Kingdom Parables

THE KINGDOM PARABLES
1 Cor. 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works
through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new
batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been
sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of
malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
Galations 5:9 repeats the same idea.
Because of this symbolism, leaven was never a part of the sacrifice. It
was strictly forbidden, even when it forms part of a first fruit offering it
may be brought in but never burned. Thus in priestly code we see, "No
offering which you bring shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven, nor
honey as an offering by fire to the Lord. As an offering of first fruit you may bring
them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar." (Lev. 2:11-12)
Leaven is a symbol of sin, and as such on the feast of the unleavened
bread, the feast celebrating the separation of the nation of Israel as a
Holy nation liberated from the bondage of Egypt (sin and slavery) "seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall put away leaven out of
your house, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh
day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.......For seven days no leaven shall be
found in your house.....you shall eat nothing leavened...." (Ex. 12:14-20)
It is reported again in Ex 13:6-7 "No leavened bread shall be seen with you, and
no leaven shall be seen with in your entire territory."
Even today Jews keeps this strict search of leaven on the eve of the
unleavened bread festival with meticulous care.
5.3 UNLEAVENED BREAD
We have seen how Jesus is the seed. He is the wheat that fell down and
died so that it may bring forth abundance. Jn. 12: 24 I tell you the truth,
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