Trader Joe's is of no help
- Marcos
- Jan 8
- 2 min read
This just seems to sneak up on us: “the salt of the covenant.”
Lev 2.13
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.
I went to Trader Joe’s to look for some of this salt of the covenant.
They have sea salt, and ancient sea salt.
They have Himalayan pink salt.
(I figure those mountains have a pink tinge to them).
There’s sea salt crystals, sea salt flakes.
Pyramid salt, (from Egypt)?
They even have non-racist black salt.
If I had known about that one when I was a hippie, I would have partaken.
But the closest thing they have to salt of the covenant is kosher salt,
but I suspect that’s apples and oranges.
So I gave up on Joe’s and went back to the Bible.
I find it twice:
All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you,
and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due.
It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you
and for your offspring with you.
Numbers 18:19
Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel
gave the kingship over Israel forever to David
and his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chron 13.5
Not a whole lot to go on here,
but I thinking God is saying it is a forever thing.
It is preserved.
It has no end.
In that case, there is a covenant of salt, in the New Testament.
It was black when it took place,
joyous immediately afterwards.
Jesus.
On the cross.
Forgiveness for us.
Life life eternal, forever.
Please pass the salt.
