Numbers 28-30 Lots of Bawling And Bleating

This is the part that’s hard to imagine.  The church must have smelled like a butcher shop!  And the endless bawling of calves and bleating of sheep being kept for sacrifices certainly must have been noticeable.  More than anything, what a picture it painted of man’s sinfulness before God and its terrible cost!  At the Feast of Shelters alone, 71 bulls, 15 male sheep, and 105 male lambs had to be sacrificed, and each day a sin offering of 1 male goat was made to take away the people’s sin (and they were at church the whole time!)  201 animals would die at each Feast of Shelters!

Yet none of this was enough to fully remove the sins of the people and make them able to come into God’s presence!  I also wonder what the Jewish people today think when they read in the Torah that they are supposed to be doing all of this and they know that they don’t?  Wouldn’t they be heaping sins on their heads right now?

Father, thank You for the extravagant, once-for-all-time gift You gave in allowing Your Son to die on the cross for our sins!  All of the animals killed in the millennia since You told them to start doing this are as nothing to the preciousness of Your Son’s blood.  What love!  What love!

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford