UNEARTHING THE MYSTERY OF SALT
Introduction
The Original Question:
“Quick question about offerings…I’ve been down a road with understanding the 5 categories of offerings in the law books and wanted to know if any linkage should be made between Leviticus 2:13 and Matthew 5:13?”
Leviticus 2:13
“And 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.”
Matthew 5:13
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
More Scriptures About Salt
Numbers 18:19
“All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.”
Mark 9: 49-50
“For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.”
2 Chronicles 13:5
“ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Job 6:6
“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?”
Colossians 4:6
“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
Jubilees 21:11 (LSV)
“And on ALL your oblations thou shall strew salt and let not the salt of the covenant be lacking in all your oblations before the Lord..”
Takeaways & Thoughts:
● Salt is not only seasoning for the otherwise bland roasted flesh of the sacrifices as food for the Priests and Levites, it was and still is a preserver of food as well!
● The Covenant made with David is also preserved forever, that his son would be YAH’s son, an everlasting promise full of savour for all mankind, but all the rest of Israel lost their flavoring.
● Salt used to also be exchanged for labor which is where the word “salary” is derived!
● So, if Yah made a covenant of salt with Israel and Israel is the salt of the earth, AND all sacrifices have to be made with salt …. AND YAH desires obedience over sacrifice, sounds like WE as Israel and the salt which has to be offered with sacrifice must indeed ONLY offer to YAH OBEDIENCE. That’s what He desires. As the salt of the earth all people will follow in obedience the flavoring of the earth….
Conclusion
1 Samuel 15:22
“And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams.”
Amos 5:25-27
“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.”
Psalm 51:16-17
“For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”
Mark 12:33
“…and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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