“Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly. One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory. I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests. I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
Comment: We can thank God that we live after Calvary. God is Holy. That word often sounds so sanctimonious and unreachable. It is often used in a derogatory way! But God is not like that at all. He is truly good, but although He is Just, He has a steadfast love and He symbolically sits in the Tabernacle on the Mercy Seat! Yet sin is not a nothing thing! Jesus made the perfect sacrifice and we are meant to very aware of what He has done for us in the ‘Easter Event’, but if we are mindful of the pattern given to Aaron through Moses there were to be morning and evening sacrifices. They were costly – costly to the lambs and not inexpensive to the owners, but the smell of blood was covered by the pleasant aroma of the willingly given burnt offering gifts of grain, oil and wine. Whereas the sacrificed lambs pointed to the weightiness of sin and pointed forward to the death of the Lamb of God, the frequency points to the need for us to often come honestly to God in confession, and the pleasant aroma points to God’s expectation of our living in a way that pleases Him.
Prayer: Help to learn that You want to be the Centre of my Life!
As I read it! 