ONE-YEAR JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 46 -Numbers 7 (How Does God Speak to Us Today?)
“Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him.” (Numbers 7:89)
The Ark of the Covenant of God that He instructed Moses to make out of acacia wood was simply a box with a scuplture of two angels facing opposite each other with their two wings spread out apart covering the top of the ark called the mercy seat where God dwelt. It is from this mercy seat on the ark that the God of all creation spoke to Moses giving him all the detailed instructions regarding the service of the Tabernacle and their proper worship of Him.
Obviously, God does not speak to a man today as He spoke to Moses. God must have decided that the order of worship by the Jews was too important to leave any detail to man. No doubt, even the slightest diversion from God’s prescribed order or detail (which order and minutest detail represented an important attribute of God in relation to man) would have led to a corrupted worship of God.
“Ok, I get that,” you may say, “but how does God speak to us today then?” Good question. Today, we have the Word of God, the Bible which is how God primarily speaks to us. During the time of Jesus, God’s Word consisted of the Old Testament composed of thirty-nine books. In one sweeping statement, Jesus affirmed the entire Old Testament word for word as the Word of God: “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” (Matthew 5:18)
“Alright, I see that Jesus affirmed the entire Old Testament as the God’s Word but what about the New Testament?” Obviously, Jesus was no longer around to affirm the rest of the 27 books of the New Testament so God used the apostles who were with Jesus throughout His whole ministry before His crucifixion to affirm it as when the apostle Peter affirmed the writings of the apostle Paul:
“...and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.” (2 Peter 3:15-16)
“So, the Old and New Testaments or the whole Bible is the Word of God, but how would I know what God has to say to my particular question or my specific need?” Well, the Bible doesn’t answer all of man’s questions, if it did there would be no need to trust God for the unknown and to exercise faith in Him. Jesus, however, assures the sincere seeker of truth that he will find the answer when He looks for it in God’s Word.
Today after our church worship service, my wife and I had the privilege to talk to a Hindu young lady who sought for prayer to know more about Christianity. After reading the Words of Jesus in the gospel of John and asking her if she believed it, she said yes and then continued to pray to receive Christ as her Lord and Savior. God clearly spoke to her through the Bible and now she knows Jesus who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
You too can find the answers to your deepest need and question if you turn to God’s Word, the Bible.
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