The Bible Recap - Day 057 (Numbers 7) - Year 5
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Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.
Tomorrow we wrap up two months of reading the Bible together.
So far you've spent an estimated 12 hours reading the Bible and approximately 8 hours listening
to this podcast.
If you're already two months in with us, I'm assuming you're in this for the long haul.
You're not the person who started in hopes of making it happen that faded out two weeks in. You're still here.
That's huge, and I'm so grateful God keeps drawing you into read his word.
Today we opened up our longest and most repetitive chapter yet with some offerings for the Levites initiated by the heads of other tribes. They gave the Gershinites and the Meraurites ox carts to use as their tabernacle luggage,
but the co-ethites didn't get any ox carts because they have to carry things on their shoulders,
according to the text.
This is a reference to the polls we've already read and talked about which went over their shoulders.
By the way, I keep mentioning these polls because I'm setting a step to understand
something that happens in the future.
After they give the ox carts and the oxen, they set up a dedication ceremony,
and God established the offerings that would come from each tribe during that process.
Each tribe was assigned one day out of the 12-day ceremony,
where the leaders of each tribe would bring the offerings to the tabernacle.
Starting with Judah taking the lead on day one, they worked their way around the encampment clockwise.
Each of the
tribes, regardless of size, gave the Levites the same contribution to show that they each fully
supported them. The Levites couldn't do this on their own. They needed help from the people.
At the end of this 12-day dedication period, Moses went into the tabernacle to hear the Lord
speaking to him, and that's where my God shot came in. Kind of obvious for today, I know. But it was the culmination of the previous 88 verses that were building up to all this that
made it so beautiful. This was what it was all for. Animals and ceremony and silver basins, none of
it would mean anything if this moment at the end weren't happening, a holy God drawing near to
speak to sinful humans. All these offerings amounted to 12 plates with a total weight of over 1500 shekels, 12 basins
with a total weight of 800 shekels, 12 golden dishes weighing 120 shekels, oil and flower
and incense, 6 carts and 264 animals.
These offerings served a purpose not only to bless the Levites, but also to bless all the
people, and to connect the hearts of the tribes to the Levites, but also to bless all the people, and to connect
the hearts of the tribes to the Levites and what they were doing, ultimately connecting
them back to God.
Jesus taught us that heart follows treasure.
So by all the tribes giving these things to the one tribe who was serving them, it helped
connect them to the reality of what the Levites were doing on their behalf.
God is efficient. He uses the gift of one to bless the whole, and he Levites were doing on their behalf. God is efficient.
He uses the gift of one to bless the whole,
and he also uses our giving as a two-way highway
where we receive blessing in return.
And I'm not talking about financial blessing
or getting all your prayers answered with a yes.
I'm talking about the real and lasting treasure of his nearness
and the beauty of mirroring him to the world around us.
And every single day, I see it more clearly, and I hope you do too, that he's where the
joy is.
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