2 Chronicles 8:12-16

The most interesting part to be noticed in these verses is what is said of the every-day offering. Never, from the. first institution of sacrifices was this omitted. The lamb of the morning, and the lamb of the evening. What a wonderful thought! that three o'clock in the afternoon which was the ninth hour in the Jews reckoning, should have been held so sacred for the evening sacrifice, because that was the hour which had been appointed before all worlds for the offering of the body of Jesus on the cross. The ninth hour Jesus cried, It is finished; and the whole of redemption was then completed. The Holy Ghost, we see, marked this hour in all the evening sacrifices with an eye to Jesus, from the beginning.