Numbers 7.13-17
His offering was … one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels … each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering.
The offerings which the representatives of the twelve tribes brought at the dedication of the tabernacle started with the silver vessels containing the grain offering. All the offerings are pictures of the work of Christ. Unlike the burnt offering, sin offering and fellowship offering, this one involved no blood. The grain offering is not about Jesus’ death, but rather about how his life was one continuous sacrifice, always pleasing to God – this was the perfect man, the one who never did anything he regretted, who never said anything he shouldn’t, whose thoughts and motives were always holy. The fine flour will have been free of yeast, just as Jesus’ life was free of sin, and the oil was a picture of the Holy Spirit with whom Jesus was anointed.
Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
Upon the Saviour’s brow;
His head with radiant glories crowned,
His lips with grace o’erflow.
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