At the end of Part 1 we were speaking of the bronze basin/laver in the Mishkan …
The bronze basin /laver stood near to the altar of sacrifice in the courtyard (Jesus/Yeshua being the sacrifice), and the priest would wash their hands and feet before ascending the altar to perform a sacrifice.
He was required to only wash hands and feet, the rest of the body being covered by the linen/righteousness the robes of office conferred.
These robes are now the robes of righteousness that we are clothed in as garments of salvation that all wedding guests must be wearing.
2Cor 5:21 Christ took all our sin and guilt; we received His perfect righteousness, in right standing … We stand before a Holy God dressed in robes of righteousness without spot or wrinkle.
Is 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
We see Joshua the High Priest clothed with robe of righteousness. Zec 3:1, 3-4: Behold, I have removed you iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.
The robe of righteousness is fine, LINEN, clean and bright, the robe which the entire Bride of Christ will be clothed with.
Rev 19:8: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
His is dipped in blood…
Rev 19:13: And he was clothed with a robe dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
The atonement is for all the saints – all those who’ve been redeemed by the blood of the lamb.
The wrong garment means not washed/sanctified prior to putting on holy garments to minister before the Lord. Reference to the wedding guest wearing the wrong garment.
The high priest served the people before God.
Jesus/Yeshua served people before God as our
High Priest
and He was/is the agent of washing us clean.
Just as He as High Priest was washing Peter clean.
He fulfilled the need of the Brazen basin/laver in full washing to be made holy.
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However, the Lord instructed Moses regarding the bronze washbasin/laver used by the priest during this service in the Mishkan. The washbasin stood near the altar of sacrifice in the courtyard and the priest washed their hands and feet before ascending the altar to perform a sacrifice.
(Who can ascend the hill of the Lord/holy of holies but he who has clean hands and a pure heart.)
The foundation of Gods throne/His presence, is repentance and judgment, righteousness and justice. It is not emotion, it is love which is truth, Messiah is the TRUTH.
John 14:9 KJV: Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that … If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also:
He was the express image of all that God has laid out in Scripture which spoke of Him the coming Messiah.
Be washed/sanctified before entering the kingdom of God and through Jesus the Door/dalet.
The Door of the sheep
The Laver was placed between the altar /repentance (where a death was demanded)
and the tabernacle/ the kingdom and that is the Lord.
By the spirit Jesus/Yeshua was giving Peter the message;
(washed [leloumenos, bathed] )
cleansing/washed/sanctification before performing the sacrifice and entering the presence of God.
The altar was His cross and the seed/Himself had to die to become alive/resurrection and the burial/ death in water /immersion and purification had to precede in its order of Gods pattern.
Peters’ desire for Jesus/Yeshua to wash his hands and head also, John 13 :1– 18 and not only his feet is a reference to the role of the bronze laver/the wash basin in the Mishkan of which He was a type and shadow and Peter wanted to be completely Holy and prepared to minister and enter into the Holy place.
John the Baptist had also declared it ..
Repent – here is the altar or death to sin
And be baptized everyone of you – here is the laver
In the name of Jesus/Yeshua the anointed for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of Ruach HaKodesh.
Acts 2:38…
And following 50 days of omer, which is a time of preparation of inner self, to Shavuot/Pentecost and receiving the promise of His Ruach/Presence.
This Appointed Time of Shavuot, commemorated receiving the covenant of Marriage/Betrothal and the Torah/Word of God /Jesus/Yeshua Himself /His Ruach/Spirit descending to be with us forever in the sanctuary of our physical bodies and no longer in the Sanctuary/Temple which was the pattern of the Mishkan.
Remember the disciples were told to wait?….They were counting the Omer according to the Appointed times of the Lord..
We must be born of water and spirit before entering the tabernacle, the kingdom of God/kingdom of the heavens. John 3:5
Laver a place of cleansing – just as baptism was a place and act of repentance and cleansing from sin.
Ex 30:21 so shall they wash their hands and feet that they die not and it shall be a statute for ever to them even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
There is room for everyone who will accept the High Priest Jesus/Yeshua by being born of water and spirit and be willing to come to the door/dalet of the tabernacle and then enter in.
