And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation; and behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense and made an atonement for the people. – Numbers 16:46-47
Aaron in thus coming forward as the deliverer and lover of his people, must have remembered that he was abhorred by this very people. They were seeking his blood, they were desiring to put him and Moses to death, and yet all thoughtless of danger, he snatches up his censer and runs into their midst with a divine enthusiasm in his heart. He might have stood back, and said, “No, they will slay me if I go into their ranks, furious as they are, they will charge this new death upon me and lay me low.” But he never considers it. Into the midst of the crowd, he boldly springs.
Most blessed Jesus, You might not only think thus, but indeed You did feel it to be true. You did come unto Your own, and Your own received You not. You did come into the world to save a race that hated You, and oh, how they proved their hatred to You, for they did spit upon Your cheeks, they did cast calumny and slander upon Your person, they did take the heir and say, “Come, let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours.”
Jesus, You were willing to die a martyr, that You might be made a sacrifice for those by whom Your blood was spilt. Jesus transcends Aaron, Aaron might have feared death at the hands of the people, Jesus Christ did actually meet it, and yet there He stood even in the hour of death, waving His censer, staying the plague, and dividing the living from the dead. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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