Wed.’s Devo. - The Priestly Offerings

Read Ex. 29:10-35 The ceremony for sanctifying a priest consisted of 3 sacrifices. The first one was a bull sacrificed for the sin. The priest put his hand on the head of the bull transferring his sins to the bull. The second sacrifice was a ram that was to be totally burnt. This offering represented the total surrender of the priest to God. The third offering was the peace offering. Blood was applied to the extremities of the priest signifying that his whole body was atoned for. This was to give him peace with God. All of these offerings describe Jesus’ offering on the cross. Jesus as the sin offering became sin for us and our curse fell on him. As our burnt offering he gave everything and was totally burnt on the cross. He was our peace offering that brought us fellowship and right standing with God. Hebrews 7:26-28 says that Jesus was our high priest who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who doesn’t need to daily offer up sacrifices, as the Old Testament priests, because he did this once, when he offered up himself. For the law gave us high priests that had sin; but the Word, which was since the law, makes the Son our High Priest, who is consecrated for evermore. Next, the flesh of the sacrifice was to be divided between God and the priest. Part was to be waved up and down and side to side making the symbol of the cross which they had no way of knowing what it meant. This was his way of offering it up to God. This meat was burnt on the altar to God and the other part eaten by the priest. This feast was a picture of our fellowship with God. This ceremony was done everyday for 7 days. Since we know that a day to the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day (2 Pet. 3:8) then we know that Jesus sacrifice covers us till millennium is over. Thank you Jesus, for being our High Priest who offered his own blood to be our sin offering, our burnt offering and our peace offering.