Take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother,
and his sons with him,
that he may minister unto me
in the priest’s office.
The Aaronic priesthood is the priesthood of Aaron and his sons. God named them. They minister in the priest’s office. They offer the sacrifices. They bear the names of the tribes. The high priest enters the holy place. The priesthood is holy, and it is limited. It cannot make the comers perfect. It is the shadow. Jesus is the priest after the order of Melchizedek, a priest for ever. The Aaronic priesthood points. It does not finish the work.
- Aaron and his sons, named by God.
- They offer, they bear the names, they enter.
- It is the shadow. Christ is the priest for ever.
Aaron and his sons.
In the priest’s office.
The shadow, not the end.
- The Aaronic priesthood is Aaron and his sons.
- God named them to minister.
- They offer the sacrifices and bear the names.
- It is holy, and it is limited.
- It cannot make the comers perfect.
- Christ is the priest after Melchizedek, for ever.
- The Men – Aaron and his sons.
- The Office – Priest.
- The Work – Offer, bear, enter.
- The Limit – Cannot perfect.
- The Shadow – Of the true.
- The End – Christ, a priest for ever.
- Exodus 28:1 – “And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.”
- Exodus 28:29 – “And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart.”
- Leviticus 16:34 – “And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.”
- Hebrews 7:11 – “If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood… what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec?”
- Hebrews 7:23-24 – “And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.”
- Hebrews 9:11-12 – “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come… by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
- Hebrews 10:1 – “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices… make the comers thereunto perfect.”
- Numbers 16:40 – “That no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord.”
- Psalm 110:4 – “Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
- 1 Peter 2:9 – “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people.”
Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
The law having a shadow of good things to come.
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
The Aaronic priesthood is Aaron and his sons. It is holy, and it is the shadow. Christ is the priest for ever.
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