We’ve all probably had the experience of being in a strange place with new people. It is an odd feeling to be a foreigner and how nice it is to have one of the group reach out to us and start introducing us into their circle. God has always had an eye for the stranger and insisted His people be the same way.
“Any foreigner living among you who wants to celebrate God’s Passover is welcome to do it.” ~Numbers 9:14
God has historically done much of His divine work over food. The Abrahamic covenant, the Passover meal, Communion, and the Last Supper in Heaven are all meal events. Jesus used the table often in His parables about the great banquet and ‘behold I stand at the door and knock’. The point of all this is inclusion. God wants all of His children to be welcomed at His table and that includes the foreigner. The verse above spoke to Israel’s annual Passover dinner in which they would re-enact what Israel did the night before they fled from Egypt. They would eat lamb, eat the unleavened bread to signify they didn’t have time to wait for the bread to rise and retell the Passover story and God’s great act in freeing them. This was a salvation story of epic proportions. And who did God go to extra lengths to be sure they were present at the table?...the strangers and the foreigners. The same thing is occurring today in this ‘day of salvation’. Again God is working hard to assure that no one is outside of His salvation plan and that everyone has A PLACE AT HIS TABLE. ~Verlon
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