Exodus: Temporary to Permanent

God commands Aaron and his sons to be consecrated in Exodus 29. To consecrate means to make holy, to make sacred. Basically through the processes talked about in this chapter, Aaron and his sons become priests. Before Exodus was before Christ, the Israelites had to seek a priest and continually give sacrifices, lambs to atone for their past sins. Note the word "past" because after that sacrifice, everything is made right, until they sin again. And obviously, as human flawed beings, we are always falling into the traps of Satan.

The lamb here is the sacrifice that makes things right with God, temporarily. It was a constant routine of offering lambs to God to atone for their sins. Whereas when Christ came, he represented that lamb for all of mankind, and when he was offered on the cross, he atoned for all sin, past, present and future, permanently. The lamb was the temporary atonement when the Son of Man was the permanent atonement.

Jesus Christ also is now the new "priest" that we had to seek when we needed forgiveness. And because we are made right with God for those who believe, we can seek Christ through prayer freely, without a tent of meeting or all the sacrifices and alters.

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. ¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. ¹⁶ Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. - Hebrews 4:14-16

Jesus is the great high priest. Who died for our sin, once and for all.

verse of the day: Romans 6:23

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.