The Fine Flour

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Lev. 2:1 “When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it.”

Why do you think it is required that if you present an offering unto the Lord, it should be fine flour? Why not any other kinds of flour? What’s the significance of it being fine?

Charles Henry Mackintosh has something interesting to say about this:

“Now, the shadow of this perfect man (Jesus) passes before us in the “fine flour” which formed the basis of the meat offering. There was not so much as a single coarse grain. There was nothing uneven – nothing unequal – nothing rough to the touch. No matter what pressure came from without, there was always an even surface. He was never ruffled by any circumstance or set of circumstances. He never had to retrace a step, or recall a word. Come what might, He always met it in that perfect evenness which is so strikingly typified by the “fine flour.” As to the materials, the “fine flour” may be regarded as the basis of the offering; and, in it, we have a type of Christ’s humanity, wherein every perfection met. Every virtue was there, and ready for effectual action, in due season. The Holy Ghost delights to unfold the glories of Christ’s Person, to set Him forth in all His peerless excellence – to place Him before us in contrast with all beside.”