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KORAH - "TO REMOVE ONE’S COVERING"
(Weekly Reading>>Numbers 16:1 to 18:32, 1 Samuel 11:14 to 12:22, 2 Timothy 2:8-4:5, 2 John 1-13)
The land of Israel originally given to the Children of Israel was from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, but with lack and decrease the land shrank to ten percent of the original totality. As part of Israel when we actively walk in the principles of the Lord our land increases just as it did in Solomon’s time. (Genesis 15:18; Joshua 1:3-4; Ruth 3:1-18; 1 Kings 4:21).
As Christ’s Bride we are to make ourselves known at the threshing floor of the tabernacle.
Covenant of Salt
The Salt Covenant relates to the offerings. The five offerings are:
•The elevation or burnt offering,
•The grain or meal offering,
•The shalom or fellowship offering of peace,
•The sin offering, and
•The asham/guilt offerings
Salt was to be presented with all grain offerings.
In a previous study we looked at the salt covenant from the perspective of its diverse physical applications of preserving and purifying, and through the spiritual and moral aspects relating to the characteristics of the priesthood. In this study we will investigate the salt covenant as it relates to the fellowship/peace offering.
In Numbers 18 the priests were responsible for the heave/wave offerings. Once they were presented on the altar to Yahweh the offerings became holy, thus only the priests could handle them. After the offerings were presented, Yahweh gave the heave/wave offerings as a gift to the priests.
The Salt Covenant is the Heave/Wave Offering
The heave/wave offering represents Jesus, the Bread of Life. It is also our firstfruits offering of appreciation and thanksgiving to Him for His Covenant to us and for His faithfulness.
Yahweh’s people are to be the world’s most hospitable people. Salt has historically symbolized hospitality and salt also heals. In the past, after you settled a dispute with your neighbor you would then invite the person into your home to share a dish of salt. Each of you would lick your finger, dip it in the salt and then eat the salt together. This was the symbol of friendship that healed the rift. This is why the offerings we make to Jesus are salted, to heal any innocent violation or offence we have made against Yahweh and our fellow man. Salt is pure, germs cannot live in it; in the same way, believers are also to be pure. Salt purifies. Believers are called to be the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13). They purify the earth by walking in Christ’s ways and by not tolerating false philosophies, dishonest ways of doing business, selfish desires, etc.
We have learned in the previous study (Vayikra/Leviticus 2:13) that the salt covenant is in direct relationship with the tithe and the order of Melchizedek, a kingly and priestly order. We see this with Abraham presenting tithes to the King of Salem/Melchizedek and receiving the blessing.
The Hebrew word for salt is melach (Strong’s #H4417), which is very close to the Hebrew word for king, melek (Strong’s # H4428). Salt and oil are always to be part of the grain offering. Salt also accompanied the elevation and fellowship offerings. Ezekiel 43:24 notes that the priests will cast salt on the elevation/burnt offerings in the millennial age. The incense offering, the symbol of worship to God, must also be seasoned with salt as true worshippers worship the Father in spirit and truth (Exodus 30:35; Leviticus 2:13; John 4:23-24).
The term covenant of salt was applied to the perpetual statute by which tithes and offerings were to be given to the priests (Numbers 18:19). The Covenant established with David (King and Priest) whereby he was accorded an everlasting reign over Israel, was also a covenant of salt.
Salt, tithe and priesthood are all linked together in Scripture by Covenant. Together they represent those who are in Covenant with Jesus - a Covenant of preservation and protection, a pledge of loyalty, a preserving substance, the prevention of disease/disorder and a consecration agent.
We are grafted into Israel/Jesus through the Abrahamic Covenant and we are called sons of David through Jesus Christ. The Abrahamic Covenant gives us our identity as part of Israel along with three gifts: a land, a people and a blessing. How to receive and walk in these gifts is reveled to us through the next covenant called the Mosaic Covenant.
The Mosaic Covenant was given to Moses at Mount Sinai during the Feast of Pentecost and is also called the Betrothal Covenant. When the Bride is obedient to the words spoken at Mount Sinai (the Mosaic Covenant) she enters into the next covenant; the Davidic Covenant, as a king and a priest (The Davidic Covenant is also called the order of Melchizedek).
It was through Moses that we were given the teaching as to how to inherit and walk in the salt covenant as a priest – the Bride of Jesus (Jeremiah 33:20-21; Revelation 1:6).
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KORAH - "TO REMOVE ONE’S COVERING"
(Weekly Reading>>Numbers 16:1 to 18:32, 1 Samuel 11:14 to 12:22, 2 Timothy 2:8-4:5, 2 John 1-13)
The land of Israel originally given to the Children of Israel was from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, but with lack and decrease the land shrank to ten percent of the original totality. As part of Israel when we actively walk in the principles of the Lord our land increases just as it did in Solomon’s time. (Genesis 15:18; Joshua 1:3-4; Ruth 3:1-18; 1 Kings 4:21).
As Christ’s Bride we are to make ourselves known at the threshing floor of the tabernacle.
