‏ Numbers 29:7-11

Offerings on the Day of Atonement

The day of atonement expresses the first effect of God’s renewed dealings with His earthly people. There will take place a great humiliation among the people, confession of the sins with which they have provoked God. It concerns the sins of idolatry and the rejection of the Lord Jesus. When they look on Him, they will come to a great general and also individual grief (Rev 1:7; Zec 12:10-14).

This will lead to an abundance of offerings being brought. The depth of the awareness of sin works a deep and great admiration for the Lord Jesus. That is seen in the picture here. On the day of atonement, no less than thirteen burnt offerings are brought. In Leviticus 16 the sin offering is in the foreground, here it is especially the burnt offering.

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