctrine has been established by the biblical witnesses.

Installment 8 Closing Note#

The next natural installment is the Bonus Reading: the heavier legal-theological exhibit drawn from the supplemental study, including Leviticus 14, Matthew 8:4, Hebrews 13, Paul’s altar/table logic, and the royal-priestly witness people under the Priest-King.