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Leviticus 22:24-25
Excerpted from: A Vivid Comparison (2000)

You probably understand crushed, broken, cut—you know what that meant? No castrated animal was allowed to be offered to God. It was deficient. The offering had to be whole, complete, the way that God created it. And so a castrated animal was not allowed to be used.

Are you beginning to see something here? The offering that you make cannot have come from a stranger and merely passed through your hands and on to God.

And so they were not allowed to make an offering, we will see this a little bit clearer as we go along, of something that a Canaanite had grown, let us say, and the Israelite then went out into the field and cut it and then gave it to God. Not good. Not good at all.

Now, "the bread of your God" is that which is put on the altar and burned. And of course that teaches us that what goes on the altar is seen in the imagery as though God is eating it.

Let me make a little bit of a comparison here. Would you eat maggots, worms, slugs, cockroaches, or beetles? You would not eat that. That is repulsive to you. Now, apply that same principle to God. He was pictured as eating what went on the altar. Is He going to eat something that came from the stranger's hand? Is He going to eat something that was not whole when it was offered? Was He going to eat something that was defiled in some way so that when it came to Him on the plate it was already dirty? He was repulsed by that. And the imagery is that which is of a dog.

Now the Israelites were in the eyes of God a holy people. And an offering that was not produced by them was not considered by God as being holy, and therefore it was unacceptable. An offering must be holy, and a holy offering can only be made by holy people.

Leviticus 22:18-25
Excerpted from: Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part Six)

These verses very clearly spell out that God is not at all pleased when His people defile the very special relationship He has established with them by means of careless, corrupted, polluted, defective, unacceptable offerings that do not meet His standards. Again I ask you: Do you honestly think that Joshua would ignore those instructions?

Regardless of the condition of the offering itself, if it came from a Gentile—a stranger—it was not acceptable because of the source of the offering. Is that clear, or what?

You might have a little bit of difficulty between verse 18 where strangers are mentioned, and verse 25 where they are mentioned again. There is a difference between the two. The strangers in verse 18 are those who are traveling with Israel, living with Israel, and have become, as we would say today, converted and have been circumcised, making the covenant with God. Then there was one law. It did not matter whether the person was a Gentile or an Israelite. But if the person was unconverted, if he was a stranger, he had not made the covenant, his offering was unacceptable. That is the one in verse 25.

Leviticus 22:24-25
Excerpted from: Do Little Things Not Count?

The word "stranger" here literally means "one who is unknown." In its broadest sense it applies to the Gentile, but it also applies to those who are unconverted—those who have not made the covenant, those who, in the Old Testament circumstance, are not circumcised. So offerings are not to come from the unconverted one who does not know God, or is not known by God. Neither one. See, they are "unknown."

Leviticus 22:17-25
Excerpted from: Wavesheaf Requirements and Joshua 5

Something offered can come neither from the stranger's hand or in any way be blemished. Some like to say that this does not apply to the Wavesheaf. That is utter nonsense. The principle applies to all offerings. You don't create exceptions for other offerings. God always gets the best.

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