LIKE UNTO LEAVEN

LIKE UNTO LEAVEN

Mat 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, TILL THE WHOLE WAS LEAVENED.

The outstanding characteristic of leaven is its ability to penetrate to every molecule of the dough it is introduced into.

Please notice that Jesus used this characteristic trait of leaven in describing the characteristics and purpose of the KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE EARTH.

IT WILL NOT STOP UNTIL IT HAS REACHED, AND CHANGED, THE WHOLE EARTH! There are, of course, exceptions, for we know from Ezekiel 47 that there are some places (people) that will not receive the workings of the Holy Ghost. Eze 47:11 But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ will penetrate into, and produce the desired effect, in every corner of the globe before we see the consummation of the purposes of God in the earth.

This means that EVERY NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGION will wither and die on the vine in the path of the DELUGE OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD that is, I believe, starting on planet earth even as we write these lines.

Let me go a little farther and declare that EVERY DENOMINATION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WILL ALSO SUFFER THE SAME FATE, for they are the work of Man’s hands.
How in the world will God be able to accomplish such a monumental task? The earth is BIG, and there are billions of people on it. Most of the people are already entrenched in some other kind of worship that would have to be abandoned if/when they turn to Jesus Christ and His Salvation.

The Word of God gives us a few clues about the methods God will use to accomplish what he intends to do. The clues are masked in symbolic and parabolic language, and are easily missed if we are not in tune with the Spirit. God has intentionally masked them, to keep insincere people from finding them. Psa 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

I could not possibly cite for you all of the ways the process has been described and likened to, but there are many places where they can be found, hidden in the scriptures.

The greater part of the teachings which are “standard” today are the results of the best efforts on the part of mankind to figure out and understand, with their own minds, what has been written BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. Confusion is the only possible result. There is certainly no shortage of that.

The “standard” prophetic curriculum has “the great tribulation that nearly abolishes the Church” in our future. The Word of God says it is already in the past, and it didn’t apply to the Church at all.

The “standard” curriculum has the Antichrist/man of sin rising to tyrannical, dictatorial power in some future era. The Bible doesn’t show that to be so at all. It shows it to have been here for centuries, and will be revealed and destroyed by the Spirit of God shortly.

How did all the prophecies get scrunched up into the last seven years of the dispensation? It was done deliberately, and for a purpose. Do you know why?

Isa 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Jer 16:19 …..Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Just as leaven keeps working until it has permeated the entire mass of the dough, so the Kingdom of God will keep doing what it is supposed to do until it has reached, and altered, the entire world.

Is our God big enough, strong enough, to do that?




In a message dated --/--/05 1:29:02 PM Pacific Standard Time,
--------- @yahoo.com writes:

The whole concept of which you wrote, however, is extremely plausible, even to my non-eschatologically sound mind. (I think I just made up a new word, or something) smile

Brother, what I have always wondered, and maybe you can clear this up, is if the Church is the New Jerusalem, does that mean that there is no City of God, into which we can enter and go out of? Are there going to be no 12 physical gates of pearl, and no streets of gold, and no crystal river, with trees of life growing on its banks?

***My answer**
The Bible is written in such a manner that it MUST BE INTERPRETED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

The term "City" means, IMHO, a group of people living under a COMMON LAW.

That does not mean that they are all in one place. It simply means that they live by the same law.

The "City" is not complete yet. We are still striving to completely comply with the LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. Some of us are having an awfully hard time with it. (sigh).

The GATES are in place, being the twelve tribes of Israel.

The FOUNDATIONS of the wall are in place, being the twelve APOSTLES OF THE LAMB

If it were a LITERAL CITY, one corner could be in Seattle, and another in Los Angeles, the third near Chicago, and the fourth somewhere in Texas. And it would rise to a height of over a thousand miles.

It HAS TO REPRESENT something besides brick and mortar, gold and glass.

It represents the BRIDE OF CHRIST. Rev 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

Each Gate is a PEARL, representing the OVERCOMING of suffering and personal discomfort by each one who is permitted to enter into the City through the gates. (Strait {difficult} is the GATE, and NARROW is the way, to gain entrance into the BRIDE)

The WALLS (Christians who stand to guard against false spirits and unclean lifestyles) are garnished with 12 different precious stones (formed by heat and pressure).

When the City is complete, the streets (Avenues of Concourse) will not have any of the contaminants of the human spirit in them. The candidates for citizenship in the City will have been completely set free from the nature of Adam on the DAY OF ATONEMENT. Hence it is described as being PURE GOLD.

I can clearly see that all of the descriptions, i.e., the Bride adorned
for her Husband, filled with a light so bright that it gives light to all of the earth, etc., can be allegorically speaking of the church, but where do we spend eternity? Do we live on a renewed earth? What about us meeting the Lord in the air?

What/where is Eternity? The ONLY definitive statement about the nature of ETERNITY is Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One THAT INHABITETH ETERNITY, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

ETERNITY IS GOD'S DWELLING PLACE. If we let the Bible speak its own language, we can not (NOT) get it to say that eternity is like the bird sharpening its beak on Gibraltar. It is simply where God lives.

Likewise, making the Bible speak its own language, the ONLY DEFINITION OF AIR is Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

AIR is the Bible term for the SPIRIT REALM THAT IS CONTROLLED BY SATAN.

When he is (BOUND) CAST DOWN by the ANGEL (Over-
comers), the place of his present activity will be filled by the OVERCOMERS of earth, and his influence of hatred and war Etc. will be replaced by the influence of LOVE, PEACE, AND JOY
ETC. The new influence will COVER THE EARTH like the evil influence does today. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Holy Mountain."

Friend, to become an Overcomer and enjoy ALL the benefits of the Kingdom of God will be ample repayment (reward) for any sacrifice (time, money or pleasure) made in an effort to COMPLETELY please (satisfy) Him.

Wow...I have never been so excited about learning about somebody' s viewpoint in all of my life. Please tell me, however, you don't believe we are now living in the Millenial Reign of Christ, because in my neck of the woods, Satan is NOT bound.

DEFEATED, but NOT BOUND-- yet. Still operating the "AIR". But he knows his time is short. EVERY FALSE RELIGION will wither and die. EVERY NATION that does not acknowledge Jesus Christ will be dissolved.

The Spirit of God, through the OVERCOMERS, will bring about the BINDING and DISLODGING of satan from his office in the "AIR". They will be "CAUGHT UP" in the "AIR", and from there will spread the influence of GODLINESS and PEACE,
replacing the influence of WAR AND HATRED.

God Bless!