BRAGADAYLAH 353
So the Lord ordered that the
sheaf of first fruits was to be waved by the priest the day after the Sabbath.
And also to be offered that day, when the sheaf was waved was a male lamb
without blemish of the first year, for a burnt offering unto the Lord. And the
meal offering thereof was a two tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil an
offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savor; and the drink thereof a
fourth part of a hin of wine. And it was further offered that neither bread,
nor parched grain, nor green ears was to be eaten before that day, when an
offering would have been brought to the Lord. And this commandment shall be a
statute forever throughout all generations, said the Lord.
As we study the law of the
offerings, those which have gone before, such as the trespass and sin
offerings, we see that God stipulated precisely the kind and type of offering,
and how and when and to whom it should be presented for it to be acceptable. We
may wonder why God is so detailed concerning these offerings until we cast our
minds back to the days of Cain and Abel, at a time when there was no particularity
regarding offerings to the Lord, and we know how that turned out.
It is submitted, therefore,
that God wanted to leave his people in no doubt regarding the kind of offering
he would or would not accept. And at the same time we may be sure that Cain’s
offering to God did not find favor with God because either the giver or his
offering was blemished in some way or other. More
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