{"id":12660,"date":"2026-03-19T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:58:52","slug":"leviticus-216-then-the-priest-shall-burn-the-memorial-portion-part-of-its-beaten-grain-and-part-of-its-oil-with-all-the-frankincense-as-an-offering-made-by-fire-to-the-lord-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=12660","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus 2:16: “Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This chapter records the Old-Testament rituals that had to be followed in order to bring God a meal<\/em> or grain offering. Many see this fire as a picture of the passion or fervency of spirit that should be burning in all of us who desire to serve God. The picture from the New Testament is that the Holy Spirit is the fire that God puts in us. But we must be continually stirred up. As Paul wrote to Timothy, “Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:6\u20137).<\/p>\n

The Greek word “stir up” means to “rekindle” or “to keep in full flame.” Just as a campfire needs to be constantly stoked, rekindled, or added to, so our faith constantly needs to be given fuel. The picture is of stirring up the coals of a fire that has died down. When you stir up smoldering embers, the flames come back to life. Like Timothy, we also already have all that is needed for service to God and people, but the intensity of our faith must be maintained.<\/p>\n

In Leviticus 2:13 we read that every grain offering was to be seasoned with salt. This is another component best understood from the New-Testament perspective. As Jesus said, “For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another” (Mark 9:49). We know that salt both gives flavor and preserves from corruption. As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to add flavor to life and preserve the world around us from general corruption.<\/p>\n

“LORD, fill us with Your fire and salt that we might be stirred up to serve You today.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Leviticus 2 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0And when any will offer a meat offering unto the\u00a0LORD, his offering shall be\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall bring it to Aaron\u2019s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar,\u00a0to be\u00a0<\/em>an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD:\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And the remnant of the meat offering\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>Aaron\u2019s and his sons\u2019:\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>a thing most holy of the offerings of the\u00a0LORDmade by fire. 4<\/sup>\u00a0And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven,\u00a0it shall be\u00a0<\/em>unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5<\/sup> And if thy oblation\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>a meat offering\u00a0baken\u00a0<\/em>in a pan, it shall be\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.\u00a0\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a meat offering. 7<\/sup>\u00a0And if thy oblation\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>a meat offering\u00a0baken\u00a0<\/em>in the fryingpan, it shall be made\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine flour with oil.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the\u00a0LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>upon the altar:\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And that which is left of the meat offering\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>Aaron\u2019s and his sons\u2019:\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>a thing most holy of the offerings of the\u00a0LORDmade by fire. 11<\/sup>\u00a0No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the\u00a0LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0made by fire. 12<\/sup> As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the\u00a0LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.\u00a0\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the\u00a0LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire,\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>corn beaten out of full ears.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a meat offering.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall burn the memorial of it,\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of the beaten corn thereof, and\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof:\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>an offering made by fire unto the\u00a0LORD.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This chapter records the Old-Testament rituals that had to be followed in order to bring God a meal or grain offering. Many see this fire as a picture of the passion or fervency of spirit that should be burning in all of us who desire to serve God. The picture from the New Testament is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15886,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/15886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}