Numbers 29:23 says, And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: Verse twenty-four adds, Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: The number of bullocks for the burnt offering continued to decrease, but but rams remained the same. The meat and drink offerings were to be the same for each animal. Verse twenty-five continues, And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. Again, the sin offering was one kid goat, and this was in addition to the normal burnt, meat, and drink offerings. If we give to a special offering, I don't believe that we should consider our regular tithes and offerings to be a part of the special offering. Verse twenty-six states, And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot, Verse twenty-seven adds, And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: Verse twenty-eight continues, And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. The number of bullocks continued to decease, and the amount of the meat offering decreased by the amount required for the bullocks. Verse twenty-nine says, And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: Verse thirty adds, And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: Verse thirty-one continues, And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. Though the number of bullocks decreased, all the animals were still to be without blemish. We are to bring the best that we have to God. Verse thirty-two states, And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: Verse thirty-three adds, And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: Verse thirty-four continues, And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. These once more were in addition to the normal offerings, and there was still only one young goat for the sin offering, just as Jesus Christ is our only acceptable sin offering today. Verse thirty-five says, On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein: On the eighth day, the people of Isreal were to have a solemn assembly, and again were to do no unnecessary work. We too often declare nearly everything to be necessary work on the Lord’s ’s Dsy, instead of setting it aside strictly to worship Him. We may also make it necessary for others to work instead of being able to rest and worship God. Verse thirty-six adds, But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish: The number of bullocks and rams decreased to one, and the number of lambs decreased to seven. Verse thirty-seven continues, Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: This meant that the amount of the meat and drink offerings would also decrease, since they were determined by the number of animals in the burnt offerings. Verse thirty-eight concludes, And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. The sin offering remained the same, and as always was separate from all other offerings. Any offering we bring to God todsy must be to accomplish His work and bring honor and glory in Him, but it can never atone for our sins. Accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord is the only way to have our sins atoned for, since He alone is the only acceptable sin sacrifice. Verse thirty-nine states, These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.. God said that these things were to be done in addition to the normal offerings. God may at times call on us to give extra to His work, but as long as we acknowledge that everything belongs to Him to start with, we should never have a problem with this. Verse forty adds, And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. Moses told the people of Israel what God had said, as so must we as Christians tell the people of the world what God has said.
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