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Leviticus 2:11
Excerpted from: The Sacrifices of Leviticus (Part 5)In Leviticus 2:11 it says, "No meal offering which you shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven; for you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire." There we have two of them, but these are most assuredly not to be part of the offering. No leaven. No honey.
Finally in Leviticus 2:13 it says, "And every oblation of your meal offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt." So frankincense and salt are seen as necessities in each meal offering, but honey and leaven were forbidden. Each of these shows what is either pleasing or displeasing to God.
Honey, though it is sweet to the taste and it too cleanses wounds and preserves what it is put into, breaks down and is corrupted and is destroyed by heat. It shows then that it is not what appears on the outside of a person's personality that counts. Some people can be all sweetness and nice as long as things are going their way, but it is what is in the heart that trials reveal. We might say another cliché that "beauty is as beauty does."
Leaven, although it is very useful to physical life providing qualities that enable us to enjoy things like nice light bread, beer, and wine, is symbolically a spreading, corrupting influence that destroys. Leaven is one of the Bible's strongest symbols, and of its effects on individuals and society. In the New Testament it signifies wickedness and malice in contrast to sincerity and truth (I Corinthians 5:7). This is how far we got in the last sermon.
Leviticus 2:7-11
Excerpted from: How Much Leaven Can God Take?We are going to go back to the very roots of how God shows sin's destructive powers.
Both honey and leaven, are of themselves, normally good food; however, the symbolism contained within each is what is important in the context, because both, as they are spread through the flour, have, or contribute to having a fermenting, putrefying affect; thus God is teaching us what sin does. It putrefies. It corrupts those who commit it. Maybe the definition of the Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, under the article "leaven," will have a little more force if you understand how liberal the Interpreter's Bible and the Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible can normally be understood. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, under the article "leaven" defines leaven as "any substance added to dough which produces fermentation." "Any substance" is pretty conservative.
The leaven referred to here is actually a fungus that breaks down carbohydrates in the flour, and as it spreads it produces a gas that causes the doughy mixture to puff up. Honey speeds and accelerates this completely natural process, and thus they are a perfect combination for portraying what sin does to a human. Sin expresses pride, and sin promotes more sin.
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Excerpted from: The Two Wave Loaves of PentecostVerse 12 mentions the offering of the firstfruits, which is a reference to the Pentecost loaves. The Pentecost grain offering contains leavening, while the typical grain offering here does not. God forbids the priest from putting the loaves on the altar because of the leavening.
The altar symbolizes God's table, and He does not partake of the leavening. Instead of being burned on the altar, the priest holds up the loaves before God and waves them. That action implies God's close inspection, and hopefully, His acceptance. But the leavened grain offering is for use by the priest. It is acceptable for one use, but not another. If the leavening typified something positive in the Pentecost offering, it would have been fit for God's altar. However, as this shows, God requires a distance from the leavening.
Leviticus 2:11
Excerpted from: Parables of Matthew 13 (Part 2): LeavenEvery year we keep the Days of Unleavened Bread to depict just this process, and to be thankful that we have this sacrifice—Christ our Passover—who saves us and forgives us. In the Levitical sacrifices no leaven could be in any of the offerings that could be made (Leviticus 2:11), because they typified the sinless Christ. The two wave loaves that were offered on the day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23) were made with leaven, because they represent you and me, the Old Testament, and the New Testament, or the Old Covenant, and the New Covenant—the churches of those times that were full of leaven. But God accepts them, because the blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin. He knows our frame, and then gives us grace.
ArticlesPrepare to Meet Your God (Part Five): Religion and Holiness
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Seven): The Sin and Trespass Offerings
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Three): The Meal Offering
EssaysPentecost's Two Leavened Loaves (Part Three)
SermonsMatthew 5:13: 'What is the Salt of the Earth?'
The First Day of Unleavened Bread (Part One)
Offerings (Part Three)
The Parable of the Leaven, Expanded
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