Symbolism of the Bread & Wine Offering of Shavuot

I have found that knowing the symbolism behind offerings that YHWH requires of us, makes the offerings much more meaningful and has increased my desire to give them as they are reminders of what Yeshua / Jesus did for us and how He wants us to live aka the Torah.

In addition, in D&C (LDS 29:34-35)(RLDS 28)(1833 29)(1835 10)(1844 10), YHWH Yeshua states that every law / commandment that He gave anyone is spiritual and not temporal.

D&C (LDS 29:34-35)(RLDS 28)(1833 29)(1835 10)(1844 10)
A 34 Wherefore, verily I [YHWH] say unto you that
BA ALL THINGS UNTO ME [YHWH] ARE SPIRITUAL,
B-B and NOT AT ANY TIME HAVE I [YHWH]
B–C GIVEN UNTO YOU [READER] A LAW WHICH WAS TEMPORAL;
B—D NEITHER ANY MAN [PERSON],
B—-E nor the children of men;
B—–F neither Adam,
B——G your father [first man],
B——G whom I [YHWH] created.
B—–F 35 Behold, I [YHWH] gave unto him [Adam]
B—-E that he [Adam] should be an agent unto himself;
B—D and I [YHWH] GAVE UNTO HIM [ADAM] COMMENDMENT,
B–C but NO TEMPORAL COMMANDMENT
B-B gave I [YHWH] unto him [Adam],
BAA for MY [YHWH] COMMANDMENTS ARE SPIRITUAL;
BAB they are not natural nor temporal,
BAC neither carnal nor sensual.

1828 Webster’s Dictionary, SPIRITUAL:
adjective)
2) Mental; intellectual; as spiritual armor.
3) Not gross; refined from external things; not sensual; relative to mind only; as a spiritual and refined religion.
4) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as the spiritual functions of the clergy; the lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
5) Pertaining to spirit or to the affections; pure; holy.
6) Pertaining to the renewed nature of man; as spiritual life.
7) Not fleshly; not material; as spiritual sacrifices. 1 Peter 2:5.
8) Pertaining to divine things; as spiritual songs. Ephesians 5:19.

Definition 2 of “spiritual” from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary points to how there is deeper meaning to the commandments in that they are “mental and intellectual”. When we keep YHWH’s commandments / Torah we come to understand them and they become a “spiritual armor” to protect us from harms from doing sin or in other words breaking Yeshua’s commandments / Torah.

For the many who unknowing say “I may not be keeping the letter of the law, but I’m keeping the spirit of the law”, D&C (LDS 29:34-35)(RLDS 28)(1833 29)(1835 10)(1844 10) among other scriptures, shows that is not possible.

BSB Exodus 34:27
A 27 The LORD [YHWH] also said to Moses,
BA “Write down these words,
BB for in accordance with these words
CA I [YHWH] have made a covenant with you [Moses]
CB and with Israel [followers].”

Joshua 1:6-9
AA 6 Be strong and of a good courage:
A-B for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land,
A-B which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
AA 7 Only be thou strong and very courageous,
A-B that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law,
A–C which Moses my servant commanded thee:
A-B turn not from it to the right hand or to the left,
AA that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
-B 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;
–C but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
—D that thou mayest observe to DO
—D ACCORDING TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN THEREIN:
–C for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,
-B and then thou shalt have good success.
AA 9 Have not I commanded thee?
A-B Be strong and of a good courage;
A-B be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
AA for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Alma (LDS 37:20)(RLDS 17:51)
A 20 Therefore I command you,
-B my son [follower] Helaman,
–C that ye be diligent in fulfilling all my words,
-B and that ye be DILIGENT in KEEPING the COMMANDMENTS of GOD [ELOHIM]
A AS THEY ARE WRITTEN.

Now onto the symbolism of the bread and wine offering for Shavuot / Pentecost. First let’s look at Leviticus 23:15-21, to see how YHWH commands us to offer bread and wine. (Leviticus 23:15-21 mixes together the offering for a family / household and what the priests are to do for their location.)

SJR Leviticus 23:15-21
AAA15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow [morning] after the [weekly] sabbath,
AAB from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering [First Fruits];
AB SEVEN [WEEKLY] SABBATHS shall be complete [finished]:
AC 16 Even unto the morrow AFTER the SEVENTH [WEEKLY] SABBATH shall ye number {H5608: count} fifty days [see Shavuot / Pentecost Counts];
-BA and ye shall offer a new meat [bread] offering unto the Lord [YHWH].
-B-B 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals [roughly 0.2 gallons]:
-B–C they shall be of fine flour;
-B–C they shall be baken with leaven;
-B-B they are the firstfruits unto the Lord [YHWH].
-BA18 And ye shall offer with the bread
–CA seven lambs without blemish of the first year,
–CB and one young bullock,
–CC and two rams:
—D they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord [YHWH],
—-EA with their meat [bread] offering,
—-EB and their drink [wine] offerings,
—-EC even an offering made by fire,
—D of sweet savour unto the Lord [YHWH].
–CAA 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats
–CAB for a sin offering,
–CBA and two lambs of the first year
–CBB for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
-BA 20 And the priest shall wave them
-B-B with the [two] bread of the firstfruits
-B–C for a wave offering before the Lord [YHWH],
-B-B with the two lambs:
-BA they shall be holy to the Lord [YHWH] for the priest.
AA 21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day,
A-B that it may be an holy convocation unto you:
A-B ye shall do no servile work therein:
AA it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

