“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
 Parable #9 -  “LEAVEN”
Matthew 13:33
The is the 4th of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables
This also has application to the kingdom of God dispensation in Luke 13:20-21

 “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.” (Matthew 13:33)

BACKGROUND:
In 445BC, with one Bible week equating to seven years (a prophetic year being 360 days), God commanded that seventy weeks each of 7 years, would be determined upon Israel, that is … 70 weeks x 7 years = 490 years (Daniel 9:24-27).

This time frame is broken into four time periods of (a) 7 weeks + (b) 62 weeks + (c) the mystery church age of about 2,000 years + (d) 1 week = 70 weeks and is explained as follows:

#1. Seven weeks of years is 7 x 7 = 49 years … the time it takes to restore and build Jerusalem from 445BC to 396BC.

#2. Sixty two weeks of years is 62 x 7 = 434 years … the time from the building of Jerusalem in 396BC to Christ being cut off at the cross in 32AD.

#3. The church age of approximately 2,000 years

#4. One week of years is 1 x 7 = 7 years … this is the seven years of tribulation of God’s wrath upon the earth, that takes place after the rapture … called Daniel’s 70th week.

 The following Timeline will help (not drawn to scale):

DANIEL 9:24-27

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city … from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks … after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off … he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week …”


 “THE LEAVEN” parable Matthew 13:33

kingdom of heaven = see above diagram

leaven = the false doctrine of the Roman Catholicism … that of no eternal security; reverting back to the Greek; the New King James Version is their crowning glory; the mass is the actual body of Jesus and list goes on and on and on.

a woman = this is Rome

“ … I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.     4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour (Rome’s colours), and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:    5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (Rome).    6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints (Rome has killed Christians by the millions), and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration (to regard with wonder of ‘How could this be possible?’).    9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. (Rome sits on seven mountains) (Revelation 17:3-6, 9)

woman took and hid = This is Rome with exceedingly cunning … hiding the leaven of false and blasphemous doctrine wherever she can … with her cup full of abominations and filthiness of fornicating with the world’s nations.

three measures of meal = this is the true flour of the true doctrine of the Godhead … the three that bear record in heaven … the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost (1 John 5:7). False doctrine is mixed into true doctrine … and is allowed by unsuspecting dupes in Christians churches … as there is no discernment about the dispensations.

the whole was leavened = that’s what leaven does … once the bread is baked it’s impossible to remove the leaven. Similar to dissolving sugar into a cup of tea; or unscrambling an egg omelette; or separating poison in a cup of water.

Churches can’t get rid of the NIV, NKJV, Good News and so on.

As Christ said

“I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh (Christ’s 2nd coming Revelation chapter 19), shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)

This parable also has APPLICATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD dispensation as follows, with Paul writing to Timothy:

 “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2 Timothy 4:2-4)

See the parable of “The Tares” for other applications to the Christian church and Christians.

Of course, once leaven has gotten into anything, you can’t get it out. It’s similar to trying to unscramble an omelette.

 Harley Hitchcock
October 2023


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“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
  Parable #10 -  “HIDDEN TREASURE”
Matthew 13:44  
The 5th of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables






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