Exodus 28

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.


Where are we in the Old Testament?  I truly believe that we were in God's mind, throughout the Old Testament.  I can imagine that when we get to heaven, we will see each of the years of the Priests garments and each believer in the NT era will be represented in the physical elements of the worship of the OT.  We are the spiritual representation of the physical elements of worship.  They, are the spiritual remembrance of the worship that we engage in to God.  They couldn't understand that the gentiles would be grafted in and we cannot understand that the gentiles are grafted in.

I rejoice when I get to Psalm 108 and I hear God's heart toward the gentiles in the OT.  He speaks of them as "mine".  He owned our history, in depravity he was committed to our cleansing and grafting. 

I see my hand coming out of the miry clay of antiquity begging for redemption,{though I cared not,  He loved me first}.    When will You redeem my people, Lord?   Where is Your heart for us?   Always, He responds, am I mighty to save to the utmost all who come to God through Christ.


Psalm 108:10  Who is going to bring me into the strong city?  Christ, asks in His mercy. 

Only Jesus is worthy to bear the burdens and translate God's heart into gentile and Jew, alike.

Each generation that followed the specifics of God's Word was anticipating, true and eternal redemption for the Jew, in spirit and for the gentile, in the elements.

Like a mommy with her baby's photo album,  God carries us through His intentions to save, in His Word.   Look, where I was thinking of you, here and here and there and there.

I am grateful that providence, today, led me to Exodus 28 and Psalms 108, where I can see myself in the stones and Urim and Thummim of God's instruction.   We are God's workmanship and we were in His mind, from eternity past.  Not an afterthought.  His merciful intention.