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Leviticus starts with instructions about the three most important non-festival related offerings: whole offerings, sin offerings and peace offerings. Although we no longer have a Temple to offer up literal lambs, goats, bulls and doves, we can still discover what type of offering we can offer in our days that would be a “pleasing aroma” to Him.
Thought Questions
Why are certain parts of the offerings rinsed with water?
How is the grain offering separate form the other offerings and why is it important?
Why does Jewish tradition encourage the burning of a portion of the challah bread when most recipes for challah bread use yeast and honey, which are both specifically forbidden as a burnt sacrifice?
When are offerings “tradition”?
Do the offerings themselves save people from sin?
What are the different categories of offerings?
What is “qorban” (Strong’s 7133a, root is qarab, Strong’s 7126)?
What are the qualifications for a whole offering?
What is the word for “whole offering” (olah Strong’s 5930a, root is alah, Strong’s 5927)?
What does it mean to be “without blemish” (tamim, Strong’s 8549, the root is tamam, Strong’s 8552)
How do we approach God (Romans 12)?
What is a voluntary offering?
What parts are removed from the whole offering? What parts are washed? What order are the parts placed on the altar?
Why is this a “pleasing aroma” to God?
How are we a “whole offering” to God?
What is a “grain offering”?
Is the grain offering a form of a whole offering? (minchach Strongs 4503)
Why is it mixed with oil?
What other ingredient is added to the grain offering?
Why is the grain offering called a memorial (azkarah, Strong’s 234, root zakar, Strong’s 2142)?
What does it mean that the remaining grain offering is “most holy” (kadosh kadoshim, Strong’s 6944 and 6918)?
Why is the grain roasted before being offered?
Why is the grain unleavened?
Are we the “bread of the earth”?
Who are represented by the handful of grain that is burnt?
Who are represented by the grain that remains with Aaron’s sons?
What is a peace offering (shelamim, Strong’s 7965-8003)?
Reader: John Walsh. Speaker: Richard Agee.