Bible Question:
Why does God not want yeast in bread? There are several verses in the book of Leviticus that says that bread offered to the Lord has to be made without yeast. Why are the priests the only ones allowed to eat the holy meal? Is it because they're cerimonially clean and considered holy in the sight of God. |
Bible Answer: Vicalan Your getting confused. First yeast is bacteria that eats the sugars in flour and things and the waste creates gases that causes things like dough to rise. This process is tumultuous and chaotic forcing the changes to take place. This is very much like sin in the life of a person and I think that is the reason God choose the comparison. Therefore yeast does represent sin or pollution (lack of purity) and God calls for it’s exclusion from all religious settings. The reason only the Priest could partake of the “Holy Meal” is they were the only ones sanctified, set apart, ceremoniously washed and made Holy. The bread also carried the prophetic inference of the “Bread of Life” which we know is Jesus the Bread of Life. So as Mommapbs said just as only believers (made holy by the blood of the Lamb) partake in communion, only the priest made holy(temporal) by ceremony were permitted to eat the bread. EdB |