In the Old Testament, leaven was prohibited during the feast of the Passover ( Exodus 23:18 34:25). Three "pecks" of meal was about a bushel (56 lb), which was a normal batch of bread and baked products. The expression "hidden in the flour" means to add flour. In bread-making, leaven was usually a piece of dough left over from a previous batch of bread and left to ferment before adding flour. At that time, leaven was produced by mixing various plants or kernels of grain together and allowing them to ferment. Leaven was an important idea in Jewish life because bread was a main food item and leaven, aside from its use in making bread, was also used as a religious symbol. Matthew 13:33 And again He said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened." The Kingdom is Likeā¦ Leaven He spoke another parable to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened." Let us begin, then, with two parables that use different images to make fundamental points about the kingdom. Every disciple, regardless of time or place, can relate to and learn from Jesus' parables about the kingdom. These examples for parables were not only easy for the people of that time to understand, they were also adaptable to every culture and age. Of these, 13 were about the kingdom of heaven and were divided in the following way: In the New Testament Jesus spoke 43 parables. His parables, using earthly objects and human situations, mirrored spiritual realities in the heavenly dimension. In Jesus' case He would lay every day stories that were easily visualized by the people He was teaching, alongside principles and concepts in the spiritual world, which could not be seen. The simple story mirrors the complex one in order to make it understandable. The point is that in a parable you place a story or an idea (which is simple to understand) alongside a story or an idea that is complex or hidden. The word parable comes from a Greek word that means to lay beside or to place alongside. A parable is a story-telling or teaching device. Before going on to study the Kingdom parables I think it would be helpful to explain what a parable actually is.
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