Has Satan Been Tampering With The
Fellowship Offering?
Matt 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.
Luke 13:20-21
And again he
said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was
leavened.
Gen 18:6
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah,
and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
upon the hearth.
Lev 2:1-11 (Meal Offering- fellowship offering)
1.
And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering
shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour
oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
2.
And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take
thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the
altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD:
3.
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire.
4.
And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in
the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers
anointed with oil.
5.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering (meal offering) baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled
with oil.
6.
Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
7.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the frying pan, it shall be
made of fine flour with oil.
8.
And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things
unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto
the altar.
9.
And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial
thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
10. And that which is left of the
meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire.
11. No meat offering,
which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall
burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
I The
Fellowship Offering
(Matt 13:33, Lk 13:20-21, Gen 18:6, Lev 2:1-11). As we begin are investigation looking
for fingerprints of tampering and infiltration, we need first to understand
what these verses teach the saints and how they apply to the New Testament Covenant.
As we look at the first two verses in the gospels in Matthew and Luke, we are
introduced to a woman by Jesus who is leavening three loafs of bread. On face
value it seems like a harmless gesture to prepare bread for hungry souls. As we
rightly divide the scripture (cutting the sacrifice correctly that it might
cause the recipient to be acceptable to God-straight teaching or said another
way orthodoxy) we must first understand that many scriptures can have both a positive
and negative denotation depending on how the Holy Ghost applies these verses to
the believers heart and mind. Both sides of the coin could be applied here, to
illustrate what is meant, take for instance the invention of the airplane which
has been a great invention and allows man to travel very quickly to all of the
corners of the globe which can help increase the completion of the Great Commission
(Matt 28:18-20). The other side of that invention is that planes have made
warfare much more deadly and have killed countless millions of souls due to
this increase of technology. Job said, “And that he would shew thee the
secrets of wisdom, that they
are double to that which is!” (Job 11:6).
First, let
us investigate who this woman is from the New Testament prospective. She is
introduced by Christ to his disciples, but he does not give her name. Thus we
must figure out who she is, by what she does. There are three particular women
revealed in the New Testament who are mysterious. Israel in (Rev 12), The Bride
(Rev 19, 21), and the Whore (Rev 17). On face value this could apply to the
church spreading the gospel in the world with the influence of the Spirit of
God and changing the composition of this evil world. Sure many take this explanation
and move on, or could this verse have much more to it than initially thought? One
most notice that Jesus speaks about the three measures of bread, which to the Jew refers to (Gen 18:6)
where the three heavenly guests visited Abraham and he made three measures of
meal. The Jews during Passover also use three unleavened pieces of bread which
by tradition are referred to as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and it is the middle
piece of bread that is broken and passed around in the Passover called the afikomen,
that Jesus used to establish the Lord’s Supper. Now believers in the New
Testament know that that bread represents Christ Jesus and the New Testament
teachings that he taught. Jesus said I am that bread of life that came down
from heaven, and that man does not live by physical bread alone but by every
word that proceeds from God.
So if the
bread, the fellowship believers have with God is the New Testament, the Word or
Jesus Christ (John 1:14), what then is the leaven? Could that be the Holy Ghost,
maybe if applied at Pentecost, but leaven in the Bible usually symbolizes evil
and pride (1 Cor 5:1-9). In Leviticus 2:11 regarding the meal offerings they
were not to put leaven in them or honey (carnal pleasure -natural thinking). So
this woman according to Jewish teaching (which was his initial audience) is doing something unlawful to the
fellowship offering. So of the three mysterious women in the book of Revelation
we can deduce that this woman Jesus is referring to is the harlot of Revelation
(Rev 17). So who is in the modern world this harlot of Revelation? The answer to
that question is best described in a book written by Dave Hunt called, “A Woman
Rides the Beast” (Electronic Copy Free http://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Further_Research/Paganism%20&%20RCC/A-Woman-Rides-the-Beast-by-Dave-Hunt.pdf-Free).
To be candid, the Bible says regarding the prostitute that she has forsaken the
guide of her youth and forgot her covenant with God (Prov 2:16-17). This is
the Roman Catholic Church with all of her daughters ( churches that came out of
her who have perverted the doctrines of Christ). For time sake if you would like
more on this topic read the book, you will not be disappointed.
So why would this so-called Christian Church pervert the
fellowship offering of believers in Jesus?We must be brief, but from around (500
AD – 1500 AD) the Medieval church kept the Bible away from people who attended
their churches and only taught them what would profit this church (the work of
a whore). During the Reformation,
beginning with Martin Luther in Germany the Bible was put back in the hands of
believers and God transformed Europe with his power. The only countries in
Europe that remained loyal to The Roman Pope was Spain and Italy and that was
due to the inquisition. So the leadership began a counter reformation led by
Jesuits or the Society of Jesus whose ultimate goal was to cause the countries and
people who left the Roman Catholic Church to return to their auspice and
control. The greatest opponent to accomplishing this task was the Bible written
in the common tongue of those people. So a plan was devised that the best way
to cause people to question the Bible was to introduce questions to the text
itself. Three major texts that have never been used in history until the last
century have been introduced into Biblical scholarship which has brought much
debate as to what the text really saying all of which have been introduced by Rome.
These new manuscripts are called Codex Sinaiticus- from St Catherine’s monastery
(Greek Orthodox) , Vaticanus-from the Vatican Library, and Alexandrinus-
(Catholic or Greek Orthodox?). Thus the grand old question posed in the garden
has come upon believers again “Hath God said?” Which is right, what version is
best? Thus the leavening of truth has become evident and the blessed Bible has come
into question through textual criticism and so-called modern scholarship. But
the old question that the Psalmist wrote is now more true than ever before, if
the foundation be destroyed what shall the righteous do (Psa 11:3)? The best
version in English is the Old KJV, in other languages believers need to find
the Textus Receptus (Received Text) as the underlying text to their translation
in whatever language that may be.
If you have never accepted or if you have fallen away from Jesus Christ here are three steps you need to take to be saved:
You must admit you are a sinner, confess your sin to Jesus, repent (turn from all you know is wrong), ask Jesus to come in your heart, and begin to follow Jesus by reading and obeying his word and go to a bible believing church that teaches his word. And tell someone what Christ Jesus Has Done For You (Rev 12:10)
May God through Christ bless you!
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