The wave offering is lifted and waved before the Lord, then given.
He shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
The priest waves the breast of the peace offering, the sheaf of firstfruits, and the two loaves of the Feast of Weeks before the Lord. The gesture presents the gift to God and then, in the ordinary case, gives it to the priests. At the ordination of Aaron, the fat and the thigh and the bread are waved. The wave is not a second sacrifice. It is the presentation of a portion already offered. Christ is the firstfruits waved before the harvest of His people.
- The breast is waved. The thigh is often heaved, a related contribution.
- The Levites are also presented as a wave offering, set apart to the Lord.
- The gesture says the gift is His before it is eaten.
Waved before the Lord.
Then it belongs to the priests.
Christ, the firstfruits, presented before the harvest.
- A wave offering is presented before the Lord.
- The breast of the peace offering is the common piece.
- The sheaf and the two loaves are waved.
- After the wave, the priests eat the portion.
- The Levites are presented as a wave offering.
- The firstfruits sheaf points to the risen Christ.
- The Gesture – Waved before the Lord.
- The Breast – Of the peace offering.
- The Sheaf – Firstfruits.
- The Loaves – Weeks.
- The Tribe – Levites presented.
- The Meaning – His, then given.
- Leviticus 7:30-34 – The breast waved before the Lord, then given to Aaron and his sons.
- Leviticus 23:11 – “He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted.”
- Numbers 8:11 – “Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the people of Israel.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 – “Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted.
The breast is waved, then given to the priests.
The wave presents the gift. The sheaf presented the harvest. Christ is the firstfruits presented.
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