Lights in God’s house; clean workmen. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up and light the lamps, the seven lamps will shine in front of the lampstand.'” Num 8:1-2
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT13
The Experiences in the Wilderness
1.THE CAMP AT SINAI, Numbers 1:1-10:10
5. The Golden Lamps and the Consecration of the Levites, Num_8:1-26
6. How were the Levites set apart to represent the people?
THE SEVEN LAMPS
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up and light the lamps, the seven lamps will shine in front of the lampstand.'”
And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps at the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand: hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
CLEANSING OF THE LEVITES
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.
This is what you shall do to them to [ceremonially] cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification on them, and let them use a razor over their whole body and wash their clothes, and they will be clean. [Num_19:17-18]
Then let them take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull as a sin offering.
You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), and you shall also assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
and present the Levites before the LORD, and the Israelites shall lay their hands on the Levites.
“Aaron shall present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.
Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, then you are to offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
You shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and present them as a wave offering to the LORD.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Numbers 8:1-13
LIGHTS IN GOD’S HOUSE; CLEAN WORKMEN
It is strange to come on this paragraph about the candlestick amid the preparations for leaving Sinai. But typically it is appropriate, because the people of God are called, in their earthly pilgrimage, to shine as lights in the world.
The beaten work of gold is significant of persecution, and the one lump of gold indicates the essential unity of the Church. The Levites were symbolically cleansed by the water and the razor. This was required for those who were sprung from a stock so cruel, Gen_49:7.
Next they were offered to God, i.e., Israel transferred to them the obligations of ministry, which up to this time had been performed by the firstborn. As the priest was wont to wave a portion of the sacrifice before God, so Aaron, Num_8:11. The counterpart of this is Act_13:3. Missionaries, teachers and others who perform certain functions for us all, may be regarded as wave-offerings.
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