August 29, 2024
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Reading along with us in selections from Leviticus and Galatians? Here’s today’s reading:
Leviticus 8 (NIV)
The Ordination of Aaron and His Sons
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2“Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast, 3 and gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting.” 4 Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the tent of meeting.……Continue Reading
Leviticus 8
What an amazing and complicated process the Lord commanded Moses to complete for the ordination of Aaron and his sons. And then to remain at the entrance of the tent of meeting for 7 days and nights under threat of death. It makes me wonder about the meaning of it all. It must have been a cleansing of body and spirit.
Leviticus 8
Leviticus 8
Leviticus 8
”As he has done this day, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.“
Leviticus 8:34 NKJV
I was wondering about the waiting at the doorway for 7 days. What did they do? Sit, stand, sleep, worship, pray? Makes me think of our (my) activity oriented mindset. “Be still and know that I am God.” Is a hard concept.
Leviticus 8
Leviticus 8 makes me think of God’s Word in 1 Peter.
“So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation – if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 2:1-5
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but no you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.”
God does not tell us how long our ordination shall last…because it is finished. Jesus accomplished all on the Cross and in His resurrection, and now, we are His possession, created in Christ Jesus, and we exist to do His Will, in accordance with His Word, for His glory!
It is interesting that Moses the leader of Israel (and yet a Levite himself) is the one conducting/leading this ceremony of ordination when in the future it would the High priest who would conduct tasks like this. But because this is a first, it was necessary. And what a procedure and display this was. And it is tough to say, Amy, what they did when they stayed at the front of the tent for 7 days. I believe the purpose was to impact the people about the sanctity and importance of the priestly office as they were there in all their regalia. But one can imagine they slept, ate, worshipped, and prayed, all things consistent with bodily need and their roles as a priest.
What a process this was! I assume they stayed in their priestly garments that had been sprinkled with blood and oil for the 7 required days. Certainly not an easy thing to do when i think how much trouble I have sittting still under the best of conditions.