29:1 ¶ And this is the thing that thou shalt
do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take
one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, 2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened
tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten
flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou
shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock
and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his
sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
shalt wash them with water. 5 And thou
shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the
ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle
of the ephod: 6 And thou shalt put the
mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and
pour it upon his head, and anoint him. 8
And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. 9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron
and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be
theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be
brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall
put their hands upon the head of the bullock. 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the
LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the
bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and
pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth
the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his
skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a
sin offering. 15 Thou shalt also take
one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou
shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces,
and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces,
and unto his head. 18 And thou shalt
burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD:
it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron
and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. 20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his
blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the
tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and
upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar
round about. 21 And thou shalt take of
the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle
it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the
garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and
his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. 22
Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that
covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is
a ram of consecration: 23 And one loaf of
bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the
unleavened bread that is before the LORD: 24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron,
and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering
before the LORD. 25 And thou shalt
receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt
offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by
fire unto the LORD. 26 And thou shalt
take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a
wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part. 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the
wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and
which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that
which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 28 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a
statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave
offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the
sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the
LORD. 29 And the holy garments of Aaron
shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in
them. 30 And that son that is
priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the
tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place. 31 And thou shalt take the ram of the
consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of
the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. 33 And
they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and
to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are
holy. 34 And if ought of the flesh of
the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt
burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron,
and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee:
seven days shalt thou consecrate them. 36
And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement
for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for
the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever
toucheth the altar shall be holy.
Aaron and his sons are consecrated for the priest’s office. The
Lord Jesus Christ is our high priest.
Hebrews 9:8 ¶ The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way
into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then
present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make
him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal
ordinances, imposed on them
until the time of reformation. 11 But
Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and
calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more
shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God?
All believers are priests.
1Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a
spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
One way of looking at the difference between Aaron and his sons’
consecration and ours is that they were to perform this ritual to be prepared
for God’s use. God Himself prepares us for His purpose. One focus of the Hebrew
religion was man doing something to please God while in Christ it is God who
justifies and man can do nothing without God’s effort. Man is not set apart by
what He does but only what God does. As Jesus said;
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.
First, in the act of salvation…
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name: 13
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.
Then, in the operation that prevents our souls from being punished
for the sins we commit in our bodies…
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the
operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
In keeping us saved in spite of ourselves…
Romans 8:31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If
God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge
of God’s elect? It is God that
justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us. 35 Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake
we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more
than
conquerors through him that loved
us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, 39 Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We tend to give ourselves too much credit for our sanctification
and take too much on ourselves for our failures. Christ knows what a dreadful,
arrogant lot we are.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Luke 11:13 If ye then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more
shall your heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
You don’t think He’d leave salvation up to you, do you? Aaron and
his sons were made holy by their obedience in the things God commanded. We are
made holy by Christ.
1Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who
of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption…
Unleavened bread, cakes, and wafers are called for. Smith’s Bible
Dictionary says, “Various
substances were known to have fermenting qualities; but the ordinary leaven
consisted of a lump of old dough in a high state of fermentation, which was
mixed into the mass of dough prepared for baking.”(23) It signifies corruption
and unleavened bread was required to signify not being corrupted.
Luke 12:1b…Beware ye of the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Exodus 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night,
roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and
with bitter herbs they shall
eat it…15 Seven days shall ye eat
unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of
your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
And in a prophetic verse that may very well be talking about the
hidden worship of the pagan goddess; Ishtar, Isis, Diana, Venus, Mary etc.
polluting the three main branches of Christianity, although there are other
possible meanings…
Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The
kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Animal sacrifices were important in the Hebrew religion but as
they foreshadowed Christ’s sacrifice they are not required now.
Hebrews 10:1 ¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to
come, and not the very image of
the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance
again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he
cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but
a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for
sin thou hast had no pleasure.
They were not used as mere biological machines whose death meant
absolutely nothing and were of no consequence. Let us remember God’s view of
them rather than our sin-corrupted historical-cultural bias. Many times animal
sacrifices are called a sweet savour to
God.
Numbers 29:36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a
sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram,
seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
The heavenly prototypes for all animals play a prominent role in
the spiritual world.
Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four
had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle…
10:14 And every one had four faces: the
first face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face was
the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of
an eagle. 15 And the cherubims were
lifted up. This is the living
creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
Animals exist in the heavenly realm, the world of the spirit.
2Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray
thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young
man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
At least some types of them have souls and spirits, as tripartite
beings like man.
Numbers 31:28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men
of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the
beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep…
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth
upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
They can have potential abilities of speech that are restrained,
obviously for a reason, perhaps because of the judgment on the earth because of
man. They also have memory of past things.
Numbers 22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and
she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me
these three times? 29 And Balaam said
unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine
hand, for now would I kill thee. 30 And
the ass said unto Balaam, Am
not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?
And he said, Nay.
And abuse of them is condemned…
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of
the wicked are cruel.
An atonement is
necessary to repair a broken or damaged relationship. It is done in the form of
sacrifices under the law.
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hid his
face from you, that he will not hear.
But, now, Christ is our atonement for sin, an atonement made by
the grieved party rather than the guilty one.
Romans 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom we have now received the atonement.
As Christians we must understand that it is not only God that
saves us and not we ourselves, but that God makes our prayers and worship acceptable,
that He sanctifies us, and that He pays the ransom to Himself for our souls,
makes the atonement, and not only that but the propitiation to satisfy His
wrath at sin. Until we wrap our minds around these facts we will always be trying
to do things for God to make us acceptable that He has already done. We will simply
waste the time He has given us and deceive others who need to learn His truth
from us.
(23) Smith’s Bible Dictionary, 1901. https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/smiths-bible-dictionary/leaven.html
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