ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Pulelulu Siulai 7, 2021

Pea fakamatala ‘e Mōsese ki ha‘a ‘Isileli ‘a e ngaahi me‘a kotoa pē

Moses told the children of Israel everything

Nomipa 29 (Numbers 29)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing the laws concerning the feasts as they governed the year, the celebrations of the autumn were next dealt with. Three feasts are mentioned -First, the feast of Trumpets (verses Num 29:1-6 ), then the great day of Atonement (verses Num 29:7-11 ), and, finally, more particularly described here than any of the others or than elsewhere, the feast of Tabernacles (verses Num 29:12-40 ).

A study of these arrangements will show again how the increase in sacrifices noticed from the daily offering to the monthly is yet more remarkably manifest in these annual festivals.

Thus the whole year was covered and conditioned by these solemn religious rites and ceremonies. Every day as it broke and passed, every week as it began, every month as it opened, every year both as it commenced and closed was sealed with the sacred matters which ever spoke to the people of the relation they bore to God, as based on sacrifice and expressing itself in service.

David Guzik :: Study Guide for Numbers 29

(v. 40) Pea fakamatala ‘e Mōsese ki ha‘a ‘Isileli ‘a e ngaahi me‘a kotoa pē kuo tu‘utu‘uni ‘e Sihova kiate ia.

(v. 40) So Moses told the children of Israel everything, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

So Moses told the children of Israel everything: Significantly, now as Israel was on the threshold of the Promised Land, they needed to be reminded of the essential place of sacrifice. Promised Land people know they need an atoning sacrifice and they remember it often.

Just as the LORD commanded: For Israel to obey what God commanded in Numbers 28 and 29, it meant that every year, the priests sacrificed on 1,086 lambs, 113 bulls, 32 rams, more than a ton of flour, and some 1,000 bottles of oil and wine behalf of the nation.

The most prominent animal of sacrifice was the lamb. This is a obvious prophetic reference to Jesus, who is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

Just as the LORD commanded: All this sacrifice did not include the sacrifices made by individuals or households. The priests and Levites were clearly busy with the job of sacrifice, and it was fulfilled at considerable expense.

In the days of Jesus, there is record of 255,600 Passover lambs being sacrificed at one Passover just by individuals and households.

Significantly, none of it was enough! Not one of these hundreds of thousands of sacrifices over the centuries could ever take away a person's sin; that had to wait until a perfect sacrifice was offered - the sacrifice of Jesus.