Get the Leaven Out!

For Passover to Feast of Unleavened Bread we are told to remove the leaven from our homes.  But this is two fold.  And no I am not just talking pastry here.  As before, we see that leaven is sin.  So, let's not just remove all yeast products from our home this year, but let's look around and see if there is anything that He calls sin that might have gotten in that needs to be removed.

I know that it has been put on my heart to look at things he calls graven images and idols.  In Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. The Torah also says in Deut. 4:16-19,23 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,  The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:  And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Yahweh thy Elohim hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Yahweh your Elohim, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Yahweh thy Elohim hath forbidden thee. 

I do not bow down to these things but He also says not to have these things.  When you look up the word make in Hebrew it says not to keep, acquire, give or maintain, etc.  He also said that if you have them and bring them into your home the curse that is on them can come on you.  He calls these things abominations.  Deut. 7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.  So let's get the leaven out!

Two great articles to read: Graven Images and Idols: what your pastor never told you about the second commandment and Graven Images and Idols: The Scriptural Definition.

Written by:  Jana D. Pindell