These are the instructions for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, as well as the ordination offering and the peace offering. [Leviticus 7.37]
It probably has no significance, but I recognized today that there were six of these offerings. With all the detail laid out for these offerings, I cannot help but believe their quantity has significance as well.
Six is the number of man (as the Bible goes). And, while six does in fact represent all that man is (certainly greater than one or five), it speaks of incompleteness.
Even with all the details discussed and instructed regarding these six offerings, there remains something lacking. Six is close, but it is no seven - seven is the number of completion.
Jesus came as the seventh offering. In Him, all the other offerings are complete. In Him, being the seventh offering, there is rest.
There is nothing special about this thought today. But then, it could just be the most important thought I have had in years. As we consider all the protocol for Temple worship laid out in the Old Testament (old covenant), we must remain mindful that it is incomplete. Only in Jesus will we ever find completion. Only in Jesus will we ever find rest.
Father, let me contemplate the completion that Jesus brought to Your Kingdom today. Help me understand the significance of Jesus being the seventh offering.
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