Fellowship Offering

Leviticus 2:13-3:1 – You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. “If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits freshears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain. And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the Lord. “If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

Numbers 15:20 – Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

Jeremiah 14:12 – Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Exodus 32:6 – And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Leviticus 7:16 – But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten.

Exodus 12:5-6 – Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

Application:

• ·         Firstfruits is a symbol that all blessing is from the Lord and all produce belongs to Him.
• ·         Sacrifice is to no avail when unaccompanied by repentance.
• ·         Fellowship was involved in the fellowship offering because the offerer, on the basis of the sacrifice, had fellowship with God and with the priest, who also ate part of the offering.
• ·         Israel tended toward idolatry.
• ·         A vow was a solemn promise to offer a gift to God in response to a divine deliverance or blessing.
• ·         Jesus was like a lamb without blemish or defect.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV