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The Last Sacrifice
Read Numbers 5:1 through 7:89
Throughout the first five books of the Bible, we read about the seeming endless details regarding offerings and sacrifices. Numbers 6 outlines sacrificial requirements to be a Nazirite, including a list beginning with verse 14:
There he is to present his offerings to the LORD: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, a ram without defect for a fellowship offering (Numbers6:14).
Each person’s sin nature made it necessary to repeat the sin offering over and over.
When Jesus came, everything changed. God sent “his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering” (Romans 8:3). The Jewish community certainly understood this more than the Gentiles. There was no more need for all the various offerings and sacrifices for a variety of offenses. Jesus became the last sacrifice, “for all time one sacrifice for sins” (Hebrews10:12).
Thought for Today: I am very grateful for the power of Jesus’ blood to cleanse me from my sin, once and for all.
Quicklook: Numbers 6:13–21
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