Feast of Unleavened Bread (Ex. 12:14-20)

4/21/2008 8:51 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time           Focus:  Feast of Unleavened Bread

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Exodus 12:14-20

            Message of the verses:  “14  ‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.  15  ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.  16  ‘On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.  17  ‘You shall also 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 a permanent ordinance.  18  ‘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.  19  ‘Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.  20  ‘You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread’”

            God is giving this message to Moses, and this will be repeated in Scripture on a number of occasions, and this feast, as all of the Jewish feast, finds significance in the Lord Jesus Christ.  I must mention that this section is not covered by Dr. Wiersbe’s book and so I have had to do some other digging on my own and thus turned to the internet for some much needed help.  I would like to find a book of good reputation which speaks of how all of the Jewish feasts pertain to the Lord Jesus Christ in order to learn about this subject, which has been on my heart for sometime.

            As far as I have learned the feast of Unleavened Bread begins on Passover and it lasts for seven days as recorded in this section of Scripture.  There is no work to be done on the first day and no work to be done on the last day, and there is a good chance that there is another Sabbath day some place in these seven days, a regular Sabbath day.

            I want to go into more detail about this feast and what it means to me as far as Jesus Christ and His fulfillment of this feast and will do so at a later date.