From our location in human history, the “trial by ordeal” for a woman would be unthinkable! Women today may feel they have just cause to find objectionable passages in the Old Testament regarding relations between men and women. Numbers 5 would be one of them. After all, where is the part about a man having […]
Read More… from July 20, 2022 — A Word About Marital Jealousy
When you’re going on a long journey with others, it’s best to get things right before leaving. When a family is getting ready to go on a journey, parents should wisely check everything twice. Has the trash been put out? All the bills paid? Is everyone happy and cooperative? So it goes. That’s what is […]
“…you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit” (Eph 2:22). In the Lord’s instructions regarding the Kohathites (Num 4:1-20), we hear His concern: “Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; but do this in regard to them, that they […]
It seems an impossible task that the Levites had. Carry the furniture, but don’t touch? We read in Numbers 4 regarding the holy furniture of the tabernacle, “the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die” (v 15). Wait, they were supposed to carry […]
Read More… from July 15, 2022 — Carry Them, But Don’t Touch!
Similar to elders and deacons in the Church Age, priests and Levites co-labored in God’s work. The Lord recognized that the work which the Levites were to accomplish was rigorous. Assembling and disassembling the tabernacle was no easy task. Moving the pillars, boards, bars, and large tapestries was real man’s work. They had to be […]
Read More… from July 14, 2022 — Priests & Levites Working Together
“There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.” —D.L. Moody The Lord accepted the Levites in place of the firstborn sons in Israel. However, there were fewer Levites than firstborns, by 273, so instead of an exchange, a redemption price of five shekels was made for the overage, and […]
Read More… from July 13, 2022 — Dealing With “Discrepancies”
Sin disenfranchised me and left me a homeless pauper. But God’s Firstborn came looking for me! The church is called “the general assembly and church of the firstborn” (Heb 12:23). The principle of the firstborn begins at the doorway of history. When his parents had made the fateful decision that blocked them from Eden and […]
God sets the pattern for great leadership on large projects: communication, motivation, and delegation. Numbers 3 gives an explanation of the Levites’ responsibilities. Small in number, Aaron and his sons would be the family of priests: “Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar” (Num 3:2). But then we are sadly reminded that the first […]