Numbers 7: Tribal Princes' Offerings
Introduction
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Importance
Numbers 7 is 89 verses long, but it merely repeats the identical items offered by each prince of Israel. Essentially we have the same paragraph 12 times, followed by a summation of those paragraphs. Why did God tell Moses to write all of that down? It doesn't seem that we need so much detail, from a surface level, yet as we think about what we are being told, it becomes obvious why God bragged on the gifts His servants bestowed upon His tabernacle. It shows the amount of wealth these former slaves had amassed by His hand. Think about it, this takes place only 1 year after they fled captivity. Most American slaves didn't even know they were free one year after they had been emancipated, let alone could they amass this type of wealth.This passage is not to flaunt the wealth of the Israelites per se, but to flaunt the power of God. God kept His promise to raise up a prosperous nation from Abraham's seed, and He didn't hold back. From the moment the Israelites took that first step in sacrificing the passover lamb before the 10th plague of Egypt, God took care of them. Similarly, today, from the moment we take that first step to believe in our eternal Passover Lamb, Jesus, God is taking care of us.
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Published on Sunday, March 27, 2016
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