Ezra 6:19-20 (NIV)
19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover. 20 The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their relatives the priests and for themselves.
In the first covenant, the priests and Levites would purify themselves and were thus ceremonially clean to serve the Lord.
In the New Covenant, we wash ourselves with the waters of repentance and we are purified by the gift of the mercy of Christ. Not just ceremonially clean, but purified in the holy and refining fire of the Holy Spirit. It is not something we do, but He does for us. He washes our feet clean as we continue to follow Him in the wilderness of the world.
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