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What was the daily (tamid) service in the sanctuary, and what does it teach about God's ongoing provision and Christ's continuous intercession? How does the morning and evening sacrifice establish the rhythm that the annual Day of Atonement interrupts?

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DAILY OFFERING

  • Sacrificial: EXO 29:38-42; 30:7-9; NUM 28:3-8; EZR 3:4-6; EZK 46:13-15; DAN 9:21,26,27; 11:31; ACT 3:1
  • See OFFERINGS
  • Figurative: JHN 1:29,36; 1PE 1:19

INCENSE

  • Formula for compounding: EXO 30:34,35
  • Uses: EXO 30:36-38; LEV 16:12; NUM 16:17,40,46; DEU 33:10
  • Compounded by Bezaleel: EXO 37:29; By priests: 1CH 9:30
  • Offered morning and evening: EXO 30:7,8; 2CH 13:11
  • On the golden altar: EXO 30:1-7; 40:5,27; 2CH 2:4; 32:12
  • In making atonement: LEV 16:12,13; NUM 16:46,47; LUK 1:10
  • Offered in unauthorized manner: LEV 10:1,2 (Nadab/Abihu); NUM 16:16-35 (Korah); 2CH 26:16-21 (Uzziah)
  • Offered in idolatrous worship: 1KI 12:23; JER 41:5; EZK 8:11
  • Figurative — Of prayer: PSA 141:2; Of praise: MAL 1:11; Of acceptable sacrifice: EPH 5:2
  • Symbolical — Of prayers of saints: REV 5:8; 8:3,4

CANDLESTICK (LAMPSTAND)

  • OF THE TABERNACLE
  • Made after divine pattern: EXO 25:31-40; 37:17-24; NUM 8:4
  • Place: EXO 26:35; 40:24,25; HEB 9:2
  • Burned every night: EXO 27:20,21
  • Trimmed every morning: EXO 30:7
  • Called THE LAMP OF GOD: 1SA 3:3
  • OF THE TEMPLE: Ten branches: 1KI 7:49,50; Of gold: 1CH 28:15; 2CH 4:20
  • SYMBOLICAL: ZEC 4:2,11; REV 1:12,13,20; 2:5; 11:4

SHEWBREAD (SHOWBREAD)

  • Also called THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE: HEB 9:2
  • Called HALLOWED BREAD: 1SA 21:6
  • Ordinance concerning: LEV 24:5-9
  • Required to be kept before the Lord continually: EXO 25:30; 2CH 2:4
  • Provided by yearly per capita tax: NEH 10:32,33
  • Prepared by Levites: 1CH 9:32; 23:29
  • Unlawfully eaten by David: 1SA 21:6; MAT 12:3,4; MRK 2:25,26; LUK 6:3,4
  • TABLE OF: HEB 9:2; EXO 25:23-28; 37:10-15; Position: EXO 26:35; 40:22

ATONEMENT

  • For tabernacle and furniture: LEV 16:15-20,33
  • DAY OF: Time: EXO 30:10; LEV 23:27; 25:9; NUM 29:7
  • How observed: EXO 30:10; LEV 16:2-34; 23:27-32; NUM 29:7-11; ACT 27:9; HEB 5:3; 9:7,19,22
  • By animal sacrifices: EXO 29:36; LEV 1:4; 4:20,22-35; 16:6,10,11,15-19,24-34; 17:11; HEB 9:22
  • By incense: NUM 16:46-50
  • By Jesus: Made but once: HEB 7:27; 9:24-28; 10:10,12,14; 1PE 3:18
  • Redemption by: MAT 20:28; ACT 20:28; GAL 3:13; HEB 9:12; REV 5:9
  • Typified: GEN 4:4; 22:2; EXO 12:5,11,14 with 1CO 5:7; LEV 16:30,34 with HEB 9:7,12,28; LEV 17:11 with HEB 9:22
  • Unclassified scriptures: PSA 40:6,7; ISA 53:4-12; DAN 9:24-27; JHN 1:29,36; ROM 3:24-26; HEB 9:12-15; 10:1-20; 1PE 1:18-20; 1JN 2:2; REV 1:5; 5:9; 7:14; 12:11

