12/5/2008 11:56 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The Kohathites duties
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Numbers 3:27-32; 4:1-20, 34-37
Message of the verses: There are a lot of verses in today’s SD and
so I will not copy and paste all of the verses.
The same
procedure for the Kohathites is followed just like the Gershonites, they were
numbered two times and the second censes is 2750, which is the number of men
between thirty and fifty years of age who are to serve in the tabernacle. Their duties were to carry the holy objects
that are in the tabernacle; however they are not permitted to use a cart like
the Gershonites were to carry the tabernacle.
This is what got David in trouble in 2 Samuel chapter six when Uzzah was
killed for touching the Ark of the Covenant while it was ridding on a
cart. When David finally came to his
senses he followed the plan that the Lord had given in this section of
Scripture and everything went well.
I know that
there have been times when I just went through the reading of these Scriptures
on my journey and did not think of them as the most important thing that I
could read, however when I can read the commentary of Dr. Wiersbe and slowly
read through these Scriptures they began to have much more meaning to me, for
the articles that these men were carrying represent the Lord Jesus Christ and
what He did for me on the cross, but these were the shadows of what He would do
whenever He came to earth to fulfill all of the pictures that were represented in
these articles that were in the tabernacle, and even the tabernacle
itself. John 1:14 says this: “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among
us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full
of grace and truth.” Here is what the
word dwelt means “1) to fix one's tabernacle, have one's tabernacle, abide (or live)
in a tabernacle (or tent), tabernacle.”
There are a
couple of more points that I would like to make about this section of
Scripture, and that is the leader of this group of, the Kohathites: Eliasaph
was the leader and Eleazar who was Aarons son was the one in charge of this
group, the one who Eliasaph reported to.
There is a
procedure that is followed in packing and carrying these articles and Numbers
4:1-20 explain this procedure, and if it was not followed to the letter there
was a chance that one of more people would be killed for not following it.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I think that the reason that God made all of
these procedures to make and to carry these articles that were in the
tabernacle and also the tabernacle was because it was a picture of His Son and
when Jesus came to earth He said that He had followed all that His Father had
told Him to do, it was all done perfectly.
Now I am not perfect in the way that Jesus Christ is, but the Scriptures
tells me that I am to be mature and that word can be translated as perfect, but
of course not in the same way that Christ is perfect.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Ask
the Holy Spirit to search my heart.
- Ask
the Lord to guide my path.
- Give
myself to the Lord for service and worship and for being transformed by
His Spirit and His Word.
- Learn
contentment.
- Put
on my spiritual armor.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
6:1-9
- What
shall we say then? Are we to
continue in sin so that grace may increase?
- May
it never be! How shall we who died
to sin still live in it?
- Or
do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus
have been baptized into His death?
- 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.
- For
if we have become untied with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly
we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- knowing
this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that this body of
might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin,
- for
he who has died is freed from sin.
- Now
if we have died with Christ, we believer that we shall also live with Him,
- knowing
that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again;
death no longer is master over Him.
12/5/2008 12:38 PM
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