Exodus 29:38-46
The Daily Offerings (Numbers 28:1–8)
38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory. 44 So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests. 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
The passage here brings to mind Psalm 55:16-18 that echoes the sacrifices of burnt sacrifices offered to God in the morning and evening here as with daily prayers for atoning forgiveness. The daily sacrifices were to be a sweet aroma wafting up the God seated in the heavens above from where the people met God at the door of the temple and heard His voice. We now meet in these temples of our bodies (1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19) individually and as stones together (Ephesians 2:20-21, 1 Peter 2:4-5) in the larger congregations of our worship to offer the sacrifices of praise (Hebrews 13:15) and of our very lives (Romans 12:1) to Him as a sweet aroma (Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4) to Him in our prayers of daily sacrifice. There we meet in our morning devotional times and noon or evening prayers as we gather together to hear from the Lord from His written word spoken through the scriptures and the servants who preach them to us. The mere buildings of our assemblies are not like the temple of old yet are sanctified by his presence in and among us as we serve our Beloved (Ephesians 1:6), the Lord Jesus Christ, and one another as His beloved (Romans 1:7, Philippians 3:12) children. He is our Lord our God who lives in and among us as the elect of the Lord Jesus Christ whom we worship (Matthew 28:9, Luke 24:52) in spirit and in truth from the altars upon which we sacrifice ourselves daily as if on the altar of the cross which we are crucified with Him as we die daily to self and in our prayers of thanksgiving and praise to Him, offering unending prayers morning and evening!
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