Here’s what our chapter teaches about the week following Passover. “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.” Leviticus 23:6-8
“The Feast of Unleavened Bread!”
So every April, every first month of the Jewish year … from the 14th day (Passover) until the 21st day (Unleavened Bread) … a total of eight days inclusively … the Israelites were to be in attendance at the Jerusalem Tabernacle (later the Temple) … worshipping God!
As is commanded in Deuteronomy 16:16 … “Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.”
The Passover, as we saw yesterday, is a Picture/Symbol of our very Salvation. Applying the Blood of the Lamb of God (the Lord Jesus Christ) to our hearts and trusting God to save us!
Then the following week (a week as opposed to a day) was the Feast of “Unleavened Bread.” Leaven in the Bible clearly being a type of sin! (Exodus 12:15 … “Ye shall put away leaven out of your houses.”)
The meaning of this?
After one is saved by the Grace of God and the Blood of Jesus (Passover) he or she is to live a holy, clean, pure life to the Glory of God! (Unleavened Living!)
Wow!
Listen to Paul here: “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: 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 5:7-8
Get saved!
Then … live right for Jesus!
Some quick thoughts about this Unleavened Bread week, this Feast (the Lamb and the Bread) …
Only Jews could eat this Holy Meal! (Exodus 12:43 … “The LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof.” One had to be “in the family” to so partake! No foreigners! (One must be born again into the family of God to so enjoy Jesus and live purely!)
Then they could only eat the meal (roasted Lamb and unleavened Bread) … “With your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.” Exodus 12:11
The point here? Eat it ready to go, ready to leave Egypt, ready to march to the Promised land! Ready to relocate! Just as we Christian are to be “Rapture-ready” all the time!
And the menu? Roasted Lamb (a stunning picture of Jesus on the Cross enduring the fiery Wrath of God on behalf of us sinners!) along with the yeast-free Bread, lives purified from open and blatant sin!
Feasting on Jesus!
Wow!
I saw this yesterday, I think. These first two Feasts, Holy Occasions, are similar to Leviticus chapters 1 and 2 as well. Leviticus 1 (if you recall) is the Burnt Offering, Jesus dying on the Cross, satisfying His Father’s Righteous Demands, totally dedicated to obeying His Father’s Will … as in Passover! Immediately followed by Leviticus 2 (of you recall) recounting the Meat (Meal) Offering … symbolizing the Perfect, Sinless (Unleavened) Life Jesus lived prior to the Cross!
Had Jesus not lived right, with no sin … He could not have died right, vicariously for you and me!
Amazing!
Are YOU, dear friend, living a holy life unto the Lord? A life that is not leavened by the tainted spirit of this world?
If not … get the “leaven” out today!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
1 John 1:7 … But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
Yes!
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