Welcome to Numbers study number 29, all 40 verses of chapter 29, Lord willing, and the church don't rise. So we send out our Hebrew this time out to Vanessa Basquez. Sister Vanessa, down there somewhere in Florida. Here's your hillbilly holler from the flatlands outside of Columbus. I'm a transplanted hillbilly. I don't have hardly any hills around me right now. But there's your hillbilly holler. Sister Vanessa's been a long time listener and we just appreciate and love all of those who love the word of God and we look forward to meeting some of you this side and others of you we won't meet till we're on that side. of glory. But with that, let's get into a word of prayer. Father, we thank you, Lord, for this opportunity to read, study, learn, and teach on my behalf. Those who are listening, learn something with your help, and then you can continue to teach them by your Holy Spirit. Thank you so much for saving our souls from hell by the blood of Jesus Christ. And that's what's pictured in so much of this Old Testament book of numbers with the sacrifices we're talking about, that precious blood of Jesus. And in his name we pray, amen. So beginning with chapter 28, we began the final teachings given by the Lord to Moses, mostly repeating things that we'd learned in Exodus and Leviticus. before the death of Moses, as recorded here in Numbers. So we're getting a third look at how the end, really the second look. Exodus doesn't really deal much with his death at all, but does give us a lot of the same material, or at least some of the same material. And now when we come to Deuteronomy here in a few chapters, we'll get what is a second account, that Deuteronomy basically means second law. And like the Gospels, it's not a second law in the sense of another one, but it's a second version of the law in the book of Deuteronomy. and it'll have summaries that'll give us some of the same material, but it also will give us additional information that we didn't get in Exodus, Leviticus, or Numbers. That's a few studies down the road. In the meantime, we find ourselves here in Numbers 29, which follows on the heels of a reminder of the offerings to be given with the spring. and summer feasts. The spring feasts being Passover and unleavened bread and then first fruits. And after the countdown, you take the seventh-day Sabbath after Passover, whenever that happens. Sometimes it's one, two, three days out from Passover. Sometimes it can be the entire week. But from that Sabbath, then you count seven weeks, which would be 49 days, and the following day is Pentecost. And then you don't count anymore, but you just wait to the seventh month, Tishrei, or Tishrei. And that brings us to the Fall Feast, and that's where we're at here. And Numbers 29, we'll be given the the offerings related to the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. So we begin with verse one, and in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have an holy convocation. You shall do no servile work. It is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. Literally, Feast of Trumpets. Blowing of trumpets is also referred to as Rosh Hashanah. On our calendars, it would correspond to the fall feasts. All three of them would correspond to our September, October, but it's not one-to-one, so every year it would be a little different. The three spring feasts take place in the first month of the Jewish year, called Nisan, also called Abib. But most of Israel today doesn't recognize Nissan as the first month. They come up with this civil or civic calendar. And they call this the religious calendar, and all but the Orthodox really ignore that calendar, except for observing the feast. They don't look at it as the actual first day of the year. And so, as I said, 50 days after that, Seventh Day Sabbath, following Passover, came the feast of Pentecost. And that marked the beginning of summer, really. And then the end of growing season would be marked by a feast of first fruits, known as the Feast of Trumpets on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, or Tishri. And that's where we're going to continue reading here for a few verses as it describes the offering that is to be given at this time. Verse two says, and ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish. Verse three, and their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three-tenth deals for a bullock, and two-tenth deals for a ram, and one-tenth deal for a lamb throughout the seven lambs. Verse five, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you. Verse six, and beside the burnt offering of the month and his meat offering and the daily burnt offering. So this is beside all that and his meat offering and their drink offerings, according unto their manner for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord. So then on the 10th day of Tishri or Tishri, we have the day of atonement. And the offerings are described as follows Beside the burn offering of the month and his meat offering and the I'm sorry I'm verse 7 and ye shall have on the 10th day of this seventh month and holy convocation and ye shall afflict your souls ye shall do not do any work therein and Verse 8, but ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savor, one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year. They shall be unto you without blemish. So here on the 10th day is the day of atonement. And that's a time where there would be a mourning, a heart of repentance and confession made of sin. And then you're to offer these offerings. Let's read one more verse, verse nine. And their meat offering shall be a flower mingled with oil, three-tenths deals to a bullock, and two-tenths deals to one ram. We've gone into some detail in previous studies, especially in Leviticus, about these sacrifices, so we're not going to repeat all that there. But we don't want to skip this either. It's very important. We'll address that in a moment. The Day of Atonement was the only day in any of these feasts where there was to be any kind of spirit of mourning. The prophets later, you'll read where they will question Israel and say, when did I say to fast? It doesn't say fast, it's a feast day, not a fast day. And they had kind of perverted these and it was virtue signaling. They weren't really sincere even in the fasting and the mourning, M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G. They were putting on a show. And it was not only a show, but it was a bad show because God hadn't even told them to do that. The offerings were to remind them of the cost of sin, later described by the Apostle Paul, Romans 6.23, for the wages of sin is death. And then it's to picture in these animal sacrifices and the blood sacrifice what was to come. