Tues.’s Devo - The First Day

Read Ex. 40:1-16 It is time to set up the tabernacle and get it running and God chose this to happen on the first day of the first month. If you remember in Ex. 12:1 God gave them a new first month. There first month used to be Nisan but God changed it to Tishri. So the 7th month became the 1st month and the 1st month became the 7th month. Confusing, but it makes sense. They were given a new month because they were being birthed into a new nation- a spiritual nation. If we are Christians, we have two birthdays, our literal birthday and our spiritual birthday. So it was for the children of Israel. The first day of the first month was Tishri 1. This is the day Christian scientists believe that God created the earth. This is the first day of the Feast of Trumpets. It is the time of initiation and renewal. Jesus will come back on that day and the trump will sound. Then he will start putting things in order for his new Millennium. On this day, the church will be raptured up to heaven to the marriage of the Lamb and spend the next 7 years in honeymoon with Jesus. Several books will be opened on that day( 2 Co. 5:10) . One is the book of remembrance (Mal. 3:16) and the other will be the Book of Life. On earth, the earth will experience Yom Kippor, or the Days of Awe, or the Great Tribulation (all terms describing the terrible things that will happen on earth). This will be a time of great tribulation and great repenting on earth. So it is fitting, that this would be the day that the tabernacle would be put into operation and there would be a great shift of activity. They went through the motions of what will go on that day in heaven. Everything is cleansed and sanctified with oil. The priests get a new robe to wear just as we will be given new garments. Heaven and earth will start going through a cleansing process. Verse 15 says that the new priests will be anointed just as their fathers so that they can forever be a priest. Aaron was a picture of Jesus as our High Priest. Heb. 8:1,2 says, “We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.” Lord, help us to prepare and sanctify our earthly tabernacles now so that we might be part of the bride.