Unleavened Bread (Pt.2) Series

These feasts were given to the Jewish people from God through Moses.

God established the calendar and set the 14th day of the first month of Nisan (NY-san), last for 1 day, and on the 15th of Nisan, The Feast of Unleavened Bread will begin and last for 7 days.

When looking at Passover, we see that Jesus is the Passover Lamb.

Just as God led the Israelites out of slavery of Egypt, Jesus leads us out of the slavery of sin, as the Passover Lamb of the New Covenant.

As mentioned, we are going to examine how each of these feasts leads us to Jesus.

Passover represents the crucifixion of Jesus.

Passover, or salvation in Jesus, brings us out of Egypt, it separates us from the world! Thank you Lord!

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We are looking at these feasts while keeping in mind:

Colossians 2:16–17 “So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.”

And we are going to examine 5 things about each of these feasts:

Calendar date

Historical significance

Scripture that describes the feast

How it leads to Jesus

What it means to us as Christians

Before we dig a little into Feast of Unleavened Bread, let’s recap the 7 Feasts as laid out in:

Leviticus Chapter 23:

Passover

Feast of Unleavened bread

Feast of First fruits

Feast of Weeks / Day of Pentecost

Feast of Trumpets

Day of Atonement

Feast of Tabernacles

We’ll look at these as a group, as well as individually.

The first four are feasts in the Spring.

They are also indicative of prophecy that has already been fulfilled in the coming of the Messiah.

They last 3 are Fall feasts, and are yet unfulfilled prophecy of the Messiah.

The first mention of Unleavened Bread is found in Exodus 12.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feasts of First Fruits overlap.

We’ll look at that how Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread overlap.

Let’s read Exodus 12:15-20 together.

Please stand with me as we honor God while reading His word.

The significance of Unleavened Bread is that the Israelites had to leave in Egypt in haste and there was no time to let the bread rise, therefore they left out the leaven, or yeast.

God’s deliverance can be swift!

We have @ least two examples of this:

Although Joseph had been in prison for several years after he was falsely accused of rape, he woke up one morning in prison, and the next morning he woke up 2nd in command of all of Egypt.

God’s deliverance can be swift.

Here’s another example of God’s swiftness:

Paul and Silas in prison:

Set up the story:

Demon possessed slave girl

Fortune teller earned a lot of money for her masters.

Paul got exasperated and called the demon out of her.

Instantly the slave master lost the income she was producing for them

They went to the magistrates, told lies about Paul and Silas, and they were imprisoned.

Acts 16:24–26 “Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.”

God can be swift in breaking of chains!

This leads us to an even deeper meaning for Unleavened Bread, as we’ll examine today.

Let’s revisit Exodus 12:15–18 “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you. So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.”

Exodus 12:19–20 “For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ””