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Thru the Bible - #143-Numbers 28- Laws for Offerings
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SPEAKER_01:Numbers 28. The Lord said to Moses, Give this command to the Israelites and say to them, See that you present to me at the appointed time the food for my offerings made by fire, as an aroma pleasing to me. Say to them, This is the offering made by fire that you are to present to the Lord, two lambs, a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day. Prepare one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, together with a grain offering of a tenth of an epha of fine flour mixed with a quarter of hint of oil from pressed olives. This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the Lord by fire. The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hint of fermented drink with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the Lord at the sanctuary. Prepare the second lamb at twilight, along with the same kind of grain offering, and drink offering that you prepare in the morning. This is an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. On the Sabbath day make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil. This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. On the first of every month, present to the Lord a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, with the ram a grain offering of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and with each lamb a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil. This is for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the Lord by fire. With each bull, there is to be a drink offering of half a hen of wine, with the ram a third of a hen, and with each lamb a quarter of a hen. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year. Besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the Lord as a sin offering. On the fourteenth day of the first month, the Lord's Passover is to be held. On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival, for seven days each bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Present to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. With each bull, prepare a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, with the ram, two tenths, and with each of the seven lambs, one tenth. Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. Prepare these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering. In this way, prepare the food for the offering made by fire every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the Lord. It is to be prepared in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. On the seventh day, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. On the day of first fruits, when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain during the feast of weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old as an aroma pleasing to the Lord. With each bull, there is to be a grain offering of three tenths of an epha of fine flour mixed with oil, with the ram two tenths, and with each of the seven lambs one tenth. Includes one male goat to make atonement for you. Prepare these together with their drink offerings. In addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, be sure the animals are without defect.
SPEAKER_00:All right, now the last time we were together, we looked at how the Lord cared about the inheritance for five women, how he cared to show Moses the promised land, which he didn't have to, and how he cared to bring up a new leader, which was Joshua, after the upcoming death of Moses. Today we are looking at the laws of offerings. When it comes to worshiping God, it is to be done to his exact measure. And you have heard me say this a lot of times as we started these lessons. It must be how the Lord wants it to be done, not us, not how we want it to be or what we think, but how the Lord wants it to be done. Six times in this chapter, the Lord says, This is a sweet, soothing aroma to me. This should teach us that worship is important to God. There are five offerings to the Lord in this chapter, and that's how we're gonna break this offering excuse me. That's how we're gonna break this chapter down. We're gonna break this chapter down into five topics, and then going over each offering, the first, the daily offering. We see this in verses one through eight. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the sons of Israel and say to them, You shall be careful to present my offering, my food, for my offerings by fire of a soothing aroma to me at their appointed time. And you shall say to them, This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the Lord, two male lamb year old without effect, as a continual burnt offering every day. You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb shall be offered at twilight, also a tenth of an ephi of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a hand of beaten oil. It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai as a soothing room, an offering by fire to the Lord. Then the libation with it shall be a fourth of a hand for each lamb in the holy place. You shall pour out a libation of strong drink to the Lord. And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight, as a grain offering of the morning, and as his libation, you shall offer it, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to the Lord. Now, if you do the math with all of these offerings, the annual obligation was 1,086 lambs, 32 rams, 113 bulls, 1,000 bottles of oil and wine, and more than a ton of flour. In verse 7, it mentions libations. This drink included wine and strong drink. Look at verse 7 again. Now, that word strong drink, Hebrews 79, 41, that word means an intoxicating liquor. It also means an alcoholic beverage. So for those of you, excuse me, let me re-take that back. I I know not none of you, because you all sit down and you actually study the word of God. But for the illegalists out there, this is talking about strong drink. This is talking about alcohol. There is no way to get around it. You can kind of play your