Sunday, November 3: “Bountiful Blessings”

Ecclesiasticus 36: 17: “Hearken, O Lord, to the prayer of Your servants, according to the blessing of Aaron for Your people, and all who are on the earth will know that You are the Lord, the God of the ages.”

The Lord gave His High Priest a blessing to bestow upon His people: A blessing of divine preservation, divine favor, and divine peace (Numbers 6: 22-27). The author of Ecclesiasticus here realizes something amazing: When Aaron and his spiritual descendants (including Jesus Christ, the eternal High Priest in the line of Melchizedek) are faithful to invoke the Lord’s Name (this blessing) upon the people, and we respond, it is the Lord’s way to draw all men unto Himself (Deuteronomy 4: 4-8; John 12: 32), and for them to know that He is Lord of all.