One of the interesting things to me is that everyone reads the Bible, but everyone possesses a different version of what they believe is the truth. The third-century Catholic Church contains their set of beliefs that are different from the first and second century so-called believers. The many denominations that sprouted from the Catholic Church have their set of beliefs that are different from each other, and then today, their are debates with modern-day evangelical Christians versus Hebrew Israelite camps that display different beliefs. And I remind you that Hebrew Israelites departed from Christianity. Which means they were in Christianity, but who is keeping record of that fact? All parties involved claim to possess the truth concerning the message of Scripture. But how can this be true if no one agrees? Sadly, the reality is that until all parties contain the same oral tradition, we will still be a body of believers who have spots and wrinkles, unable to be presented as the bride of the Anointed One. The unity of the body of Christ is of great importance, especially in the times that are in and coming. As it relates to "oneness," the Apostle Paul said this:

"Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, ² with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, ³ being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith (belief), one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4:1-6

This shows the reality of where we are as those who claim to fellowship with the Most High. But how can we all possess different beliefs and claim that we all walk with God? Whose beliefs are correct? This implies that lies are mixed into those who do not share the same beliefs. Who has it right? One thing is for certain, and Jesus said the real part out loud when he said this:

"Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, saying,² “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.³ There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’ ⁴ For a while he was unwilling, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, ⁵ yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’” ⁶ And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge *said; ⁷ now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? ⁸ I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:1-8

To understand this parable you have to understand the imagery involved. The prophets tell you who the unrighteous judge is, who the widow is, and then we key in on the statement of the unrighteous judge. I'm not going to deal with that here, but the reason I brought this parable up is for the statement that Jesus says about himself: "...However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith (belief) on the earth?” His point is that he is looking to find the same belief that he handed down to his disciples and his disciples handed down to others after them. Which is honestly the point of this parable:

"They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.¹⁷ And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?¹⁸ HAVING EYES, DO YOU NOT SEE? AND HAVING EARS, DO YOU NOT HEAR? And do you not remember, when¹⁹ I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.”²⁰ “When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”²¹ And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?” Mark 8:16-21

One would not understand what Jesus is talking about if you do not understand that when he miraculously provided bread for the people, he was conducting a parabolic pantomime that many do not understand today. So let's look at that parabolic pantomime, and I will show you why people today possess varying versions of what they believe is the truth:

"In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples and *said to them, ² “I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat. ³ If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.” ⁴ And His disciples answered Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?” ⁵ And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”⁶ And He *directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them and started giving them to His disciples to serve to them, and they served them to the people.⁷ They also had a few small fish; and after He had blessed them, He ordered these to be served as well. ⁸ And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large baskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces. ⁹ About four thousand were there; and He sent them away." Mark 8:1-9

I brought you to what Jesus did before his statements in Mark 8:16-21 because you need to understand that Jesus is conducting a parabolic pantomime in the fact that it is he who provided bread to the people, but the people received it from his disciples. The point is that Jesus handed down the parabolic bread—the teaching of Moses—to his disciples, and his disciples to "the people." It has always been God's plan for it to be that way so that everyone contained the same oral tradition when it was time to pass from the Land of the Dead—represented by the desolate place they were in—to the Land of the Living. That is just parabolic imagery that the prophets used to mock Egyptian beliefs. Which is why Jesus dragged the people along to the wilderness and fed them there. It comes from what is found in the law of Moses that Moses, at God's direction, used to mock the resurrection theology concerning the death and resurrection of the son of a false god. If you know, you know!

Jesus, however, takes another opportunity to teach his disciples again when they were fussing about bread. This is what they were saying that leads us back to Mark 8:16-21:

"The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him. ¹² Sighing deeply in His spirit, He *said, “Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” ¹³ Leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.
¹⁴ And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them. ¹⁵ And He was giving orders to them, saying, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” ¹⁶ They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread. ¹⁷ And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart? ¹⁸ HAVING EYES, DO YOU NOT SEE? AND HAVING EARS, DO YOU NOT HEAR? And do you not remember, ¹⁹ when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.” ²⁰ “When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.” ²¹ And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?” Mark 8:11-21

Jesus' point for stating to his disciples, "...Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod..." was because Jesus knew that the Pharisees and Herod were handing down a different version of the teaching of Moses, which is like "leaven"—a major imagery in the teaching of Moses. He was also pointing his disciples, and us by extension, to the Passover of the Exodus. Here is what God commands Moses to tell the sons of Israel at that time:

"Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ² “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.³ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. ⁴ Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. ⁵ Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ⁶ You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.⁷ Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.⁸ They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ⁹ Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. ¹⁰ And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. ¹¹ Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the LORD’S Passover.¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the LORD. ¹³ The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ ‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. ¹⁵ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.¹⁶ On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. ¹⁷ You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. ¹⁸ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses, for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien (stranger) or a native of the land.²⁰ You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’” Exodus 12:1-20

The Most High puts a great amount of stress on the fact that you can only eat unleavened bread, and leaven can't even be found in the house that was stained with the blood of the lamb. You see, the blood of the lamb—Jesus Christ—is the sign that offered us grace and protection from the coming wrath of God on those who are in the house of God's enemy. The slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt serves as a symbolic representation of everyone who is "one" in "the house" of the illegitimate seed of a false god—Pharaoh, who represents the upcoming Anti-Christ. They, that is, those who believe the lies of the Anti-Christ, have become "one" in his house, just like those who believe the truth concerning the Anointed One become "one" in the belief that Jesus handed down to the Apostles/Disciples, and they to "The People." Eating leavened bread is eating the lies of Satan, and eating unleavened bread is consuming the truth of the living word of God. For all practical purposes, unleavened bread is identical to the manna that descended from Heaven. God waited to rain down manna from heaven when they ran out of bread, which was purposeful and also another parabolic pantomime. But anyway!

The hard truth here is the fact that we are living in a time where everyone possesses a different version of the truth—some elements of truth are present, but lies are there nonetheless—and it is time that we look at the things that we believe and start to remove those lies that came from Satan's house. Now, I already know that someone will think if not say, "Is he saying that he understands the truth?" To that question, I will say yes, and I am growing in the spirit every day until my time comes. But I am always of the belief that everyone is responsible for what they believe, and I am no different, so if you don't believe what I have written here, that is no concern to me, but I will present to you what Jesus made very clear, which I understand very well: "The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.” Luke 10:16