A Robe of Righteousness was worn once a year into the Holy of Holies to place blood on the kapporet /seat of mercies. No shoes were worn, because the ground was Holy. The presence of the Lord was there so it became Holy ground, just as it was to Moses at the burning bush. Wherever His presence is, it becomes Holy.
Peter wanted his hands and head to be washed and sanctified in the sense of full purification and indeed it was coming.
(What I do now you will know later.)
Jesus/Yeshua was about to make the Way into the holy presence of the father by His own death, sacrifice for all, access through His blood. The forgiveness of sins taking His blood to the mercy seat in the kingdom of the Heavens.
What I do now you will know later.
The process God gave Moses, along with the format of the way to prepare to enter the presence of God, was the pattern and the only way, until Jesus/Yeshua came and said,
I Am the Way;
because He fulfilled the format/ Pattern given to Moses by His sacrificial death. And not only are we redeemed but we are sanctified made holy/set apart and therefore able to enter His presence. Relationship has been restored with our heavenly father, He was the restorer of the breach Isaiah.
For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant He mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. Heb. 8:7-12
Improved, added to – line upon line….
Jesus saith to him, He that is
washed [leloumenos, bathed]
needeth not save to
wash [nipsasthoi, to wash]
his feet,
but is clean every whit:
and ye are clean, but not all.
John 13:10
HERE we have the most significant point….because
Jesus/Yeshua used two different words, but both are translated by the English word wash.
In those days a person returning from one of the many public baths where he had bathed, got his feet defiled on the way from the bath house to his home. There was placed at the door of his home a basin to rinse the feet.
This had been omitted, for some reason, the night that the disciples entered the Upper Room.
Jesus/Yeshua arose, took the basin,
and began
to wash (niptein, to wash)
the disciples’ feet.
We know the atoning blood of Messiah cleanses from sin — all sin — and the sin of the saved souls is fully dealt with at the cross.
However we are still working out our salvation daily and daily have to deal with sin in a continual attitude of repentance. Just as the priests daily washed and cleansed themselves from sins using the Laver we are to cleanse ourselves in the Laver of Jesus/Yeshua coming to Him daily in repentance. Our past sin has been
washed [leloumenos, bathed]
through His cleansing blood and through immersion we have been made Holy….
but sin in the believer breaks communion with God, and on the basis of His death, He can wash/ cleanse every child who comes to Him in repentant confession.
(wash [nipsasthoi, to wash])
As the disciples placed their defiled feet in His hands for cleansing, today we come in confession of our sins and, by so doing,
place our soiled feet in the nail-pierced hands of our Savior who cleanses us from all defilement.
needeth not save to
wash [nipsasthoi, to wash]
his feet…
Fellowship is then restored with the Father.
On the way from the cross to the crown our feet get soiled, but if we confess our sins, He takes the basin and girds Himself with the LINEN/Righteousness, towel again, and cleanses us from all sin.
How humbling to know that our Lord is girded with a LINEN towel, and that with basin in hand He keeps us clean, if we place our feet in His hands by confessing our sins.
The laver spoke of this heavenly ministry of Messiah.
The laver stood between the altar and the Holy Place, where the curtain of separation was, the same that was rent at the time of His death.
The cleansing of believers by confession stands between the cross and the continual communion of the Father with His children.
The altar was for a sinner; the laver was for a sin.
The altar was where the sinner needed punishment;
The laver was where the child needed cleansing.
The altar spoke of blood; the laver spoke of water.
The altar suggests this verse of Scripture: “…Without shedding of blood is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22);
the laver points to this: “Without holiness no man shall see God.”
and the meaning of the laver as it dealt with the sin in the life of the believer.
This then contains a twofold application. The first applies to the earth and is the work of His Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit. The second applies to heaven and is the WORK of the cross through Messiah and are both in relationship to the believer.
The brazen altar speaks of His death;
the brazen laver speaks of His resurrection.
At the brazen altar is forgiveness of sin;
at the brazen laver is imputation of righteousness,
“[Christ] was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification” (Romans 4:25).
Then only the priests had access to the Laver, whereas the bronze altar was accessible to all. According to scripture we are now priests so we have access to Jesus/Yeshua/The Laver.
