Numbers 29:39 (KJV)
These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
Notice the word beside.
Our text describes the series of feasts among the Jews:
- The Feast of Trumpets
- The Day of Atonement
- The Feast of Tabernacles
These were holy days. We’ve shortened that term today into “holidays.”
While there were prescribed days of rest—times when no servile work was to be done (that is, work performed out of obligation, debt, or gratitude)—what stands out to me is the sheer burden of work involved in these feasts.
Numbers 29:6 (KJV)
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
During the feasts they had to keep up with:
- The monthly sacrifice,
- The daily sacrifice,
- And everything else in addition.
It reminds me of coming back from vacation. I keep up an active life, and it’s not as though the work stops while I’m away. It waits. No—it piles up—until I return. When I step back into my office, I must catch up on everything left undone besides what normally belongs to that day.
That is why the word rest, and the related word peace, are so important to New Testament faith. Christ has already done all the work needed for our relationship with God. There is nothing left for us to do but rest peacefully in Him.
Yes, in this world we will have tribulation, and in the harvest fields now ripening there is work for us to do. But as far as our standing with God is concerned, the work is finished. Our place is to trust Him.
John 14:27 (KJV)
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Besides… The Work Is Done
Are you carrying the weight of life’s “besides” — all the things that never stop piling up? The Old Testament feasts remind us how endless the work was. But Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you” (John 14:27). He finished the work of salvation — all that’s left is to rest in Him. ✝️
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