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. He would shed his blood. to pay for our sins. So this would be a day of reflection and confession and mourning, as J. Vernon McGee explained it, quote, but God did not want his people to spend a life of mourning. There was only one day of mourning every year. All the others were, all the other feasts were feasts of joy. He continues, there were the sin offerings and the trespass offerings. Christ has atoned for our sins on the cross, how we needed that. But the emphasis is on the burnt offerings, the burnt offering continually every day and the burnt offerings of the feast days. God is delighted in his son." We talked about that previously. The burnt offerings speak of the satisfaction of God as the smoke. The offering is totally consumed. The smoke goes as a satisfying savor unto the Lord. Jesus satisfied God's justice by paying for the sins of the whole world. So now we come to the Feast of Tabernacles on the 15th day of Tishri. John Wesley said this, quote, This was the Feast of Tabernacles, and all the days of their dwelling in booths they must offer sacrifices. while we're in these tabernacles, talking about our bodies, tis our interest as well as duty to keep up our communion with God, nor will the unsettledness of our outward condition excuse our neglect of God's worship." In other words, this was a duty even though you had plenty of other things going on in life and you had to take every day of the week, for a solid week, you had to do these things, you had to follow these Sacrifices and there was no excuses for it And this be something to meditate on if you think that you're somehow excused because you're busy or whatever From local church attendance of course some people are too sick to attend and that but you and God know if that's true but if you are able to and you do not attend your local church and if you can't find a bible believe in local church these days God's made it possible to do it in digital format we offer that with our live streams and if it's us or some other church wherever you identify then you should support that ministry with your tithes and offerings as well as your prayer and you should get a stamp with their address on it or their web address and hand out gospel tracts and refer people to their ministry that those people if they get saved they need a local church as well and so forth. That's the picture here, but now we see the offerings required that we're going to do some reading now First of all on the 15th day verse 12 says of the seventh month you shall have an holy convocation You shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days Verse 13, and ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord, 13 young bullocks, two rams, and 14 lambs of the first year. They shall be without blemish. Verse 14, and their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three-tenth deals unto every bullock of the 13 bullocks. That's a lot of sacrifice. Two-tenth deals to each ram of the two rams. Verse 15, and a several-tenth deal to each lamb of the 14 lambs. And then verse 16 says, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering beside the continual burn offering, his meat offering and his drink offering. That's day one. And then you have repetition, day two, beginning in verse 17 through 19. And on the second day, you shall offer 12 young bullocks. Two rams, 14 lambs of the first year without spot 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 their manner. Verse 19, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, decide the continual burn offering and the meat offering thereof and their drink offerings. Now this is where you lose people that aren't serious about their commitment to the Bible. But we should first of all be seeing a pattern here. We go into day three, verse 20. And on the third day, 11 bullocks, two rams, 14 lambs of the first year without blemish. Verse 21, 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 manor. Verse 22, and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual bird offering and his meat offering and his drink offering. So obvious pattern there. And again, this is where you lose some people because they're like, oh, if it's just an entertaining me, I'm not gonna do it. Well, that's, you're missing discipline. That's what the word disciple means. Demonstrate a little discipline. Do things even when you don't feel like it, or you don't feel like you're getting something, or your feelings in general are not excited about it or whatever. God has told us to do this, so we're gonna do it. So, we pick up with verse 26 is the fifth day. And on the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams and 14 lambs of the first year without spot. Verse 27, 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 manor. And verse 28, and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burn offering and his meat offering and his drink offering. So we come now to the sixth day in verse 29. We'll read these instructions in just a moment. Someone might ask, at this point, why the repetition? Well, first of all, why would God repeat these things every day and repeat them like this? This is my own answer. It's based on deductive reasoning. But God lays things out in such plain, repetitive, and sometimes seemingly boring detail on occasion, in several books of the Old Testament especially, for three main reasons. Number one, people are wicked. They rebel against clear instruction and this kind of repetitive clear instruction leaves the rebellious without an excuse. The people who are supposed to be offering these sacrifices But it also applies to those who just refuse to read every word, even though we're told to read every word. We'll come back to that in a minute. Second reason, people are forgetful. You cannot assume when it comes to people that they're gonna remember the details, so repetition helps alleviate that issue to a great extent. So again, for the priests and those who are to bring the offerings, that serves the purpose of dealing with rebellion and forgetfulness. human frailty, but then the third reason, this will offend some people, but people are stupid. Now this is different from being rebellious or forgetful. People may not forget, really, and may not be in full rebellion, but may just think that since God didn't repeat it, then he didn't really want to get into that kind of trouble and be that specific. And so