Story of the Dough

Our Master Yahshua once told a very short story to illustrate a point he was making:

"The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened." Matthew 13:33

In those times, bread dough was leavened with a lump (culture) saved from the previous batch of dough. The old lump was kneaded into flour and the dough was allowed to sit until the leaven had permeated it. Our Master Yahshua was establishing a new, pure culture on the earth. He would warn his disciples, the ones who were constantly with him, learning from him, "Watch out for the leaven of the scribes and Pharisees."

"Leaven? Do the people have bread? What does he mean?" they would ask themselves. So then he would respond plainly, "Watch out for their teaching, for the old influences that would change the pure culture I am forming among you!" And he said, "Beware of their leaven, which is hypocrisy!"[1] He was teaching them to be the same on the inside as they were on the outside.

Now, he is establishing His pure, new culture in us. He is teaching us to get rid of any old leaven, and placing His culture in areas all over the earth. Then, when it is totally pure and perfect, He will come back and cleanse the earth of anything and everything left of the old, bad culture. Then He will start life anew, with the righteous people of the earth, and He will knead into them this new, holy culture through the kind rulership of His holy people. In that New Age His life will fill the earth – which is really not enough… It will have to go on and fill the universe!