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RUSSELL SANDERS
12-13-2021
THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB – LESSON 6
LAMB SACRIFICES UNDER THE MOSAIC LAW – PART 2
Yesterday we mentioned the burnt offerings of lambs for particular situations. Some were for a
Sin committed. Others were for defilement related to blood, childbirth (blood related), touching dead bodies, or anything that made them ceremonially “unclean.”
Today we look at the lamb as a burnt offering sacrifice that applied to the people as a whole. The first sacrifice took place each day, one in the morning and one in the evening. All the biblical feasts (God’s feasts) required sacrificial lambs also.
The first feast was Unleavened Bread. This feast mentioned in Numbers 28:18-19 required a burnt sacrifice of seven lambs on each of the seven days, 49 lambs in all. This was the first week of the “Feast of Weeks” which were seven weeks (49) days leading up to Pentecost.
The second feast was First Fruits where seven lambs were offered the first day after the first weekly Sabbath following Passover.
The third feast was Pentecost (Leviticus 23:18). Seven lambs were offered as a burnt offering and two lambs were offered as a peace offering.
The fourth feast is what we now call Rosh Ha Shanah, or the Feast of Trumpets which is the first day of the Jewish civil New Year. Seven lambs are given as a burnt offering on that day.
The Fifth feast is the Day of Atonement which is on the tenth day of the first civil calendar month. It is the most solemn of all the Jewish religious holidays. This sacrifice is given for the covering of the sins of the entire nation. Seven lambs are killed and burned on the altar the same as other feasts.
The sixth feast is the Feast of Tabernacles which starts on the 15th day of the seventh month and runs eight consecutive days. Fourteen lambs are sacrificed on each of the first seven feast days and then seven lambs are sacrificed on the eighth day.
That is a lot of lambs over the course of a year. If calculated on the basis of our Gregorian Calendar (the Jewish calendar varies) it adds up by my calculation to 914 lambs which includes the two daily sacrifices and all of the sacrifices done during the feast days. This does not count those sacrificed for other particular situations. These lambs all had to be without blemish because they represented the pure innocent blood of the Lamb of God whose innocent blood and body had no blemish of sin or fault.
You may ask “What about the Passover lamb?” That is a whole different matter as it was not a sacrifice or burnt offering. We shall discuss that tomorrow.
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