The priests were instructed to represent in two directions. First, they were to represent the people to and before the Lord when they went into the tabernacle to sacrifice. Second, the priests were to represent God to the people.<\/p>\n
Scripture teaches how completely unapproachable the holy, righteous God is by a fallen, spiritually-dead, sinful man. There is no direct way for a sinful man to come to a holy God. A go-between is needed, and a covering is required for the man\u2019s sin. In the Old Covenant a mediator or an advocate, the priest, was always needed. He would literally “stand and plea” on behalf of the people before God. Here God tells the priests to go out and speak to the people about God. God is saying, “Priests, when you give My Word, this is how I want to be represented.”<\/p>\n
Today, more often than not, people put God’s name on other people by cursing them, but here God commanded the Old Testament priests to bless others. The word bless<\/em> carries with it the meaning to give to<\/em>, endow upon<\/em>, and to release to something good<\/em>. Peter reminds us that in the New Covenant we are all priests, “a priesthood of believers.” Therefore, all believers are called to bless\u2014to give to, endow upon, and to release to something good\u2014other believers.<\/p>\n Here is a great blessing for all times and may it be true of your life today: \u201cThe LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Numbers 6 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate\u00a0themselves\u00a0<\/em>to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate\u00a0themselves\u00a0<\/em>unto the\u00a0LORD:\u00a0\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0He shall separate\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>unto the\u00a0LORD, he shall be holy,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0All the days that he separateth\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0he shall come at no dead body.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God\u00a0is<\/em>upon his head.\u00a0\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0All the days of his separation he\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>holy unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall consecrate unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.\u00a0 13<\/sup>\u00a0And this\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:\u00a014<\/sup>And he shall offer his offering unto the\u00a0LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall bring\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>before the\u00a0LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall offer the ram\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the\u00a0LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation\u00a0at<\/em>the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>in the fire which\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put\u00a0them<\/em> upon the hands of the Nazarite, after\u00a0the hair of\u00a0<\/em>his separation is shaven:\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall wave them\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a wave offering before the\u00a0LORD: this\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed,\u00a0and of\u00a0<\/em>his offering unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for his separation, beside\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation. 22<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,\u00a024<\/sup>The\u00a0LORD\u00a0bless thee, and keep thee:\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; 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