Grain offering
Were the meat offerings a part of a social safety net based on charity?
Meat or grain offering
The phrase "meat offering"[1] appears 122 times in the text. Merriam-Webster says a meat offering was "a sacrifice of food". Many translations also translate this Hebrew word minchah as grain offering. In Leviticus 2:1 we see a "meat offering<(מִנְחָ֖ה) minḥāh 04503> ... shall be [of] fine flour."
Temple Granaries
There was grain at the temples of Sumer, Egypt, and Rome. The Mesopotamian civil system of government like Sumer and Ishtar has been described as "theocratic socialism." All socialism is theocratic because they all have "ruling judges". The center of the systems of Mesopotamia were their government institutions of their civil temples which provided food supplies that were divided among the needy.
This redistribution was managed by a class of bureaucratic priests.[2]
Faith of Abraham
Even in the days of Abraham the altars of clay and stone were not piles of rock and clay but the method and means by which people of faith could bind themselves in social bonds according to the perfect law of liberty.
Moses was teaching the people this revolutionary alternative through a system of freedom which was a voluntary network of fervent charity which would also to be promoted by the Doctrines of Jesus.
The way of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar, and others makes men slaves to tyrants and runs toward evil,[3]corruption[4], and death[5]. They are the way of , Balaam and the Nicolaitan. The way of Abraham, Moses, and Christ will set the captive free for those who have eyes to see.
The welfare of Egypt
Egypt had its temple granaries[6] which had been filled during the 7 good years predicted by Joseph. That is what brought the people into the bondage of Egypt where a portion of their labor belonged to a centralized state government. That was the process. The granaries were kept filled with the tribute required from everyman's labor through taxation. Tax dollars fueled those governments but tithing and freewill offerings would give life to the nation of Israel.
The reason they went into bondage was that they would not hear the anguish cries of their brother when they conspired to throw him into a pit and sell him into servitude.[7] Moses system required that you not only hear the cries of anguish but you act upon those cries with freewill offerings. It was a process of taking back your responsibilities in the practice of pure religion where you are fired up with love for one another and not the strange fire which is adulterous and unrighteous.
The tables of Rome
Rome also had granaries near their temples to provide welfare through a system of free bread. At one time these systems were also filled with freewill offerings and ministered by their priests. Julius Caesar who had once been the high priest of the temple of Jupiter (Flamen Dialis).[8] became a general invading Gaul. With the spoils of his conquest which included selling women and children into the lucrative slave trade he was able to fund the temple's welfare system with the blood and lives of the people of Gaul.
Instead of arresting Julius Caesar for his war crimes and shunning him for his covetousness the people would close their eyes and sear their conscience giving the Caesars the title of "Son of God".
Moses was teaching the people that the Legal charity of the Welfare State will always degenerates the masses while empowering rulers and drawing in the spirit of tyrants. The process of Moses and his system of sacrifices by individual power of choice drew men to God through their system of Corban by freewill offerings.
The revolution of John
John the Baptist would oppose Herod and the Pharisees who set up a system of Corban that made the word of God to none effect because they were instituting forced offerings rather than freewill offerings. He explained to the people what they needed to do.[9]
Augustus Caesar who became the first true emperor of Rome would institute a system of free bread through its government temples which led to its decline and fall of his empire. While his welfare programs of giving to the people were popular with the masses he was call the Son of God.
Another king and his ministers
Jesus would confirm John's approach telling that everyone needs to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness which has never include the covetous practices of the world which is idolatry. [10] Jesus who was also "called the Son of God" prohibited His followers to go to those systems offered by the governments of the world who exercise authority one over the other.[11] Jesus was another king that did contrary to Caesar.[12]
Paul and David warned that such systems of welfare were a "Snare" and warn about their tables of which we should not eat. Even the commandments warn of the danger of eating of those forced sacrifices.[13]
Proverbs warns us again and again about an appetite for the dainties of rulers and the one purse of socialism.
Peter even said coveting those benefits would make you "merchandise" and "curse children" with bondage and debt.
What they will not tell you
Yet, the modern Churches turn a blind eye with a seared conscience and go under a strong delusion to believe a lie.
In these more modern times FDR set up his New Deal which was the old deal of Nimrod. Like the Caesars, LBJ would press his Great Society which has degenerated the people into perfect savages with a corresponding decline of social bonds and a loss of liberty.
Socialism is the religion you get when you have no "Pure Religion".
- ↑ 04503 ^החנמ^ minchah \@min-khaw’\@ MemNunChetHey from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow; n f; {See TWOT on 1214 @@ "1214a"} AV-offering 164, present 28, gift 7, oblation 6, sacrifice 5, meat 1; 211
- 1) gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering
- 1a) gift, present
- 1b) tribute
- 1c) offering (to God)
- 1d) grain offering
- Many translations also translate this word as grain offering.
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- 1) gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering
- ↑ The model of these proto-states are seen in modern governments where power is increasingly centralized by the people becoming more and more dependent upon the Welfare State and its forms of civil religion which compelled contributions of its registered members with the promise of entitlements providing some form of free bread or social welfare or what has been called the dainties of these rulers.
- ↑ Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- ↑ 2 Peter 2:10 ¶ But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise(think little or nothing of) government (kuriotes dominion). Presumptuous [are they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
- ↑ Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
- ↑ Exodus 34:26 "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk." Rameses: "I warn you Moses, that the temple grain belongs to the gods." Moses: "What the gods can digest will not sour in the belly of a slave." The Ten Commandments (1956)
- ↑ Genesis 42:21 ¶ And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
- ↑ The Flamen Dialis(Diespiter was the Old Latin form of the name Jupiter) was officially ranked second in the ranking of the highest Roman priests in the ordo sacerdotum (between the Rex Sacrorum and the Flamen Martialis, Flamen Quirinalis) and Pontifex maximus. He would be emancipated from the control of his father, and became sui juris.
- ↑ Luke 3:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
- ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ Acts 17:7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.
- ↑ Exodus 34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;