Numbers 19-20
This year, I plan on reading the Old Testament of the Bible within the 2012 calendar year. Follow me on this journey!
Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 19: Sprinking Water = Clean Sin!
Directions
are given on how to sacrifice a red heifer (red cow). In the ceremony, water is
used as a purification of sin. Ceremonially people who are unclean are "sprinkled"
with water to be clean.
I am guessing
that this ceremony might have some aspects wrapped up into baptism, and quite possibly
where the Catholics started sprinkling water in baptism, instead of by immersion.
Chapter 20: Water from a Rock
The congregation
of Israel are wandering through the Desert of Zin, when they run out of water and
start to murmur against Moses and Aaron. While there in Kadesh Miriam dies.
Moses and
Aaron go to the tabernacle and pray to God. God tells Moses to gather the congregation
and then smite a rock and they will have water. So Moses smacks a rock two time
and water comes flowing out of it. See Verses: 8-11).
Moses asks
the king of Edom for permission to pass through his land and he refuses to give
them permission. Aaron dies and Eleazar becomes the new high priest.
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