Howdy folks... So like at church today like in a seat behind me some ten yards back some random guy that had never been there before was the spitting image of famous Hollywood actor, Geoffrey Rush, who is a Sydney Sider I take it. He pulled away from the church parking lot shortly after the service began in a dark blue BMW SUV. Noone else seemed to notice him, I even mentioned it to one of the preachers, Tim....
Later Tim broaches a pivotal topic mostly overlooked by aspiring Christians and church congruents: parables vs the knowledge of the mysteries. This is the first time I meet Tim, in these circumstances. He has a ten year old daughter.
Ok so two hours or so later, we just had guests for lunch. My tonsillitis has flared up again so feeling weak.
So this Tim is talking about the analogy of the kingdom of heaven being like yeast mixed into 60 pounds of flour, which Tim says is the actual biblical amount referred to which is 144 cups. Tim is trying to see the mystery, mystical thing back of the yeast analogy or parable. Definitely 144 is 12 squared and the mystical number applied to the complete human lifespan and the periodical table of elements seems to be in that ballpark. Tim appreciates the gospel refers to 120 disciples, not just 12. He's also very interested in a preacher born around 1788 that is active in Burma and translates the Bible to Burmese. It immediately occurs to me that this Tim could be the actual resurrection of this Burmese Bible translator. Maybe there are 120 elements in the periodical chart.
Anyway I don't really know much about yeast myself. Tim is quoting examples from the old testament where yeast's permeating qualities are referred to negatively in Jewish texts.
I just know myself when I went to the wailing wall like 17 years ago, the Jewish authorities don't like bread with yeast brought through security checkpoint. I'd just brought some bread from Paris and I can't remember now if it was my local baker's bread but I do remember her in a heavenly way. She was Algerian looking but to me everyone was from the French speaking world and superior speakers to me therefore superior so I never thought I was superior to minority races in the French speaking world coz of their obvious linguistic superiority. The Jewish lady at the wailing wall checkpoint objected to my bread having yeast, she didn't want me bringing it in but it was just a sectarian complaint like Orthodox or ultra Orthodox so I just complained a little and she was indifferent. Tim's speech today was also alluding to the fact it's a woman spreading the yeast in the bread in the parable. So which woman was responsible for the yeast in my bread at the wailing wall all those years ago? The Jewish security lady in Jerusalem or the Algerian looking baker in Paris?
I don't really know and not sure the significance of yeast in bread would have to research it. What was clear was the amount of arms in terms of uzis, AK47s or m15s or Glocks or whatever was amazing and more prevalent than yeast that's for sure, in those days, early 2002 in Jerusalem.
“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” (Matthew 13:33; cf. Luke 13:20-21).
https://jewishjournal.com/opinion/rob_eshman/217620/217620/
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