05.28.2015 Old Testament: 1Ch 23.24–32

To read the Bible in a year, read First Chronicles 23–25 on May 28, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Without the Levites the awesome service that took place in the tabernacle/temple of the Lord could not have happened. Look at how David organized them, and see what they did,

These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses—the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted individually by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and above. For David said, “The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever”; and also to the Levites, “They shall no longer carry the tabernacle, or any of the articles for its service.” …their duty was to help the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts and in the chambers, in the purifying of all holy things and the work of the service of the house of God, both with the showbread and the fine flour for the grain offering, with the unleavened cakes and what is baked in the pan, with what is mixed and with all kinds of measures and sizes; to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at evening; and at every presentation of a burnt offering to the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the set feasts, by number according to the ordinance governing them, regularly before the Lord; and that they should attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, the needs of the holy place, and the needs of the sons of Aaron their brethren in the work of the house of the Lord (1 Chronicles 23.24–32). 

They were just all-around ministers to the Lord and for the high priest and for the people of Israel. Kind of sounds like Christians! The Levites did these things daily, just as Christians serve the Lord and one another daily. You are a spiritual Levite!