Sun.’s Devo - God’s Order

Read: Numbers 10:1-11:23; Mark 14:1-21; Psalm 51:1-19; Proverbs 10:31-32
God instructed Moses to have two trumpets made of hammered silver to use to call the people to assemble, call just the elders, signal them to begin moving, celebrate the feasts and holy days, and go to war.
When they traveled they were to go in this order:
1 Judah
2 Issachar
3 Zebulun
Gershonites and Mererites who carried the building materials for the tabernacle
4 Rueben
5 Simeon
6 Gad
Kohathites who carried the holy furniture for the Tabernacle
7 Ephraim
8 Manasseh
9 Benjamin
10 Dan
11 Asher
12 Naptali
By the time the Kohathites reached the camp, the Gershonites and the Mererites had finished setting up the Tabernacle so they could just bring the holy furniture and accessories in and put them in place.
Each tribe had a banner with their symbol on it.
The people began to complain about their hard life and God heard every word. He got so mad at the ones who camped in the outskirts that he sent a fire to consume them. The the non-Jews from Egypt complained that there was no meat. They stirred up the Jews and they complained with them. God was sending them manna from heaven that tasted like pastry but that wasn’t enough.
So Moses carried there complaints to the Lord. He was tired of carrying all the weight of these obstinate people. God told Moses to choose 70 men to help him with complaints and leadership.
God responded to their desire for meat and sent them meat for a month. He told them they would eat it till they were gagging. Moses doubted how God was going to do that for so many people. Moses was in God’s school of faith.
In Mark, it was Jesus last two days on earth. Jesus was in the home of Simon who had been healed of leprosy and a woman came in and anointed Jesus’ head. He was now anointed for sacrifice. Then he went to have his last meal with his disciples - the Passover meal. God had arranged everything for this meal and the place where it would be celebrated. At the meal, Jesus explained that one of them that dipped from his bowl would be his betrayer.
Each of the disciples asked if he would be the one. The disciples sat in order of birth so the youngest sat on his right and the oldest sat on his left. Peter was probably the oldest and John was probably the youngest so Judas could have sat across from him. Who knows, but he was close enough to dip from the same bowl.
Lord, may we carry your presence in the midst of everything we do. May You, O Lord, arise and let your enemies be scattered!