Dive into the profound world of Hebraic worship with this enlightening discussion on the grain offering as revealed in the book of Leviticus. Discover how this voluntary act of worship allowed the Israelites to express their gratitude and love for Yahweh through costly ingredients like fine flour, oil, and frankincense. Rabbi Schneider highlights the symbolic connection between these offerings and the person of Yeshua, demonstrating how they serve as a shadow of His divinity and humanity. This episode unpacks the essential elements and spiritual depth found in these ancient practices, inviting listeners to reflect on the cost and value
All of these offerings, beloved, are shadows of Yeshua. They’re windows into the person of Yeshua. We’re looking at Hebraic worship and what happened inside the ancient tabernacle that Yahweh commanded the children of Israel to build, that they might have intimacy with Him, that He might be able to dwell among them in the book of Exodus, chapter 25, verse 8. We are on today the second of the major offerings that are revealed in the book of Vayikra that took place inside the tabernacle. We’re looking today at what we’re calling the grain offering. It’s also referred to as the meat offering or the meal offering. This offering in Hebrew was called Menchah. It was a gift offering. It was something that the Israelite generally presented to Yahweh along with his burnt offering. Now, this offering was voluntary. In other words, this was not commanded. The Lord said, you don’t have to come before me and present this offering. But rather, beloved, this offering was something that the Israelite worshiper brought to Yahweh because they wanted to tell him that they loved him. and were thankful to Him for all that He has done for them and for all that He is. And so it’s very much connected conceptually that you could relate to if you have ever given a present to a friend, not because it was their birthday or a holiday, but just because you wanted them to know that you love them and you appreciated them. That’s what kind of an offering this was. We’re going to pick up now in the book of Leviticus, chapter number 2, as we read about the type of ingredients that were found in this offering. Hear the word of God. Now, when anyone presents a grain offering, it is an offering to the Lord. His offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. I believe that these ingredients of the oil… The frankincense and the fine flour are reflective of the glory of Yeshua’s person, both in his humanity and in his divinity. It was fine flour, which means that it wasn’t just flour, but it was very, very fine. Speaking of the nature of Yeshua. that he had been conformed to the image of God in his humanity, that he was so beautiful. He was the servant. Every part of his affections was in order. Every part of him was beautiful. Every part of him had integrity. He walked in perfect humility. It speaks of the glory of Yeshua, whose entire nature, beloved, was fine, precious, conformed to the image of God. And it speaks of that this offering had to have within it oil. The scripture says that Yeshua came out of the wilderness as he began his ministry, filled with the Ruach HaKadosh. And oil in scripture always speaks, beloved, of the spirit of God. And finally, we see that it was commanded that in this offering, there had to be frankincense. And of course, frankincense is an aroma. It’s something that smells beautiful. The book of Ephesians tells us in chapter five, verse two, that Yeshua giving himself up for us unto Yahweh was a beautiful and a fragrant fragrant aroma unto the Lord, that Yeshua’s whole life was a life that was beautiful. It was pleasing to the Lord. And oftentimes in Scripture, the Lord uses what is called anthropomorphic language. And what that means is that the Lord expresses concepts to us in our own vocabulary, in our own language to help us understand. In other words, when the Scripture says the finger of God, You know, does God have a finger like you? No, God’s a spirit, but it helps us to understand something about the Lord. And so when we hear about the Lord receiving fragrant aroma offerings to himself, it’s not that the Lord really takes pleasure in smelling our earthly sense, but it speaks of how precious the offering is to him, how beautiful it is to him. And so the life of Yeshua was a beautiful life before Yahweh. And so this offering, this gift offering, beloved, as it’s a reflection of Yeshua, had within it frankincense, showing the beauty of the makeup of Yeshua himself. Remember, all of these offerings, beloved, are shadows of Yeshua. They’re windows into the person of Yeshua. So I believe that the ingredients inside the offering represented the nature of Yeshua. Now, I want you to hear again that these ingredients, the fine flour, the frankincense and the oil, these were very costly for the average Israelite. So he wasn’t presenting to Yahweh that which cost him nothing. He was presenting something that cost him a lot because he was saying to the Lord, you’re so precious. I love you. I’m willing to give all this up for you. They didn’t have at their disposal lots of fine flour, lots of oil and lots of frankincense. It cost them something to obtain these ingredients. But they spent the money on these ingredients, just like that woman anointed Jesus’ feet with the costly bottle of perfume because they were saying to Yahweh, I love you so much. It’s like a man that buys his wife a fur coat or a big diamond ring, saying, I didn’t want to get you an imitation if you could afford it. I’m not saying that we all need to buy our wives fur coats and huge diamonds, but I’m just saying, The concept is, is a man that spends that kind of money is symbolically saying to his wife, you’re so precious to me, and I was wanting to spend all this money on you to let you know how beautiful you are to me. That’s the concept of this offering. It was a voluntary offering. The Lord is wanting us to turn our lives over to him, not because we have to, but because we want to. The Bible tells us not to give out of compulsion, but but to give with a joyful spirit because we want to. That woman that anointed his feet with the costly bottle of perfume, she didn’t do it because she had to. She didn’t do it out of compulsion. She did it because she wanted to. She wanted to lavish her love on him, wiping his feet with her tears and her hair. That’s what kind of offering this is. That’s how we want to love Yahweh. So Father, we ask you to put this kind of love in us. Your word says, Father, that we love you because you first loved us. Pour that love in me, Father God. Pour that love in the hearers, Father God, of this broadcast. Your word says, Lord, that the love of God has been shed abroad in our heart. Father, increase our love for you. Help us to understand in a greater way, Father, your love for us. and help us to surrender to your love and give ourselves back to you without reservation. Extravagantly, Lord, in Yeshua’s name, amen and amen.
