7.1.3.3 Hattamid Bread |
| Hattamid
is used only once in adjectival designation of the bread (continual bread)
or bread of presence or shewbread in Num 4:7. However the preparation of
the bread of the tabernacle, described in Lev. 24:5-9, included
frankincense which was placed on the bread for a memorial offering made by
fire to Jehovah. The bread was set before Jehovah continually (tamid)
every Sabbath with the frankincense which was burned as an offering to
Jehovah. The burning of the frankincense (sweet aroma implied) in effect
made the continual bread an offering made by fire to Jehovah (24:7-9).
The foregoing discussion establishes the linkage of hattamid with the sweet aroma in the cultic worship setting of Leviticus and Numbers. The linkage is established without exception in all 16 occurrences of hattamid whether it is the burnt offering (14 times), the grain offering (1 time) or the continual bread offering (1 time). Furthermore, the use of tamid with the continual burnt offering in Num. 28:3, 6 & 23 and the grain offering in Lev. 6:20 also establishes the linkage of tamid with sweet aroma of these offerings. Moreover, it has been established that the sweet aroma is also linked with the fat lifted up from the cultic beast offerings which was always burned as incense to Jehovah on the altar of burnt offering. A similar linkage of the sweet aroma with the grain offerings was also established. Thus it is seen that the memorial portion (fat or fine flour) lifted up from the cultic offering may be equated to hattamid which is also associated with the cultic offerings by the connecting link of the sweet aroma illustrated in the diagram below. The cultic beast sacrifice in Leviticus has its counterfeit parallel with the cultic beast symbolized by the horn in Daniel 8. Likewise, the fat lifted up from the cultic sacrifice in Leviticus and burned as a sweet aroma has its counterfeit parallel with the cultic hattamid lifted up from the counterfeit cultic beast power (horn from littleness).
It now has been established that the cultic hattamid in Leviticus and Numbers is always linked with the sweet aroma associated with the cultic sacrifice made by fire to Jehovah. Hence, it appears that it can be concluded with certainty that the link which connects the fat lifted up from the cultic beast sacrifice in Leviticus with hattamid lifted up from the counterfeit cultic beast power (horn) in Dn. 8:11 is the sweet aroma. Thus, the counterfeit cultic hattamid in Dn. 8 is identified as a counterfeit sweet aroma. Moreover, the identification of a counterfeit hattamid in Dn. 8:11 as being equivalent to a counterfeit sweet aroma confirms that the antecedent mimmennu (from him) in Dn. 8:11 is not the Prince of the host but is none other than the horn exalting himself against the Prince of the host. |
