February 24

Numbers 3-4

Henry Ford gets credit for the modern assembly line system of manufacturing. Indeed, he totally revolutionalized the production of cars, bringing the down substantially. Due to his efforts factories are able to supply what is needed so efficiently that the final product can be priced low enough so as to make it affordable to nearly everyone. Prior to Ford's assembly line the cost associated with manufacturing was so high that only the rich could afford to buy. Furthermore, without this efficient process many things would go undone because the cost and the man-hours involved is beyond comprehension.


Such is the case with the tabernacle. Without the organization of the Levite clans, and the assembly line process of assigning particular duties to each individual clan, the dismantling, assembling, and use of this massive tabernacle for the nomadic Israelites would have been nearly impossible. But, God, through Moses, establishes an effective assembly line process to get the job done, and it works! I don't know if this is where Henry Ford drew his inspiration, but I do know that he was not the first to come up with, and implement, the assembly line process!