Exodus 28:11-12 "Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. (The Lord tells Moses to etch the very names of His people in the actual stones sitting atop the shoulders of the ephod outer garment of the High Priest. Aaron, the High Priest, will carry these names into the presence of the Lord as a memorial before Him, showing us that He knows our names and that He doesn't forget us or forsake us. The Lord knows each of our names today and still carries our names on His shoulders.) Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings (As further precaution and indication of their importance, the names representing God's people are carefully placed in a gold setting, in a hollow mounting of gold filigree, to make sure they cannot be dislodged and to showcase their importance in the costly gems that carry the names and the gold setting in which they are placed.) and fasten them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear the names on his shoulders as a memorial before the Lord." (Aaron serving as the High Priest wears the ephod on which are placed the precious stones with the engraved names of God's people into the Holy of Holies, into the Most Holy Place, as a memorial to him and to God that he represents the people before the Lord, that he carries them into God's presence, and that the Lord remembers His covenant and looks on His people with mercy and grace,
allowing them through Aaron to come into the very presence of God Himself.
Aaron in this early rendition of the picture of Christ shows us how Jesus Himself carries us engraved into the very strength of His Own shoulders and brings us into the presence of Holy God as a memorial to the Father that Jesus the Son has made God's people a path of salvation so we come into the throne room on the shoulders of Jesus Himself.)
