Meat offering made from the first-cut corn

A man might offer a meat offering made from the first-cut corn; this might be burnt like the other meat offerings (verse 16). But it was to consist of “green ears of corn dried by the fire, beaten out of the full ear”, which was a product of the firstfruits and not the firstfruits in sheaf form. If the waved sheaf of firstfruits represented Christ, we cannot but recognize in these green ears beaten out of the sheaf state and ripened by fire that they might be suitable for offering, the apostolic community coming after him and out of him, ripened in the fire of persecution, for offering as “the sacrifice and service of faith”—as Paul expresses it. There must have been a reason for the distinction between the two; and this is a strong and natural distinction.

Roberts, R. (1987). The Law of Moses (electronic ed.). Birmingham, UK: The Christadelphian.