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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. We're in a section right now that probably won't be your favorite, but persevere. This is setting us up to understand a lot about God and his story. When we have passages like this, as we will from time to time, don't try to remember all these details. There isn't a quiz.
Just try to come away from this with an overall idea of the function and purpose and meaning of it all. Try seeing what ties all these details together and asking yourself what those details reveal to you about God. First of all, why would he pay this kind of attention to detail?
And second of all, why would he include these things in a book that would long outlive the use of the things he's describing? Whatever these difficult passages show us about him is still in effect, even if the offerings and sacrifices and garments aren't. By the way, if the idea of animal sacrifice bothers you, here's something that may be helpful to remember. God isn't the one causing it.
Man's sin is. Hebrews 9.22 says, This is His provision. We should never be angrier at God's provision for our sin than at our sin itself. Before we unpack today's reading, let's back up a little bit. Do you remember the 12 sons of Jacob? Not all of them, I'm not asking you to list them, but I'm just asking if you remember that there were 12 of them, the 12 tribes of Israel.
Back in Exodus 2, we learned that Moses and Aaron were from the tribe of Levi. You may remember Levi as one of the two brothers who, along with Simeon, killed all the men of Shechem to avenge their sister Dinah's rape. And yet here we are with his descendants being appointed as priests unto the Lord. Talk about redemption. The descendants of Levi are called Levites. And guess what?
The book we'll tackle next is all about their work, Leviticus. Today we start out with God addressing his plans for Aaron, Moses' brother, and all Aaron's offspring and their roles as priests. God pays a lot of attention to their priestly attire, but it's really more than just clothes we're dealing with here. It was more like sacred equipment than garments.
This may be a bad illustration, but think of a police officer's bulletproof vest or a football player's pads. That's more like what we're dealing with here because these garments have a function. These clothes are listed along with the tabernacle details and equipment, and they're explicitly designed for use in the sanctuary when priests serve in this role.
They didn't wear this stuff when they were posted up in their desert hammocks. If you want to see an image of what these may have looked like, do a quick web search and you'll get a pretty good idea. In addition to function, these garments were also intended for glory and for beauty. They displayed God's splendor and attention to detail.
And God specifically gifted the people who were assigned to make them. That's how seriously he took these things. First, we read about the high priest's garments. Then we read about the garments for the other priests. But there are three things I want to highlight about the high priest's garments. First, the clothing is supposed to indicate the high priest's role as a mediator between God and man.
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