There was cleansing by blood – pointing to justification and there was cleansing by water – pointing to sanctification.
The priests were obliged to wash their hands and their feet before entering God’s presence, to disobey would mean death (Ex.30:19-21).
Here Jesus/Yeshua was telling them He was making the WAY.
However looking a little deeper…reveals more amazing significance…
There was no floor in the court or the tabernacle therefore the priests feet would be defiled by the constant contact with the earth and the hands by the work at the altar and other work. Therefore they had to wash before any ministry at the altar, to make them clean before communion with God and before service to man.
At their consecration the priests were washed all over at the Laver before being clothed with priestly garments and anointed (Exodus 29:4-7).
They did not wash themselves at their consecration, but were washed by someone else (Lev.8:6).
Just as Messiah washes us as we are consecrated to His service.
Leviticus 8:6). That washing was for all time.
It was never repeated (perhaps a symbol of baptism? Heb. 10:22) and afterwards the priests had to wash their own hands and feet as there was to be a continual and daily cleansing at the laver.
The blood of Christ cleanses the believing sinner from all sin, but in his daily walk and service he becomes defiled and needs cleansing. His Holy Spirit indwells each believer, but sin keeps His Ruach from helping us achieve our full potential. He reveals the pathway of victory and gives power to our lives when conditions are met.
The Laver was made from the freewill gift of bronze mirrors made by the women (Ex.38:8) and enabled the priests to see their reflection.
The thought of God’s word being a Laver is seen in the New Testament, when Paul in Ephesians 5:26 writes “that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word”(NASB).
The Greek word used there translated as washing is “loutron” which means Laver and is the Greek word used in the Septuagint for the Laver in the court of the tabernacle. If in the passage we were to put the word Laver it would read
“that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the Laver of water, with the word”.
This gives the real insight of the verse,
a standing in the place of sanctification
that comes through the word of God.
For us it is through Yeshua/Jesus the Living Word.
The cleansing power of God’s word is also see in Psalm 119:9, John 15:3, 1 Peter 1:22. When we come to the Word of God, the Bible, so it is to us a mirror for our soul that will cleanse us if we are willing to apply its purifying water to our lives.
The Laver water was required also for the washing of the inward parts of the sacrifices (Lev.1:9,13) and so it is that our inner thoughts and motives need divine cleansing.
That cleansing washing was a prerequisite to entering into His presence, and still is now, we are cleansed and washed by the water of the word. Eph.5:26.
This is why it is important to read The WORD, it continually cleanses us, and remember when He spoke they only had the old Testament the new had not yet been written down.
Yeshua/Jesus is the living word and we are washed by Him and by the water of His words and by the blood of the lamb – the water and the blood.
As a nation of priests, a holy set apart nation into which we are grafted, whose hands and feet are washed. It is with clean hands and a pure heart that we are to ascend to the holy place, the hill of the Lord.
Peter would have understood the pattern of the Tabernacle given to Moses that they all followed and desired to be totally clean as that process required. He would understand later, post resurrection, that Jesus/Yeshua has fulfilled the laws of purification to completion. That no more sacrifice was needed and that He as our high priest, is able to wash, purify and cleanse us daily and then to clothe us with garments of salvation and a robe of righteousness.
This does not mean we have nothing to do, we are responsible to apply His word and keep His commandments and daily take up our cross, yoking ourselves with Jesus/Yeshua and crucifying the flesh, the natural desires.
Verse 8 He clearly tells us this is the only WAY we can be clean.
Unless I would wash you, you have no part with me!
And in verse 10
So He was saying you are ready to enter the holy place and as I wash your feet physically, the cross will make the WAY into His presence permanent.
Peter wanted to be clean by asking for his hands and head to be washed also in reference to the immersion for purification in preparation for them to enter the Holy place with their bodies as sanctuaries of the Holy Spirit.
(immersion for purification which is also called baptism; all of John’s and Jesus/Yeshua’s disciples were familiar with immersion which always followed repentance.)
The furniture found in the court, speak of an atoning sacrifice and of a cleansing as a preparation to enter into God’s presence. The same is true today to be able to come into God’s presence, to have a relationship with God we must identify ourselves with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and be cleansed of the sin that makes the relationship with a holy God impossible.
