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THUS FAR we have no shedding or sprinkling of blood. Aaron was anointed with oil before the blood was shed. The Lord Jesus needed not the shedding of the blood for Himself. He had no sins of His own to atone for — Himself the holy spotless Son of God. But He bore the sins of others that He might set them free and bring them into association with Himself in those joys and glories which to Him belong.
When Aaron’s sons are brought near, as they are next, the sin-offering is brought near too, and the hands of all were laid on the bullock’s head. But first, the sons of Aaron were clothed as their father, with coats and girdles and bonnets. This tells us how God in grace covers our nakedness with Christ, as it pleases Him, and makes us fit for His presence in the sanctuary.
As remarked before, Aaron’s sons typify believers, and so, having been washed all over by the Word and pronounced “clean every whit” (John 13:1010Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. (John 13:10)), we now have a robe of righteousness which we are called on to display in a practical way, like the linen coats of Aaron’s sons. Then too our natural desires and our thoughts are to be brought into accord with this practical righteousness, like the girdles and bonnets. These things are most necessary if we are to enjoy the wonderful place that is ours as priests bore God.
The bullock was then slain and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar to purify it. The rest he poured out at the base. And does not this speak to us of what the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is to God? Men may despise it and count it foolishness (1 Cor. 1:2323But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; (1 Corinthians 1:23)), yet it is to God the most hallowed spot in all His universe — as the hymn so well puts it, “Center of two eternities, which look with rapt adoring eyes onward and back to Thee.”
O cross of Christ, O glorious tree!
What place can be compared to thee?
Where God’s own Son was crucified,
And for our sins a ransom died?
The bullock was burned without the camp as a sin-offering, and this reminds us of the place the Lord Jesus had to take and of the sacrifice He made in order to put our sins away, to bring us into such a place of favor and blessing with Himself. Nothing less than that awful cross and the shedding of His precious blood was necessary for this, such is the awfulness of sin in God’s sight. But the fat was burned on the altar, and so we know that the Father found His infinite delight in Jesus when He was making atonement for our sins on Calvary.
Then we read of the offering of one ram for a burnt offering—telling of the worthiness of Christ and His perfect obedience, all going up to God as a sweet savor, and we accepted in Him.
Next came the offering of the send ram — the ram of consecration —speaking of Christ’s perfect consecration to His Father’s will and of His devotedness unto death. This same devotedness should characterize us, whom He has made “kings and priests unto God and His Father” (Rev. 1:66And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:6)).
ML-10/24/1971