And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
The verse specifies the burnt offering for the fourth day of the Feast of Tabernacles as ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen first-year lambs without blemish. That feast was the third annual feast, kept from the fifteenth to the twenty-second of the seventh month as a seven-day season of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a memorial of dwelling in booths in the wilderness. These appointed offerings belonged to the regular yearly ministration of the earthly sanctuary in its first apartment, which was a pattern and shadow of a like ministration in the heavenly sanctuary. Like the other daily and Sabbath sacrifices they were typical of Christ, and the obligation to observe them ceased at His crucifixion when the ceremonial law ended. The feast itself pointed forward to the great harvest home when God's pilgrims wander no more.
Feast Setting and Offerings
The fourth day of the Feast of Tabernacles required ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish as burnt offerings. The feast was the third annual feast, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, Tisri, and ending on the eighth day, the twenty-second day of Tisri. The fifteenth was the sixth annual sabbath and the twenty-second was the seventh annual sabbath, and both were days of holy convocation on which servile work was forbidden.
It commemorated Israel's pilgrim life in the wilderness, when the people left their houses to dwell in booths made of green branches, palm branches, boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook. It was a seven-day season of thanksgiving to God for the fruits of the earth, and the first national thanksgiving days among the Hebrews. It was a time of rejoicing for the household with son and daughter and servant, and for the Levite and stranger and fatherless and widow. At these yearly assemblies the hearts of old and young were encouraged in the service of God, and association strengthened ties to God and to one another.
On every seventh year the law was read at this feast. This national feast was really the feast of the church, for the nation was the church. Each burnt offering received a drink-offering of strong wine, over a quart for each lamb, poured out upon the burnt offering and never drunk by priests or worshipers. Because there were drink-offerings for every burnt offering, the multitude of animals required, ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs on the fourth day alone, explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service.
Sanctuary Service and Typology
The fourth day's ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish belong to the additional, special offerings appointed for the Lord's Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts. They formed part of the regular, continuing, yearly ministration of the earthly sanctuary, standing alongside the daily offerings and the individual sacrifices. They are reckoned in the schedule of regular offerings made during the year with daily sacrifices, Sabbath offerings, annual sabbaths, new-moon offerings, and feast offerings, distinct from the yearly Day of Atonement. That special work belonged to the first grand division of the ministration, the daily service in the holy place or first apartment accomplished by the Levitical order of priesthood. It is distinct from the second division, the yearly work in the most holy place for the sins of the people and for cleansing the sanctuary on the Day of Atonement.
These regular services of the earthly sanctuary in all their appointments form a pattern, example and shadow or figure of a like ministration and work in the heavenly sanctuary. These daily sacrifices, like those offered on Sabbaths, were typical of Christ. Their presence on a day did not make every such day a Sabbath or a shadow.
The feast itself was typical of the great harvest home of God, when the weary pilgrims to Zion will wander no more and the ingathering of God will have taken place. The obligation to observe these annual feasts ceased at the crucifixion of Christ, when the law of ceremonies was nailed to the cross.
The list of ten unblemished young bulls, two rams, and fourteen year-old lambs does not state whether offerings on the Day of Atonement occurred before or after the high priest's work in the Most Holy Place, for the order is unstated. The sequence of accompanying offerings on other feast days did not prevent each feast's main event from being fulfilled on its appointed day, so these accompanying offerings cannot by themselves show that the Day of Atonement's central work came later. In this typology the antitype begins on the day of the type, though it may continue beyond that day. The verse reflects one of about sixteen times in Numbers 28 and 29 where the morning and evening sacrifice is called the continual burnt offering, offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and never omitted because of any other offerings. The continual comprehends the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained by God, including showbread, lamps, incense, and the high priest bearing judgment continually, and because the earthly sanctuary in all its appointments and services is a figure of the heavenly sanctuary, the term continual applies with equal force to the sanctuary above and defines the continual in Daniel 8.
