Truth

Matthew 28:20

Each individual in the Body of Christ has his place,
....a responsiblility to magnify Jesus,
........that doesn't belong to anyone else

.....................................The Father views the Body with the righteousness of Christ.

...................We can't see but God can see us in Christ, in His Righteousness.

Memorial Day 2012 .................. click picture to enlarge

Each of the 12 tribes of Israel had its place and its own
stone.

...........Each stone had its own beauty.

..................Each were different but didn't rival each other and each filled its appointed place before God.

....God 's able to create variety without inferiority.

No matter the failures of Israel, their names glittered before God.

.......................Jehovah had set them where no man could pluck them.

......No one could enter the Holy place to dim their lustre.

Exodus 28:15-29 and Exodus 39:8-21 tells of the breastplate with the names of the twelve tribes engraved upon precious stones.

The priesthood was God's way to bring Israel into His presene and keep them there.

.........................It was God's way for spiritually-dead Israel that they might have a way to come to Him.

Jesus' life was a rare union of man and God.

................There was a mysterious distinction between His humanity and His Deity.

................He went from the realm of His human ability to the realm of His divinity with ease.

Both were seen at the grave of Lazarus.

The priestly garments were considered a part of the work of the Tabernacle.

...........The robes of the High Priest express the functions of the High Priest.

...........................The materials are specified, gold and fine twined linen; the others, blue, purple and scarlet, are colors emblazened upon the fine twined linen and everywhere interlaced with gold.

"And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work."
........................Exodus 39:3

"These are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle."
..........................Exodus 28:4

Without these Aaron couldn't be a High Priest.

...............They are a type of the various powers, responsibilities and qualities connected to that office.

God gave his word; he won't take it back:
.........."You're the permanent priest."
......................This makes Jesus the guarantee of a far better way between us and God—one that really works! A new covenant.
......................Earlier there were a lot of priests, for they died and had to be replaced. But Jesus' priesthood is permanent. He's there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.
......................Hebrews 7:20-25

The priests of the house of Levi were cut off from the priesthood, as in the case of

.................Nadab and Abihu and Eli's line.

Throughout His human life, the Lord Jesus, was perfected for priesthood.

......................................He was able to sympathize because He had been tempted in all points like we are, yet without sin.

....................The awful murmurings of the enemy that He had to endure, taught Him to feel pity for us who are subject to the assaults of Satan.

...............................Hebrews 4:14-16
"14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

"1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron."
...........................Hebrews 5:1-4

..............The High Priest, under the Law, had to have compassion upon the ignorant and on them that were out of the way, because he was conscious of his own infirmities.

........................................The fact of his being a sinner himself was one qualification for the priesthood.

"Take unto thee Aaron and his sons with him that he may minister."



..................Aaron and his sons formed one ministry in the priest's office and Aaron could not exercise his service unless his sons were taken with him.

One of the epistles to the Hebrews pointed out that the Lord Jesus Christ in His Resurrection, combined in Himself, the various offices
......of the Lord,
............Mediator,
..................Apostle,
........................Surety,
..............................Captain
.....................................and Shepherd.

The leadership or kingship of Moses, as well as mediator, was kept apart from the priesthood which belonged to Aaron and his sons.

..These offices were appointed to different persons.

.......Happy 64th Birthday, Israel !

Happy Mother's Day 2012

Exodus 28:1
.............gives the directions given to Moses concerning the priestly family.

Neither Moses or his sons had any office of priesthood under the Law.

Read Hebrews 8

........................It shows us that the priests who offered gifts, according to the law, served as an example and shadow of heavenly things.

The Tabernacle and its vessels and the priesthood and the ministries connected to it, would have been useless without its vessels.




The Tabernacle with its vessels would have been of no service if not for a living family of priests constantly engaged in activities in the Holy Place.

........................They acted as mediators.

Jesus is the Mercy Seat where spiritually dead man can meet God.

.....................The goat that was "for the Lord" was killed and some of its blood was carried into the Holiest and sprinkled by the priest on the Mercy Seat seven times.

.....................................Just like Jesus passed into the Heavenlies with His own blood on our behalf.

After releasing the scapegoat, which was spoke of as the Substitution, of the two goats presented the day of the atonement; the other goat was "for the Lord."

................The goat for the Lord was spoken of as Propitiation, which was mercy that God dealt toward condemned man.

Leviticus 16 gives the account of the Day of Atonement.

.........................On that day there were two goats brought before the Lord.

..................Lots were cast upon them.

............................One of the goats was a scape goat; having had the sins of the congregation confessed over it by Aaron, was sent away into the wilderness to some uninhabitable place and let go never to return.

In Romans 3:24-25
"Christ Jesus; whom God set forth to be a propitiation."

.................................The word "propitiation" in the Old Testament is "mercy seat".

It could read "Christ Jesus; whom God set forth to be a Mercy Seat."

..............................The throne of a Holy, sin-hating God is a Mercy Seat and not a judgment seat.

The Ark of the Covenant

The Mercy Seat
was the cover of
the Ark.

At each end was
a Cherubim
whose outspread
wings overshadowed
the Mercy Seat.

The materials of the Altar of Incense tells of the truth of Christ as a Person.

................Gold proclaims His Deity.
................Wood of His humanity.

................It bring to us the glorious fact that we have a man at the right hand of God.

................1 Timothy 2:5
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"

.............He is interceding and maintaining our cause in Heaven.

National Day of Prayer 2012

The Brazen Altar and the Laver
shows Christ's identifying with our spiritual death.

The Table of Shew Bread and Golden Lampstand
shows our identifying with His Resurrection.

The Altar of Incense
shows His Ascension to the Father.

His blood had been scrifices on this Altar and He
entered into the Holy of Holies in Heaven with it
and purchased our Redemption.

In the Holy Place before the veil stood
the Golden Altar of Incense.

The word "Altar"
signified place of
slaughter, but no
sacrifices are to
be offered here.