What an interesting chapter!

It’s about the priests, again.

All of which is, I think, in “type” or “symbol” picturesque of our “Great High Priest, Jesus Christ.”

In verse 7 for example … “They (the priests) shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane.” Now think about Jesus, His Bride, His Wife! Which would be the Church! A Church that, according to Paul, will be “without spot or wrinkle” and “holy and without blemish!” Ephesians 5:27, a “chaste virgin” in fact!

Another example, spoken unto Aaron … “Whosoever he be of thy seed (of the priests) in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.” Verse 17

Wow!

And Jesus our High Priest … indeed “without blemish!”

These Leviticus 21 laws are this exact, this specific, too. “For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.” Verses 18-21!

Still Jesus is ultimately in view, surely!

He was perfect, both in His Life and in His Death! Both in His Body and in His Spirit!

Our High Priest is not blind, He can see perfectly!

He is not lame, He can “walk” with us day by day!

He is not broken-handed, He has already touched me this morning!

His eyes are not imperfect, but Pure and Loving!

In fact, our dear Lord is, to use the language of the Song of Solomon … “altogether lovely!” Song of Solomon 5:16 specifically.

I’m not through with this “priest” idea yet. More will be written tomorrow, the Lord willing. (Leviticus chapter 22 is somewhat similar to chapter 21 here.)

Aaron, a picture of Jesus, in many ways.

Although Jesus has an even Higher Priesthood than that of Aaron!

What a Saviour!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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