Aaron's rod alone buds, blossoms and bears fruit. That rod of the high priest accordingly becomes the characteristic of the chosen priesthood.
The Lord in this significant way showed that the way to lead the children of Israel through the wilderness was not to be by such an act of delivering power as brought them out of Egypt. This would not suffice for Him or them. Thus had they been led by a mighty hand into the wilderness, but what could bring them through the wilderness? The grace of priesthood, in the figure of the power of an endless life, which bears fruit out of death, as set forth by the wonderful token of it thenceforward laid up in the holiest of all, at least in the desert-Aaron's rod that budded.
So we see in our Lord Jesus. How could the Son of God fail as Priest any more than as Savior, or in any other way whatever? It is a question of His saving the saints of God, of bringing them safe through in presence of a power opposing itself to God's purpose about them and from all the consequences of their weakness here below. He is always living to make intercession for them. [42]