Aaron Dies

Num 20:26-21:8         12/4/2017

Moses led Aaron and his son Eleazer to Mount Hor where God had revealed Aaron would die. In accordance with God’s instructions, Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazer, Aaron’s son – who by this ascended to the position of High Priest. The people mourned Aaron’s death for thirty days.

There is something contrary to our thinking about this. God reveals to Aaron through Moses that he will die on the top of Mount Hor. His death was forecast. So what did Aaron do? He climbed the mountain. He willingly entered into the death that God had described.

His power and his robes were stripped from him in view of the entire assembly. They were transferred to his son. With nothing left to him in this world, he laid down and died. He was steadfast in the end.

Aaron had learned obedience through the things he had suffered. And he had suffered much from many mistakes. But in the end, he walked up the mountain, allowed himself to be stripped and divested of everything, even his life. An act of utter faithfulness.

Jesus was born savior of the world. At some point in His growth and development as a human person, He realized that He had been called by the Father to climb a mountain where he would be stripped and divested of every human right in the midst of a great assembly of His brothers and sisters. He knew climbing the mountain meant death.

Though He was guilty of no wrongdoing, He was made perfect by the things that He suffered.

The one certainty in life is death. Francis called death his sister. And like the long list of the faithful who have proceeded down from Abraham – neither did he shy away from his moments of life and death.

To embrace life and death in the certainty that God is in every moment, and that every moment could be well lived – that is Givenness.

This is the real possibility of your life.

“Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and…he was made perfect” Heb 5:8-9