The
Continual Burnt Offering as it Related to Israel: Lev. 6:8-13, Exodus
29: 38-46; 2 Chron. 29: 6-8.
1. So far this study has focused on the law that dealt with the individual Israelite in his devotions to God.
2. The continual burnt-offering is for the nation as a whole and is to be made by the priest alone. - Lev. 6: 8-13; Exodus 29: 38-46.
A. A lamb with its meal and drink offering was to be offered each morning and another in the evening. (Numbers 28:5-7)
B. Intended to be a constant reminder and renewal of Israel's consecration to YHWH and a kingdom of priests.
C. Was to be a constant expression of Israel's worship to God.
D. It was a reminder of Israel's fellowship with God - Exodus 29: 45-46.
3. The ritual of the sacrifice is the same - that of consecration.
A. No sins are confessed by the priest in this offering.
B. The theme is devotion of the individual and the nation.
C. The spiritual Jew remembered the offering made each morning and identify with it.
D. Thus, it was not just priests worshiping God but priests leading the nation in worship.
4. The fires (lit by God) of the continual burnt offering must never go out.
A. Commanded three times. Lev. 6:8, 12,13.
B. Such would indicate that Israel had forgotten God.
C. See 2nd Chronicles 29:7-8 for the consequences of neglecting this obligation.
D. As with the regular burnt-offering, worship is never to be an occasional thing but constant reminder as the ashes were removed twice a day (morning and evening) the spiritual Jew was to renew himself.
5. Why did God later condemn in such scathing terms the burnt-offering?
A. Isaiah 1:11-20; Amos 5:21-24 are examples of this rejection.
B. They kept the external ritual even when there was no internal devotion.
C. Especially when the intent of the ritual is so expressive of deep devotion and love. (cf. Matthew 15:1-15 and think!).
The Life of Christ As the Fulfillment of the Burnt-Offering.
1. From day to day, hour to hour this sacrifice depicts his whole life.
A. The continual burnt-offering is prophetic of His constant self- consecration to God without any reservation.
B. Nothing was held back - John 2:17 - Zeal for thy house.....
2. In the burnt offering is seen the underlying devotion, consummate love and sacrificial consecration of his whole life to God's service.
A. John 17:19 - For their sake I sanctify myself.
B. Eph.5:2 ...and offering and a sacrifice to God for an order of a sweet smell. This is the burnt- offering.
C. Heb. 10:7 - I am come (in the roll of the book it is written of me), to do thy will oh God.
3. There is a big difference between the continual burnt-offering and the sin-offering.
A. There is no "continual sin offering."
B. Even the annual sin offering was finished ___once for all.
C. Christ did not hang on the cross continually as the Catholic church has their dogma.
D. But His entire life He devoted Himself to YHWH.
The Christian and the Burnt Offering.
1. Christians are expected to respond in like kind. ..that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. John. 17:19.
2. Rom. 12:1-2 - present your bodies a living sacrifice.
3. Phil. 1:20 - magnify Christ in my body whether in life or death.
4. I Peter - 2:5 - offer up spiritual sacrifices to God.
5. Ehp. - be imitators of God.