Posts Tagged "calling"

Numbers 4 tells of the duties of the different clans of Levites regarding the service of the Tabernacle.To the Merarites, the duty given was “to carry loads”. No special assignments to the holy things.  No great honor of sacrifices.  Just carrying stuff. The Kohathites, on the other hand, were different. “The duties of the Kohathites at the Tabernacle will relate to the most sacred objects…” -Numbers 4:4 What an honor!  What a privilege!  What a terrifying assignment… “But they must not touch the sacred objects, or they will die… Do not let the Kohathite clans be destroyed from among the Levites!” -Numbers 4:15b, 18 I’m sure there were those in the Merarite clans who were jealous of their brothers, of...

Jesus ruined everything. “The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp.  And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through His own blood.  Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.” (Hebrews 13:11-13) In the mindset of the Jews, the blood sacrifice at the tabernacle (and later, the temple) was one of the key elements of their identity as God’s chosen people.  Here was something that was prescribed to them by God, as a way to not only assure forgiveness of their sins, but also to set themselves apart from the rest of the world.  Theirs was a system of exclusivity – salvation was for the Jews, and...