Leviticus 21:11-21 – He must not enter a place where there is a
dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, nor leave the
sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated
by the anointing oil of his God. I am the Lord. “‘The woman he marries must be a
virgin. He must not marry a widow, a divorced
woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own
people, so that he will not defile his
offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.’” The Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: ‘For
the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near
to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a
crippled foot or hand, or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or
who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged
testicles. No descendant of Aaron the priest who
has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to
offer the food of his God.
Hebrews
9:14 – How much more, then, will the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from
acts that lead to death, so
that we may serve the living God!
Application:
- · Like the sacrifices that had to be without defect, the priests were to typify Christ’s perfection.
- · In the entirety of Christ’s being, He was unblemished, not just superficially.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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