The priests begin their work
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📚And on the eighth day it came about that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel, 2 📚and he said to Aaron, “Take a young calf for yourself for a sin offering 📖, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them in the presence of the LORD. 3 📚And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Take a young goat for yourself for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering, 4 📚also an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice in the presence of the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear 📖 to you”.5 📚And they brought what Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. 6 📚And Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded you to do; and the glory of the LORD will appear to you”.
9:6 If we wish to see God’s glory we must trust Him and follow His instructions (John 11:40; 17:24).🪶
7 📚And Moses said to Aaron, “Go to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, just as the LORD commanded”.
8 📚Therefore Aaron went to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering which was for himself. 9 📚And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar. 10 📚And on the altar he burned the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe on the liver of the sin offering, just as the LORD commanded Moses. 11 📚And the flesh and the hide he burned with fire outside the camp.
12 📚And he killed the burnt offering. And Aaron’s sons presented the blood to him, which he sprinkled all around on the altar. 13 And they presented the burnt offering to him, with its pieces, and the head, and he burned them on the altar. 14 📚And he washed the inner parts and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
15 📚And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
16 📚And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the regulation. 17 📚And he brought the grain offering, and took a handful of it and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
18 📚He also killed the ox and the ram as a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. And Aaron’s sons presented the blood to him, which he sprinkled all around on the altar. 19 📚And they presented the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the inner parts, and the kidneys, and the lobe on the liver, 20 📚and they put the fat on the breasts. And he burned the fat on the altar. 21 📚And Aaron waved the breasts and the right shoulder as a wave offering before the LORD, just as Moses commanded.
22 📚And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
23 📚And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
9:22-23 In these two remarkable verses we see that the revelation of God’s glory came at the offering of the sacrifice which symbolized the Lord Jesus. In other words God’s glory is manifested at the cross of Jesus where He died for sinners. This wonderful event revealed the nature of God as no other event in history, and God’s nature is the foundation of His glory (Ex 33:18-19; 34:5-7). We see also that God’s blessing came to the people after the sacrifice had been offered. The cross of Christ is the source of all those blessings God promised to the world through the seed of Abraham (Gen 12:3; 22:18; for notes on blessing and blessed see also Num 6:22-26; Ps 1:1-3).
Here in these verses in Leviticus the people were blessed two separate times. In v 22 after the sacrifices were offered Aaron blessed the people lifting up his hands. This picture was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus in Luke 24:50. After that, Aaron and Moses went inside the tabernacle, out of sight of the people. This was fulfilled by Christ in Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9. When Moses and Aaron came back out they blessed the people again. At present the Lord Jesus is still in the true tabernacle in heaven. But He will come again as the perfect fulfillment of the law of Moses and its high priesthood to bring God’s blessings in full measure to His people (Rom 8:18-25; 1 Cor 15:51-54; Isa 11:1-9; Rev 19:11—22:5). Until God’s time comes He remains in heaven (Acts 3:19-21).🪶
24 📚And a fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw this, they shouted and prostrated themselves.
9:24 Aaron had already slain the sacrifices, shed their blood, and put them on the altar before He went inside the tabernacle. There was already fire on the altar consuming the sacrifices (vs 13,14,17). The blessing that came through the sacrifices had been given. But it was only after Aaron and Moses came back out from the tabernacle that God publicly revealed His full acceptance of the sacrifice. This signifies that at the second coming of Christ it will be fully revealed to all peoples that God has fully accepted the sacrifice of His Son. Then Phil 2:10-11 and similar verses will be fulfilled. And great joy will come to the people of God.🪶