Kingdom Parables

THE KINGDOM PARABLES
was eaten by Aaron and his children (Priests) on every Sabbath. "And you
shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes of it.....you shall set them in two rows, six
in a row upon the table of pure gold....." (Lev. 24:5-9)
Everywhere where Jesus was represented it was always without leaven.
The only time when two leavened loaves of bread were presented before
the Lord was at the Feast of the Pentecost which arrived 50 days after
the sheaf waving of wheat and Barley. It marked the end of harvest of
the past season and the beginning of the first fruit of next season. (Deut.
16:9-11). The bread now offered is leavened; and only two loaves were
brought. (Lev. 23:15-17) This bread represents the Jews and the
Gentiles, the first fruits on which the Holy Spirit came down to
inaugurate the Church. It represents sinful men through whom the
kingdom of God is inaugurated.
Thus quite contrary to normal interpretation, the leaven represents the
false teachings, sin and heresy while the flour (meal) represents the body
of Christ, the Church and Jesus himself and the Word of God.
5.4 THREE MEASURES OF MEAL
The number three as we know represents the divine perfection. Thus we
have the perfection of Godhead in the trinity of Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. We have the perfection of divine witness also as three in Spirit,
Water and Blood ( 1 Jn. 5:7-8) The appearance of number three clearly
indicates that Jesus did want to make a point of the divine perfection .
The story otherwise does not require any measure specification. It is
otherwise utterly superfluous. The leaven therefore is directed against
the perfection and totality of God and his totality of witness - against the
person of God and his means of working his purposes on the earth.
Meal, the flour mixed with oil then clearly represents the Church. Thus
the leaven in the meal denote the springing up of heretic teachings that
undermine the concept of God.
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