Numbers 28:1-2
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’
Tag: God Demands Worship
In the Old Testament the worship was centered around God but expressed in a different manner than today. In the OT the sacrifices were expect, by God, on a daily basis. In fact, in this chapter you can see the many types of sacrifices that were to be made through the course of a year. If you added them all up the sacrifices would be:
1. Bulls - 113
2. Lambs - 1, 086
3. Flour - Over one ton
4. Oil & Wine - 1,000 bottles
Today, we offer through one sacrifice, the final and complete sacrifice: Jesus Christ. He meet all the requirements of the above first and became the final lamb offered on the alter for us. We can therefore, enter the Holy of Holies in complete confidence. Christ was the perfect sacrifice for our sins. He completely satisfied the demand of God listed in the above verse. Note:
Hebrews 10:1
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
That is the writer of Hebrews commentary on this passage in Numbers. Note what he goes on to say:
Hebrews 10:11-14
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
Our confidence, therefore, is not in the performance we do in a sacrificial system, but in the final sacrifice He gave for us and our sins.
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