that's why we see this in Numbers 28 and 29. Maybe that's just to thwart anyone from thinking that it's just no big deal, especially to those who lived in that day and had to offer these things. Regardless, God has good reason for repeating himself when dealing with sinful, fallen, damaged human beings. So we pick up then with day six in verse 29, and on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams, and 14 lambs of the first year without blemish, 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 manor, and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burn offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. So that's the sixth day. So we come to the seventh day. So this is a full week of this stuff going on. And I want to remind you before moving on, you may not understand exactly why, as we said, but God has told us to live by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God. You may think I'm being a little too literal with that verse, but Moses said that in Deuteronomy 8.3, that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. It's then repeated twice by Jesus. Matthew 4 4 and then again in Luke 4 4 with these words and Jesus answered him saying it is written that Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God Jesus is the one talking to Moses in Deuteronomy 8 and And Jesus then quotes his own words that were given through Moses in Matthew 4, 4 and Luke 4, telling us to read every word. So I'll risk being a little too literal and take those repetitive statements seriously. It's true. You might see where I mistakenly skip a couple of verses inadvertently. I never do that on purpose. My wife and I read through the Bible together. We don't skip portions or anything like that. I wasn't even sure if I read the fourth day from 23 to 25 back there. If I didn't, then I apologize. But that wasn't on purpose. If I did, then that was the intent. Because I believe in doing what God tells us to do. When I teach, verse by verse, we don't skip anything. So we'll continue reading every word of these seemingly repetitive verses here in Numbers 29 as we pick up with the seventh day in verse 32. And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams and 14 lambs of the first year without blemish. Verse 33, 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 manor. Verse 34, and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering and his drink offering. So we're done here, right? Oh, but wait, what's this? We're told to do something on the eighth day. So if you've gone beyond the whole seven day thing, Verse 35, on the eighth day, you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no servile work therein. Now why would God take this feast and these offerings out to an eighth day? Well, again, this isn't something you find stated outright in scripture, but when you see the way God's plan unfolds, you have the number seven is the divine number of perfection, or the number of divine perfection, maybe better stated, or completion. So what's eight? Eight represents what follows the completion of God's plan. What follows the completion of God's perfect plan when it's all said and done? Eternity. And we will praise the Lamb beyond the seventh day and into the eighth day, which is an eternal day. I love these. I got a couple of Psalms here to read. Psalm 30, verse 12, to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent. Oh, Lord, my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever. Every saved man, woman, and child who goes to heaven is gonna do that forever and ever, giving thanks to the Lord. Psalm 45, 17 says, I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever. So we're gonna give praise, but you rest assured all the people in heaven will be redeemed by the blood of Christ. We will know we ought to be burning in hell and we're not. We're in heaven and we're gonna give him thanks and glory forever and ever. As Peter also put it, writing these divinely inspired words in 1 Peter 4, 11, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever, amen. So we close out the eighth day of tabernacles, begin verse 36, but you shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord, one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish. Verse 37, 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 manor. Verse 38, and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burn offering and his meat offering and his drink offering. As I said, we've discussed the symbolism, what these things foreshadow or their types in the past, so we're not repeating all that. But verse 39 says, these things ye shall do unto the Lord in your set feasts. So this isn't for us to literally do today. We don't have a temple or a priesthood or feasts, that the feasts of the Lord for Israel, not for the church. But it goes on to say beside your vows and your free will offerings for your burnt offerings and for your meat offerings And for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings. He doesn't leave anything out and then verse 40 closes and Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses and that's a great example as a pastor I read I study and I just want to tell you what the Lord has told me and And that's what you do then. You take what you learn from the pastor, you take what you learn from your Bible study, and you just go out and you teach and tell others. But a final note, the Feast of Tabernacles, as we mentioned, foreshadows the coming of Christ. He tabernacled among us. And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory as of the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. It was likely that he tabernacled, He was born into a human body at the time of the Feast of Tabernacles, probably close to, this is said tongue-in-cheek, but could be around September 18th, which was my birthday. Certainly, I really don't believe it was in December. enjoy Christmas. We enjoy celebrating the Incarnation in December, but we make clear to people the actual facts about it and try to use it as a teaching moment for people. We don't go around like the holiday hunters, always trying to fix everything and straighten everybody out all around the world. We just make sure those who are sitting under our teaching understand the truth of the matter. And they murdered Him in His tabernacle the first time He came. The second time He will come and tabernacle among us, and they will never crucify Him again. Jesus will rule and reign in His glorified body, sitting on a throne in Jerusalem, and He'll never be crucified again. And we look so forward for that day. Amen.