Hey, it is Shelby and Scott here. We are in numbers 28 through 30. So the past few chapters have been a little all over the place. We had Balaam. We had the Israelites rebelling against God. Now we're getting into some laws. Like, what's go? Oh, in the census. I forgot

about the census. We had that thrown in there, too. That was important. Don't forget the numbers.

Maybe I'm trying to block that out of my mind. I don't know. But, Scott, what's happening in these chapters?

How do they play into numbers? To kind of get back up, give a big picture, from 26 on through the rest of the book of numbers,

the whole book is really about preparation at this point.

So final preparations for entering the land, preparations for how they're supposed to live once they settle in there.

And in chapters 28 and 29, those speak to what worship

should look like in the regular rhythms of their lives once they get into the land of Canaan.

And I appreciate the study day pointing out how these different sacrifices are, they're listed

out in order of daily, weekly, monthly, and then yearly sacrifices.

So, okay, as Christians under the New Covenant, these laws do not apply to us in the same way, correct?

Sure.

So what do we take away from this?

Yeah, that's a great question.

You know, even though we're not required to participate in these specific rituals as they're laid out here, I do think we are still called to remind ourselves of many of the same truths that these rituals were meant to remind Israel of.

Okay, I'm listening.

What does that look like?

Yeah, so we've got like the celebration of the Passover and then of the feast of unleavened bread in these chapters. And these are very closely

related feasts. They're observed annually. And they reminded the Israelites to celebrate God's

salvation, his deliverance of them from slavery in Egypt, and, you know, just

how he redeemed them with a mighty hand. And then, you know, the festival of weeks, which is also

known as Pentecost, where the Israelites would celebrate them many ways God had provided for them

...