Grain offering
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📚“And when any will offer a grain offering 📖 to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. 2 📚And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it his handful of its flour, and of its oil 📖, with all its frankincense 📖. And the priest shall burn its memorial 📖 on the altar, as an offering made by fire, of a soothing aroma to the LORD. 3 📚And the rest of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons 📖. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.4 📚“And if you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be cakes of fine flour made without yeast, mixed with oil, or wafers without yeast, anointed with oil.
5 📚And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour without yeast, mixed with oil 📖. 6 📚You shall break it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a grain offering. 7 📚And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD, and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. 9 📚And the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial and burn it on the altar. It is an offering made by fire, of a soothing aroma to the LORD. 10 📚And what is left of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
11 📚“No grain offering which you bring to the LORD, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, or any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
2:11 Honey is corruptible. It may ferment and turn sour. There was no such thing in Christ.🪶
12 📚As for the offering of firstfruits, you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar as a soothing aroma.
2:12 Leaven and honey which signify evil and corruptibility could be offered with first fruits because first fruits sometimes signify redeemed men who still have sin in them (Rom 16:5; 1 Cor 16:5; Jam 1:18; 1 John 1:8-10).🪶
13 📚And you shall season every offering of your grain offering with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings.
2:13Ezek 43:24; Mark 9:49-50; Luke 14:33-34; Col 4:6. Salt is the opposite of leaven. It preserves from corruption. Num 18:19 and 2 Chron 13:5 have the phrase “covenant of salt” in Hebrew. This means a permanent covenant never to be corrupted or changed.🪶
14 📚“And if you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh heads of grain dried by the fire, grain 📖 beaten out of full heads.
2:14 Christ was crushed and put in the fire for us.🪶
15 And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. 16 📚And the priest shall burn its memorial, part of its beaten out grain, and part of its oil, with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
2:15-16 The grain offerings signify Christ but they also reveal what believers should be. They should be fully dedicated to God, purged of yeast (1 Cor 5:7-8 – every corruptible thing), seasoned with salt, anointed with the Holy Spirit, and fragrant in their lives of holy service to God.🪶