Monday, July 23, 2012

The Levites Exempted (Num 1:47-54)


11/30/2008 8:05 AM



SPIRITUAL DIARY



My Worship Time                                        Focus:  The Levites exempted



Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Numbers 1:47-54



            Message of the verses:  47 ¶  The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.  48  For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying, 49  "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take their census among the sons of Israel.  50  "But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle.  51  "So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the layman who comes near shall be put to death.  52  "The sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their armies.  53  "But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony."  54  Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all which the LORD had commanded Moses, so they did.”

            The sons of Levi were exempt from the military because they were the ones who had to take care of the tabernacle.  Levi had three sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari and Moses and Aaron were descended from Kohath and Aaron was the first High Priest and only his sons could minister at the altar and the Levites would assist the priest in their duties. 

            The tabernacle would be at the center of the camp and the Levites would camp around it, Kohath on the South, Merari on the north and Gershon on the west while Moses and Aaron would be on the East side at the gate of the tabernacle.  The Levites would be able to protect the tabernacle incase of an intrusions from other people and if the say the cloud begin to move then they would began to take the tabernacle apart.

            Dr. Wiersbe points out that worship and warfare do go together in the economy of God for the book of Revelations there is worship going on in heaven and warfare going on, on the earth.  “6 ¶  Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand.”  (Psalm 149:6)



            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I think about the tabernacle being at the center of the camp of Israel and this makes me think of the Holy Spirit being at the center of my being and it also make me think that worship should also be at the center of my life, for that was where worship took place in the camp of Israel.









My Steps of Faith for Today:



  1. Give myself to the Lord today for worship and service, and may the Lord show me ways in which I will be able to serve Him today.
  2. Recon that my old nature is dead.
  3. Trust the Lord to teach me and for me to learn contentment.
  4. Trust the Lord to guide my path today.



Memory verses for the week:                                              Romans 6:1-9



  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 too might walk in newness of life.
  5. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
  6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
  7. for he who has died has been freed from sin.
  8. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
  9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.



11/30/2008 8:40 AM

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