Sat.’s Devo - Stay Awake!

Read: Numbers 8:1-9:23; Mark 13:14-37; Psalm 50:1-23; Proverbs 10:29-30 Moses was to set up the lamp stands so that the light was in front of the lamp stand. It was made of hammered gold to resemble almond branches. *** The Levites were to be cleansed by shaving all of their skin and washing themselves and their clothes in the water of purification. Moses was to bring the whole congregation to watch him lay his hands on the heads of the priests and offer them before the Lord as a wave offering from the people. Then the Levites were to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls transferring their sins to the bull and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord to make atonement for their sins. This was to make them separate from the people. The priests, now, took the place of the first born. *** This purification made them authorized to minister in the tabernacle. The Levites were also authorized to do their duties of serving the priests and guarding the tent of meeting. *** A year from when they had left Egypt, they were going to celebrate the Passover for the first time in the wilderness. There were a few men who were unclean because they had touched a dead body. They wanted to be part of the celebration so Moses asked God what they could do. *** The Lord told them that if they were unclean or out of town on the day of Passover, they could wait and serve it in the second month instead of the first month. But, if they were clean and present and didn’t celebrate it then they would be cut off from their people. Passover represents salvation from sin. Our only way to eternal life is to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. *** When the tabernacle was all in place the cloud of God’s glory covered the tabernacle. It became fire at night. Whenever the cloud lifted and moved, they broke camp and moved with it. *** In Mark, Jesus continues his teaching about the end times. When they witnessed abomination going on in the Temple they were to run. This will be the sign that great tribulation was upon they land. God will shorten those days for the elect. False saviors will arise, but don’t be fooled. They will try to deceive even the elect, if possible. *** The sun will be darkened and the moon will not shine and stars will fall from the sky. The powers in the sky will be shaken. They will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. Angels will be sent out to gather together God’s elect on the earth. *** These signs will be like the fig tree bearing its leaves. That happens in the summer. This will tell us that the time is very hear. This generation will not pass away till all the things he said, take place. Heaven and earth will pass away but his words will not pass away. *** No one knows the hour that will happen, not even the angels or the Son, only the Father. Our job is to always be awake, alert and ready. *** We have seen many of these things already manifested in the natural. 1 Corinthians 15:46 says that first we see the natural, then the spiritual comes afterwards. Paul goes on to say that our mortality will be swallowed up in immortality in the blink of an eye. I have more questions than answers. Revelation becomes clearer and clearer the closer we get to the time of its revealing. *** Lord, we may not understand all you said, but we can be awake, alert and ready. May we not get entangled with the things of this world and become spiritually asleep.