What is the context?
After the ordination instructions comes the regular daily service. Two year-old lambs are offered each day, one in the morning and one at twilight. Each is accompanied by flour, oil and wine. This is a continuing burnt offering at the entrance to the tent.
God joins the offerings with His promise to meet and speak with His people. The place is made holy by His glory. He also declares that He will set apart the tent, altar, Aaron and his sons. The prescribed service is part of the life He establishes with Israel.
How is this passage commonly understood?
The daily offerings are commonly understood as the continuing sacrificial service before God. Wesley reads them as pointing toward Christ’s lasting intercession on the strength of His once-for-all sacrifice. He also draws an application of regular prayer and praise. The repeated lamb offerings belong to Israel’s worship; Christ’s death is not repeated each day.
Where does this fit in God's plan?
John 1:29–34 identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the world’s sin. Hebrews 10:1–18 explains the difference His work makes: priests stand repeatedly offering sacrifices, but Christ offers one sacrifice for sins and sits at God’s right hand. Through that one offering He accomplishes the lasting sanctification the earlier sacrifices could not complete.
The point is more than a contrast between two ways of carrying out a ceremony. Hebrews joins Christ’s completed offering with God’s promise of sins forgiven and His laws written within His people. The daily service belongs within a story that leads to that lasting relationship.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.