SPECIAL TOPIC: PEACE OFFERING

  1. Introduction
    1. Why
      1. communion offering
      2. covenant sacrifice
      3. corporate offering
      4. concluding sacrifice
    2. It expressed thankfulness to God because of fellowship with God, family, and friends.
    3. It was usually the final act in a series of sacrifices in which reconciliation had been established.
    4. The burnt offering expressed the costliness of obedience, while the peace offering expressed the joy and happiness of fellowship with God.
    5. Male or female but without blemish
    6. Varieties of offering
      1. from herd; male or female
      2. the distinction that was made between the sheep and the goat was because of the fat of the tail of the sheep
        (1) lamb of flock ‒ male or female
        (2) goat of flock ‒ male or female

  2. Ritual
    1. Presentation of offering
      1. Laid hands on offering
      2. Killed it at door of the Tent of meeting
      3. Identification of sacrifice was the same as the burnt offering
      4. Sprinkling of blood around altar
      5. Burning of choice parts on altar to God
        (1) fat (sheep-fatty tail) symbolized prosperity
        (2) kidneys, lobe of liver symbolized the seat of the will and emotions
        (3) fatty portions placed on offerer's burnt offering or on morning lamb offering
    2. Thanksgiving offering included (Lev. 7:11-14)
      1. unleavened cake mixed with oil
      2. unleavened wafers spread with oil
      3. fine flour mixed with oil

  3. Priest's Portion, Lev. 7:28-34
    1. Breast belonged to priest as a wave offering
    2. Waving involves the placing of the offering upon the offerer's hands and the priest's hands. It showed the offering offered by the offerer to God, and then its reception back by the priest.
    3. Right thigh belonged to officiating priest
    4. Heave offering was lifted to God and received back by the priest

  4. Offerer's Portion, Lev. 7:15-18
    1. A Thanksgiving Offering shall be eaten on day of giving, Lev. 7:15
    2. A Votive (vow) or Freewill Offering shall be eaten on day of offering or on the next day, Lev. 7:16
    3. This portion was all that was not given to God and by God to the priest
    4. God symbolically eats with the offerer and his family and friends in this offering
    5. This offering stresses that fellowship relationships have been restored

  5. Ancient sacrifices were offered to
    1. appease an angry deity
    2. feed a deity
    3. communicate with a deity
    4. praise a deity
    5. foster a sense of forgiveness or reconciliation

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