Meal-offerings with oil and incense. ‘When anyone presents a grain offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour [olive] oil over it and put frankincense on it. lev 2:1
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
OUT LINE OF THE BOOK LEVITICUS
A Manual of Worship at the Tabernacle
1.DIRECTIONS REGARDING THE OFFERING OF SACRIFICES, Leviticus 1-7
1.The Five Offerings, Leviticus 1:1-6:7
2.Meal, Lev_2:1-16
2. What did the meal-offering suggest or teach? Why accompanied by oil and incense, but never by leaven or honey?
LAWS FOR GRAIN OFFERINGS
‘When anyone presents a grain offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour [olive] oil over it and put frankincense on it.
He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. Out of it he shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall offer this up in smoke on the altar [of burnt offering] as the memorial portion of it. It is an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma to the LORD.
What is left of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings to the LORD by fire.
‘When you bring an offering of grain baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.
If your offering is grain baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine unleavened flour, mixed with oil.
You are to break it into pieces, and you shall pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
Now if your offering is grain cooked in a lidded pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
When you bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD, it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar [of burnt offering].
The priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar. It is an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma to the LORD.
What is left of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings to the LORD by fire.
‘No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven [which symbolizes the spread of sin] or any honey [which, like leaven, is subject to fermentation] in any offering by fire to the LORD. [1Co_5:8]
As an offering of first fruits you may offer them [leaven and honey] to the LORD, but they shall not go up [in smoke] on the altar as a sweet and soothing aroma.
You shall season every grain offering with salt so that the salt (preservation) of the covenant of your God will not be missing from your grain offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings. [Mar_9:49-50]
‘If you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.
You shall put oil on it and lay incense on it; it is a grain offering.
The priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion, part of the crushed grain and part of its oil with all its incense; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Leviticus 2:1-16
MEAL-OFFERINGS WITH OIL AND INCENSE
The meal-offering, which is described in this chapter, portrayed in emblem the perfect character of our Lord. He was as fine flour, of the best quality, without grit or coarseness. There was nothing uneven, nothing rough and harsh, nothing unseemly or forbidding in Him. He was anointed with the oil of the Holy Spirit; His perfect obedience was fragrant to the Father, and should be so to us; there was no leaven of guile or hypocrisy in His constitution. See Eph_5:2. We should feed on His holy character by meditation, and resemble it in daily living. The interposition of the priest was an essential feature of the ancient ritual, informing us that our prayer and self-surrender are acceptable to God through our Savior. We are also reminded by Lev_2:14 that we are called to be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures to the Creator. See Jas_1:18.
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