Ki Tisa: When You Take a Census

By Richard Sison | 2015

Introduction

By Richard Sison | 2015

The Covenant Sign. In verse 13, we notice that the word is “Sabbaths” - its plural. The L-RD is commanding His people to observe not only the 7th day Sabbath but the rest of the “moedim” or Appointed Feasts and it is a sign between G-D and the children of Israel and those who abide with them. There is a corresponding penalty for defiantly violating the Sabbaths of the L-RD and violators pay a hefty penalty - that is death. John was talking about sin not leading to death in 1 John 5:17 and there are sins that lead to death in verse 16. However, we should not also be quick to judge. Even the priests in the Temple breaks the Sabbath and are innocent (Matt 12:5). There is a big difference between those who cannot observe the Sabbaths on a regular basis and those who do not want to observe the Sabbaths in complete defiance and is an outright rebellion. 

for Yeshua Himself said “But if you have known what it means ‘I desire compassion that sacrifice’, you would not have judged the innocent”

​Matthew 12:2-7