Consecration of the Priests (“hallow them for ministering to Me as priests”). It was to set the priests aside for God’s purpose and will.
Leviticus 8:2-36 MKJV Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a young bull for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread. 3 And gather all the congregation together to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded him. And the assembly was gathered together to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 5 And Moses said to the assembly, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded to be done.
Exodus 29:1-46 MKJV And this is the thing that you shall do to them, to sanctify them to minister to Me in the priest’s office…
Leviticus 8:4-5 says the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. And Moses said to the congregation, “This is what the LORD commanded to be done.” It was NOT Moses’s plan but GOD’S! They were witnesses to the sanctification and consecration of the High Priest and priests to prove to the Israelites that this was God’s Plan, God’s Decision, God’s Instructions, God’s Commands. Aaron didn’t become High Priest due to nepotism or favoritism.
Hebrews 5:1-4 MKJV For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things pertaining to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness. 3 And because of this he should, as for the people, so also for himself, offer for sins. 4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.
“One part of the ceremonial the formula is repeated, “as the Lord commanded Moses.” Also, at the close of the first day’s rites, Moses twice reminds Aaron and his sons that this whole ritual, in all its parts, is for them an ordinance of God, and is to be regarded accordingly, upon pain of death (Leviticus 8:34-35)… Twelve times in this one chapter is reference thus made to the Divine appointment of these consecration rites… Fundamental to Christian faith and life is this thought: priesthood is not of man, but of God. In particular, in all that Christ has done and is still doing as the High Priest, in the true holiest, He is acting under Divine appointment.” – Expositor’s Bible Commentary
Now, Jesus Christ is our High Priest and believers serve under Him as priests of our God. The Holy Place is Heaven because it is where the presence of God is. Jesus ascended to God’s Right Hand. He was the Tabernacle/Temple, the Sacrifice, the Blood, the High Priest, the Incense, the Shewbread, the Light, the Torn Veil, the Manna, the Authority and Word of God. Jesus Christ is everything!!! The whole Tabernacle/Temple, the sacrificial system, the priesthood – all were types of Jesus Christ and His Work on our behalf! They foreshadowing Jesus! Oh our glorious Lord!
Hebrews 8:1-6 ERV Here is the point of what we are saying: We have a high priest like that, who sits on the right side of God’s throne in heaven. 2 Our high priest serves in the Most Holy Place. He serves in the true place of worship that was made by God, not by anyone here on earth. 3 Every high priest has the work of offering gifts and sacrifices to God. So our high priest must also offer something to God. 4 If our high priest were now living on earth, he would not be a priest. I say this because there are already priests here who follow the law by offering gifts to God. 5 The work that these priests do is really only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. That is why God warned Moses when he was ready to build the Holy Tent: “Be sure to make everything exactly like the pattern I showed you on the mountain.” 6 But the work that has been given to Jesus is much greater than the work that was given to those priests. In the same way, the new agreement that Jesus brought from God to his people is much greater than the old one. And the new agreement is based on better promises.
Hebrews 9:11-12 ERV But Christ has already come to be the high priest. He is the high priest of the good things we now have. But Christ does not serve in a place like the tent that those other priests served in. He serves in a better place. Unlike that tent, this one is perfect. It was not made by anyone here on earth. It does not belong to this world. 12 Christ entered the Most Holy Place only one time—enough for all time. He entered the Most Holy Place by using his own blood, not the blood of goats or young bulls. He entered there and made us free from sin forever.
“…The place of the Divine manifestation, and the abode of His holiness. In the outer court, where the victims were offered, we have this world of sense in which we live, in which our Lord was offered in the sight of all; in the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies, the unseen and heavenly worlds, through the former of which our Lord is represented as having passed (Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 9:11) that He might appear with His blood in the true Holiest, where God in the innermost shrine of His glory ‘covereth Himself with light as with a garment.’ For this cosmical dwelling place of the Most High God has been defiled by sin, which, as it were, has profaned the whole sanctuary; for we, (Collosians 1:20) that not only ‘things upon the earth,’ but also ‘things in the heavens,’ are to be ‘reconciled’ through Christ, even ‘through the blood of His cross”; and, still more explicitly, to the same effect, (Hebrews 9:23) that as the typical “copies of the things in the heavens’ needed to be cleansed with the blood of bullocks and of goats, so ‘it was necessary that the heavenly things themselves should be cleansed with better sacrifices than these.” And so, at this present time, Christ, as the High Priest of this cosmical tabernacle, ‘not made with hands,’ having offered His great sacrifice for sins forever, is now engaged in carrying out His work of cleansing the people of God, and the earthly and the heavenly sanctuary, to the uttermost completion.’” – Expositor’s Bible Commentary
“Thus, Aaron in the solemn ceremonial of those days of consecration, as ever afterward, doing ‘all the things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses,’ in so doing fitly represented Him who should come afterward, who said of Himself, (John 6:38) ‘I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me.’” – Expositor’s Bible
The whole body of believers, bought by the blood of the slain Lamb, is said to have been made “unto our God a kingdom and priests” (Revelation 5:10)
Hebrews 13:9-15 ERV Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Depend only on God’s grace for spiritual strength, not on rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help anyone. 10 We have a sacrifice. And those priests who serve in the Holy Tent cannot eat from the sacrifice we have. 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place and offers that blood for sins. But the bodies of those animals are burned outside the camp. 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the city. He died to make his people holy with his own blood. 13 So we should go to Jesus outside the camp and accept the same shame that he had. 14 Here on earth we don’t have a city that lasts forever. But we are waiting for the city that we will have in the future. 15 So through Jesus we should never stop offering our sacrifice to God. That sacrifice is our praise, coming from lips that speak his name.
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