Who Is To Serve Numbers 4

 

Numbers 4 Who is To Serve

 

The service of the years for the Levites were thirty to fifty years. The only ones who ever saw the articles that belonged in the Holy of Holies- the ark and the mercy seat- were Aaron and his sons.  Those articles were carefully covered by Aaron and his sons before the Kohathites came to carry them. They watched to see if the pillar of cloud lifted from off the tabernacle.  If it lifted, it meant they were to go.  If it did not lift, it meant that they were to stay in camp that day.  Moses and Aaron simply had to watch and follow the leading that the Spirit of God gave them. We should be led by the same Spirit of God. On this day of moving, they did not go inside the veil.  The veil was held up by rings and the high priest would let it down, and then drop the veil down over the mercy seat and the ark.  Then they would put the linen cloth around it and its other coverings, and finally they would put around it the outside cover of the tabernacle. When they set up camp, the very first thing that was put down was the ark.  The furniture was put in first. When Israel came into camp, the Kohathites would put down the articles of furniture.  Then Merari would come in with the boards and the bars and put up his part.  Then Gershon would put on the coverings.  Finally, the high priest would remove the veil and hang that.

Every Christian has a gift, and a job God wants us to do.  God is not going to reward you for the amount of work you have done, but for your faithfulness in doing that which He has called you to do. The job the Lord has given you to do is very important to Him.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.