Leviticus 6:21
In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD. In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
The direction is for preparing and presenting the grain offering, which is to be made with oil in a pan, and when it is baked it is to be brought in and offered in baked pieces for a sweet savour, a pleasing offering to the Lord.
It is part of the law of the meat offering in Leviticus 1 to 7, which sets forth the main features of the sanctuary service and provides for the especial and special offerings presented by individuals during the year. That individual work belonged to the daily ministration and the first ministry in the holy place of the earthly sanctuary, performed by the Levitical priesthood. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense when the lamps were lighted morning and evening, and the special work on the Lord's Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts. It was distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place for the sins of the people and the cleansing of the sanctuary.
Such offerings belonged to the sanctuary's regular service, in which individuals burdened with sins brought their offerings showing faith in the Redeemer to come. Its baked meal offering with oil is one of the various offerings brought from day to day that were brought together and combined in the daily ministration for the nation morning and evening. In that daily ministration remembrance of sin was constantly made in the sanctuary and faith was constantly indicated.
When offered in faith by the sinner together with the daily offering, the offering transferred in figure through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary. When the priest sprinkled the blood upon the altar before the ark he left there in figure the forgiven sins of the people of God. This work went on through the year until the tenth day of the seventh month, when the accumulated sins were cleansed and borne out in the yearly service and yearly cleansing of the sanctuary.
The verse belongs to the ceremonial regulations for offerings, a law instituted because of sin. It is part of the directions for Israel's offerings, which show God's hatred of sin and that sin demands a penalty.
Its details have meaning and were not written in vain or without purpose. They are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, and were written for learning that through patience and comfort of the Scriptures hope may be had.
The sacrifices and offerings in Leviticus, including this offering, are types pointing to Jesus Christ and find their fuller meaning and typological connection in His sacrifice, life, and work. The whole earthly ministration was the example and shadow of Christ's more excellent ministry in the true tabernacle, for the earthly sanctuary was a pattern and shadow or type of the heavenly sanctuary given as an object-lesson to teach concerning the temple of God in heaven and Christ's priestly service therein as High Priest and Minister of the sanctuary, so that study of it gives clearer views of the Saviour and His work in behalf of men. The yearly round of Levitical sanctuary services typified Christ's priestly ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, the annual service being a type while Christ's ministry was once for all, and the whole yearly round of daily offerings looked forward to an antitype closing with the great antitypical day of atonement.