The Gospel According to Yeeks

7  Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.   8  Let us therefore celebrate the festival,  not with the old leaven,  the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor 5:7-8) ===  To really follow Paul's train of thought:  (1) Paul likens the Christian church to the Bread of the Jewish Passover (2) The Passover is celebrated with unleavened bread. The church is told to cleanse out the old leaven. This is a bizarre way of describing things. Once bread is leavened it cannot be unleavened. We cannot "un-yeast" the bread as the application of yeast has already caused the dough to rise (3) But still Paul calls attention to the fact that the church is "unleavened". That unlearning process began with the sacrifice of Christ the Passover lamb, i.e. you are unleavened for Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed....

In this short writing, an attempt is made to show how the accounts of Noah, Shem, Lot, as well as the events after the Fall serve to powerfully combine to reveal the character of God in those who obey Him and those that do not.  The stories of Noah and Lot seem disparate but the parallels are incredible. The first connection is the feature of “wine” in both of these accounts. The parallels follow the pattern of (A) God’s salvation act (B) The drinking of wine (C) Actions of the Children.  It is easier to see the parallels when they are juxtaposed side-by-side (see picture). The (C) parallel may be harder to observe. Lot’s daughters’ attempts to bear children by their father is in fact the “uncovering of nakedness” prohibited later in the Pentateuch in Leviticus 18:6 -20. The verse below suffices for us to develop our thoughts further: “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.” (Lev. 18:6) This ties back to the F...