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The cloak “all of blue” was to be so made that “it shall not rend”. That which is spiritual and heavenly, and which is sustained by priestly grace, does not rend. Rents amongst the saints are caused by earthly and fleshly influences. The Lord does not fail those who call upon Him out of a pure heart. It is still possible for saints to get near the Priest in whose breast-plate are the Urim and Thummim. And those who really have to do with the Priest, and get the mind of God from Him, will think alike. Of that there can be no question. Difficulties and exercises amongst the people of God are often the way of rich blessing. They become the occasion for divine light to be given, and the Lord uses them to educate and enlarge His saints, and to give them an understanding of the truth which they would never have had otherwise. There is never anything of that kind which has not gain attached to it for those who go to the Priest about it, and our exercise should always be to secure that gain.

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Exodus’—chapter 28, p.228, 229) In the early part of the last century many godly persons felt deeply the sin of the assembly; not merely their personal failures but that “the whole assembly” had departed from God’s thoughts. Priestly exercise was brought about as to what was suitable to God, and much light was given as to His ways and purposes, and as to Christ and the assembly. This led to a judgment of things in the light of the death of Christ, and to a movement of separation, and the result has been a revival, in measure, of the true spiritual features of the assembly, and of the service of God, and of the enjoyment of assembly privilege.

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Leviticus’, p.51)

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