Leviticus 24:5-9 KJB
These verses record how God required the priests to bake twelve loaves of bread, put frankincense on each loaf, and set them in two rows of six upon a table before the Lord in the Tabernacle. No one knows exactly what the frankincense was, but it was one of the gifts that the wise men gave to Jesus when He was a baby. Matthew 2:11 (KJB). Apparently, frankincense was something that could be eaten because God instructed Aaron and his sons to eat the shewbread with the frankincense on it.
God instructed Aaron and his sons to place the shewbread on the table in the Tabernacle every Sabbath. God informed Aaron that the frankincense on the bread happened to be a "memorial" of "an offering made by fire unto the Lord." Apparently, the shewbread with the frankincense on it was meant to remind Aaron and his sons that the burnt offering sacrifices had a special meaning for every Sabbath day. None of the loaves were burnt in a fire, but they were baked by a fire which meant that they were a type of the burnt offering. The flour and the frankincense used to make the shewbread were taken from the people which made it "an everlasting covenant." Christ came from Heaven to the world as a human who was also king of the world, and He made a burnt offering sacrifice as an "everlasting covenant" when He dismissed His Spirit who descended into a burning Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil that Jesus bore on the cross for all humans whom He did not save by His grace. Psalm 16:9-10; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). King David was saved by grace, but he did not understand exactly what that meant. But he did have faith that if he went to a burning Hell, he would nevertheless be raised from the dead with the resurrection of the "Holy One." Christ will activate the burnt sacrifice made by His Spirit when He visits all humans "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can raise all of their living souls and spirits from the dead and recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His new earth. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
God instructed Aaron and is sons to eat the shewbread with the frankincense on the Sabbath day to represent His "perpetual statute" which were the burnt offering sacrifices. The perfect body of Jesus rested in His grave while His Spirit made the burnt offering sacrifice. Perhaps, God always meant for the Sabbath day, in which He rested, to represent His salvation by means of His fiery wrath against evil for all of His living humans who do not become saved by His grace, and God also meant for the first day of the week, when Jesus rose from the dead, to represent all of His living humans who would become saved by His grace.
Jesus taught that He is "the bread of God" which "giveth life unto the world." John 6:33 (KJB). Jesus also taught that He would "lose nothing" that His Father had given Him. Since Christ created "all things" which all belong to Him, then He will raise all of His repentant, living humans from their graves "at the last day." John 6:39-40; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will make sure that all of His living humans will partake of His Life in order to be saved from eternal death, but He will reserve His special form of salvation for all of His living humans who become washed clean of all sins and evil with His blood that He shed on the cross so that they can live with Him forever in Heaven. Matthew 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:19-20; Hebrews 2:9-18; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).
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