God the Son make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. Some feel that the Aaronic Blessing should be read with the Trinity in mind: And, you know something, I think that Paul must have been a Southerner, since he used the phrase “you all.” Paul’s benediction sounds very much like Aaron’s Blessing. The unique personality of each is implied by the independent activity referred to in the threefold operation of grace, love, and communion. The deity of the Son, of the Father, and of the Holy Spirit are acknowledged by virtue of their relation to one another. He concluded this letter with a benediction where he not only invokes the fullness of God’s blessings on behalf of the Corinthian believers, but also in passing, provides one of the clearest expressions in the New Testament on the doctrine of the Trinity. “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. It seems natural for us to understand that the three-fold blessing of Numbers 6 suggests the Trinity.Ĭompare this blessing with the Apostle Paul’s Benediction found in 2 Corinthians 13:14. We can look through the lens of fulfilled prophesy, and the revelation of Jesus Christ we know the result of the Cross. We can look back in time at the Cross, and we have the New Testament. You and I actually know more about the Trinity than they did, because we have the advantage of several thousand years of history.
These passages were written for God’s people of all ages. The Israelites didn’t understand the doctrine of the Trinity as we do but the Book of Numbers wasn’t written just for them. As Ecclesiastes puts it: “A three-fold cord is not quickly broken.”īut there may be a greater significance to this triune pronouncement. It reminds us of the three fold angelic song in Isaiah 6: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.” The triple use of the word intensifies the reality of what the Lord is saying. He was blessing and blessing and blessing again. This represented the fullness of God’s blessing. Notice the threefold use of God’s name: The Lord.the Lord. Say to them:Ģ5 The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you Ģ6 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” ’Ģ7 “So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”Ī Blessing in Triplicate. Let me read these verses to you Numbers 6:22-27.Ģ3 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. But in a special way, it’s for you and me at the beginning of this New Year. Aaron, Israel’s chief priest was to pronounce it on ancient Israel. We call this the Priestly Blessing, or the Aaronic Blessing or Benediction.
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In verses 22–27, they are told how to bless their people. Numbers 6 gives various instructions to Israel’s priests. Let’s begin the year on a positive note, with a timely blessing and a timeless benediction. Aaron was the one who announced it to the people, and that is how the Aaronic Blessing got its name. Inscribed on those scrolls, which are now in the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem, is our text for today, which has been given the name-the Aaronic Blessing. It took several years for Israeli scientists to clean and unroll them, but when they did, they found the oldest known fragment of Scripture, dating back to the time of David, Israel’s second king. Hadley of Villanova University in a burial cave in Jerusalem’s Hinnom Valley. Then, in 1979, an even older fragment of a biblical text was discovered by Dr. When these Scrolls were compared to more recent translations, the translations proved to be very accurate.
But, in 1949, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, pushing back the date of our oldest existing Hebrew Scriptures by 1,000 years. The critics of God’s Word, therefore, questioned the accuracy of the translation of the Bible. The oldest existing copy dated back to about A.D.1000. Text: “The LORD bless you and keep you.” ( Numbers 6:24)Īt the beginning of the twentieth century, we didn’t have any ancient copies of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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