“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse [tabernacle], that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the LORD/Yahweh of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” says the LORD/Yahweh of hosts; “and all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD/Yahweh of hosts” (Malachi 3:10-12).
“And your heave offering [the priestly tithe] shall be reckoned to you as though itwere the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress” (Numbers 18:27).
Covenant of Salt
The Salt Covenant relates to the offerings. The five offerings are:
•The elevation or burnt offering,
•The grain or meal offering,
•The shalom or fellowship offering of peace,
•The sin offering, and
•The asham/guilt offerings
Salt was to be presented with all grain offerings.
In a previous study we looked at the salt covenant from the perspective of its diverse physical applications of preserving and purifying, and through the spiritual and moral aspects relating to the characteristics of the priesthood. In this study we will investigate the salt covenant as it relates to the fellowship/peace offering.
Leviticus 2:1,13 “When anyone offers a grain offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.”
Leviticus 2:13 is the first time we see salt used with the offerings.
Leviticus 7:12-17 “If he offers it [the fellowship/shalom offering] for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering asa heave/wave offering to Yahweh. It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering. The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning. But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire.”
Leviticus 7:12-17 “If he offers it [the fellowship/shalom offering] for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering asa heave/wave offering to Yahweh. It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering. The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning. But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire.”
In Numbers 18 the priests were responsible for the heave/wave offerings. Once they were presented on the altar to Yahweh the offerings became holy, thus only the priests could handle them. After the offerings were presented, Yahweh gave the heave/wave offerings as a gift to the priests.
The Salt Covenant is the Heave/Wave Offering
Numbers 18:9, 12, 19 “This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass [guilt] offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons. All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their first fruits which they offer to Yahweh, I have given them to you. All the heave/wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh with you and your descendants with you."
The heave/wave offering represents Jesus, the Bread of Life. It is also our firstfruits offering of appreciation and thanksgiving to Him for His Covenant to us and for His faithfulness.
John 6:51 “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
Yahweh’s people are to be the world’s most hospitable people. Salt has historically symbolized hospitality and salt also heals. In the past, after you settled a dispute with your neighbor you would then invite the person into your home to share a dish of salt. Each of you would lick your finger, dip it in the salt and then eat the salt together. This was the symbol of friendship that healed the rift. This is why the offerings we make to Jesus are salted, to heal any innocent violation or offence we have made against Yahweh and our fellow man. Salt is pure, germs cannot live in it; in the same way, believers are also to be pure. Salt purifies. Believers are called to be the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13). They purify the earth by walking in Christ’s ways and by not tolerating false philosophies, dishonest ways of doing business, selfish desires, etc.
Colossians 4:6 “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
We have learned in the previous study (Vayikra/Leviticus 2:13) that the salt covenant is in direct relationship with the tithe and the order of Melchizedek, a kingly and priestly order. We see this with Abraham presenting tithes to the King of Salem/Melchizedek and receiving the blessing.
The Hebrew word for salt is melach (Strong’s #H4417), which is very close to the Hebrew word for king, melek (Strong’s # H4428). Salt and oil are always to be part of the grain offering. Salt also accompanied the elevation and fellowship offerings. Ezekiel 43:24 notes that the priests will cast salt on the elevation/burnt offerings in the millennial age. The incense offering, the symbol of worship to God, must also be seasoned with salt as true worshippers worship the Father in spirit and truth (Exodus 30:35; Leviticus 2:13; John 4:23-24).
The term covenant of salt was applied to the perpetual statute by which tithes and offerings were to be given to the priests (Numbers 18:19). The Covenant established with David (King and Priest) whereby he was accorded an everlasting reign over Israel, was also a covenant of salt.
Salt, tithe and priesthood are all linked together in Scripture by Covenant. Together they represent those who are in Covenant with Jesus - a Covenant of preservation and protection, a pledge of loyalty, a preserving substance, the prevention of disease/disorder and a consecration agent.
2 Chronicles 13:5 “Should you not know that Yahweh God of Israel gave the dominion over Israel to David forever, to him and his sons, by a covenant of salt?” (2 Samuel 7:12-16; Leviticus 2:13; Hebrews 7:1-28)
We are grafted into Israel/Jesus through the Abrahamic Covenant and we are called sons of David through Jesus Christ. The Abrahamic Covenant gives us our identity as part of Israel along with three gifts: a land, a people and a blessing. How to receive and walk in these gifts is reveled to us through the next covenant called the Mosaic Covenant.
The Mosaic Covenant was given to Moses at Mount Sinai during the Feast of Pentecost and is also called the Betrothal Covenant. When the Bride is obedient to the words spoken at Mount Sinai (the Mosaic Covenant) she enters into the next covenant; the Davidic Covenant, as a king and a priest (The Davidic Covenant is also called the order of Melchizedek).
It was through Moses that we were given the teaching as to how to inherit and walk in the salt covenant as a priest – the Bride of Jesus (Jeremiah 33:20-21; Revelation 1:6).
Numbers 18:19 “The offerings and the tithe are an everlasting covenant of salt for the priests and their offspring forever.”
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