Leviticus 21: 16-24, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 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. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.”
Before Adam and Eve sinned in the garden there was no death, disease or disability for we read “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Gen 1: 31) When Adam and Eve interacted with the Lord, as friends, every day, they were perfect as the Lord God had made them. After they sinned they began the long slow process of physical decay and death. They also experienced immediate spiritual death. Even though the Lord God was the offended party in this scenario, He was also the One Who sought to effect reconciliation. The process of reconciliation proceeded through the giving of the Law and was finally realised when the Lord Jesus Christ, the One promised from the day that sin entered the world, finally paid the full price of redemption with His own sinless life. In order for this process to proceed, it was essential that the priests be without blemish, just like the passover lamb had to be without blemish as well. These regulations were not about discriminating against a person’s human rights, they were about showing that the Lord God is perfect, pure and holy.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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