Javetta-

Woo Hoo!~ I like that NEW COVENANT ratified in the blood of Christ its BETTER!

“The unshrunk patch is the NC and the old garment is the OC. One cannot try to marry the two because they are mutually exclusive and will not stand together. To force them together will only make matters worse. However, it is truly a glorious mystery how they cannot stand together, yet the NC fulfills the OC and takes it to heights unseen.”

This statement has caused many conversation in my bible study group. I think a few people left because I made this connections.I like the way you said this Javetta.

Lionel-

Excellent question, was he disqualified because he despised his birthright (his actions and performance), or did he despise his birthright because of something that was determined before “the twins were born”? …Jacob I have loved and Esau I have hated…

@Brian and Hutch: Thanks! When I came to this realization about a year ago, I was floored. I was like, “How come NOBODY told me this?!?!” It makes things a lot easier to understand and puts obedience in reach

@Lionel: If scripture is clear about any other reason that Esau was disqualified other than God’s sovereign choice, I missed it. Do you have any insights? If so, what are they?

@Lionel- Bishop, you know I had to check with you because the Lord always tells you things he doesn’t tell the rest of us. You got that double anointing!

I struggled with obedience for years trying to merge the two covenants (as I suspect MANY people have). I hope the Lord is gracious enough to lead someone to this blog so they can understand this simple, life-changing truth that will indeed set them free!

I remember reading this and I throw my bible in the trash because I knew for sure that I was lied too.

love paragraph 2, “essau is an answered prayer” yes indeed. i never thought of that. the two parables are fascinating also, and i want to drop two observations on them that have nothing to do with each other. the first observation is that the first parable, about the cloth and the patch, is about contraction. the new patch shrinks and tears the garment. the new wine skins, by contrast, expand. the old wine skins burst. the patch is interesting because the garment and the patch are probably made from the same material. you know, when God was present with israel during the exodus, when his shakinah accompanied them day and night, their clothes did not wear out. what causes a wine skin to expand, new or old? yeast. thanks javetta for an interesting read.

i can. i will drop it on you later tonight, hot chocolate. my daughter number two, casey blue, is in the district spelling bee in a couple of hours, but when i get home i will expand on the yeast for ya.

yeast is a single cell flora that self multiplies exponentially. with billions of individual, single cells in one gram, over a relatively short time, that gram can grow into a ton. yeast is everywhere, on the ground, on plants, in the air. the human body also grows and collects this strange fungi.
yeast naturally forms in a culture or environment. the cells eat and breathe all of their surroundings. when mixed with flour and water, it eats the sugar in the flour and the proteins in the glutton and releases carbon dioxide, the same thing we release when we exhale. the carbon dioxide forms pockets in the dough and the dough expands. the yeast multiplies in the dough, eating and growing until there are no sugars left to eat. the result in the bread is that it is light and fluffy. thats how it works in bread. many keep a living bag of culture growing to leaven their future batches.
yeast is a player through out the bible, both symbolically, ie-the sayings of Christ; matthew 16: 6 “beware the yeast of the pharisees and that of herod”, matthew 13:33 “..the kingdom of heaven i like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough” . paul in corinthians 5:6-8. and, in the old testament, in a far more literal fashion.
yeast is identified the first time by name (i think) in exodus 12: 19-21″ Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. “.
okay, so, obviously Jesus and the super apostle use the metaphor in the new testament because it has established substantial meaning in the old testament, and i will try to quickly sum up what it is and what it is doing in the old testament, and then extrapolate about it just a little further.
in the garden of eden, in the presence of God, man was given all the fruits of the trees to enjoy. delicious fruits of all kinds, each in their season. when man fell and was expelled from the garden, God sent man from his presence into the world created for satan. God cursed the ground and told man that from now on he will get his food from the ground and from the toil of his labor, from the sweat of his brow he will eat his bread (gen 3:17-19. ).
the grain that man labors over for his bread is inundated with the culture of the place where it is grown. the garden was for God and man, outside of the garden is a place where God does not dwell, the culture is inherently evil. man dines on this alone.
in egypt the israelites eat the bread of captivity. when the angel of death comes over the land, it inundates all with its presence. yeast, which multiplies faster than anything else, carries the essence of that death. this is why in levitical law, all yeast must be removed from a dwelling when someone dies there. yeast is death.
yeast corrupts. if there is sickness in your house, start a sourdough culture and the yeast will begin eating the germs in the air and pass it along into the dough.yeast eats the sugars, excretes carbon dioxide, defecates alcohols and dies. it is a culture of death. God would not let the israelites eat leavened bread in his presence because there is no death in God’s presence, only life, and this bread is the food that is eaten when you are not in his presence. when the shakinah of God comes to dwell with them, and lead them, God provides the food, he sets the table with manna, which lives and dies before yeast can become activated in it.
when the tabernacle is constructed, God has man bring bread into his presence, unleavened bread, everyday. the daily bread. it is a holy feast shared in spirit by men and God. first it sits in his presence, and then it is consumed by the priests.
Christ is the unleavened bread, the bread that came down from heaven, the food that is consumed at the table set by the lord. after he comes down, the feast of the unleavened bread commanded by God as observation of the passover, passes away. we are once again in God’s presence.
it is not the yeast it is the bread.
it is not the yeast that is cursed
it is the bread.
i used to be frustrated that the passover commanded the removal of all yeast and yeast products from the home, yet then they drink wine. don’t tell me it is just grape juice. within 12 hours of being pressed, wine is fermenting. the natural yeasts in the air begin eating the sugar of the grapes, defecating alcohol and releasing carbon dioxide. it is a natural part of the process. they aren’t drinking alcohol free juice, because passover happens early in the year, and there are not grapes on the vines. it has all been fermenting and getting more proofed with alcohol. it is a what is called a spirit, and is alive. when they open that skin or that jar, the wine breathes the oxygen and starts to die. it begins to turn to vinegar.
why do the israelites keep this product that is teaming with yeast, yet throw any other product that has been in contact with yeast away? because it is not about the yeast, it is about the bread. the wine is God’s blessing. once it has worked its way through the sugar, it dies and its spent casings, the lees, fall to the bottom, the wine lives, the yeast is dead. the wine is Christ. the wine is blood, and blood is sacred. blood is life. Christ, in his life time, turns water into wine, wine into blood, and blood into water. water is also sacred. life was brought into existence between the waters. wine is Christ, and God’s promise of provision. the yeast of the culture of God yields promise. the yeast from the culture of man yields death. exponentially.
i dashed this off in a hurry, i hope that it makes some kind of sense. of course it could all be just babble. thanks for reading, and thanks for the food.