the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 24:1-23
As we have seen there were during the course of the year special occasions for the children of Israel to gather together for feasts. They were only required to present themselves from time to time. On the other hand the service undertaken on their behalf never ceased. The lamps were kept burning continually (v. 3). How good it is to realise that, even when we are too occupied with the affairs of this life to think of heaven, even when our communion is interrupted, the light of Christ, the divine Lamp-stand never ceases to shine before God in all its brilliance. And what does it shine on? Actually the twelve loaves set out on the table, which represent God’s people in their entirety, gathered together in perfect order in the holy sanctuary.
The episode of the blasphemer and of his chastisement teaches us how, notwithstanding this privileged position, apostasy will make its appearance among the people and what a terrible punishment it will have. "The name above every name" was blasphemed when the Son of God who had come into the world was insulted, rejected and crucified. It will be so again in the near future when the "man of sin", the Antichrist, will oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God. The Lord Jesus will destroy him by the brightness of His coming. (2 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8).
