2004.07.D.17. Comment On Correction -- The Parable Of The Leaven Created by James3 on 8/24/2019 1:53:13 PM Comment On Correction -- The Parable Of The Leaven
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Following is some further comment on the Parable of the Leaven in response to the correction.
100% agreed James. "Christianity" WAS NEVER and HAS NEVER BEEN - the kingdom of the heavens. Christianity IS NOT what Yahshu came to found. Constantinian Christianity and its practices DO NOT conform to the Torah commanded guidelines of proper worship of YHWH. As such Christianity started out leavened and does not need to "become" further leavened. Most of YHWH's true believers are actually coming OUT of Christianity for that very reason as He asked us to do at Rev 18:4.
Instead, Yahshua at Matt 13:33 is using "chametz" (leaven) to describe a "change agent" or "catalyst of change" not "sin". This is why I have for years cautioned people to understand that "chametz" does not at all times strictly represent "sin" as much it represents "intention of the heart" - yetzer in Hebrew. Yetzer may be for evil - yetzer hara - or for tov (good) yetzer kodesh and the ultimate good intention is to obey Yahweh's Torah and its righteousness - "tzedakah" thereby making one a "tzadok" (righteous one) like Yahshua. Our ultimate righteousness comes through him of course. Yahweh is less concerned about the sin itself than in the "intention" of our heart towards good and evil - tov and rah. Once the heart (which means mind in hebrew thought) is "changed" - the actions will follow. Either good or evil - tov or rah.
Further - the expression in scripture "Kingdom of Heaven" - Hebrew: "malkut hashamayim" implies "Yisrael" - the restored spiritual and literal nation of believers comprised of all those who come to YHWH through Yahshua - including Judah and Efrayim, the latter of which has been scattered into the nations for 2700 years and is now returning - in these last of the last days - through YHWH's power as foretold by the prophets.
Shalom,
Yochanan Mascaro

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