Read: Numbers 9:1-9:23; Mark 13:14-37; Psalm 50:1-23; Proverbs 10:29-30
The priests were to set the menorah up so that the light shone in front of it. God’s Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Psalm 119:105). It always shines in front of us and goes before us. The menorah that Moses made looked just like the one in heaven.
The Levites were a picture of the Church in the New Testament. They replaced the first born of the people and were to be set apart to the Lord. We are first born as a natural person, but once we consecrate ourselves to the Lord, we are “born again” thus making us second borns. Jesus made a way for the first borns to become second borns when he came to earth and died for our sins. The priests stood for the ones prepared to hear the good news.
The Levites were to be actively working in the Tabernacle until the age of 50. This was a literal age that stood for a spiritual state of being. Fifty is the day of jubilee when everything returns to its rightful owner. The owner of the priests is the Lord so it is saying that a priest works all his days until he dies then he reaches 51 where his work changes. Then he is an assistant in heaven to the priests on earth. We don’t stop working when we go to heaven, but we are no longer toiling on earth. Our ministry changes to praying and assisting those on earth.
Passover is a picture of salvation so those who have not died in their sins will have a second chance once we are taken.
God led them just like he leads us today. He shines his light in the darkness and shields us during the day. His Holy Spirit is both the fire and the cloud.
In Mark, Jesus is referring to the time of tribulation when the church will be gone from the earth. It will be a dreadful time and there will be no prophetic voice on the earth to tell them what is coming, so they will not know when Jesus is coming back. God will show them signs in the sky but they will have to know how to interpret them.
Lord, thank you that your way is a refugee for the righteous. We will never be uprooted!
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