Mon.’s Devo - Consecrating the Priests

Read: Leviticus 7:28-9:6; Mark 3:31-4:25; Psalm 37:12-29; Proverbs 10:5 The peace offering was a personal gift that was not required. It was to be offered by the person who would put their own hands on the head of the animal. Then the priest would burn the fat on the altar but the breast and right thigh would be given to the priests to eat. This was to be a fellowship offering to the Lord. Now that God had given the instructions about all the different offerings, it was time to consecrate Aaron and his sons as their official priests and high priest. Moses gathered all the people and showed the people what God required. He dressed Aaron and his sons in their priestly garments and anointed them with oil. He also anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it. *** Then Moses put the tunics of the priests on them and tied them with sashes, and put the miters on their heads. He brought the bull for the sin offering and the priests laid their hands upon their heads. Moses killed it and put the blood on the horns of the altar and around the base consecrating it. The fat and two kinds were taken and burned on the altar but the rest was burned outside the camp. Next, the ram was brought and the priests laid their hands on its head. Moses killed the ram and cut it up and washed the pieces and burned them on the altar. The second ram was brought and the priests laid their hands on its head. It was killed by Moses and its blood was used to consecrate Aaron and his sons. He put the blood on the tip of their right ear, the thumb of their right hand and the big toe of their right feet. Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. *** Moses took the fat from the liver and kindness and right thigh. He place one of the unleavened cakes on the fat of the thigh. He then put all of these in Aarons hands and his sons’ hands and they waved them as a wave offering before the Lord. Moses took them and burned them on the brazen altar. *** Moses anointed Aaron and his sons again along with their garments. They were to stay outside the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the days of their consecration were ended. *** On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel and had them each take a bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering and offer them before the Lord. Then they children of Israel were to take a goat, a calf and a lamb as a burnt offering. They were to offer a bull and a ram as a peace offering and a grain offering mixed with oil because on that day, the Lord would meet with them. Moses told them that the glory of the Lord would appear to them. *** The offerings were like parables for us to understand. Moses stood for God. Aaron stood for Jesus and the priests stand for those who are fully consecrated to the Lord and his service. The seven days represent the seven thousand years that man has lived on the earth and the eight day is the next thousand years. We are entering the seventh day. *** In Mark, Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him. He was inside teaching. When Jesus was told that they wanted to see him he made it clear to those listening that they were just as important to him as his own flesh and blood if they did the will of God. He taught them by telling them parables and started with the main parable. It was the one about the seed and the sower. When he was alone with his disciples he explained the meaning because the mysteries of the kingdom were for them to understand. He explained that the see was the Word of God that God scatters across the land. Whether the seed produced fruit depended on where it landed. Seed that landed by the wayside was quickly stolen by Satan. Seed that fell on stony hearts had no way to produce roots so when tribulation and persecution came, they stumbled. Seed that fell in hearts that had thorns were easily distracted by the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches making them unfruitful. But the seed that fell on good hearts sprang up and increased and produced some thirty, some sixty and some a hundred. *** Jesus encouraged them to walk always in the light and have no secret sins because everything is going to be revealed in the end. He warned them to watch what they believed and let into their hearts. If they keep God’s Word in their heart, more will be given to them. *** Lord, may we walk in the light as you are in the light and keep our fellowship with you always.