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Leavened/Unleavened
Kat:
Hi Eileen,
--- Quote ---Hmmmm, sounds a little like you reap what you sow? For example, if I am infectious, that is, I can effect people around me, either with good or bad. That is the leaven.
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I think where leaven is concerned it is 'infectious.'
Gal 5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
But is Scripture it usually is connected with being 'puffed up' in a negative sense.
Hab 2:4 "Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Col 2:18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
1Co 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!
1Co 5:2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
v. 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1Ti 3:6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1Co 13:4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
Just a few Scriptures for you to consider on this matter.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Beloved:
Ray's whole premise of his teachings is that the Bible is a parable ....so duh folks.... the kingdom is like.....
three measures of meal
mixed with leaven
Jesus said I am the Light I am the Bread I am Truth
Light dispels Darkness Truth dispels Error Bread feeds and Nourishes dispels hunger or want
Since you asked about bread lets look at what the scripture shows us
Note Matthew and Luke tell us but Mark makes no mention of this parable
Mat 13:33 Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'
Luk 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal , till that all was leavened.'
In the OT
When the Lord and Angels appeared to Abraham before Sodom was destroyed
Gen 18:6 And Abraham hasteth towards the tent, unto Sarah, and saith, `Hasten three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes;'
Noticed hastened...no time like when Israel left Egypt they were told to prepare their bread
Exo 12:11 `And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover, so now you see Sarah was serving the heavenlies...what else would they eat?
Leaven causes fermentation..a type of decomposition
There are three crops harvested...three feast : barley wheat and grapes
When leaven is added to these three ....fermentation occurs
Wait a second ??? ...barley does not ferment ....leaven has no effect
The few loaves of barley the boy had...the few and the many Only John mentions the type of bread in the miracles
Joh 6:9 There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these--what are they to so many?
Joh 6:13 they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten]
The barley represents his elect....they were given grace..five, and will be broken into 12..number of foundation
(Mar 13:22) For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Even is is was possible to deceive (leaven) but it is not because God has sealed these
In Egypt during the exodus the barley was smitten so the passover bread they were making was wheat
(Exo 9:31) And the flax and the barley have been smitten, for the barley is budding, and the flax forming flowers,
(Exo 9:32) and the wheat and the rye have not been smitten, for they are late.
God was not going to let them eat leavened bread The bread they ate therefore HAD TO BE UNLEAVEN...in order for them to be delivered
Oh there are so many witnesses in the scriptures when like Ray says you read ALL the words, here is one in Elisha that I like
(2Ki 4:38) And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine is in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, `Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.'
(2Ki 4:39) And one goeth out unto the field to gather herbs, and findeth a vine of the field, and gathereth of it gourds of the field--the fulness of his garment--and cometh in and splitteth them into the pot of pottage, for they knew them not;
(2Ki 4:40) and they pour out for the men to eat, and it cometh to pass at their eating of the pottage, that they have cried out, and say, `Death is in the pot, O man of God!' and they have not been able to eat.
(2Ki 4:41) And he saith, `Then bring ye meal;' and he casteth into the pot, and saith, `Pour out for the people, and they eat;' and there was no evil thing in the pot.
(2Ki 4:42) And a man hath come from Baal-Shalishah, and bringeth in to the man of God bread of first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of grain in its husk, and he saith, `Give to the people, and they eat.'
the meal and bread represent the truth of God and dispels the “death in the pot”. This “meal”, no doubt, typically refers to the restoration of the truth concerning the life and earthly pathway of Jesus, which has been lost to sight more or less since the orthodox church established herself. The WOMAN has PUT the Leven in the three measures of the world.
The story of Ruth is a shadow of the marriage feast of the bride and Christ ..it all occurs in the barley harvest
(Ruth 3:2) and now, is not Boaz of our acquaintance, with whose young women thou hast been? lo, he is winnowing the threshing-floor of barley tonight,
(Rth 3:15) And he saith, `Give the covering which is on thee, and keep hold on it;' and she keepeth hold on it, and he measureth six measures of barley, and layeth it on her; and he goeth into the city.
(Rth 3:17) And she saith, `These six measures of barley he hath given to me, for he said, Thou dost not go in empty unto thy mother-in-law.'
(Rth 3:18) And she saith, `Sit still, my daughter, till thou dost know how the matter falleth, for the man doth not rest except he hath completed the matter today.'
Now to tie it all together
The first lesson in the Bible, is that “the evening and the morning were the first day”. The Hebrew root of the “evening” means “mixture” or “mingling together”, while that of the “morning” means “separation” or “distinguishing between
So the putting away of “leaven” (our thoughts, which are not God’s thoughts) means the receiving of His thoughts – for if you put away darkness, you cannot help but have light
The lesson this teaches is that those who are content with “mixture” of truth and error, are as certain to go on into darkness, as evening is to develop into night.
Those who come out of Babylon are like the dawn-light of the morning go on to the brightness of high noon -he is the Way to the Father .
So therfore let us be those who refuse mixture, “leaven” and darkness and remember that “he that is spiritual discerneth all things” (1 Cor. 2;15) and also that “in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1;5)
Leaven cause the the material to expand rise. and change nature
sounds a lot like ...attempt to resurrect by self
It is God that will resurrect not man
God does not want his Bread / Word corrupted
Eileen I am not sure what exactly you are looking for but I can tell you that there are many levels of spiritual meanings about leaven and that I have only touched on a few.
beloved
Ninny:
Wow! And here I was thinking that Kat's explanation was pretty spot on with the "puffed up" idea! Who knew there were so many more applications of the leaven! Cool! ;D
Kathy :)
aqrinc:
Hi Beloved,
Thanks for the clarification, the below quote Mat 13:33 is likening the Kingdom Of Heaven to the world (everyone)
all mixed together because of the leaven.
I hope that now i understand this parable and many of the other parables of (The Kingdom Of The Heavens).
AKJV
47-Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
48-Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
49-So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
50-And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Rotherham
47-Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto, a large drag-net, cast into the sea and gathering of every kind,—
48-which, when it was filled, they dragged up on the beach, and, sitting down, collected the good into vessels, but, the worthless, forth they cast.
49-So, will it be in the conclusion of the age: The messengers will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous;
50-and will cast them into the furnace of fire: there, will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
george. :)
--- Quote from: aqr on January 10, 2009, 10:03:07 PM ---
Matthew 13:33:
Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took,
and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
In Matthews the opposite; leaven in a Good way; A little leaven (Gospel of the Kingdom) Leavens The Whole Lump.
george. :)
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Beloved:
Yes George
Jesus said if you understand one paprable you can understand all...Ray is constantly trying to explain this to his readers ....it is about the few and the many...but the word examines it from different perspectives sometimes
Mat 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
He Himself emphasized that understanding the bread would be difficult, and did you catch...that the leaven comes from the religious pharassees and the saducees who represented those who became totally wordly. Those that the father of Lies feeds.
Here he tells them
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
beloved
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