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Now we pick up in the 11th verse because the Lord not only tells us in the first verse what to include in the offering, but he tells us in the 11th verse of Leviticus chapter two, what not to include. Hear the word of God. No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to the Lord. Now, keeping in mind that leaven is a symbol of sin and pride in Scripture, And keeping in mind that this offering, beloved, was a reflection of Yeshua. That’s why we had fine flour. It was an expression of his fine person, who he was as an individual, very fine in all his attributes. Leaven is the opposite of that. It’s pride and arrogance and that which is not of God. And so there could be no leaven in it. Leaven also, beloved, is a symbol of tampering with God’s creation. Do you know that we don’t understand today that a lot of the scientific research and experimentation that we’re doing is forbidden in the Torah. For example, it’s forbidden in the Torah to try to interbreed different species. But how much interbreeding is going on today? We have fish that are interbred with each other. You have dogs that are interbred with each other. You have flowers that are interbred with each other. All these new creations that man has made, tampering with God’s creation. See, God created the species separate from each other. And He doesn’t want mankind tampering with what He’s done because what He’s done, beloved, is beautiful in and of itself. He also told us in Leviticus 2, verse 11, that there could not be any honey in it. Let me read that once again, please, for you. No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to Yahweh. Now, why would there be no honey that the Lord wanted in the offering? Well, first of all, beloved, honey tastes good if you just have a little bit of it. But you know, if you start eating a lot of honey, it’ll make you feel sick. But too much of God, beloved, won’t make us sick. God is always good. Honey also, beloved, is symbolic of the pagans that used to offer up honey to their pagan deities, trying to bribe their pagan deities. We find this from historical and archeologist sources that in the ancient Middle East, pagan cultures would offer up honey to their deities, trying to bribe them and manipulate them, thinking, you know, if we offer up this sweet substance to our deity, maybe we can twist his arm and he’ll do something good for us. Or maybe if we offer up this sweet honey to him, maybe we can placate him and he won’t do something bad to us. But beloved, God is saying, I don’t want you offering up honey to me, trying to manipulate me like you do your children, telling them that they’ll be good. You’ll give them a piece of candy. I don’t need your honey to be manipulated to do good. I’m always good, says Yahweh. Psalm number 136, beloved. Verse number one says these words. I’m reading now from what we call in Hebrew, the Siddur, which means the order of service is just a prayer book. And much of the prayers that are in here are prayers, beloved, that actually come from scripture. And Psalm 136, verse one says this, “‘Give thanks to the Lord, He is good.'” His mercy endures forever. Again, we’re talking about not offering up honey to him because he doesn’t need us to bribe him to be good. The Lord is always good. Give thanks to the Lord. He is good, Psalm 136.1 says. His mercy endures forever. So I’m going to sing this little Hebrew song to you. It comes right out of Psalm 136.1.
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O du laranai ki tov, ki le’olam chazdo. O du laranai ki tov, ki le’olam chazdo. Ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, la-ra-nai, ki-tov Ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, la-ra-nai, ki-tov Give thanks to the Lord, He is good. His mercy forever endures. Give thanks to the Lord, He is good. His mercy forever endures. Ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, la-da-ni-ki-tov. Ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, ho-do, la-da-ni-ki-tov.
