Exodus 29:1-30:10
Matthew 26:14-46
Psalm 31:19-24
Proverbs 8:14-26
Exodus 29:7 Then anoint him by pouring the anointing oil over his head.
Anointing oil is fragrant oil made with expensive spices. Remembering the Gospel reading for yesterday where Jesus was anointed with expensive perfume poured on His head to prepare (ceremonially consecrate maybe?) Him for the sacrifice.
Exodus 29:21 Then take some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his sons and on their garments. In this way, they and their garments will be set apart as holy.
The blood was a requirement of the sacrifice. It was not just shed it was sprinkles on Aaron and his sons in order to set them apart as holy. There is power in the blood. It is Jesus blood that we are covered with that sets us apart as holy. Just as the garments that Aaron and his sons wore were changed by the blood we are also changed by the blood of Jesus. Our dirty sinful garment has been washed in the blood of Jesus and we to are seen as holy. There is power in the blood of Jesus.
Exodus 30:10 “Once a year Aaron must purify the altar by smearing its horns with blood from the offering made to purify the people from their sin.
The blood of animals was not sufficient. The sacrifices needed to be made every day and once a year the alter needed to be purified with blood as well.
Matthew 26:28 for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.
But Jesus blood is sufficient to cleans the sins of us all. He directs them to understand that the sacrificial system that we are reading out now was intended to set them up to understand the need for a blood sacrifice to be able to come into God's presence. And He tells them that He is that sacrifice that confirms what God has promised them.
Matthew 26:38 He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”
Jesus was "crushed with grief" in Luke it says that Jesus was in so much "agony of the spirit" that He sweat blood. Or "sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood." This translation may have changed over the years because people have trouble believing that it is possible but I remember Cam talking about the rare but actual phenomenon where the capillaries constrict in such great anguish that it squeezes capillary blood out of the pores.
Luke 22:44 He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.
The national library of medicine website says "Hematohidrosis is a very rare condition in which an individual sweats blood. It may occur in an individual who is suffering from extreme levels of stress. ... Fear and intense mental contemplation are the most frequent causes."
So the shedding of blood has begun. He could have made the choice to walk away but He did not. His response is that He wants what the Father wants even though it means that He will be separated from the Father for the first time EVER. That had to be scarier than the idea of being crucified. But His great love for us that He showed over and over again while He was here on earth is taken a step further in the garden where He sheds the first drops of blood as a sacrifice of what His human will would be if He were not also fully God.
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