YWHW in Leviticus 23:15-21 tells us we to offer two loaves of bread with leaven and a wine offering. To see the deeper meaning of what is going on with the bread and wine offering we need to know what they represent in the context of the offering. The bread is symbolic of the law / commandments / Torah. If you have any doubt of that, just remember how YHWH wrote with His own finger the law / commandments / Torah on two tablets of blue sapphire stones and how we are to offer two loaves of bread. The wine is symbolic of Yeshua’s / Jesus’ blood that was spilt to accomplish His atonement for those who come under His covering (see Isaiah 53 and 2 Nephi (LDS 9)(RLDS 6)). The leaven is symbolic of teachings. During Passover and Unleavened Bread we are not to use leaven because it is symbolic of letting go of the teachings of the world as we accept Yeshua / Jesus. Shavuot / Pentecost is YHWH Yeshua giving us His teachings / words of Wisdom / Torah. Fire is symbolic of cleansing and purification. Trees are symbolic of people. Numbers have symbolic meanings also and the number 2 is symbolic of the Son who is Yeshua / Jesus. The fact that the law / Torah is written on two tablets is telling us what is written there on is telling us how to be like Yeshua / Jesus to be holy / set apart as He is holy / set apart.

Exodus 24:12 And the Lord [YHWH] said unto Moses, Come up to Me [YHWH] into the mount, and be there: and I [YHWH] will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I [YHWH] have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exodus 31:18 And He [YHWH] gave unto Moses, when He [YHWH] had made an end of communing with him [Moses] upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God [Elohim].

Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God [Elohim], and the writing was the writing of God [Elohim], graven upon the tables.

Deuteronomy 9:10 And the Lord [YHWH] delivered unto me [Moses] two tables of stone written with the finger of God [Elohim]; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord [YHWH] spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Leviticus 11:44 For I am the Lord [YHWH] your God [Elohim]: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [YHWH] am holy: …

1 Peter 1:13-16
13 Wherefore gird up the loins [prepare for war] of your mind, be sober [righteous], and hope to the end for the grace [sanctification] that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus [Yeshua] Christ [Messiah]; 14 As obedient children [followers], not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts [sins] in your ignorance: 15 But as He [YHWH Yeshua / Jesus] which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I [YHWH Yeshua / Jesus] am holy.

The offerings of the two loaves of bread and wine are symbolic of how Yeshua’s / Jesus’ atonement and His law / commandments / Torah are both needed to cleanse and purify us to become like Yeshua / Jesus to show our love for Him by keeping His law / commandments / Torah and how we are to listen to His actual servants and teachers who they themselves are keeping His law / commandments / Torah to help us to better understand Yeshua’s / Jesus’ teachings and ways / Torah.

Mosiah (LDS 13:28)(RLDS 8:5)
–CA 28 And moreover, I say unto you, that SALVATION DOES NOT COME BY THE LAW [TORAH] ALONE [Torah has a part in salvation] [Law of Moses is a dead work];
—DA and were it not for the ATONEMENT,
—DB which GOD [ELOHIM] HIMSELF SHALL MAKE [ATONEMENT] for the sins and iniquities of his people,
–CA that they must unavoidably perish, notwithstanding [not opposing] the LAW OF MOSES [TYPES OF THINGS TO COME].
see Law of Moses for full Chiasmus

Mosiah (LDS 23:13-18)(RLDS 11:13-20)
AAA 13 And now as ye have been delivered by the power of God [Elohim] out of these bonds;
AAB yea, even out of the hands of king Noah and his people,
A-B and also from the bonds of iniquity,
A–C even so I desire that ye should stand fast in this liberty
A-B wherewith ye have been made free,
AAA and that ye trust no man
AAB to be a king over you.
-BA 14 And also trust no one to be your teacher
-B-B nor your minister,
-B–C except he be a man of God [Elohim],
-B-B walking in His ways [path]
-BA and keeping His commandments [law / Torah].
–CA 15 Thus did Alma teach his people,
–C-B that every man should love his neighbor as himself,
–C–C that there should be no contention among them.
–C-B 16 And now, Alma was their high priest,
–CA he being the founder of their church.
-BA 17 And it came to pass that none received authority to preach or to teach
-B-B except it were by him from God [Elohim].
-B–C Therefore he consecrated all
-B-B their priests and all their teachers;
-BA and none were consecrated except they were just men.
AA 18 Therefore they did watch over their people,
AB and did nourish them with things pertaining to righteousness [law / Torah].

Yes, you heard me right, we need both Yeshua’s / Jesus’ atonement and His law / commandments / Torah to cleansed and purified. This truth is stated simply and symbolically all over the scriptures including the Tabernacle YHWH Yeshua revealed to Moses. Yeshua’s / Jesus’ law / commandments / Torah is teaching us how to be holy / set apart from the world as He is holy / set apart from the world. The law / commandments / Torah is Yeshua’s / Jesus’ character, it is who He is, that is why both are stated to be the Truth, the Way and the Life. The law / commandments / Torah is who Yeshua / Jesus is, it is His essence, His character / name, His behavior. If you want to be like Yeshua / Jesus, do what He did and keep His law / commandments / Torah.