The Meat Offering of Lev. 2 must not be confounded with the New Meat Offering of Lev. 23.
The Meat Offering of Lev. 2 is typical of Christ in His perfect life down here, consummated in His death and so pleasing to God.
The New Meat Offering of Lev. 23 is typical of the church of God, the fruit of the death of Christ, being presented to God.
The Meat Offering was to be baken WITHOUT leaven.
The New Meat Offering was to be baken WITH leaven.
The Meat Offering was typical of Christ, and must be without leaven, for leaven is always symbolic of
evil, and there could be no thought of evil in connection with Him.
The New Meat Offering was typical of the Church presented to God. It was baked with leaven, an acknowledgment that sin attaches to the believer. " If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1: 8.) The fire when the new loaves were baked would stay the working of the leaven, just as actual sin committed was met by the Sin Offering.
Again we are told that The New Meat Offering was to be offered on the morrow after the sabbath, and that fifty days were to elapse between the Feast of the Firstfruits and the New Meat Offering. We ask, What great event took place fifty days after our Lord rose from the dead? We know that our Lord was forty days on this earth between His resurrection and ascension. As our Lord ascended to heaven He bade His disciples tarry at Jerusalem till the promise of the Father, the Holy Spirit of God, should come upon them, and they should be endued with power from on high. The tarrying time must have lasted ten days, till the Day of Pentecost arrived, when the Holy Spirit of God was given, and the church of God constituted a living entity. (Acts 2:
This is still further emphasized, for the word, Pentecost, comes from the Greek word, pentekoste, meaning fiftieth. This then was the morrow after the sabbath, the fiftieth day after our Lord rose from the dead, and the great day of the church's birthday and endowment, and of its being presented to God. The two loaves presented to Jehovah typified that the church is made up of Jewish and Gentile believers, hitherto irreconcilable elements, but now one in Christ; the middle wall of partition being broken down in His death, and Christ being their peace. This is one of the great themes of the Epistle to the Ephesians. (See Eph. 2:13-22.)
How could an Old Testament saint, poring over this most precious type, distinguish what we Christians see in it? Yet there is no type in the Old Testament which sets forth the church of God so plainly to the New Testament reader as this Scripture does. This mystery was indeed hidden till it was revealed to the apostles and prophets by the Spirit. It could not be known till then, as stated in Eph. 3:5.