games and say, oh no, they were just drinking grape juice or a different form of grape juice. No, they were drinking grapes, but they weren't drinking grape juice. They were drinking wine, which is fermented grapes, and then you have distilled grapes, which performs strong drink. And the strong drink was uh uh would be how you get things like whiskey and bourbon. So they had a strong drink. Now you have to remember, all things are made by the Lord, and all of these things are good and can be good, and they can be made for you to enjoy. The key is that that you that you don't abuse it. And when you have this strong drink, the point is not to drink as many as you can to where you're drunk. It's not to uh just keep going and going and going until you can't stand up. It was just to be enjoyed. They were to enjoy it with their meal. In this case, the Lord said to pour it out, and notice where he said to do it at. He said to do it in the holy place. So for any legalists out there, you can be upset about it. But when the Lord said to Israel to bring the strong drink, he is talking about wine and even alcoholic drinks. We're gonna move on to part two, the weekly offerings. We see this in verse verses 9 and 10. Then on the Sabbath day, two male lambs, one year old without defect, and two tenths of the ephire of fine flour mixed with oil as a rain offering and as libation. This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath in addition to the continual burnt offering and his libation. You notice that for Israel, this is the Sabbath, so they were supposed to bring double what they did the other days. Because remember, they were to do no work on the Sabbath. Part three. The monthly offering. So we see this in verses 11 to 15. Then at the beginning of each of the months, you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord, two bulls and one ram, seven uh male lambs, one year old, without defect, without defect people. The Lord wants you to bring his best. And three tenths of an ephire of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with oil for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with oil for one ram. And a tenth of an ephire of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for each lamb, for a burnt offering of a soothing aroma, and offering by fire to the Lord. And their libations shall be half a hen of wine for a bull, and a third of a hen for the ram, and a fourth of a hen for a lamb. Excuse me, for a ram and a fourth of a hen for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year. And one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord, it shall be offered with its libation, in addition to the continual burnt offering. So we see these offerings continue. We had the weekly offering, now that was the monthly offering. Next we are going to look at the Passover offering. We see this in verses 16 to 25. Then on the 14th day of the first month shall be the Lord's Passover. And on the 15th day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no lubarious work, and you shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord, two bulls and one ram, and seven male lambs, one year old, having them without defect. That's the key to remember, without defect. And their grain offerings you shall offer fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephar for a bull, and a tenth for the ram, and tenth of an ephar you shall offer for each of the seven lambs, and one male go for a sin offering to make atonement for you. You shall present these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. After this manner, you shall present daily for seven days the food of the offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. It shall be presented with its libation in addition to the continual burnt offering. And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation, you shall do no laborious work. So we see that the Lord gives them the offerings that they were to make on the Passover. Then we move on to number five, the first fruits offering. And we see this in verses 26 to 31. Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the Lord, in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious works, and you shall offer a burnt offering for a soothing aroma to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs, one year old, and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephi for each ram, two tenths for the one ram, a tenth for each of the seven lambs, one male goat to make atonement for you, besides the continual burnt offering and his grain offering, you shall present them with their libations, they shall be without defect. And one of the main things I like to point out in there is that the Lord mentioned several times without defect, he wants their best. As we talked about, I mean, way, way back back when we was in Exodus, when you brought these offerings to the Lord, don't look and say, well, you know, I need one of these bulls, you know, to help me with the garden. And, you know, that one right there got a little bit of a limp. Let me get that as my offering. I mean, because you know, we're gonna sacrifice him anyway. No, you were to give the Lord your best. You were supposed to take that strong bull and present that to the Lord to show the Lord, Lord, you are the one who gave me all of these blessings. You are the one I obey, and I'm open, and my obedience will cause you to bless me even more than you have. So it was a key that you said that they stayed obeying the Lord. As it is for you and I, it is a key to stay on that path and obey the Lord. And it is a key that we do things in his order. We need to do things in the way that he wants and how he wants them to. God takes worship very seriously in this chapter right here. And if you were with me for chapter 27 here in Numbers, we saw that the Lord takes offerings, excuse me, he takes worship very seriously, and we are to abide for exactly how he wants that done. Okay. That brings us to the end of Numbers chapter 28. I hope that you enjoyed it. I hope that you learned something. 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