Title: Meal offering/: Leviticus 2:1-16
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Subject: Meal offering/: Leviticus 2:1-16
There are five major sacrifices among the Israelites' offerings to the Lord, and four of them are animal sacrifices. A meal offering is a vegetable offering.
The text tells in detail how to serve as a raw material as a fine powder and when to serve cooked, baked, baked, or boiled.
1. Offering with fine flour. “As a gift with fine flour” (1). It symbolizes the life and death of Jesus Christ as the crystal of the sacrifice in which the grain was pulverized. He also said that he was anointed with oil, but this oil symbolizes the Holy Spirit. He was told to put frankincense on it, but this frankincense was to offer its offering to Yohowa. In Revelation 5:8, incense is said to be the prayer of the saints.
2. Method of offering a meal offering. ① Unleavened bread made by mixing fine flour with oil or oiled unleavened bread had to be offered. ② Fine flour was not leavened, mixed with oil, and divided into pieces and baked on a griddle. ③You had to mix fine flour with oil and cook it in a pot. ④God made the offerer freely choose among these three methods.
3. Procedures when drilling (8-9). Procedures are important in any ritual. Cain also offered grain offerings. However, Cain's offering was not acceptable because it was not mixed with the blood of livestock according to the law of the grain offering. Therefore, all sacrifices must be made there according to the procedure God has instructed. This indicates that we should always look at the cross of Jesus when we worship. We must remember that it is the duty of the saints to offer sacrifices that are acceptable in God's sight, looking only at the cross of the Lord's sacrifice.
Method of meal offering (Exodus 2:11-16)
The text points out what to do and what not to do when offering a grain offering, and mentions the offering of the first grain of grain. Giving the first fruits of the first harvest to God is a gift of devotion and gratitude.
1. Forbidden use. "You shall not put any leaven in your meal offerings" (11). Leaven was excluded from the meal offering. This means to beware that a little evil spreads rapidly into the hearts of many, as the leaven swells. Also, I was told not to add honey to the meal offering because it promotes spoilage. This is not to be a cunning dual personality with different words and deeds. Because sin is at first as sweet as honey, but in the end it becomes a catalyst for the destruction of man. Therefore, the grain offering must be offered with an unchanging offering and with all sincerity.
2. What you said to use. “Salt all your grain offerings” (13). Salt seasons the food used in the meal offering and prevents spoilage. In Matthew 5:13, salt refers to the mission of the saints. Just as salt melts to season food and prevent corruption, so we believers are to be sacrificed for the glory of the Lord.
3. The first gleaning offering, "When you offer the first gleanings to the Lord" (14) The first gleanings of the first harvest here mean really precious. Also, it is the Lord's sacrifice to use roasted and roasted food as a meal offering. Even now, God still demands of us the most precious gift of devotion.