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Praise the Lord. God can’t be bribed. He doesn’t need to be bribed, beloved. Our God is always good. And God’s people said all the time, amen. Praise the name of the Lord. Now, I want to move on and I want to look at the 13 verses. We’re still studying the grain offering. The 13th verse tells us that this grain offering needed to be sprinkled with salt. Hear the word of God, Leviticus chapter 2, verse number 13. Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings, you shall offer salt. Once again, noticing and remembering that nothing here is arbitrary, that the Lord started, beloved ones, with a blank slate. In other words, all the information revealed in Scripture is there for a reason. God didn’t have to say that it needed to be sprinkled with salt, but He said it needed to be sprinkled with salt, and He said it, beloved, because there’s a reason for it. What’s the reason? Well, salt, if you think about it, is a preservative. In the ancient Middle East, the Israelites would use salt on their food they had in the refrigerators to keep their food from going bad. And so salt, beloved, being sprinkled on the offerings is Yahweh’s way of saying, this covenant that you and I have together will be preserved. Heaven and earth may pass away, Yeshua said, but my words shall never pass away. And so I want you to understand that the Lord wants us to be able to trust him. As we think about the application of this for our life today, the Lord wants us to take a hold of the fact that the covenant that he made with us is sprinkled with salt. And he wants you and I to say, you know what? I’m going to trust you, God. You tell me that you’re with me, that you’ll never leave me or forsake me. That’s the covenant you said you made with me. Lord, I’m going to trust you for that. Lord, you said that all authority on heaven and earth is given unto you. I’m going to believe, Lord, that you’re sovereign in my life and in my circumstances, that the covenant that you made with me is sprinkled with salt, that it endures. It’s also interesting to understand that in the ancient Middle East, salt, beloved, was also added to a covenant to seal the friendship. And so the Lord is saying that the covenant that you and I have together, it not only will be preserved, but beloved, it is a sign of the friendship that you and I have together. You and I can know the Word of God, but there’s a difference between knowing the Word of God and trusting the Word of God. God sprinkled, He literally spoke into our world and He said, sprinkle on my offering salt because I want you to trust me. I want you to know that the covenant that I’ve established with you will not fade away. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words, the Lord said, will never pass away. I want you to trust me. I want you to sink your teeth into my word. It’s the unfailing word of God. I want you to trust me for who I am, for I changeth not, say Yahweh. My purpose is to bless you and keep you and make my face shine upon you to be good to you and gracious to you. When we think about salt, remember Yeshua said concerning us in the book of Matthew 5, verse 13, he said about you and I that we are the salt of the earth. The concept is the same. We’re the ones that preserve God’s presence in the world. Even as the salt was sprinkled on the covenant, telling us that the truth of it, the integrity of it will be preserved, it will not change, we can trust it. God is saying, I want you to be salt, I want you to preserve the world. with my presence, the mincha, beloved, the gift offering. And so we’re going to move now. We’ve looked at the burnt offering. We just got done covering the gift offering. And we’re going to begin now the third offering, which is also a sweet aroma. It is, beloved, the offering that we call shelem. It’s an offering, beloved, of peace. It comes from the word shalom. The Hebrew word for the third offering found in Leviticus chapter three, it’s shalem. It’s translated in our Bibles as the peace offering. It comes from the Hebrew word shalom. The distinctive feature about this offering is that the Lord participated in it, the priest participated in it, as well as the worshiper. It speaks of friendship and peace and shalom with God. Do you know, my friend, that God is your friend? This peace offering, the Lord partook of it. The worshiper partook of it. The priest partook of it. Do you know that God is your friend? Yeshua said, no longer do I tell you slaves, for a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing, but I call you friends. I remember as a Jewish boy growing up in the synagogue, or a misfit in a conservative temple at age 13, they never told me that God was my friend in synagogue. They never told me that God cared for me. They never told me that God could help me with my problems. And then Jesus, hallelujah, appeared to me in a vision in the middle of the night in 1978. Eventually I got a New Testament, followed up the vision by getting a New Testament and reading it. And I learned, beloved, that God loved me and was my friend. tell a friend about this broadcast and beloved may god bless you and shalom
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When a rocket takes off from planet Earth, it has to break through the gravity that surrounds the world in order to become weightless. In the same way, there are certain things, beloved, that you and I must do to get free in Yeshua.
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Jesus said, he that tries to save his life will lose it, but he that loses his life for my sake shall save it. In order to lose our life, in order to live lives of sacrifice, in order to be givers, we have to break through the resistance of being takers and being selfish. I want to encourage you, beloved ones, to practice this principle with your finances. It may seem like I’m just a preacher asking for money, but the fact is what I’m sharing with you is true. I would simply say this, all of us need to be givers and all of us need to honor the Lord with our finances.
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This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. I’m Dustin Roberts, your host, and make sure to join us tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider explains what a peace offering is and how we can bring God pleasure or grievous spirit. That’s Tuesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
