And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
Numbers 29:5 appoints a kid of the goats as a sin offering to make atonement for Israel on the holy convocations of the seventh month, on the first day kept as an annual sabbath with a trumpet memorial and no ordinary work, and also on the tenth day. It was one of the additional special offerings appointed for the annual feasts, annual sabbaths and new moons, forming part of the priests' regular congregational ministration through the year alongside the daily, Sabbath and new-moon offerings, distinct from offerings brought by individuals for particular sins. As a sin offering for atonement it shows how sin was confessed over the victim, the victim died in the offerer's place, and its blood was brought into the sanctuary, so that the sinner went free. It belongs to the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual daily service in the holy place performed through the year by the Levitical priesthood, distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. As part of that earthly daily and feast-day ministration it is the example and shadow of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, the true tabernacle, and belongs with the morning and evening sacrifices, the showbread, the lamps, the incense, and the high priest's continual bearing of Israel, to the whole God-ordained service comprehended in the word continual in Daniel 8.
Feast Day Setting
The goat for a sin offering to make atonement for Israel belongs to the appointed offerings for the first day of the seventh month, the New Year's Day holy convocation. That offering was a male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for the people. It accompanied the holy convocation and the trumpet memorial, when the day was kept as an annual sabbath on which no ordinary work was done.
The same sin offering stands among the offerings for the tenth day of the seventh month. Whether it was offered before or after the high priest's work in the most holy place is not stated. Its timing relative to that work therefore cannot prove that a preliminary set of offerings had to precede the cleansing of the sanctuary.
It stands among the great number of burnt offerings listed in Numbers 29. Every burnt offering had a drink offering of strong wine poured out upon it. That wine was not drunk by priests or worshipers. This pouring out of wine with each burnt offering explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service.
Sanctuary Ministry and Meaning
The goat for a sin offering to make atonement was one of the additional, special offerings appointed for the annual feasts, annual sabbaths and new moons, forming part of the priests' regular Levitical ministration in the earthly sanctuary through the year alongside the daily, Sabbath, new-moon and feast offerings. It belonged to the recurring sanctuary service that continued through the year as part of the people's worship. These appointed congregational services were distinct from offerings brought by individuals for particular sins.
As a sin offering for atonement it illustrates how sin was confessed over a victim, the victim died in the offerer's place, and its blood was brought into the sanctuary, so that the sinner went free. It belongs to the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual daily service in the holy place performed through the year by the Levitical priesthood, distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. As part of that earthly daily and feast-day ministration and the people's worship, it is the example and shadow of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, the true tabernacle, and pointed to the greater sacrifice to come.
Together with the morning and evening sacrifices offered for the whole congregation every day of the year and never omitted for any other offering, called about sixteen times the continual burnt offering in Numbers 28 and 29, and with the showbread set forth continually, the lamps commanded to burn continually, the perpetual incense which is the same as continual, and the high priest bearing the judgment of Israel upon his heart continually, this sin offering belongs to the whole God-ordained service of the earthly sanctuary comprehended in the word continual in Daniel 8. Since that whole earthly service was a type or figure of the heavenly sanctuary, the continual applies with equal force to the ministry of the sanctuary above.
Numbers 29:5 appoints a kid of the goats as a sin offering to make atonement for Israel on the holy convocations of the seventh month, on the first day kept as an annual sabbath with a trumpet memorial and no ordinary work, and also on the tenth day. It was one of the additional special offerings appointed for the annual feasts, annual sabbaths and new moons, forming part of the priests' regular congregational ministration through the year alongside the daily, Sabbath and new-moon offerings, distinct from offerings brought by individuals for particular sins. As a sin offering for atonement it shows how sin was confessed over the victim, the victim died in the offerer's place, and its blood was brought into the sanctuary, so that the sinner went free. It belongs to the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual daily service in the holy place performed through the year by the Levitical priesthood, distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. As part of that earthly daily and feast-day ministration it is the example and shadow of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, the true tabernacle, and belongs with the morning and evening sacrifices, the showbread, the lamps, the incense, and the high priest's continual bearing of Israel, to the whole God-ordained service comprehended in the word continual in Daniel 8.
Feast Day Setting
The goat for a sin offering to make atonement for Israel belongs to the appointed offerings for the first day of the seventh month, the New Year's Day holy convocation. That offering was a male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for the people. It accompanied the holy convocation and the trumpet memorial, when the day was kept as an annual sabbath on which no ordinary work was done.
The same sin offering stands among the offerings for the tenth day of the seventh month. Whether it was offered before or after the high priest's work in the most holy place is not stated. Its timing relative to that work therefore cannot prove that a preliminary set of offerings had to precede the cleansing of the sanctuary.
It stands among the great number of burnt offerings listed in Numbers 29. Every burnt offering had a drink offering of strong wine poured out upon it. That wine was not drunk by priests or worshipers. This pouring out of wine with each burnt offering explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service.
Sanctuary Ministry and Meaning
The goat for a sin offering to make atonement was one of the additional, special offerings appointed for the annual feasts, annual sabbaths and new moons, forming part of the priests' regular Levitical ministration in the earthly sanctuary through the year alongside the daily, Sabbath, new-moon and feast offerings. It belonged to the recurring sanctuary service that continued through the year as part of the people's worship. These appointed congregational services were distinct from offerings brought by individuals for particular sins.
As a sin offering for atonement it illustrates how sin was confessed over a victim, the victim died in the offerer's place, and its blood was brought into the sanctuary, so that the sinner went free. It belongs to the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual daily service in the holy place performed through the year by the Levitical priesthood, distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. As part of that earthly daily and feast-day ministration and the people's worship, it is the example and shadow of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, the true tabernacle, and pointed to the greater sacrifice to come.
Together with the morning and evening sacrifices offered for the whole congregation every day of the year and never omitted for any other offering, called about sixteen times the continual burnt offering in Numbers 28 and 29, and with the showbread set forth continually, the lamps commanded to burn continually, the perpetual incense which is the same as continual, and the high priest bearing the judgment of Israel upon his heart continually, this sin offering belongs to the whole God-ordained service of the earthly sanctuary comprehended in the word continual in Daniel 8. Since that whole earthly service was a type or figure of the heavenly sanctuary, the continual applies with equal force to the ministry of the sanctuary above.