March 3, 2021
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Reading along with us in Numbers? Here’s today’s reading:
Numbers 8 (NIV)
Setting Up the Lamps
1The Lordsaid to Moses, 2“Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.’ ”.........Continue Reading
I love how often God says His people are “set apart” in this chapter. In the teen girls Bible study we discussed how we are set apart FROM the world FOR the world. We are His and we are to glorify God in all we do!
Interesting to see the Levites being sanctified to God and considered a wave offering from Israel. God reiterates again that they are a replacement for the first born males of Israel that were set apart for God at the Passover. They would serve God for the people and in place of the people. It is also interesting to see that they would serve between 25 and 50. After that they could assist in the work but were not required to. What a privilege it is to be used in God’s service and to be set apart for that. This applies to every believer in Jesus, who are not sanctified by water or ceremony, but by the Spirit within us.
Numbers 8
The Levites are dedicated to the service in the tabernacle for the Israelites.
I was thinking about the blessing of having those dedicated to the work of the Lord. God saw the necessity of having those continually before Him. What would have happened if God had not set aside the Levites? Would the Israelites have totally forgotten and forsaken the Lord? I guess they did anyway.
15“After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting. 16They are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn, the first male offspring from every Israelite woman. 17Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine.