Exodus 29:5-145And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: 6And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. 8And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. 9And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. 10And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. 11And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. 13And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. 14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering. (Exodus 29:5‑14). Consecration of the Priests.
WE have in verses 5-9 the garments, which we have already considered, put upon the priests—Aaron and his sons —and now we shall consider the sin offering. (verses 10-14).
As Aaron and his sons were sinners, as well as the common people, they, needed the offerings, also, so as to approach God: and the first of these given to us here is the sin offering.
This offering is a type of Christ, as the sin bearer on the cross. The first thing to be done was that Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the sin offering. This identified, in this instance, the victim with the offeror. This offering, therefore, represented Aaron and his sons in their sins. Their sins were transferred to the victim, and it was therefore called a sin offering.
The wages of sin being death, the victim had to be slain, instead of those who had laid their hands upon it. It had become their substitute, the stroke of God’s judgment fell on it, instead of on them.
What a solemn moment that must have been for them to witness the victim die in their stead, and think also of God’s displeasure in sin. This is seen much more when we look at Christ. God’s beloved Son, and remember how dear He was to God. for He always did God’s will, and glorified God in all that He did. Yet God forsook Him when He was made sin for us on Calvary’s cross, for He said, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me.” Think of how hateful sin must be to God that He had to forsake the One who always did His will, when He became the sin bearer. Think too of how much He loved us, that He would rather have Him forsaken in our stead than have us bear what we deserved. That is why we get the word,
What an amount is displayed in the sacrifice of Christ! God’s holiness is manifested when He turned His holy eye away from Him on account of our sins being upon Him. His righteousness was manifested in causing the full penalty for our sins to be poured upon Him. His love, which is beyond all measure, is manifested in sparing His Son from His side and giving Him in our stead.
ML 08/06/1922