February 3, 2020: Day 2 – Numbers 2

If you want to know where to focus on when we are looking at numbers and names don’t forget to look at what I call the bookend verses.  So the bookend verses for chapter two would be found in vs.1-2 and vs.34.  Each of the soldiers of the people of Israel were to be put in their families and lined up  in their grouping.  Each camp, so all 12 of the tribes, were to be facing the tent of meeting so that the tent of meeting would be the wheel from which all of the spokes would emanate.

I love that image.  I love the image of the house of worship being the center of the community.  When you go to Europe you will find piazzas (not pizzas!), or squares, which were the center of the community.  That is why it is called the square because it is supposed to be in the center of the community.  In each piazza was the central church, or the cathedral.  That is such an important image to remember  that it takes a church, or a group of churches, to raise a village.