Listening to those amazing Jonathan Cahn videos that Nando linked to, is very exciting.

Because, he is by far one of the more exciting preachers/teachers, who also is a very good preacher/teacher, as well as an excellent writer.

Jonathan Cahn made many powerful points, and even put to rest a number of the bad analogy teachings on the Trinity (e.g. the egg, etc.).

In one, "The Trinity Mystery & The Amazing Paradox Scriptures", he spoke about Genesis 18 & the "3" men who came to Abraham.

About 30 years ago, a family we knew, who actually were Oneness, came to us with a wildly different teaching on Genesis 18, than we ever had heard.

First they had us read:

Genesis 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

  2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

  6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Then they had us read:

Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Apparently they wanted us to see that this is a parable, that most would not understand.

And then they said that the leaven shows false doctrine:

Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

  12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Then they said that the woman is the great harlot, the catholic church, from Revelation 17.

Then they said that the leaven which the woman hid in three measures of meal is what they said is the doctrine of the Trinity.

They said the word, "hid", shows that it is a catholic mystery doctrine.

The three measures of meal ties back to Genesis 18, where Abraham called for three measures of meal for three different men.

They summed it up by saying that the whole of Christendom would be filled (leavened) by the catholic church's mystery doctrine of 3 different men.

Well, to say the least, we had never heard anything, even remotely similar to that.

At the time, we did not know what to say about it.

Now, it's clear that their connecting Genesis 18 with Matthew 13, would actually connect Sarah with the harlot church, which is completely false.

Secondly, they were equating the kingdom of heaven, that the Messiah of Israel, was speaking only to Jews about, in Matthew 13, with the mostly Gentile, church age.

Third, they were teaching that leaven filling the whole, must be a bad thing filling the whole kingdom of heaven, but the preceding parable wasn't saying it was bad:

Matthew 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

  32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

They made the two parables to thus be directionally contradictory to each other.

Fourth, not all references to women, mentioned spiritually, are to be considered bad, for example;

John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Revelation 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

However, the Genesis 18 passage, itself, shows that it was not teaching the doctrine of the Trinity, there, but it was the LORD coming to Abraham.

But the LORD came with two angels, who in the next chapter, showed up in Sodom, and led Lot & his family out before the destruction.

Genesis 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

  2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

  3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

  4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

  5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

When it references the LORD and the two angels, it is in the plural.

In line 2: "saw them", "meet them".

But in line 3, when he spoke to the LORD, it was in singular: "thy sight", "I pray thee", "thy servant".

Then for the LORD and the two angels, toegether, it was back to: plural:

In line 4: "I pray you", "your feet", "yourselves"

And in line 5: "comfort ye", "your hearts", "ye shall", "are ye come", "your servant", "they said"

Then later:

Genesis 18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

  33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

The two men turned and went toward Sodom.

The LORD remained there with Abraham, as it said, "but Abraham stood yet before the LORD", and they spoke together (lines 23-32).

Then in line 33 it said that then the LORD went "his" way (singular).

But, also in line 22, it said that the two men, who were not the LORD, went to Sodom.

Those two men showed up in Sodom in the next chapter, where they are identified as two angels:

Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

But the two angels are shown to also be understood to be two men, as that is how they appeared to Abraham in chapter 18, as well as to Lot in chapter 19:

Genesis 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

  16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

No, Genesis 18:1-2, 6 is not teaching that the doctrine of the Trinity was being revealed to Abraham.

Therefore, Matthew 13:33 is not teaching that the catholic church fills the whole church age with a doctrine of their's.

For one, that doctrine was believed and taught before there even was a catholic harlot church, and even a century before the council at Nicaea.

Secondly, the context in the parables of Matthew 13 is not about the catholic church.

Has anyone else, here at FiveDoves, ever heard Genesis 18:1-2, 6 and Matthew 13:33 ever connected in that manner, before?

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