To be taken with a grain of salt

Leviticus, chapter two.

To be taken with a grain of salt.

I think we are finding five grain offerings here.

We will stick to the alphabet labels – A, B, C, D & E.

And then there is a six offering here which seems to not include grain, it is called, plain and simply, “Firstfuits.” I suppose that is apples and oranges and pinto beans.

The five grain offerings have lots in common – fine flour and oil, but no leaven or honey, all get partially burnt. At least the first four are sweet aromas to the Lord, two of them are “most holy offerings made by fire.”

The main difference is how they were prepared.

Do you heat up our dinner rolls in the microwave or in the oven?

Covered or uncovered?

With butter and garlic salt or just plain?

Grain offering A is just fine flour and salt, with oil and frankincense poured on.

Grain offering B is cooked as cakes or wafers.

Grain offering C is baked in a pan—stove top, I assume.

Grain offering D is baked in a covered pan. Cooks faster?

Grain offering E is green heads of grain, roasted.

The non-grain firstfruits offering does not get burnt.

Centuries after Leviticus was written, the fine flour that was the Bread of Life,

was broken on our behalf.

I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger

John 6.35

Take, eat; this is my body.

Mt 26.26

I have eaten, I no longer hunger.