November 2, 2024
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Reading along with us in Numbers and 1 Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Numbers 18 (NIV)
Duties of Priests and Levites
1 The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood. 2 Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.……Continue Reading
God certainly took care of the preists. He did give them much authority but they also had much accountability. The work they were doing was important toGod and His people. They did not receive a regular inheritance like the rest but rather God said He was their inheritance. Amazing to think that after the work Jesus did on the cross we now have the same access to God as the priests and He is our inheritance. But similarly with that privilege also comes the same responsibility to keep His commands, walk in His ways, and follow His path for our lives knowing that He will provide and care for us the same way He did Aaron and the priests.
Numbers 17 and 18
Numbers 18
Numbers 18
There was certainly sacrifice and great responsibility that the priests had to conduct the different functions that would happen in the tabernacle and to make sure the right people were doing the right things. And it was a sacrifice for the Levites to be their assistants in all the things that they could. Now because they were dedicated to the Lord’s work and could not work themselves, they were to be taken care of through the offerings of the people. How fitting that God would think of every aspect of how the worship of His person would be conducted, even having the people take care of those who were representing them to Him.
Numbers 17 and 18