Wed.’s Devo - God’s Chosen Priests

Read Numbers 16:41-18:32, Mark 16:1-20, Ps. 55:1-23, Pr. 11:7 God killed about 260 people because they rebelled and the people blamed Moses and Aaron. God always came to their defense. He called the people to the Tabernacle and a plague broke out among the people. Only incense and fire from the altar stopped God’s judgment. Counting the ones who had died before, about 15,000 died. To settle this matter over who was to minister before the Lord once and for all, God told Moses to have every tribal leader to bring a rod with their name on it. It was to be placed in the Tabernacle and God would show them which tribe He had chosen. The next day every rod was the same except Aaron’s. It had sprouted, budded, blossomed and produced almonds. God had chosen Aaron’s family out of the Levites, to be priests. It was God’s gift to them. In Mark, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and Salome were acting as priests as they took their spices to anoint Jesus’ body. Instead of a dead body, they find two angels who told them that Jesus had preceded them to Galilee. Jesus came out of the place of the dead on the third day and appeared first to Mary Magdalene. No one believed her. He appeared to the two men on the road to Emaus in another form. I wonder what that looked like? No one believed them either. Then Jesus appeared to the disciples and rebuked them for not believing the ones who claimed they had seen Him. Jesus gave them the great commission and was taken up in a cloud to heaven. This was exactly what Jesus had told the high priest He would do in Mark 14:62. We are now God’s chosen priests who have access into the Holy of Holies, the throne of God. We bring our prayers which are as incense before the Lord. We are responsible to pray for our fellow man and our leaders. Lord, may we be holy priests unto You.