There is great detail, and attention, given to the holy garments that Aaron wore when he ministered in the tabernacle.If the tabernacle and all the vessels were made after the pattern of the heavenly,then is Jesus, our high priest, currently wearing the heavenly garments,of which the earthly garments were made after their pattern, with all the same details?If so, then with:
Psalms 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
and also:
Exodus 29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
Did Melchizedek wear those same garments before Jesus did?Line 30 says, "and that son"; well Jesus is the Son of God, and he is right now the priest in the stead of Melchizedek.Melchizedek didn't have sons of his own:
Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life;
But that office was passed onto the Son of God.Melchizedek is a type of the eternal.
Hebrews 7:3b but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Can we imagine being able to catch a glimpse of Jesus right now, in garments like those described in Exodus, interceding before the Father, on our behalf?From now on, when reading through those two places in Exodus, where it goes through all those details of the high priest's garments,that instead of getting bored, I'll hopefully be thinking of Jesus putting on garments, just like those, when he ascended,and that he is there with the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, fine twined linen, the chains, the breastplate, the gems, the miter,the bells, the pomegranates, and he is currently interceding on my behalf!
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
All those materials refined, as pure as can be, much more glorious than Aaron’s, but better.The word, "better", is used in Hebrews when comparing Jesus, or the things about Jesus, to those things under the law:
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
To see Jesus, simultaneously, as the Lamb of God, as the Son of man, as our great High Priest, and as the Son of God.What a sight to behold.But we can actually see that now, in the book, by faith.