Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Tabernacle: Lessons from the Ark of the Covenant

 


 
Bible Reading: Numbers 17:1-10

Key Verse: Verse 10 – “And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me,  that they die not.”

Key Words: Aaron’s rod

The purpose of the rod was to stop the rebels from murmuring (complaining).  The rod was used as an instrument of correction and to make believers out of doubters.  It was primarily a tool of discipline.

The rebellious murmurers remind me of Victor Frankenstein.  He is known for bringing a lifeless creature to life.  If you don't know about Victor Frankenstein, you know about his creation because the monster became synonymous with his creator's last name.  The word Frankenstein conjures up thoughts of the monster, not his creator.

After going through a tragedy, Mr. Frankenstein desired to do something good.  He decided to take lifeless items and make them come alive.  He went to slaughterhouses, graveyards, and even coroner’s offices to steal what he needed for his creation.  He then put all of his materials together and brought his creation to life.  This lifeless, dead entity did come alive.  His goal was to take this monster and give it life.  Well, he did it.  He created it, and these days we know it by his last name – Frankenstein.  What he didn’t know is that he had created a beast.

The tragedy of Frankenstein is that after he was created, after he was given life, after he was nothing and then made into something, he turned on Victor and made his maker a victim of his own creation.  Frankenstein became a monster because he took the life that was given him and used it for his own purpose.

You and I have been given life by our Creator.  Yet many of our lives are nothing short of monstrous because we have taken the life that He has given us and used it for something other than the Creator had in mind…and that, my friend, is a tragedy!

                                                                                     Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do:

      Live your life in accordance to what your Creator has purposed for you.

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