3900 - The Leaven

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 29, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 42.

3900 — The Leaven

Why was the leaven left out when the children of Israel left Egypt? It seems to be a type.

The leaven is a sign of corruption. When the children of Israel observed the Passover, they were to use unleavened bread. Everything indicating corruption in any way must be put away. They must come clean before God. The apostle uses the same figure in 1 Cor. 5:7, 8: "Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our Passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ: wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,"—without retaining in our hearts any of the old sins. Thus to Israel it meant that they were to cut loose from all the sins of Egypt and of the flesh, but worship God with sincerity of heart.