March 26, 2013

  • Feast of Unleavened Bread

    Today begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread!

    In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s 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.  Leviticus 23:5-6

    So the next question would be ‘what is the feast of unleavened bread for?’

    And you shall 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 an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.” (Exodus 12:17-19)

    What relevance do the Days of Unleavened Bread have to Christ-Followers? The Feast of Unleavened bread memorialized Israel’s deliverance from a life of slavery under Pharaoh after the slaying of the Passover lamb, but it also now represents the Christian’s deliverance from a life of sin under Satan after the slaying of Jesus Christ, the “Lamb of God.”

    “Cleanse out the old leaven (sin) that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened (sinless). For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Corinthians 5:7-8 RSV)

    Those are NT words from Paul – who obviously held that the feast observance was to be kept even after Christ’s death, to remember that it was a fulfillment of God’s feast that Christ delivered us from our sins.  I also find it interesting that in Acts 20:6, Luke records the NT church observing the feast of unleavened bread, as well.  Key to that is the fact that Luke was the only writer in the Bible who wasn’t a Jew.  And he was observing it, too.  Precedence was set… what happened, church?

    …..more good information on it located here….

    I aslo thought that maybe some of you might like to do the lapbooks that I put together (free) here on the site.  But since the links are always easy for you to find, and for the sake of convenience, here they are, again:

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