“And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.”
If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire. The firstfruits grain offering — the earliest grain of the harvest offered before the rest is harvested — is made from grain still in the husk, crushed and roasted. The freshness and rawness of the firstfruits offering communicates the urgency of giving the first to God: not waiting until the grain is fully processed into flour, but bringing it in its most immediate, harvest-fresh form. James 1:18 says God chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits — the firstfruits grain offering is the type of the community of believers who are the firstfruits of the new creation.
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