Two loaves of bread

15‘You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths. 16You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. 17You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. 18Along with the bread you shall present seven one-year-old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. 19You shall also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering with two lambs before the Lord; they are to be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21On this very day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a permanent statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

22‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.’ ”

23Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

– Leviticus 23:15-23
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The Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:15–22), also known as Pentecost, symbolizes the time of the gathering when the Holy Spirit dwells on earth.

Many have wondered why two loaves of bread, each made from two-tenths of a fine flour, were to be brought with the new grain offering at this feast. Why wasn’t one loaf used? Wouldn’t that have been a nice connection to the New Testament, where it says, “We are one loaf, one body, though we are many” (1 Cor. 10:17)?

Well, the Feast of Weeks is not about presenting a picture of the one body in its heavenly connection with Christ. Rather, it is about showing the witness character of God’s assembly on earth (which also fits much better with the line of thought in Leviticus 23). And the number two is very appropriate here, because two is the minimum number when witnesses are called.

We also see this witness character in the assembly as described by the apostle John. On the one hand, there are the lampstands on earth; on the other hand, there is a heavenly city that will shed its light on this earth (Rev. 2–3; Rev. 21). This is not the highest view of the assembly of God, but it is necessary, because it makes it clear that God receives a testimony through the assembly. This testimony will be found on earth as long as Israel is set aside, and this testimony will then come from heaven when Israel is accepted again.

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