Leviticus 8:1-21
We have studied in the first seven chapters the subject of the offerings, and now we come to the subject of priesthood. If the sinner needs a sacrifice, the believer, too, needs a priest to exercise the service entrusted to him. Now it is in Christ that we have both the one and the other. It is He who offered Himself, the perfect Victim, to bring us into relationship with God, and He is now also the One who performs the functions of the High Priest to keep us in that relationship. It was necessary that He should become the Sacrifice before becoming the Priest.
We have noted in Exodus 29 the instructions given by the LORD to Moses for the consecration of Aaron and his sons. The moment has come for this ceremony to take place. The whole assembly of Israel is summoned to the entrance of the tabernacle to be present there, and to observe Aaron clad in the garments of glory and beauty. How much grander is the vision which the epistle to the Hebrews, sometimes called "the epistle of the opened heavens" presents with regard to our faith. It invites us to "consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus", clothed in all the glorious attributes of His priesthood (Hebrews 3:1).