And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
The measure named is the grain offering to accompany the sacrifice, one tenth deal for each lamb throughout the seven lambs. It belongs to the instructions for the first day of the seventh month, the New Year's Day, a holy convocation when servile work was prohibited. That day was an annual sabbath and holy convocation commemorated by the blowing of trumpets, requiring rest from servile work and offerings made by fire to the Lord.
The same measure also appears among the burnt offerings appointed for the tenth day of the seventh month, the day of atonement. The Bible is silent whether the burnt offerings and other offerings in Numbers 29:7-11 were offered before the high priest entered the most holy place or after that work, and for all the Bible says they were offered after he came out of the holiest at the time described in Leviticus 16:23-24. The same kind of burnt-offering work also belonged to the day of firstfruits and to the feast of weeks, yet Passover, firstfruits, and Pentecost each met fulfillment exactly on time, so mere preliminary and circumstantial offerings do not keep the grand event of the day from meeting its fulfillment on its day. The grand work on the day of atonement was performed in the holiest, and its fulfillment must commence on the tenth day of the seventh month of some year, though once commenced it may extend forward a great distance.
It is part of the general public sacrifices prescribed in Numbers 28 and 29, the additional or special prescribed offerings appointed for the feasts and for the Lord's Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, annual holy days, new moons, and feasts, included among the regular services of the earthly sanctuary. These public sacrifices are distinct from the individual offerings by which a guilty sinner obtained pardon through repentance, confession, and faith in a greater sacrifice to come. That special work belonged to the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual daily service in the holy place or first apartment, accomplished continually by the priests of the Levitical order. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense morning and evening when the lamps were lighted, the work on the Lord's Sabbaths, and the work for individuals presenting their particular offerings. It was distinct from the yearly work on the tenth day of the seventh month in the most holy place for the sins of the people and for cleansing the sanctuary.
The whole first-division earthly ministration was the example and shadow or figure of Christ's more excellent ministry and like work in the true tabernacle in heaven. The term continual therefore applies with equal force to the sanctuary above, where the prophecy of Daniel 8 applies because the earthly sanctuary with its priesthood had ended its operations before that power began its operations. The verse shows part of the continual burnt offering in Numbers 28 and 29, the morning and evening sacrifices offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and never omitted because of any other offerings, called about sixteen times the continual burnt offering. The continual comprehends the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained by God.
The verse is part of the great number of burnt offerings listed in Numbers 29, each of which required a drink-offering, which explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service. The wine offered with each lamb was strong wine, one fourth of a hin, over a quart, and it was always poured out upon the burnt offering, not drunk freely by priests and worshipers.
The measure named is the grain offering to accompany the sacrifice, one tenth deal for each lamb throughout the seven lambs. It belongs to the instructions for the first day of the seventh month, the New Year's Day, a holy convocation when servile work was prohibited. That day was an annual sabbath and holy convocation commemorated by the blowing of trumpets, requiring rest from servile work and offerings made by fire to the Lord.
The same measure also appears among the burnt offerings appointed for the tenth day of the seventh month, the day of atonement. The Bible is silent whether the burnt offerings and other offerings in Numbers 29:7-11 were offered before the high priest entered the most holy place or after that work, and for all the Bible says they were offered after he came out of the holiest at the time described in Leviticus 16:23-24. The same kind of burnt-offering work also belonged to the day of firstfruits and to the feast of weeks, yet Passover, firstfruits, and Pentecost each met fulfillment exactly on time, so mere preliminary and circumstantial offerings do not keep the grand event of the day from meeting its fulfillment on its day. The grand work on the day of atonement was performed in the holiest, and its fulfillment must commence on the tenth day of the seventh month of some year, though once commenced it may extend forward a great distance.
It is part of the general public sacrifices prescribed in Numbers 28 and 29, the additional or special prescribed offerings appointed for the feasts and for the Lord's Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, annual holy days, new moons, and feasts, included among the regular services of the earthly sanctuary. These public sacrifices are distinct from the individual offerings by which a guilty sinner obtained pardon through repentance, confession, and faith in a greater sacrifice to come. That special work belonged to the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual daily service in the holy place or first apartment, accomplished continually by the priests of the Levitical order. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense morning and evening when the lamps were lighted, the work on the Lord's Sabbaths, and the work for individuals presenting their particular offerings. It was distinct from the yearly work on the tenth day of the seventh month in the most holy place for the sins of the people and for cleansing the sanctuary.
The whole first-division earthly ministration was the example and shadow or figure of Christ's more excellent ministry and like work in the true tabernacle in heaven. The term continual therefore applies with equal force to the sanctuary above, where the prophecy of Daniel 8 applies because the earthly sanctuary with its priesthood had ended its operations before that power began its operations. The verse shows part of the continual burnt offering in Numbers 28 and 29, the morning and evening sacrifices offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and never omitted because of any other offerings, called about sixteen times the continual burnt offering. The continual comprehends the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained by God.
The verse is part of the great number of burnt offerings listed in Numbers 29, each of which required a drink-offering, which explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service. The wine offered with each lamb was strong wine, one fourth of a hin, over a quart, and it was always poured out upon the burnt offering, not drunk freely by priests and worshipers.