Bread Grains:
Bread is one of the staples of life. Bread was used for a memorial, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. A morsel of bread was used to comfort the heart. Bread which strengthened man’s heart. We should pray for our daily bread. Jesus is called the bread of life.
(Genesis 25:34; Leviticus 24:3-7, 2 Samuel 6:19; 16:1; Mark 8:14)
Bread is one of the staples of life:
Bread and water are needed for life. (Numbers 21:5). Outside the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, Aaron was to take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth part shall be in one cake. Aaron was to set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. Aaron was to put pure frankincense upon each row that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. The bread was to be replaced with freshly baked bread every Sabbath day, and the old loaves were to be eaten by the priests (Leviticus 24:3-7).
Bread of the first fruits, was of barley. (2 Kings 4:42) The boy that had the five loaves of bread in which when the fragments were gathered there was remaining twelve baskets of the twelve loaves of bread made from barley. (John 6:9-13). Barley was usually used by the poorer.
Bread is an offering:
A morsel of bread was used to comfort the heart. (Genesis 18:5). The LORD God will be with His people and keep them in His way and the way they must go, and He will give bread to eat, and garments to put on. (Genesis 28:20).
The rules for the feast of Passover also called the feast of unleavened bread was to eat unleavened bread. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever. The first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at evening. You shall eat nothing with leaven; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread. (Exodus 12:8-20). You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: you shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as the LORD God commanded, in the time appointed of the month Abib; that is the month the LORD brought the children of Israel out from Egypt: and none shall appear before the LORD empty: You shall not offer the blood of sacrifice of the LORD with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of sacrifice of the LORD remain until the morning. You shall serve the LORD your God, and He shall bless your bread, and your water; and the LORD will take sickness away from the midst of you. (Exodus 23:15-25). Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch. Even after a certain manner every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. (2 Chronicles 8:12-13).
When you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up an heave offering (Grain offering) unto the LORD. (Numbers 15:19).
Some were full had hired themselves out for bread; and they that were hungry their hunger ceased. So that the barren had born seven; and she that had many children grew feeble. The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up. The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Samuel 2:5-8).
Bread strengthened man’s heart:
Wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthened man’s heart. (Psalms 104:15).
Jeremiah considers it the rule that children gather wood, fathers kindle fire, and women knead the dough to make cakes (Jeremiah 7:18).
Whoso is simple, let him turn in need: as for him that wants understanding, she (wisdom) said to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. (Proverbs 9: 4-5).
A foolish woman is clamorous (to be boisterous, be turbulent): she is simple, and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, to call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wants understanding, she said to him, stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. (Proverbs 9: 13-17). He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding. (Proverbs 12:11). Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. (Proverbs 20:17). He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor. (Proverbs 22:9). Proverbs tell us not to eat the bread of those that have an evil eye, neither desire his dainty meats: (tasty or savory food, delectable food). (Proverbs 23:6). If your enemy are hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink: (Proverbs 25:21). Those that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough. (Proverbs 28:19). To have respect of persons is not good: for a piece of bread that man will transgress. (Proverbs 28:21). Women who looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. (Proverbs 31:27).
Man does not live by bread alone:
Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. These are words Jesus spoke when He was being tempted by satan. (Matthew 4:3-4).
Jesus Christ is the true living bread:
The Heavenly Father gives man the true bread from heaven. This bread of God which came down from heave, and gives life unto the world. Jesus Christ is the true living bread which comes down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (John 6:31-51).
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