Numbers 29
Devotional:
“Celebrate the Festival of Trumpets each year on the first day of the appointed month in early autumn. You must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work. On that day you must present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It will consist of one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects. (Numbers 29:1-2).
Chapter 29 gives detailed instructions for three feasts that occurred in the seventh month (early Autumn) and on which the people would not work but gather for worship: the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and The Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Trumpets would kick off this holy month (as the number seven is a holy name), and the Feast of Tabernacles looked back to the people living in booths or huts while they were in the wilderness. The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, is the most holy among the three – a day of fasting when the high priest would offer sacrifice for his own sins and the sins of the people. As we read about this holy month, may we look to Jesus, the one who had no need to offer a sacrifice for his sin and yet sacrificed himself.
“Celebrate the Festival of Trumpets each year on the first day of the appointed month in early autumn. You must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work. On that day you must present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It will consist of one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects. (Numbers 29:1-2).
Chapter 29 gives detailed instructions for three feasts that occurred in the seventh month (early Autumn) and on which the people would not work but gather for worship: the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and The Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Trumpets would kick off this holy month (as the number seven is a holy name), and the Feast of Tabernacles looked back to the people living in booths or huts while they were in the wilderness. The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, is the most holy among the three – a day of fasting when the high priest would offer sacrifice for his own sins and the sins of the people. As we read about this holy month, may we look to Jesus, the one who had no need to offer a sacrifice for his sin and yet sacrificed himself.
Pray it:
Jesus, I praise you and thank you for being the sacrifice for my sin as the unblemished and perfect Lamb of God. Help me to continually offer up a sacrifice of praise in confessing and proclaiming His name (Hebrews 13:15). Amen.
Jesus, I praise you and thank you for being the sacrifice for my sin as the unblemished and perfect Lamb of God. Help me to continually offer up a sacrifice of praise in confessing and proclaiming His name (Hebrews 13:15). Amen.
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