Leaven, salt, oil, and incense of His people.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

No offering, which you shall bring to 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... And every oblation of your meat offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meat offering: with all your offerings you shall offer salt...offering of your first fruits green ears of corn dried by the fire...And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering. And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord."

(Leviticus 2:11-16)

Leaven is a symbol of corruption, forgery and degeneration. This ritual pointed directly at––centuries later––the future Church of Jesus Christ; that is, a human congregation which accepts the Son of God as Lord and Savior being spawn participants of his redemptive work. Enough to compare this ritual and the words of the Son of man, when he said: “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Mt 16:6); warning about the corruption and lies that are born under false religious representatives closely linked to the social dismantling, fanaticism, and political manipulations for personal gain and power ambitions, which the Church has suffered throughout its history. The Verb of God (Jn 1:1, 14, 34), reveals himself here, since the memorial days during the stays of the Hebrew people in the desert land.

You could not offer any present with yeast or leaven, as the future Church of Jesus Christ––especially in the End of Times––must become clean, pure, free of corruption and proven immoralities (1 Cor 5:6-8); hence the Tribulation hour. While it has not come yet the time to pluck the tares (Mt 13:28-30, 38-42) we must beware of the false leaven, from inside, doing much damage to Christianity as an individual and institution, for a little yeast can leaven the whole lump (Gal 5:9).

The salt, which by God’s order had to be included in every present, symbolized the essence of existence, reason why without it life would lack real motives and substantial flavors.

Without salt it would be like a void life, false and immoral; really pointing to later centuries when the Son of God autographed this meaning by saying: “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world” (Mt 5:13-14). Without Christ or Christians––and better be aware those who want to wipe us off the face of the earth––the world would be devoid of the daily salt that sustains society, lost in vain entertainments and astuteness; transforming the civic teachings of the bible by abstract and relative concepts; all destituted forever in desperations (Mt 5:16); and where due to excessive evil love would be also wiped off the face of the earth (Mt 24:12).

The grain roasted in the fire, spikes, oil and incense are apparently just part of a ritual sequence, yet here we are informed of the important doctrines––that centuries later––Christ tells his apostles (2 Cor 5:17).

The green spike is the man, who only examined and tested by the fire of the Holy Spirit and the Christian existence (Lk 3:16, 1 Pet 4:12) is lead to losing the old shell or old man (Rom 6:6, Eph 4:22), transformed into a new creature in Christ Jesus. This is symbolized in the crushed grain, ready and prepared to be offered to God. Taintless grain and cleansed of his sins (shell), becoming wheat (Christian) acceptable to serve God.

Oil is the incense that resembles the work and God’s Plan for each of his children, and prayers that every day saints spill before the throne of their Heavenly Father (Rev 8:3); showing patience, confidence and faith in the promises and divine omniscience.

If anyone doubts that these rituals were prophecies pointing as a shadow of the things that would be revealed centuries later, we recommend listening the apostle Paul when he said that this was an outline of such heavenly things which first manifest among us in a rudimentary way; and it cannot make us perfect in terms of awareness, but they help in forming the way of faith; when the patriarchs had as best, since those remote times, the vituperation of Christ than the fleeting earthly treasures, because they looked toward the eternal remuneration (Heb 8:5, 9:9-10, 11:26).

(What will life be on our planet once the Lord fulfills the promise of his coming? If interested you can read it in the form of a literary narrative,recreated in the author's book entitled: 'The King Victorino').

[These and other Old Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'Prophecies in the Pentateuch;' in print and digital editions]

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