Exodus 28: 40-43, “And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty. And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office. And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.”
While the Lord Jesus Christ was speaking to His disciples in the upper room i the upper room, he set out to wash their feet. At first Peter didn’t want the Lord to wash his feet but later he asked the Lord to wash him all over. “Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.” (John 13: 10) When a person has been made clean by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ they don’t have to go back to repenting of their sin again and again they just have to confess any sin as it happens. If go through the process of self examination too often we become dangerously self centred. Aaron’s sons were part of the chosen group to act as priests and, once the family was consecrated to the task, they just had to prepare themselves for the role and do what the Lord commanded them to do. The other issue concerns nakedness. Adam and Eve didn’t know they were naked until they sinned. Nakedness is the fruit of sin and the priest were not allowed to come to the Lord without ridding themselves of their sinful behaviour. They could come to the Lord because sacrifices were offered and blood was shed for their sin but they were not to retain the evidence of their sin.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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