Consecration sets a person or a thing apart for the Lord.
You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy.
To consecrate is to set apart. Aaron and his sons are consecrated with washing, clothing, anointing, and blood on ear, thumb, and toe. The altar is consecrated so that it becomes most holy. Whatever touches it becomes holy. Israel is told to consecrate themselves because the Lord is holy. The Christian page on consecration takes up the life set apart. This page is the priestly and holy-place act in the law.
- Seven days of ordination fill the hands of the priests.
- The anointing oil marks the tent, the altar, and the men.
- Set apart is not the same as already perfect. The blood is still required.
Set apart for the Lord.
Washed, clothed, anointed, and marked with blood.
- Consecration is being set apart for God.
- Priests are consecrated over seven days.
- Blood is put on ear, thumb, and toe.
- The altar is consecrated and becomes most holy.
- Israel’s holiness rests on the Lord’s holiness.
- The Christian use of the word belongs with the life set apart in Christ.
- The Word – Set apart.
- The Men – Aaron and his sons.
- The Marks – Oil and blood.
- The Days – Seven.
- The Altar – Most holy.
- The People – Consecrate yourselves.
- Exodus 29:9, 20 – “You shall ordain Aaron and his sons… put it on the tip of the right ear… and on the big toe of their right foot.”
- Exodus 29:37 – “Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy.”
- Leviticus 11:44 – “Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy.”
- Romans 12:1 – “Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.”
You shall consecrate them.
The altar shall be most holy.
Consecrate yourselves, and be holy, for I am holy.
Set apart by washing, oil, and blood. The Christian life takes up the same word in a living sacrifice.
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