Most of us will not
know ahead of time the exact time and place of our death, but Aaron did.
Numbers
20:22-29 22 The whole Israelite community
set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. 23 At Mount Hor, near the border
of Edom, the Lord said
to Moses and Aaron, 24 “Aaron
will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the
Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters
of Meribah. 25 Get
Aaron and his son Eleazar and take them up Mount Hor. 26 Remove Aaron’s
garments and put them on his son Eleazar, for Aaron will be gathered to
his people; he will die there.”
27 Moses did as the Lord commanded:
They went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community. 28 Moses removed Aaron’s
garments and put them on his son Eleazar. And Aaron died there on top
of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain, 29 and when the whole
community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for
him thirty days.
God blessed Aaron by
telling him ahead of time when and where he would die. God also told Aaron how
to prepare and who would take his place as high priest. Moses and Eleazer
weren’t left to try to figure it out on their own.
A relative of a friend
of mine died in a bicycle accident last year. As sad as it was, the whole
family saw God’s hand preparing them ahead of time. The guy who died had
recently told his wife that he thought something might happen soon, so he made
sure she knew what all their passwords and accounts were, etc. That was just
one of several ways God prepared them.
As sad as death is in
this life, we can look to God for direction on how to prepare for and/or handle
death, whether our own or someone else’s. God is Sovereign over life and
death.
Alice
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