JULY 9, 2022 Numbers 5:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.” If we understand that the sanctity of the Sanctuary had to be maintained, it stands to reason that the camp, itself, had to ritually […]
JULY 11, 2022 Numbers 5:12, 14-15 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him … if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and […]
JULY 8, 2022 Numbers 4:29, 31 As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house….And this is what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its’ pillars, its’ sockets. Anyone who follows football or other such team sports understands that, […]
JULY 7, 2022 Numbers 4:24-25 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying: They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting with its covering, the covering of badger skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Hearkening back to something we have discussed before, the primacy of […]
JULY 6, 2022 Numbers 4:5-6 When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the Testimony with it. Then they shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and […]
JULY 5, 2022 Numbers 3:29, 31 The families of the children of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle. Their duty included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the screen, and all the work relating to them. In keeping with […]
JULY 4, 2022 Numbers 3:12-13 Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be Mine because all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to […]
JULY 3, 2022 Numbers 3:10 So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood. Just as the Levites were set apart from the rest of the tribes of Israel, so too were the priests set apart from the Levites. Let’s put it this way: Israel was set apart from the […]
JULY 2, 2022 Numbers 3:6-7 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting. Anyone who has worked in ministry knows that it is just that — work. […]
JULY 1, 2022 Numbers 2:31 All who were numbered of the forces with Dan, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred—they shall break camp last, with their standards. Though the camp of Dan was positioned in the north, it was the camp assigned to bring up the rear. Some might say that this placed Dan as “last,’ […]
JUNE 29, 2022 Numbers 2:17 And the tabernacle of meeting shall move out with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. Just as the Sanctuary was situated in the midst of the camps of Israel when they were stationary, so it was as they moved through the wilderness. Exactly where in the column it […]
JUNE 29, 2022 Numbers 2:3 On the east side, toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies. There are probably multiple reasons that the camp led by Judah was situated to the east, and thus, the camp that would lead the congregation as […]
