Mon.’s Devo - God’s Judgment on Sin

Read: Numbers 15:17-16:40; Mark 15:1-47; Psalm 54:1-7; Provers 11:5-6 Moses instructed the people that would come into the land to give a first fruit of their grain to the Lord. If they unintentionally didn’t do this and wished to repent, they could offer their grain with a sin offering and God would forgive them. But, if a person brazenly violated the Lord’s will and blasphemed the Lord, they would not be forgiven but must be completely cut off and suffer the punishment of their guilt. *** They got to see this happen when a man gathered wood on the Sabbath day. They brought him to Moses and Moses took him to the courtroom in heaven and God declared him guilty. He was to be stoned outside the camp. *** God told the people as a reminder of his laws, they were to sew blue tassels to the bottom of their clothing. *** One day Korah from the Kohathites (Levites), along with Dathan, Abiram and On from the tribe of Reuben came to Moses with a complaint. They had rallied 250 of the prominent men of the Kohathites. They accused Moses and Aaron of lifting them selves above the congregation of the Lord when they were holy too. *** Moses was humbled to his knees. He rebuked Korah who as a Levite already came near to all the holy things of God and ministered before the Lord. He told them to gather all the Kohathites and meet him with their sensors tomorrow at the tabernacle. They would let God decide. *** Then Moses called Dathan and Abiram to meet with him but they refused to come. They accused Moses of bringing them out to the wilderness to kill them and complained that he had not brought them to a land of milk and honey. Moses took all this before the Lord. *** The next day he met with the Kohathites. He told them to take incense and put it in their censors with the fire. Korah and his 250 Kohathites did and then the Lord told Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from them and the entire population of people because He was going to consume all of them. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces and cried out to the Lord for the innocent congregation asking God to only punish the guilty. *** So God told Moses to tell the congregation to separate from Korah and his group. Dathan and Abiram came out of the tents to join Korah. Moses made a proclamation that if these men died a common death, then God had not sent him to lead the people to the promised land. But if God does something new and opens the ground and swallows them up along with their houses, and they go alive to the pit, then all would know that they had provoked the Lord. *** The ground opened and swallowed Korah and Dathan and Abiram along with their families and their tents. All Israel that saw it fled. A fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men that offered incense. *** Moses told Eleazar the priest to take the censers out of the fire and make them into broad plates to cover the brazen altar to be a reminder to the people that no person who was not a descendant of Aaron should enter the Lord’s presence to burn incense. *** Burning incense was very holy to the Lord because it represents our prayers. God watches over our prayers to make sure the devil doesn’t add his prayers. Aaron’s two sons died offering strange incense. God is serious about our prayers being offered with holy hands. *** In Mark, they had kept Jesus up all night questioning him and trying to bring an accusation against him that would stick. They discussed what to do next and decided to take him to Pilate, the Roman governor. *** Pilate asked Jesus if he was the king of the Jews. Jesus’ reply was “You have said it.” Then the priests gave their accusations. Pilate asked Jesus for a reply, but Jesus would give him none. *** It was his custom to release a prisoner at Passover so he brought up a well-known murderer and Jesus. He asked the crowd which one he should release. The priests stirred up the crowd to ask for Barabbas. When Pilate asked them what to do with Jesus, they cried “Crucify him!” *** Pilate had Jesus flogged and given to the officers to crucify. He was taken to Pilate’s courtyard and mocked by his soldiers as if he were a king. Then he was led away to be crucified. The soldiers forced Simon to carry his cross. They took Jesus to Golgotha which means “Place of the Skull”. Jesus refused the wine they offered to ease the pain. *** The soldiers nailed him to the cross and divided his clothes and drew lots of it. It was nine o’clock in the morning. The priests at the Temple were beginning to offer their first lamb on the altar and would continue slaying lambs all day until 6. *** A sign was put up saying “The King of The Jews” and two other revolutionaries were crucified on his right and left. *** People passing by mocked him along with the priests and teachers of the law. At noon the sky went dark until three. At three, Jesus called out “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” quoting Psalm 22. *** Jesus let out a cry and the veil in the Temple tore from the top down allowing all in to the presence of the Lord. *** Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate to ask for Jesus body. Pilat was surprised he was dead already so he sent his soldiers to confirm it. They did and Pilate let Joseph take the body down, He gently wrapped Jesus’ body in linen cloth and laid it in a tomb that had been carved out of a rock. He rolled a stone in front of the entrance and both Mary’s saw this. *** It is amazing how much power the priests had over the government. That should show us that we govern the government as the Eklesia of God. What we say goes so we need to be declaring what we want to see done in our government. *** We declare that all the evil leaders and agendas of our government be thrown down and the justice of God replace the deception in the justice system. We declare that godly people will be put in positions of authority and God’s rightful leader, President Donald Trump will be reinstated as our President. Amen!