LAMB OF GOD

  • A name of Jesus: JHN 1:29; REV 6:16; 7:9,10,14,17; 12:11; 13:8; 14:1,4; 15:3; 17:14; 19:17; 21:9,14,22,23,27; 22:1,3

LAMB

  • Offering of: EXO 29:38-41; LEV 3:7; 4:32; 5:6; 22:23; 23:12; NUM 6:12; 7:15,21; 28:3-8
  • Not to be boiled in its mother's milk: EXO 23:19

BLOOD

  • Is the life: GEN 9:4; LEV 17:11,14; DEU 12:23
  • SACRIFICIAL: Without shedding of, no remission: HEB 9:22
  • Of sin offering: Sprinkled seven times before the curtain: LEV 4:5,6,17; On horns of altar of sweet incense and bottom of altar of burnt offering: LEV 4:7,18,25,30
  • Of burnt offering: Sprinkled all around on the altar: EXO 29:16; LEV 1:5,11,15; 8:19
  • Of atonement: Sprinkled on the mercy seat: LEV 16:14,15,18,19,27; 17:11
  • OF CHRIST: MAT 26:28; ROM 3:24,25; 5:9; EPH 1:7; HEB 9:12-14; 10:19,20; 1PE 1:2,18,19; 1JN 1:7; REV 1:5,6; 5:9; 7:14; 12:11
  • To offer sacrifices: LEV 1:4-17; 1CH 16:40; 2CH 13:11; HEB 10:11
  • Light the lamps: EXO 27:20,21; 2CH 13:11; LEV 24:3,4
  • Keep the sacred fire always burning: LEV 6:12,13
  • Burn incense morning and evening: EXO 30:7,8; 1SA 2:28; 1CH 23:13
  • Place showbread on table every Sabbath: LEV 24:8
  • HIGH PRIEST: Light lamps: EXO 27:20,21; 30:8; Burn incense: EXO 30:7,8
  • On Day of Atonement: EXO 30:10; LEV 16; HEB 5:3; 9:7,22,23

OFFERINGS — BURNT

  • Purpose: to make atonement for sin: LEV 1:4
  • Ordinances: EXO 29:15-18; LEV 1; 5:7-10; 6:9-13; 17:8,9; NUM 15:24,25; 28:26-31; 29
  • Offered daily, morning and evening: GEN 15:17; EXO 29:38-42; LEV 6:20; NUM 28; 29:6; 1CH 16:40; 2CH 2:4; 13:11; EZR 3:3; EZK 46:13-15
  • Skins belonged to priests: LEV 7:8; Music with: NUM 10:10
  • Animal sacrifices as type of Christ: PSA 40:6-8 with HEB 10:1-14; ISA 53:11,12; JHN 1:29; 1CO 5:7; EPH 5:2; HEB 9:19-28; 13:11-13; REV 5:6

HORN

  • Symbolical: DAN 7:7-24; 8:3-9,20; AMO 6:13; MIC 4:13; HAB 3:4; ZEC 1:18-21; REV 5:6; 12:3; 13:1,11; 17:3-16
  • The morning-evening pattern appears across ALL Holy Place activities: lamp, incense, showbread (weekly but before the Lord continually), and the burnt offering itself.
  • The Nave's PRIEST entry connects ALL daily duties to the priestly role, confirming the daily service as the defining activity of the priesthood.
  • The BLOOD entry traces blood destination differences: sin offering blood → horns of altar + before veil; burnt offering blood → sprinkled on/around the altar; Day of Atonement blood → mercy seat. This progression of blood access corresponds to deepening levels of atonement.
  • The ATONEMENT entry distinguishes daily individual atonement (Lev 4) from annual corporate atonement (Lev 16), with the daily laying the groundwork that the annual resolves.