‘If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before the Lord an animal without defect.

Leviticus 3:1-2

3 “‘If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before the Lord an animal without defect. 2 You are to lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash the blood against the sides of the altar.


Today’s title is “The Peace Offering

All old testament sacrifices point to Christ although they vary greatly in motivations and purposes. But the fellowship offering seems to be the best reflection of what Jesus has done. Fellowship offering or peace offering is an offering that emphasizes the close communion between God and His people. Such emphasis on communion between God and people is demonstrated that people could eat the flesh of an animal that had been offered to the Lord. Fellowship or peace offering was the only sacrifice of which the Israelite could eat the meat offered to God. Eating the meat offered to God as a symbol of the relationship between God and the people restored or strengthened. People who offered the fellowship offering can now feast with God. They can now expect a special favor from God. That is exactly what Jesus has done for us. Apostle Paul clearly saw Jesus as such ultimate fellowship and peace offering. He says, “ For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near (Ephesians 2:14-17)”. By presenting Himself as a fellowship and peace offering to God, Jesus brought peace and fellowship[ between God and us. As all humanity becomes reconciled to God through Christ, we gain peace with other people too. Yes, the cross of Christ is the very symbol of the reconciliation of vertical relationship with God and the horizontal relationship with other people. Jesus now calls us to follow His footstep by becoming a peace offering where we live. We should endeavor to live peacefully with God and man. We should endeavor to bring peace wherever we go. Are you such a channel of God's peace?