Read: Numbers 4:1-5:31; Mark 12:18-37; Psalm 48:1-14; Proverbsl 10:26
Within the Levites were families that had different jobs in the Tabernacle. All of the furniture was to be covered with blue cloths except the bronze altar with was covered with a purple cloth. Blue means spiritual but purple means nobel and royal. The burnt altar was a picture of Jesus on the cross.
Amazingly it took 8,580 men to tend to all the dealings of the tabernacle. They had the most important job of the people and they did their job exactly as it was to be done.
Next, God gives us the procedure of what to do if a man suspected his wife of committing adultery. He was to bring her to the priest and he would take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust form the tabernacle floor into the water. She was to let her hair down and hold in her hands the reminder offering. The priest would hold the bitter water and have the woman agree with the curse she was about to speak over herself. If she was innocent nothing would happen and she would bear children. If she was guilty, her thigh which means her womb would shrivel up and her womb would swell as if there was a baby but she would miscarry.
This may sound like a horrible test but really it was a wonderful tool for the woman to be vindicated if she was innocent and for the husband to know the truth. I wonder what would happen if we did that today?
In Mark, the Sadducees asked a masked question but Jesus answered the real question. They were trying to trick Jesus but they were really asking about the resurrection. The Sadducees didn’t believe in the resurrection. Jesus told them they were badly mistaken. God was not the God of the dead, but of the living. When one of the teachers of the law heard how Jesus answered their question, he decided to ask Jesus which was the most important law. His answer was to love God first, then others as yourself. The teacher agreed with Jesus and Jesus told him he was not far from the kingdom.
This man didn’t ask with the desire to debate, he asked with sincerity and hunger. Jesus saw his heart.
Lord, help us to walk in righteousness, free of guilt.
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