Sun.’s Devo - Producing Life

Read: Numbers 4:1-5:31; Mark 12:18-37; Psalm 48:1-14; Proverbs 10:26
Moses was told to count the Levites from the different clans. Every family clan within the Levite tribe had a different office concerning the tabernacle. Aaron and his sons were to tend to the taking down and setting up of the curtains and the coverings of the furniture. They were to cover most of the pieces with a blue cloth to signify these pieces are a copy of ones in heaven. The burnt altar was covered with purple. This is piece stands for the cross. This is one of the most important pieces. It was covered with purple because the king of heaven would die on that altar and purple is the color of royalty.
Once covered, the Kohathites were to carry the furniture.
The Gershonites were to carry the curtains and the coverings. The Merarites were to carry the frames and all the foundational things.
Only Aaron and his sons could see the pieces of furniture and the ark of the testimony. They alone could touch the holy things. It was Aaron’s son, Eleazar who tended to the oil, the incense, the meat offerings and the vessels. Aaron and his sons were over the other clans to oversee and instruct them in their office.
They were to send away from the camp anyone who had an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or was ceremonially unclean. Sin, wrong motives and attitudes will spread through our churches like the flu. We have to put these things out or they will infect the rest of the congregation. We have to do the same thing with wrong thoughts and temptation.
Then, God told them what to do when you suspect someone one of having another lover. This has to do with adultery but it also has to do with spiritual adultery. If there is someone we know that is toying with another lover other than Christ, we are to confront them and give them the Word. If the Word makes them sick and they react negatively to it then we will know that our suspicion was right. The woman had to drink the water with the ink of the words of her wrong mixed in it. If it caused her abdomen to swell and her thigh to rot then they knew she was guilty and she would not be able to bear a child. Her abdomen swelling and there not being a child there means that that person will not produce life again because they have chosen to walk away from the truth and righteousness. Her thigh rotting means that her strength is taken from her and her walk will always be with a limp and not upright. These are the consequences of sin.
Jesus reiterated this to us when he told the Sadducees that he is not the God of the dead but the living. Everything we do in him produces life.
Lord, help us to be quick to repent of wrong attitudes and sin. Help us to walk in life.