Our Curse

April 27, 2016

Devotions:

        In Numbers 5: 12-31 is the law of the spirit of jealousy. If a wife commits adultry and she is not caught and a spirit of jealousy comes on the husband or even if her husband thinks that she is committing adultry then the husband is to take her to the priest and accuse her.  The husband brings a meal offering to the priest.  Then the priest brings her before the Lord, takes some holy water and some dirt from the floor of the sanctuary and mix it with the water, this is the water that causes a curse.  The priest takes the covering off the woman and tell the woman that if she has been unfaithful to her husband then the water that causes a curse will bring a curse upon her as she drinks it but if she has not been unfaithful then no curse will come upon her. 

        Hebrews 10 says that the Old Testament is types and shadows of the reality which is Christ.  In this law we see a married woman who may or may not have committed adultry and the spirit of jealousy comes upon the husband.  The woman represents mankind.  In the Old Testament God is seen as the husband of Israel and in the New Testament we are the bride of Christ.  The husband then is the Lord.  He knows that the human race has been unfaithful to its maker.  By law the wife is brought to the high priest who is also Jesus.  The waters that cause the curse are prepared but instead of the woman having to drink the waters which will surely bring a curse the husband, priest drink the waters that cause a cure and take the curse upon Himself

        Jesus took the curse upon Himself that was due us because He loves us so much.  This whole law is a picture of how much our God loves us human beings.  He did not force us to drink the bitter waters that was due us but He took our bitterness upon Himself adn set us free.  The adultry is our sins because we have turned to other gods and turned away from the one true living God to meet our every need.  But Jesus became the curse for us, in our place.