Sisters and Brothers,
After reviewing all the instructions of how the worship place needs to be built, we are continuing on scriptures that how the worship needs to be done.
Chapter 29 describes how to consecrate the priest, mainly for Aron. With that, “the Lord will consecrate the meeting tent and the alter and dwell in the mist of the Israelites”. What a promise from God to his people.
Chapter 30 describes how the incense should be made. We see the significant of incense to worship the Lord. The cultural important of using incense is clearly seen. Without surprise, there lies potential misunderstanding of the usage of incense among Chinese community. It is easy to be misled that using incense represents the worship of idols. In reality, it is a gesture of respect to those who gone to our Lord. A symbol to remind us those departures, although not with us on earth, but all in the kind of God waiting for us to join them after our journey on earth.
Not surprising, chapter 32 describes the famous golden calf. As Aron said, “You know well enough how prone the people are to evil”. With all the instructions Lord show his people, the same ritual was misused to worship the idol. No wonder Moses assembled all the Levites and slave all the kinsmen that violated the order. Sounds really cruel but wakening. We may be subject to the same cruelty if we are not to follow the Lord’s order. May our God have mercy on me and pull me out the wrong path.
in Christ,
Dan
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