Exo 30:13 | KingComments | STEP | The contribution related to the census shows for whose benefit the priestly service is performed: a redeemed people. At the census, every person comes personally before God’s face. This means judgment because man is a sinner. But that judgment passes over those for whom payment has been made. This is not about blood, but about money. Blood speaks of reconciliation. Money is paid as an acknowledgment of the right God has to everyone, here especially in connection with the sanctuary. With this contribution, the amount is the same for everyone. The poor and the rich pay the same amount. God deals without regard to the person ( ). Every child of God must be aware of God’s full right over him, whether he has recently repented or has known the Lord for some time, whether he knows much or little of the Lord Jesus ( ). David once took a census of the people. After that census, a punishment has come upon the people. The cause is that he wanted to know the strength of his people for himself. He has forgotten the contribution that expresses the acknowledgment of God’s right over His people ( ).

‏ Exodus 30:13

The Contribution at the Census

The contribution related to the census shows for whose benefit the priestly service is performed: a redeemed people. At the census, every person comes personally before God’s face. This means judgment because man is a sinner. But that judgment passes over those for whom payment has been made.

This is not about blood, but about money. Blood speaks of reconciliation. Money is paid as an acknowledgment of the right God has to everyone, here especially in connection with the sanctuary.

With this contribution, the amount is the same for everyone. The poor and the rich pay the same amount. God deals without regard to the person (Acts 10:34 Job 34:19). Every child of God must be aware of God’s full right over him, whether he has recently repented or has known the Lord for some time, whether he knows much or little of the Lord Jesus (Pro 22:2).

David once took a census of the people. After that census, a punishment has come upon the people. The cause is that he wanted to know the strength of his people for himself. He has forgotten the contribution that expresses the acknowledgment of God’s right over His people (1Chr 21:1-28).