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 […]
There is a spiritual gravitational pull in my life from whatever I place at its center. Is it Christ? So far, so good. Numbers 1 concludes: “Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they did” (v 54). The phrase “the Lord commanded Moses” occurs 21 times in […]
The Levites were different, not numbered to be in the army, but in the service of the Lord. Numbers 1 transitions at verses 46 and 47: “All who were numbered were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.” They were numbered, […]
One by one, the land filled with Israelites, and one by one now, heaven is fast filling up, as well! It’s hard to say how many there were at the base of Sinai. The males from age twenty and up totaled 603,550. If we add to that the same number of women, and perhaps two […]
The chapter reminds us that God takes note of each one “individually” (Num 1:2, 18, 20, 22). We read that “in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt” (Num 1:1) the Lord told them to start counting all the men “from twenty years old and above—all who are able […]