11/28/2008 9:30 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The leaders appointed
Message of the verses: Reference: Numbers 1:4-16
Message of the verses: “4
"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one
head of his father’s household. 5 "These then are the names of the men who
shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; 6 of
Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7 of Judah, Nahshon the son of
Amminadab; 8 of Issachar, Nethanel the
son of Zuar; 9 of Zebulun, Eliab the son
of Helon; 10 of the sons of Joseph: of
Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur; 11 of Benjamin, Abidan the son
of Gideoni; 12 of Dan, Ahiezer the son
of Ammishaddai; 13 of Asher, Pagiel the
son of Ochran; 14 of Gad, Eliasaph the
son of Deuel; 15 of Naphtali, Ahira the
son of Enan. 16 "These are they who were called of the
congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they were the heads of
divisions of Israel
“Sorcerer, the son of
Aminadab, and prince of the children of Judah at the time of the first
numbering of the tribes in the wilderness #Ex 6:23 His sister Elisheba was the wife of Aaron. He died in the
wilderness #Nu 26:64,65 His name occurs in the
Greek form Naasson in the genealogy of Christ #Mt 1:4 Lu
3:32.” This is the note from the Easton
Bible Dictionary on Nahshon.
Back in the book of Exodus when
Moses’ father-in-law came to visit him he suggested that in order to keep the
work load of Moses down that he appoint leaders in each of the tribes over
thousands, hundreds and tens to help judge Israel with some of the smaller
problems, so in this first numbering of Israel these men were already in
place. There would be other numberings
that they would have to do in chapters two and seven.
It is interesting to follow the
blood line of the Lord Jesus Christ as their names appear in different parts of
the Bible. I am not sure why Nahshon’s
name in verse seven is called “Sorcerer” in the Easton Bible Dictionary. Nahshon is mentioned in a number of passages
in the Scriptures and this would lead me to believe that he was an important
leader in the young nation of Israel
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: In both
the OT and the NT there are lists of names, names of people who lived a long
time ago, some of these people are now in heaven and some day they will
received the rewards that have been promised to them.
As I think about all of these people
from years past I know that God is in charge of when these people were born,
who they were married too, or who they had children with, and so on down the
line. God, for His own reason, has
chosen who will be in heaven from eternity past, and so that tells me that in
order for these people to get to heaven they had to be born, along with all of
the ones that will not be in heaven. I
am not saying that God has chosen people for hell for they will do that on
their own by not accepting the forgiveness that is available to them through
Jesus Christ and that is a tragedy.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for
service and worship today.
- Remember that I am dead to
sin.
- Trust the Lord to teach me
contentment.
- Remember to work on my
memory verses.
Memory
verses for the week: Romans
6:1-7
- 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 too 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 for our body of sin to be done away
with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
- for he who has died is freed
from sin.
11/28/2008
10:18 AM
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