[Lesson 5]
The Figurative Food and Yeast
Testimony on the Parables of the Secrets of Heaven
and Their True Meanings
π Main Reference: Mt 24:45-47, Am 8:11, Mt 13:33
- Matthew 25:45-47
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?
It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
- Amos 8:11
"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land-- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
- Matthew 13:33
He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."
Hello, pastors, seminary students, and congregation members who came to the Shincheonji Online Seminar.
How many of you have understood the secret of the kingdom of heaven that Jesus spoke of in parables without misunderstanding?
The words of the secret of heaven should not be understood literally.
But the true meaning of the parables should be known you must know.
In the bible, there are two kinds of food and yeast.
First, there is physical food and physical yeast.
This food is what we eat every day to sustain life.
Also, yeast has the characteristic of leavening and changing something.
What then is the figurative food and yeast using the characteristics of their physical aspects.
First, what is figurative food?
Food means the word in parables.
Also, what is the figurative yeast that changes something?
The yeast means teachings or instructions.
Now, let's find out through Shincheonji Online Seminar why the answer to these parables came out this way.
- Matthew 6:9-13 (The Lord's Prayer)
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
"This, then, is how you should pray: " 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'
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