Dear Family,

Today is Wednesday, May 29, 2024. It is Day 32 and Day 4 of Week 5 in our Count to Pentecost.

According to Exodus 16 God used the manna (bread from heaven) to perform a supernatural intervention each week to validate the holiness and rest of the Sabbath. Israel ate manna for forty years. Now, that‛s a lot of miracles.

Exodus 16:31-36 (31) And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. (32) And Moses said; This is the thing which the LORD commandeth; Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. (33) And Moses said unto Aaron; Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. (34) As the LORD
commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. (35) And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. (36) Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

And, God commanded that a portion (an omer being the tenth part of an ephah) of the manna be placed in a pot and kept “before the LORD” for all of Israel‛s generations. Moses and Aaron did just that. And, later, after the ark of the covenant was completed, the pot of manna was placed inside the ark along with Aaron‛s rod that budded (at Korah‛s rebellion) and the tables of the Covenant.

Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron‛s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

It appears that when God uncovers where He has placed the ark for safe keeping, all of the generations of Israel will see the bread for themselves.

Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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