02.07.2015 Old Testament: Lev 2.14–16

To read the Bible in a year, read Leviticus 1–3 on February 7, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Many were the sacrifices that the Israelites could offer to the Lord, including the grain offering,

“If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads. And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the Lord” (Leviticus 2.14–16). 

An Israelite would have a new harvest and to show his love and thankfulness toward the Lord, the Israelite would take of the firstfruits of the grain to the tabernacle, adding oil and frankincense. This was not a waste of time, but a reminder that we have all the good things of life, because the God of heaven shows us compassion daily.