Grain Offering Prepared at Home - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

The LORD is near - Saturday, June 25, 2023
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

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Grain Offering Prepared at Home

If you bring as an offering a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. But if your offering is a grain offering baked in a pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil. You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. If your offering is a grain offering baked in a covered pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
Leviticus 2:4-7 NKJV

Grain Offering Prepared at Home
God desires His people to bring to Him that which reminds Him of Christ and His sacrifice. That is why He prescribes, down to the minutest details, what needs to be done; nothing is unimportant. There were three different ways to prepare the grain offering, and all was done at the home of the offerer. Thus, God wants us to be occupied with His dear Son and with His life not only on the Lord's Day, but especially at home in our daily activities. Verses 1 to 3 provide an overview of the ingredients, while verses 8 to 13 add the instruction that salt was always to beâ€”and leaven and honey were never to beâ€”part of the grain offering.

In verses 4 to 7 our attention is drawn to the role of the fire in the baking process. The first offering was ring-shaped like bagels, exposed to the fire all around. This illustrates the testing by God's holiness which found nothing wrong in Christ. Furthermore, this fire was in the oven, which represents a process that was hidden. And so God wants us to meditate upon Christ's sufferings as a Man on this earth, sufferings that were not visible to people around Him, though they can be glimpsed with the spiritual eye. The other forms of baking were less intense and more visible; yet the fire played a major role in them as well. The oil was both part of the ingredients and poured over the broken pieces, signifying various forms of testing the Lord went through under the Holy Spirit's direction. Let us worship Him!

-- Alfred E. Bouter

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