The Holy Bread (Lev. 24:5-9)

11/4/2008 6:44 PM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                        Focus:  The holy bread

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Lev. 24:5-9

            Message of the verses:   “5  "Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.  6  "You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.  7  "You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the LORD.  8  "Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.  9  "It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD’S offerings by fire, his portion forever.’”

            The people of Israel were to bring the fine flower in order for the shewbread to be made just as they brought the oil for the lamps.  The bread represented each of the tribes of Israel before the presence of the Lord inside the tabernacle.  There was also frankincense beside each of the loaves of bread and this would be burned as a sacrifice to the Lord on the Sabbath day along with a portion of one of the loaves of bread.  The rest of the bread would be eaten by the priests.  The people of Israel were represented in the tabernacle by these loaves and also by the jewels that were on the high priests vest.

            What does the shewbread symbolize?  Dr. Wiersbe writes that this bread did not represent the fact that Jesus was the bread of life because that referred to manna.  He goes on to say that it does seem a little bit odd to have bread in the tabernacle and does say that it may be tied into the “Lord’s Prayer” when Jesus asks God to give us this day our daily bread.  As believers we need both physical and spiritual bread.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I am thankful that I am represented before the God of heaven by my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  I am thankful that He does give me both spiritual and physical food each day. 

My Steps of Faith for Today: 

1. Make sure that I read God’s Word each day in order to get my spiritual food each day from the Lord.

Memory verses for the week:                                  Romans 6:1-4

1. What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2. May it never be!  How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3. Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we to might walk in newness of life.

11/4/2008 7:19 PM