Exodus 29:40
And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
This verse belongs to the directions for the regular morning and evening burnt offering of a year-old lamb upon the altar, each lamb accompanied by flour mingled with oil and by wine for a drink offering. The offering was made ready when the priests entered the holy place morning and evening. The altar in the court where this offering was made was an altar of continual atonement set before the holy place, in contrast to the altar of perpetual intercession before the veil of the most holy. Approach to God was to be by blood and by incense together, both pointing to Christ as the great Mediator through whom alone repentant believing sinners can approach God and receive mercy and salvation.
The lamb represented the death of the Saviour, teaching that Jesus as the Lamb of God would die for the sins of humanity. Its required freedom from blemish symbolized His perfect purity as One who would offer Himself without defect or stain, as a lamb without blemish and without spot. With its grain offering, the morning and evening lamb symbolized the nation's daily consecration to God and its constant dependence on the atoning blood of Christ. The sacrifices illustrate what Christ's followers are to become in presenting their bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God, giving Him the best service of life and bringing every power of being into harmony with the laws that promote ability to do His will.
The regular sacrifices ordered here continued as usual while Jesus, the antitypical Lamb they prefigured, lay in the tomb, and His death fulfilled the Passover symbolism. The appointed morning and evening hours of this daily service became set times for worship and prayer, observed even by Jews scattered in distant lands. The daily offering provides the pattern for morning and evening worship in the Christian home, where the father serves in a sense as household priest laying the sacrifice on God's altar while wife and children unite in prayer and praise.
Like the patriarchs' altar wherever the tent was pitched, an altar is to be erected in every dwelling so that every house is a house of prayer. Morning and evening worship gives thanks for mercies including sunshine, rain, vegetation and angelic guardianship, and seeks divine help and guidance and the abiding presence of Jesus, who loves to tarry in such a household.