Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Leviticus 1-2

Highlight Verse:

“Do not use yeast in preparing any of the grain offerings you present to the Lord, because no yeast or honey may be burned as a special gift presented to the Lord.”
‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭2‬:‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬

When I first read this, I thought it simply harkened back to the Passover when the people didn’t have the time to put yeast in their bread to make it rise.

But that wouldn’t make sense for honey.

It turns out that honey and yeast have something in common. They are both used for fermentation.

Because of this little fact, ancient cultures often associated both honey and yeast with corruption.

Therefore, since God wanted nothing to do with corruption, anything associated with corruption was forbidden from the sacrifices.

While honey and yeast are not associated with corruption today, we still want to keep corruption far from our worship.

In what ways can we keep corruption away from our worship today?
What would be the modern-day equivalent to honey and yeast?