Leviticus 7:11-14

We are going to see that the peace offering is divided into actually three varieties of offerings: one called thanksgiving or praise, either one; another one is called a vow offering; and another a voluntary or a free will offering. So now He is giving directions regarding if you make a thanksgiving or a praise offering, a peace offering.

Now we begin to see a difference here with the peace offering. We see that the priest is now sharing in this offering. He did have a small share with the meal offering. With the burnt offering nobody got anything but God, complete and total devotion. With a meal offering the offeror did not get anything but the priest got a portion of the offering. The rest was burned on the fire. Now with a peace offering, we find that God gets the fat, but now we find that there is a meal offering being made with a peace offering and a portion of that meal offering goes to the priest.

I need to describe something here just very briefly, just to help you to understand. It is called a heave offering. Now we are going to come across a wave offering in just a bit and there is a difference between a heave offering and a wave offering. They may seem the same to you but they are different.

When you say the English word "heave," the idea you probably get in your mind is somebody picking up a whole side of beef and slamming it up on top of an altar. That is not what the word means. It merely means to lift up. That is all. And what it actually pictured was the offeror picking up a piece of meat and handing it to the priest. It was his, it did not go on the fire. It went to the priest, it was his.