Address—L. Smith
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Numbers, Chapter 10.
As I was meditating on this portion before and some of you.
Have heard me give it a little different application.
There's a distinction in the new translation, and so I will read.
The first couple verses in that translation.
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Make the two trumpets of silver.
Of beaten work shalt thou make them.
And they shall serve for the calling together of the assembly and for the journeying of the camps.
Notice the distinction that you get of beaten work.
And when they shall verse three blow them with.
Shall blow with them all. The assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
I want to be brief, but here.
These are of beaten work.
I noticed that distinction in the Spanish translation.
And here.
Perhaps in other languages as well.
And as I pondered it, I thought, why?
Why does it mention beaten work?
It speaks of Jesus, doesn't it?
We read of his life.
And we?
Who have come to love him.
Marvel.
At the perfection of that blessed man.
These trumpets.
Our silver and silver we know from.
Sound teaching speaks of redemption.
We have the blowing of alarm in this first few verses.
How Israel would set forward in their journey.
And we have a blowing.
#7 that's not an alarm to gather the congregation.
And we get.
Verse 8 The sons of Aaron the priest shall blow with the trumpets, and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations.
So they are definitely connected with the function of priesthood.
And we know that Israel is.
Greatly used of God to set forth His ways in this world.
God uses them down through the centuries to preserve a knowledge of Himself.
In this world.
You get the day of gladness and so forth. But in verse 9, if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets, and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
What is war in the land?
I suppose we could give it many applications.
What if sin arises in the assembly?
It could be various aspects of leaven.
Could be doctrinal, such as you get in Galatians.
Could be moral, such as we get in First Corinthians, but this says.
You're to blow that trumpet.
And as I was pondering this.
You know, I was thinking of the beatings of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I want to be sure to leave time for others.
But as you ponder, let's look at Hebrews chapter 5.
We know this verse verse seven Speaking of.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplication with strong crying and tears unto him, that was able to save Him from the death, from death, or out from among the dead?
And was heard in that he feared though he were a son, or were son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.
We know from various scriptures that he suffered much.
From men.
We know when he was in the high priest house.
He was struck.
We know when he was before.
Pontius Pilate. First he scourged him.
To be crucified.
Yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.
And when he is before?
Our God.
On the cross.
He is veiled in darkness.
Because he's suffering.
For our sins.
Suffering unto blood, as Hebrews 12 tells us.
Rather.
Then allow sin.
What a man, this blessed Savior.
In our chapter.
That we had in the readings.
I was thinking.
Of Christ's likeness.
I mentioned to someone else.
I think it was back in 1967 when I was in Hong Kong.
I was going to go visit the Christian Book Room and maybe Brother Collier School. One of the men on my ship wanted to go over with me. It really wasn't too safe to go alone.
So he chose to do that, though I told him he might be bored.
He wasn't the Lords and we went to visit.
And I whispered in Sister Helen Willis's ear.
This man doesn't know the Lord, He's a Roman Catholic.
And I went about the room, watching refugees painting these texts that you sometimes see on the wall, like the one over the main door back there.
We were there about 3 hours.
And when we left?
She saw us out to the courtyard.
And told us goodbye and we walked down the street.
The ways. And he says to me.
She's just like Jesus. You never want to leave her.
But a testimony.
What a testimony.
And I was thinking as these silver trumpets.
What are they? They're tubes.
Today we see trumpets and they're worried into circles with a few valves to change the length in the note.
I'm not sure what the shape of these were.
But they were for the priesthood.
And it's formed by something that speaks of redemption, and it's beaten into its shape.
Amazing.
Vessel.
Doesn't do a thing if you lay it down.
But it gets its life.
From the breath of priesthood.
And when trouble comes into the assembly, into the testimony of God.
The enemy in the land like it mentions there in numbers 10.
What's the refuge? It's always the Lord.
Says, Take that silver trumpet and sound it before the Lord.
There's a lot of ways that can be done.
I should say a lot of ways we might apply that.
It could be that.
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A letter of discipline comes from another assembly.
And you could say, well, that's that's trouble in the land.
It might be extremely necessary that priesthood in the local assembly.
Sound that out before God.
What happens? It says the Lord will save you out of the hand of your enemies.
It could be sin within the local assembly.
But I believe that there is something in this that could be helpful to us, and that is, is there something of Christ likeness in our ways, but so identifies with his sufferings?
That it gives the manner of expression.
When we cry out to God.
And say.
We have to be distance from that which God can have no fellowship with.
That silver trumpet.
Is sounded in the ears of God.
That he might come in.
And deliver from the enemy.
Why bring up Sister Helen Willis, I believe, when there is Christ likeness in that which must be expressed?
Before God.
It commends itself to conscience, as everywhere.
And makes it much.
Easier to see the Lord in what is done.
Yes, there is Divine Principle.
And we need it.
And there is a divine person.
Who has been shaped and suffering? Who is our object?
And we need him.
In our ways.
May He grant us grace.
To follow him.