
Originally Posted by
Bob May
And the 3 splits the 17th birthday of Joseph.
This is the beginning of something. A new birth into the knidom of heaven. The realization of our sonship=inheritance,
Mt 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.
Mt 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Mt 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Leaven = Doctrine.
Why hide leaven 3 between the 1 and 7 or in the midst of the 17??
Because the leaven of the kingdom of heaven is hid inside of us until the WHOLE is Leavened.
The kingdom of heaven is the doctrine of Christ which is not the doctrine that we hold until the whole is leavened. And that leveaning comes in three stages over time.
Joseph was not revealed as "King" over Egypt until 13 years later. Unity, One, at the reunion of the brothers and Jacob.
The Kingdom of Heaven grows inside of us in obscurity. Like leaven...Doctrine, the doctrine of Christ becomes our Doctrine.
The Pharisees did not go into the kingdom nor let anyone going in to go in.
The Saducees the same because they did not believe in the Resurrection.
Both apply to this life while still in the body. The flesh.
"Better the day of your death than the day of your birth."
It is our doctrine, our world view that keeps us from seeing the Kingdom of heaven all around us IN This Life.
Another good word, Bob! It is all through the Bible, in so many ways...and yes, applies to THIS LIFE, while still in the body~!
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. Eph 1:9-10
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