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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Numbers 10:11-36
When the cloud was taken up for setting out, the trumpets sounded, the people formed rank, the Levites took down the tabernacle, everyone took their marching positions. Then the trumpet sounded once more "an alarm" and the tribes marched off in the order of their banners.
Christians today are waiting for the signal for the great departure. The Lord will come with "the trump of God" to take away His Church (1 Thessalonians 4:16). But the Church cannot lose sight of those who will be left behind. By the Spirit she calls to the world, "Let him that is athirst come!" (Revelation 22:17). This is what Moses seems to say to Hobab, "Come and enjoy with us all the good that God has promised to do for His own". But why does he next ask him for help in directing the people across the wilderness? Let us not judge him too severely, we who so often prefer to take the advice of others than to trust the Lord’s direction. As if to remind us who it is that leads His people, v. 33 shows the ark taking the head of the column to assure the people "a resting place". The three days’ journey by which Christ on our account has passed through death opens a new way to a people raised with Him, journeying to their heavenly rest.
