5 of 10; Jesus was washed as the sacrifice and High Priest

Jesus was washed as the sacrifice and High Priest

MATTHEW 3:13

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

:14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.

Then he suffered him.

"Righteousness" – how do I get right with God?

God’s Word is right.

Abraham believed God … this counted as righteousness.

GENESIS 15:6

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

"Fulfil" – fulfillment of a previous prophecy or shadow of the Law. That is a deeper fulfillment of the Law.

ISAIAH 42:21

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

ROMANS 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

The law was righteous in that it pointed towards Christ, Who was to fulfill its deeper meanings. Things must happen to Christ in the same way that they happened to the elements of the Law because the Law was the shadow or outline of what was to come.

Only Christianity fits into the outline of a previous religion (the Jewish religion) and fulfills that outline or shadow in a deeper sense.

COLOSSIANS 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

HEBREWS 8:4

For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

HEBREWS 10:1

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

So Christ, Who is the High Priest, had to be washed by a prophet in the same way that the prophet Moses washed the high priest Aaron before Moses anointed Aaron with oil.

LEVITICUS 8:5

And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.

:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

Aaron’s sons were to be high priests after him.

LEVITICUS 8:12

:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

JOHN 1:32

And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

So Jesus, our High Priest, was washed by the prophet John and anointed with the Spirit to fulfill the requirements of the Law.

He was also washed as He was our sacrifice for sin and our burnt offering as He suffered the torments of hell on our behalf as He paid the price for our sins.

II CHRONICLES 4:6

He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

Jesus is our sacrificial Lamb. He was our burnt offering. So He had to be washed in water. This happened in the river Jordan.

EXODUS 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

Our "sacrificial Lamb" at Calvary became our "burnt offering" as He walked over hellfire to win the keys of death and hell from Satan and dumped our confessed sins onto the Devil.

Roast with fire. This represented the fires of hell. There was no water present. Fire is much hotter than boiling water. There was no mercy for Jesus in His sufferings.

Any left-overs were totally burned and could not be used again. Some were eaten and some were turned to ash. Nothing about the Passover lamb would rot.

Jesus is our Passover Lamb, and He would never see corruption when He died because He resurrected in three days, before corruption could set in.

The sacrifice was used once, and then the remains were burnt.

"Burnt" also meant it could only be used once. One sacrifice for sin, once.

REVELATION 1:15

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace;…

REVELATION 1:18

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

He carried our sins across hellfire to dump them on the Devil, who is the source of sin.

Being sinless and perfect, hellfire could not consume Him.

The prophet John the Baptist washed Jesus as the High Priest. Then Jesus was anointed as the Spirit came down on Him.

MATTHEW 3:16

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

The Spirit rested upon Him, it did not go into Him.

Anointing means oil on the flesh, not going into the person’s body by drinking the oil.

So the Spirit never went into Him.

He already had the Spirit, being conceived by the Spirit.

MATTHEW 1:20

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

So the Holy Ghost was His Father. But God was His Father.

So the Holy Ghost is God the Father. One and the same Spirit. A baby cannot have two fathers.

"God the Father" is never mentioned in the Old Testament.

God only became "God the Father" when all of God dwelled bodily in the Person of Jesus.

COLOSSIANS 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

EPHESIANS 4:4

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; .

ISAIAH 43:11

I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

There is no Jesus as a second Person and Savior who stands beside the throne of God.

JOHN 1:33

And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost, which descended on Him and remained on Him.

The Holy Ghost did not go into Him.

He was not baptized with the Holy Ghost. He is actually the One who baptizes others with the Holy Ghost.