1 Corinthians 5:1-2 says,
1 Cor 5:1 "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1 Cor 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you."
Here we see that one of the Corinthians had slept with his father's wife (i.e. his mother).
1 Cor 5:6 "Your glorying
is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1 Cor 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Cor 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth. (
1 Corinthians 5:6-8).
Paul says in
1 Corinthians 5:13, "Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." This is the leaven of malice and wickedness (verse 8). Paul asks, "Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" (verse 6); Then Paul says, "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened" (verse 7).
Leaven is a type of yeast that would puff up bread.
Leaven is a type of "sin." It puffs up.
Paul says to the Corinthians in not putting away this wicked person, "And ye are puffed up," (
1 Corinthians 5:2).
The yeast within alcoholic wine is ALSO a leaven.
For
Leviticus 2:11 specifically states, "ye shall burn no leaven... in any offering of the LORD made by fire." And the drink offerings most of the time were made by fire (Which included the daily offerings: (
Exodus 29:41 KJV) (
Numbers 28:7,
8) the First fruits Feast of Weeks: (
Leviticus 23:18 KJV) and the Feast of Trumpets: (
Numbers 29:6 KJV)).
For again, leaven (yeast) is representative of sin within the Bible.
And alcoholic wine is made by the yeast activating with the sugars within the alcohol. Many times this yeast is naturally present as a powder like substance upon the skin of the grape; And sometimes it is not there in significant quantity due to rainy seasons and off many native grape populations for making fermented wine.
Leaven in wine is what can get you drunk.
So Paul is saying that cast out this sinful person who is justifying sin of sleeping with his own mother (leaven, sin, spiritual drunkenness) from among you.
So here again, we see in Scripture a person committing incest with their mother and a loose allusion to wine (leaven, drunkeness). In this case, it is spiritual drunkenness.
Revelation talks about how Mystery Babylon is drunk with the blood of the saints and she has committed spiritual adultery. In other words, this all speaks way back to the beginning where we see Ham and Noah's wife commit incest (involving drunkenness) and Lot and his two daughers committing incest (involving drunkenness).