The verse specifies the burnt offering for the fourth day of the Feast of Tabernacles as ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen first-year lambs without blemish. That feast was the third annual feast, kept from the fifteenth to the twenty-second of the seventh month as a seven-day season of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a memorial of dwelling in booths in the wilderness. These appointed offerings belonged to the regular yearly ministration of the earthly sanctuary in its first apartment, which was a pattern and shadow of a like ministration in the heavenly sanctuary. Like the other daily and Sabbath sacrifices they were typical of Christ, and the obligation to observe them ceased at His crucifixion when the ceremonial law ended. The feast itself pointed forward to the great harvest home when God's pilgrims wander no more.
Feast Setting and Offerings
The fourth day of the Feast of Tabernacles required ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish as burnt offerings. The feast was the third annual feast, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, Tisri, and ending on the eighth day, the twenty-second day of Tisri. The fifteenth was the sixth annual sabbath and the twenty-second was the seventh annual sabbath, and both were days of holy convocation on which servile work was forbidden.
It commemorated Israel's pilgrim life in the wilderness, when the people left their houses to dwell in booths made of green branches, palm branches, boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook. It was a seven-day season of thanksgiving to God for the fruits of the earth, and the first national thanksgiving days among the Hebrews. It was a time of rejoicing for the household with son and daughter and servant, and for the Levite and stranger and fatherless and widow. At these yearly assemblies the hearts of old and young were encouraged in the service of God, and association strengthened ties to God and to one another.
On every seventh year the law was read at this feast. This national feast was really the feast of the church, for the nation was the church. Each burnt offering received a drink-offering of strong wine, over a quart for each lamb, poured out upon the burnt offering and never drunk by priests or worshipers. Because there were drink-offerings for every burnt offering, the multitude of animals required, ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs on the fourth day alone, explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service.
Sanctuary Service and Typology
The fourth day's ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish belong to the additional, special offerings appointed for the Lord's Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts. They formed part of the regular, continuing, yearly ministration of the earthly sanctuary, standing alongside the daily offerings and the individual sacrifices. They are reckoned in the schedule of regular offerings made during the year with daily sacrifices, Sabbath offerings, annual sabbaths, new-moon offerings, and feast offerings, distinct from the yearly Day of Atonement. That special work belonged to the first grand division of the ministration, the daily service in the holy place or first apartment accomplished by the Levitical order of priesthood. It is distinct from the second division, the yearly work in the most holy place for the sins of the people and for cleansing the sanctuary on the Day of Atonement.
These regular services of the earthly sanctuary in all their appointments form a pattern, example and shadow or figure of a like ministration and work in the heavenly sanctuary. These daily sacrifices, like those offered on Sabbaths, were typical of Christ. Their presence on a day did not make every such day a Sabbath or a shadow.
The feast itself was typical of the great harvest home of God, when the weary pilgrims to Zion will wander no more and the ingathering of God will have taken place. The obligation to observe these annual feasts ceased at the crucifixion of Christ, when the law of ceremonies was nailed to the cross.
The list of ten unblemished young bulls, two rams, and fourteen year-old lambs does not state whether offerings on the Day of Atonement occurred before or after the high priest's work in the Most Holy Place, for the order is unstated. The sequence of accompanying offerings on other feast days did not prevent each feast's main event from being fulfilled on its appointed day, so these accompanying offerings cannot by themselves show that the Day of Atonement's central work came later. In this typology the antitype begins on the day of the type, though it may continue beyond that day. The verse reflects one of about sixteen times in Numbers 28 and 29 where the morning and evening sacrifice is called the continual burnt offering, offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and never omitted because of any other offerings. The continual comprehends the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained by God, including showbread, lamps, incense, and the high priest bearing judgment continually, and because the earthly sanctuary in all its appointments and services is a figure of the heavenly sanctuary, the term continual applies with equal force to the sanctuary above and defines the continual in Daniel 8.