V 10 is a ref to immersion for purification, which is also called baptism, in preparation for them to enter the Holy Place; with their bodies as sanctuaries of His Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit. Immersion is the translation of both the
Heb R H T rahats/ rachatz רחץ
wash in order to remove impurity,
nothing but full-body immersion is intended
and in GK. baptidzo.
Flowing water had to be used for Immersion so it would come from sources such as a stream, spring or rainwater caught in a cistern. A mikveh which is for purification is where individual goes completely under the water 7x. (2Kings 5:10).
Most immersions were self-immersions, at the Jordan river John and his disciples would stand on the bank preaching, as people repented they would go into the river and immerse themselves with the one preaching still on the bank. Acts 2:14 – 42. As with Philip and the eunuch in Acts 8:38 some were immersed by others; on these occasions the person doing the immersing put a hand on the head of the one being immersed to hold them under the water; this forced a struggle to come up out of the water as a reminder of the dying to self and the new birth, symbolic of the struggle at birth by a newborn baby.
Around the city there were many mikvehs and the Temple in Jerusalem had multiple ritual baths where in Acts 2 it would only have taken about 20 minutes to immerse all 3000. In Jesus/Yeshua’s day each synagogue, had one or more ritual baths/immersion pools for immersion.
These were to be filled with living water from a stream, or even from a roof system to catch rainwater. In John 2:6 there is a reference to stone jars used to carry the water for purification. Normally only a synagogue would have a ritual bath so this wedding was apparently at a synagogue, which in Jesus/Yeshuas day were mostly home synagogues.
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Stone was used because it does not become unclean, metal and glass containers become unclean but can be cleansed, when pottery vessels become unclean they have to be destroyed. The early ecclesia/church always immersed, sprinkling instead of immersion was made official at the Council of Ravenna in 1311 AD.
wash” instead of “bathe”
Hebrew uses the root “ṭaval/tabal” (טבל) for immersion
The Hebrew word for immersion is tevilah and means literally immersing in a ritual bath known as a mikvah.
Immersion is the act of washing performed to correct a condition of ritual impurity and restore the impure to a state of ritual purity
285 years before John the Baptist was born the Old Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek; and in this translation there were two Hebrew words, “Rahats” and “Tabal,” that must be rendered into Greek, and they both signified the same thing—WASHING or PURIFICATION. With this difference: Rahats signified any washing in things of common life, while Tabal was never used in this sense at all, but to express only purification from sin.
It was a religious ordinance only; hence, these translators find Lono in Greek exactly answering to Rahats in Hebrew, and they substituted the one for the other; but when they look into the Greek for a word answering to “Tabal,” it is not there!
Why?
Because the Greeks were heathens, and they had no use for a word that expressed only a religious ordinance of purification from sin.
But the maintaining of that cleanness that is known as righteousness is the responsibility of every believer by the daily exercise of applying Gods word in everyday living, to keep our thoughts and motives pure.
Justification Continued at the Laver. Christ is faithful and just not only to forgive our sins but to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” The only place where cleansing was done was at the laver. Immediately after the death of Christ (symbolized at the altar) were His burial and resurrection of which baptism is a memorial. Our burial in the water corresponds to the burial of Christ; our rising out of the water corresponds to His resurrection.
The water in the brazen Laver points to the believer judging himself, unsparingly, by that Word. The Laver of brass presents the inflexible righteousness of Christ/Messiah testing, judging His people, condemning that which mars their communion with God.
The Scriptures show us the only WAY to be clean, is through Jesus/Yeshua.
Let’s be like Peter, desiring Messiah to cleanse us so we can enter into His presence, by placing our soiled feet into His Hands.
For in reality He has washed our feet too just as much as He washed Peters. And He continues to wash them every time we judge ourselves and come before Him in repentance for sin. We are washed, immersion for purification, which is also called baptism; washed [leloumenos, bathed]
needeth not save to
wash [nipsasthoi, to wash]
his feet,
It gives another meaning to the scripture that He ever liveth to make intercession for us….not simply the meaning of intercession as prayer. We are to plunge ourselves daily beneath the cleaning flow of His blood and the washing of the water by the Word….
What He did we did not know then …but now it is later and we know!
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