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The priest offered gifts and sacrifices to God. In patriarchal days this fell to the head of the family....but when the law came, priesthood was established in a particular family of the tribe chosen for divine service.
Excerpt- Before we enter upon the details of the types in Leviticus 8-10, it seems well to speak of priesthood generally, and also in special reference to Christianity.
The priest offered gifts and sacrifices to God. In patriarchal days this fell to the head of the family, and indeed to its members also as may be seen in the very first recorded instance of Cain and Abel. But when the law came, priesthood was established in a particular family of that tribe which was chosen for divine service and separated from the inheritance of the land given to the other tribes of Israel. The Levites had therefore the tithes of the children of Israel as a heave-offering to Jehovah, but of this the Levites were bound to offer a tenth of the tithes to the priests, who had also their own special perquisites by Jehovah's command.
The Epistle to the Hebrews treats of Levitical priesthood, as well as of the sanctuary and the sacrifices, more formally and fully than any other parts of the N. T., though the principle runs through the Epistles in general and even the Revelation. To the Hebrews the utmost care was taken to lay the foundation of all that follows on the Person of Christ, Son of God in chap. 1, Son of Man in chap. 2, with incontestably superior glory in both respects, whatever His humiliation in grace for our sakes, to every creature, even to angels. Such is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. Others, as Moses, Aaron, Joshua, derived dignity from the office to which each was called of God; He had intrinsic glory and excellence which conferred luster on all He undertook, though perfectly subject to God in everything. As sin had ruined all creation, His death was the only door of deliverance for “everything,” and the “many sons” for glory in particular, to annul the devil's power, to succor in temptation and sympathize in suffering, as well as to make propitiation for sins.
The Epistle accordingly contemplates on the one hand the partakers of a heavenly calling passing through the wilderness, and on the other Jesus the Son of God, called as Aaron, but owned of Him as His Son, and saluted as according to the order of Melchizedek. Such He is, and He only, being first by interpretation King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace. The exercise is after the pattern of Aaron (intercession based on sacrificial blood-shedding), the order after that of Melchizedek, as being not a succession of priests but one ever-living priest. Thus Psa. 110 is cited as divine authority for a priesthood everlasting and intransmissible, which supersedes that of Aaron. “For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens, who needeth not daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appointeth men high priests having infirmity; but the word of the oath-swearing which [was] after the law, a Son perfected forever.”
Table of Contents
1. Leviticus 8-10: Priesthood 1. Introduction
2. Leviticus 8:1-12: Priesthood 2. The Priesthood Consecrated
3. Leviticus 8:13-21: Priesthood 3. Consecration of the Priests
4. Leviticus 8:22-30: Priesthood 4. The Priests Consecrated
5. Leviticus 8:31-36: Priesthood 5. The Consecration
6. Leviticus 9:1-6: Priesthood 6. The Priests
7. Leviticus 9:7-21: Priesthood 7. The Eighth Day
8. Leviticus 9:22-24: Priesthood 8. The Eighth Day
9. Leviticus 10:1-3: Priesthood 9. Failing and Judged
10. Leviticus 10:4-7: Priesthood 10. Priest Above Grief
11. Leviticus 10:8-11: Priesthood 11. Priest to Be Above Excitement
12. Leviticus 10:12-13: Priesthood 12. The Priest's Due
13. Leviticus 10:16-20: Priesthood 13. Not Eating the Sin Offering
14. Leviticus 11:1-8: Priesthood 14. Law of Land Beasts
15. Leviticus 11:9-12: Priesthood 15. Law of Creatures in the Waters
16. Leviticus 11:13-19: Priesthood 16. Birds Unclean
17. Leviticus 11:20-25: Priesthood 17. Winged Reptiles
18. Leviticus 11:26-31: Priesthood 19. Defilement Through Dead Creatures
19. Leviticus 11:32-40: Priesthood 18: Defilements of Touch and the Creeping Things
20. Leviticus 12:1-8: Priesthood 20. Birth Uncleanness
21. Leviticus 13:1-18: Priesthood 21. Leprosy
22. Leviticus 13:9-17: Priesthood 22. Leprosy Tried and All Out
23. Leviticus 13:18-28: Priesthood 23. Occasions of Leprosy
24. Leviticus 13:29-44: Priesthood 24. Leprosy of the Head or the Beard
25. Leviticus 13:45-46: Priesthood 25. Leper Outside
26. Leviticus 13:47-39: Priesthood 26. Leprous Raiment
27. Leviticus 14:1-7: Priesthood 27. Leper Pronounced Clean
28. Leviticus 14:8-9: Priesthood 28. Leper Washes
29. Leviticus 14:10-20: Priesthood 29. Leper on the Eighth Day
30. Leviticus 14:21-32: Priesthood 30. Poor Leper
31. Leviticus 14:33-53: Priesthood 31. Leprosy in the House and Its Cleansing
32. Leviticus 14:54-57: Priesthood 32. Leprosy Summed Up
33. Leviticus 15:1-12: Priesthood 33. Flux in Men and Its Defilement
34. Leviticus 15:13-15: Priesthood 34. The Atonement for Flux
35. Leviticus 15:16-33: Priesthood 35. Other Impurities