Chapters 8 through 10 in the book of Leviticus cover the consecration
of Aaron and his sons. As you read, pay close attention to the words
ordination, eat, clean, and unclean.
Once again,
Moses is obedient to the Lord when it comes to the special offerings
and sacrifices during the week of the dedication of the tabernacle.
Blood represented the innocent life of the animal that was sacrificed
in place of the guilty person. God granted forgiveness of the sinner
based on the faith of the person doing the sacrifice - a foreshadowing
of the sacrificial death of Jesus for our sins. The Old Testament
sacrifices only covered the sin temporarily. Jesus' death on the cross
removed even the guilt of sin.
Hebrews 9:11-14
But
when Christ had become a 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 nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by
His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained
eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats and
the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying
of the flesh, 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?
This "pleasing aroma"
of the sacrifice was a way of saying that God accepted the sacrifice
because of the people's attitude. This reminds us of the pleasing aroma
of our prayers as they ascend before God.
Rev 8:4
And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God from the angel's hand.
Aaron’s
sons died because they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord. Do
people today in positions of authority and leadership in effect offer “unauthorized fire” to the Lord? Do they do this in the form of unbiblical observances and teachings? Just a thought…
Jer 2:13
"My
people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of
living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that
cannot hold water.
Lev 10:10
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean,
Again,
something that church and denomination leaders are charged with, to
teach the people the difference between the spiritual and the worldly.
When people are not taught the difference, the church will devolve
into the apostate church and eventually will devolve into the false
church during the last days.
How is it with us as
believers in Jesus? Do we know the difference between the holy and the
common, between the clean and the unclean? God tells us in Leviticus
10 "I will show himself holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored."
Do
we honor Him in the way we worship? Do we treat Him as holy? Is our
attitude of worship pleasing to Him? Do we honor Him in the way we
dress, the way we talk, the way we act?
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