Read: Num. 28-30
Today we have the list of offerings that were mandatory at the different feasts. The thing I noticed over and over again was the “continual burnt offering”. The burnt offering is the picture of the cross which continually atones for our sin. Thank God for the cross because now we don’t have to bring these sacrifices. We give God the sacrifice of our praise. Mark 12:33 says, “… to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” So we give God our love and our life. The way we live our lives should be a sacrifice to God.
Hebrews 10:11-12 says, “And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” Sadly, all those sacrifices were just a picture of what was coming. Hebrews 10:1 “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.” Only the blood of Jesus can make us clean, whole, and perfect in God’s eyes.
Chapter 30 has to do with the vows of a woman. If she is married that means that she is a Christian and Jesus watches over our words and can void those that will cause us harm. The same goes for the one who is unmarried. She is under the shadow of her father, God.
The woman who is divorced is a person who has chosen to sever their relationship with Jesus and then they are out of his covering and whatever curse they bring against themselves will stand.
Lord, thank you for the sacrifice of your son’s blood. May we bring life with the things we do and say.
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