God Redeemed the Levites
In Number 8, the Lord explained that rather than taking the firstborn of all Israel for Himself, He did something else instead, “[The Levites] are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel” (Numbers 8.15–19).
He said that He sanctified them on the day when He struck the firstborn of Egypt, and that He had given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons to help in the work of the tabernacle, and this was all to prevent Israel from suffering by a plague when they approached the sanctuary.
God wanted His people near Him, but He also realized that their sin prevented the experience from being all that it could be. Therefore, He made provision to bring His people near to Him.
It is for this very reason that the Father gave His Son to the world, that we might have access to the Father and be able to experience fully our relationship with Him. DR
Demons Want a Place to Live
While roaming the earth, demons want a place to live, as demonstrated when a man possessed of many demons approached Jesus, and when He sought to cast the demons of the man, they made a request, “Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. So all the demons begged Him, saying, ‘Send us to the swine, that we may enter them’” (Mark 5.11–12).
Demons may not inhabit people anymore in the same way that they did this man, but they still work their influence on this earth.
They look for someone to turn to evil. Shall they find an audience with you, or shall you turn them away by your holy living? It is up to you. DR
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