Numbers 29:6
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
It appoints the added offerings for the first day of the seventh month, kept as an annual sabbath and holy convocation, beside the regular monthly burnt offering with its grain offering and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering, with their drink offerings in the prescribed manner as a sweet savour made by fire to the Lord. The regular daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings went on alongside these added offerings for the month and its observance and was never set aside for them. It belongs to the daily ministration, the first division of the earthly sanctuary work carried on continually in the holy place by the Levitical priesthood, together with the daily and weekly offerings and the offerings at new moons and feasts. That whole first-tabernacle service is the example and shadow and pattern of Christ's ministry in the true heavenly tabernacle, distinct from the second division, the once-yearly work of the high priest alone in the most holy place with blood for cleansing the sanctuary. These circumstantial burnt offerings give no proof of a long preliminary work before the cleansing of the sanctuary in the antitype, for as the spring types met their fulfillment on the very day of the type, so the great work of the antitypical day of atonement must commence on the tenth day of the seventh month of its year, while the continual that comprehends this entire earthly service figures the heavenly sanctuary taken away in Daniel 8.
Occasion and Offerings
Numbers 29:6 belongs to the directions for the first day of the seventh month, the New Year's Day. That day was kept as an annual sabbath and a holy convocation, with its appointed offerings added to the regular new-moon and daily burnt offerings with their grain and drink offerings, offered by fire to the Lord for a sweet savour.
The verse lists additional offerings appointed for the feast beside the regular new-moon or monthly burnt offering and its grain offering. It places them beside the daily burnt offering and its grain offering as well, with their drink offerings according to their prescribed order and manner.
The regular daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings continued alongside the additional offerings appointed for the month and its observance. Those added services for new moons and other appointed times, including the annual Sabbaths and feasts, were additional to the regular daily service and never set it aside. The morning and evening sacrifices called the continual burnt offering were offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and were never omitted on account of any other offering.
Every burnt offering had its drink offering poured out upon the burnt offering. The wine used was strong wine, over a quart with each lamb, and it was never drunk freely by priests or worshipers. The great number of such burnt offerings, each with its drink offering, explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service.
Earthly Daily Ministration
Numbers 29:6 belongs to the appointed annual offerings and feasts that formed part of Israel's regular sanctuary service, alongside the daily and weekly offerings and the offerings at new moons. Those observances were part of the Levitical ministry in the earthly sanctuary, whose services served as a pattern of heavenly ministry, and the offerings for new moons and feasts are counted among its regular services. They were additional to the regular daily service, offered beside the monthly and daily burnt offerings according to their manner.
It is part of the daily ministration, the first division of the earthly sanctuary ministration accomplished continually in the holy place, the first apartment, by the Levitical priesthood. It places the offerings appointed for the new moon alongside the regular daily burnt offerings and their accompanying grain and drink offerings as part of those scheduled services, with the appointed offerings for new moons and feasts included among the regular services alongside the morning and evening burnt offerings and the work of the priests throughout the year. It prescribes part of the special work for the Lord's Sabbaths and for the annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts, with added burnt, meat, and drink offerings beside the monthly and daily burnt offerings, offered in addition to the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the morning and evening burning of sweet incense and lighting of the lamps, and the particular offerings of individuals through the year.
That general sanctuary service went on apart from individual offerings for pardon where a guilty sinner brought a victim, confessed, and received pardon. Besides that work for the individual sinner there were daily sacrifices of a more general nature, including the regular morning and evening sacrifice, the morning and evening burning of sweet incense and lighting of the lamps, the special work for the Lord's Sabbaths and for the annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts described in Numbers 28 and 29, and the particular offerings of individuals through the year. The morning and evening sacrifices are called the continual burnt offering in about sixteen places in Numbers 28 and 29, meaning they were offered for the entire congregation every day of the year. The whole first-tabernacle service is the example and shadow and pattern of Christ's ministry in the true heavenly tabernacle, distinct from the second division, the once-yearly work of the high priest alone in the most holy place with blood for himself and for the errors of the people and for the cleansing of the sanctuary.
Prophetic Timing Lessons
The verse also belongs to the offerings appointed for the tenth day of the seventh month, the typical day of atonement. The Bible is silent as to whether these burnt offerings with their grain and drink offerings were offered before the high priest entered the most holy place or after he came out. They may have been made after, at the time when the high priest came out.
They therefore give no proof of a long preliminary work before the cleansing of the sanctuary in the antitype. Even if they came first, the conclusion drawn from them is erroneous, because the spring types had the same circumstantial burnt offerings yet their great events met the antitype on the very day of the type. So the grand work of the day of atonement in the holiest must commence on the tenth day of the seventh month of its year, and may then extend forward a great distance corresponding to its magnitude. The continual comprehends the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained by God, and being a figure in all its appointments and services of the heavenly sanctuary, it applies with equal force to the sanctuary above taken away in Daniel 8.