October 9, 2024
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Reading along with us in Numbers and Colossians? Here’s today’s reading:
Numbers 2 (NIV)
The Arrangement of the Tribal Camps
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 2“The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.”……Continue Reading
God certainly is a God of order and He orders things based on His knowledge not our own. Sometimes the way things happen don’t make sense to us at the time, however, we can look back and realize God’s hand was working all along. Again reading books like these while it seems more tedious it reminds us that God cares about every detail of our lives and nothing is inconsequential.
Numbers 2 God was very specific in how the tribes would be set up around the Tent of Meeting. This was to signify
their unity as a people surrounding and protecting God’s presence, which was considered to dwell within the tabernacle.
Numbers 2
Psalm 30-35; Numbers 1-2
The tribes are told where to camp around the tabernacle and their numbers recorded.
”And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.“
Numbers 2:1-2 KJV
What a display this must have been with all the people organized around the Tent of meeting with the banners of their tribes flying. Right there in the middle was the Tabernacle showing the central place God should have in our lives. It is also interesting that the tribes were coordinated around primary tribes. It is also interesting that Judah is mentioned first, considering the priority that Judah would take in the scepter not departing from them. God is a God of order and everyone has their place with a role to fill in His kingdom and the work He has given us in this world.
Numbers 2
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