Feast of Unleavened Bread PT-2 (Ex. 12:14-20)

4/21/2008 8:51 AM

4/22/2008 8:55 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.

            This is day two of this SD and after reading more about this feast and finding out some of the things that pertain to believers I would like to write some of these things in this SD.

            As stated before this feast starts right after Passover, and Passover to the believer is a picture of our salvation for that is when God passed over the believers sin because of the blood of the Passover Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Now comes the Feast of Unleavened Bread and during this time Israel was to first of all make sure that there was no leaven found in their house and then go without leaven for a period of seven days, feeding only on unleavened bread.  As a believer I too am to, by the Holy Spirit’s power, search my heart for any sin (leaven) and get rid of it by confessing it to the Lord, and I am also to feed on the Lord Jesus Christ through His Word which is a picture of feeding on the unleavened bread.

            I want to mention one other thing that I have learned from this study, and that is that the Lord Jesus Christ was buried on the first day of the Unleavened Bread feast, for He was crucified on the Passover, for He was indeed the Passover Lamb, “Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.” (John 6:35)  This first day after the Passover was a “High Sabbath day”, “Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”  (John 19:31)

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I think that there is an obvious conclusion to this study that I can apply to my life each and every day of my life, two thing for sure and that is to put away any leaven in my life each day and to feed on the Lord Jesus Christ through His Word each day.

My Steps of Faith for Today:  I want to say that I have know that I should confess my sins and also to feed on the Lord Jesus Christ, but that I have never known that these were a picture of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 

            To be yoked up with the Lord Jesus Christ as written about in Matthew 11:28-30, “28  "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.  29  "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.  30  "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.’”

            I want to continue to be taught contentment in my life through the trials that Sandy and I are going through, for I believe contentment is one of the greatest things that a believer can learn.

Memory verses for the week:                      Philippians 3:7-8

7. But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
8. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.