“50 Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it. 51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it must be put to death.
52 The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner. 53 The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community. 54 The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.”
Numbers 1:50-54
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Most of Numbers chapter 1 is simply an accounting of the people of Israel, of the men of fighting age. Adding in the women an children, the elderly and the young men, we see a nation of several million people going out from exile in Egypt, and learning what it is to follow God, trusting in only Him.
This time of transition for the Israelite people was a time of learning, of coming to re-know God, not simply as the Go of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but as their God, moving and active.

The Levites, Moses & Aaron’s family tribe, were to be the ones in charge of leading worship, of guiding the people as they follow God in these new days and places. They carry out the daily tasks in the tabernacle, yes, but their role isn’t as custodians, but rather facilitators. Every job surrounding the tabernacle was important, and every Levite had a task that was meant to be a part of their corporate worship of God. Yes, there was the high priest, Aaron, and those who served in obvious ways in the Tabernacle, but their jobs were facilitated by those who took care of the less obvious things, who did the daily work required for the upkeep of the tabernacle and the right worship of God.

Today, there are millions and billions of Christians, all of us following along in the task of worshipping God, following our call to GoLove as we have been loved and as we have been commissioned. Every single one of us who take that calling seriousl, and personally, play a part together in the same way when we live lives of worship. We facilitate for others even as our walks are facilitated by those who serve each gathering body of believers. No one is any more important than another, we are all slaves of God, the One who redeemed us. we simply have different tasks to do around His table, giving Him glory. It’s all about Him, even as we go out.