In Ex. 29:38, 3938Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: (Exodus 29:38‑39) and 42, we have God's instructions for the continual burnt offering. “Two lambs of the first year day by day continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning: and the other thou shalt offer in the even...for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the lord. This shall be a continual burnt offering." "The fire shall ever be burning on the altar: it shall never go out", Lev. 6:1313The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out. (Leviticus 6:13).
Interesting is the intimate relationship between the continual burnt offering on the brazen altar of which we have been reading in Ex. 29 and what immediately follows in chapter 30, where we have the golden incense altar. "Burn thereon sweet incense every morning... And at even he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord." For this, burning coals were to be carried in a censer from the brazen altar of burnt offering. All this speaks of the fragrance of Christ ascending in worship to God.
In the book of Numbers, chapters 28 and 29 teem with the truth of the continual burnt offering. Then "Beside the continual burnt offering," "every sabbath," "and in the beginnings of your months," "in the first day" of the seven days of the feast of unleavened bread," "And in the day of the first fruits,... after your weeks," "And in the... day of the blowing of the trumpets, " "And on the tenth day of the seventh month... beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering," "And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month... seven days ye shall offer a burnt offering"; in these days they were to offer altogether 70 young bullocks, 14 rams and 96 lambs. Then "On the eighth day... one young bullock, one ram, seven lambs... beside the continual burnt offering." All these countless offerings intimate God's infinite delight in the voluntary offering and sacrifice of His Beloved Son as a sweet smelling savor.
Oh the peace forever flowing From God's thoughts of His own Son.