The Flour of
the Tamid Offering
Let us speak
of the other two components of the Tamid Offering, that of flour and wine.
V. 40-41
These Lambs were to have with it a Meal and Drink Offering.
Seeing as
this was a daily obligatory offering on behalf of the community according to
the Artscroll Stones Tanak, the type of four was wheat, 2 Issaron which was an
ancient Hebrew unit of dry capacity, which 1 Issaron was = 1 ⁄10 ephah, about
2.2 liters (4 U.S. dry pints).
This 2
Issaron of wheat flour was mixed with 3 log of oil, which a Log is an ancient
Hebrew unit of liquid capacity = 1 ⁄12 hin, about 320 milliliters (0.67 U.S.
liquid pint).
This wheat
and oil mixture was burnt up entirely on the altar, for it two was considered a
whole burnt offering.
Spiritually
speaking Yeshua Ha Moshiach called Himself the “Bread of Life” all throughout
John chapter six. Ironically and Divinely intended He was born in Beit Lechem
(Bethlehem) “The City of Bread,” and at birth was laid in a feeding trough! He
even taught us to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread…” The flour was to be
unleavened and represents Messiah’s sinless nature, because leaven is always
associated with sin.
1Cor. 5:6-8 Your glorying [is] not
good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore
the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
Gal. 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump.
Leaven was
also associated with false or manmade doctrine, further symbolizing Messiah is
pure truth.
Matt. 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them,
Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Yeshua was
the total package of the Daily Tamid Offering the lamb as well as the Bread.
Now the Oil has always been symbolic of the Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit)
and we know because Yeshua was and is the Messiah that HE was full of the Holy
Spirit as was indicated and hinted about at His Baptism when the Ruach HaKodesh
came down upon Him in the form of a dove and by evidence of the prophetic words
He spoke and the Miracles He performed.
