ASHORTWORK
Biblical Understanding based on the Record of Scripture
The words ordain/ordained/ordination are used four times in the NKJ translation of the New Testament and none of them have anything to do with bestowing rank or offices on the members of the Church. In fact, in the NKJ, the term "ordination" is never used at all. What "ordained" is used for though is to describe the choice God made for the judgement of the world. Different translations often use different words, but the answer lies in the continuity of the record of scripture rather than in this word or that.
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1 Corinthians 5:7,8 NKJV
Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump since you are truly unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Therefore, let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.