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Remember that these feasts God covenanted with His people were convocations-- a time for God to meet with His people. It is clear that in sending Jesus Christ, God was truly "meeting" with His people. Jesus is called Immanuel-- God with us.
The day after Passover (the 15th of Nisan) begins the Feast of the Unleavened Bread (Exodus 23:15 and Deuteronomy 16:16). The two convocations are so closely related as to become almost synonymous with each other. Unleavened bread reflected the fact that the Israelites had to leave Egypt in such a hurry that they could not take the time to bake bread with yeast (leaven) in it. It is also connected to the barley harvest (Lev 23:4-14). This first day was to be a Sabbath day (even though it fell on a Friday, High Sabbath days are not on the regular Sabbath Saturdays-- they are called Yom Tov). There would not be any working on this day-- just worshiping and daily offerings.
Leaven is associated biblically with sin. The Hebrews were instructed to sweep all traces of leaven out of their house and to only eat unleavened bread for seven days. This was a picture of the reality that God would one day wipe all sin from His people.
When leaven is present in dough it spreads quickly through it, sours it, ferments it, and puffs up the dough to many times its original size without changing its weight. It is a perfect picture of what sin does in our lives. The Lord God is serious about removing every last speck of sin from our lives.
Just as Passover depicts the substitutionary death of the Messiah, the Feast of the Unleavened Bread depicts the burial of the Messiah. Jesus is the Bread of Life (John 6:35) in whom there is no sin. Unleavened bread is considered pure-- as Jesus is pure. Because of His work, the people of the House of God has been swept clean of sin. The bread represents consecration-- to associate with the sacred (Exodus 29:2-23). As New Testament believers, we are to remove sin from our "houses" by faith in the work of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament picture God presents of His people eating unleavened bread and drinking wine for seven days is the New Testament's communion.
And Jesus answered them saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." --John 12:23-24
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. --1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Timeline: Late on the afternoon of the 15th of Nisan, the end of the First Day of Unleavened Bread they placed Jesus in the tomb.
The day after Passover (the 15th of Nisan) begins the Feast of the Unleavened Bread (Exodus 23:15 and Deuteronomy 16:16). The two convocations are so closely related as to become almost synonymous with each other. Unleavened bread reflected the fact that the Israelites had to leave Egypt in such a hurry that they could not take the time to bake bread with yeast (leaven) in it. It is also connected to the barley harvest (Lev 23:4-14). This first day was to be a Sabbath day (even though it fell on a Friday, High Sabbath days are not on the regular Sabbath Saturdays-- they are called Yom Tov). There would not be any working on this day-- just worshiping and daily offerings.
Leaven is associated biblically with sin. The Hebrews were instructed to sweep all traces of leaven out of their house and to only eat unleavened bread for seven days. This was a picture of the reality that God would one day wipe all sin from His people.
When leaven is present in dough it spreads quickly through it, sours it, ferments it, and puffs up the dough to many times its original size without changing its weight. It is a perfect picture of what sin does in our lives. The Lord God is serious about removing every last speck of sin from our lives.
Just as Passover depicts the substitutionary death of the Messiah, the Feast of the Unleavened Bread depicts the burial of the Messiah. Jesus is the Bread of Life (John 6:35) in whom there is no sin. Unleavened bread is considered pure-- as Jesus is pure. Because of His work, the people of the House of God has been swept clean of sin. The bread represents consecration-- to associate with the sacred (Exodus 29:2-23). As New Testament believers, we are to remove sin from our "houses" by faith in the work of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament picture God presents of His people eating unleavened bread and drinking wine for seven days is the New Testament's communion.
And Jesus answered them saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." --John 12:23-24
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. --1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Timeline: Late on the afternoon of the 15th of Nisan, the end of the First Day of Unleavened Bread they placed Jesus in the tomb.
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