The Feast of Tabernacles is a time of joy and sacrifice. In the book of Numbers, we find a pattern of sacrifice and offerings. Many spiritual parallels are found in the New Covenant in the form of living sacrifices, exemplified by Jesus as both a literal sacrifice and a pattern by which we conduct our lives. Interestingly, the sacrifices are all divisible by seven. Christ has been symbolized as an ox (an uncomplaining laborer or servant). Daily reduction of sacrifices represent the vanishing of the physical sacrifices replaced by Christ, bringing in the incremental increase of the character of God—a complete and total devotion and surrender to God, putting to death our carnal nature.