Stay in The Secret Place!!!

I want to revisit the significance of the scriptures just referenced. The Levites were set apart. Their duties included the care of the tabernacle. This was arduous, rigorously grueling. Remember that whenever the Israelites stayed in a place, whether as long as one night, or for a year, the Levites broke down the tabernacle prior to leaving and went ahead of the Israelites to set it back up upon their arrival at their next destination.

Upon research it is confirmed that the Levites' inheritance is spiritual, and not material. Their roles were substantially significant. Being notably and nobly exalted, as God was their inheritance. Preeminent to true believers being a royal priesthood. Their faith needed to be integral as they literally depended on God for all of their needs.

“Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho, saying, ‘Command the Israelites to give to the Levites cities to live in from the inheritance of their possession; and you shall give the Levites pasture lands around the cities. The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their livestock” (Numbers 35: 1-3, AMP).

Here is the seriousness of the matter. God set the boundary lines. As in chapter 34, they were set in the north, south, east, and west regions. And here they are set even more intimately in the suburbs. In every boundary that was set, the Israelites were surrounded on all sides. As in the wedge of protection that surrounded Job.

“The pasture lands around the cities which you shall give the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits (1,500 ft.) around. You shall measure outside the city on the east, south, west, and north sides two thousand cubits (3,000 ft.), with the city in the center. This shall belong to the Levites as pasture lands for the cities” (Numbers 35: 4-5, AMP).

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