This Appointed Time of the LORD follows immediately after Passover.
Significance:
- Points to JESUS burial
SCRIPTURAL ORIGINS
Exodus 12 : 15 – 20
[15] Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread [chametz]. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel
[16] On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
[17] And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt
[18] In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
[19] For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel
[20] You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”
- The practice, even until today, is to remove all chametz or leaven from your dwelling.
- This typically takes place about 10 prior to the Feast.
Strong’s Concordance
H2557 ~chametz meaning that which is leaven or sour. The root word conveys a sense of oppression or cruelness.
Representations of Leaven or Chametz:
- Sin
- Pride
- Self-dependence
- Leaven is considered to be a corrupting influence
- Affliction
Matzah is bread that has no leaven in it. This is the bread that is to be consumed during this time.
Seven days of Holiness – no “sin” is to be found in or among you.
NOTE PRIOR to the Feast of Unleavened Bread we have the “covering” of our sins; which allows us the live in an UNLEAVENED STATE.
JESUS ALERT !
The Passover Lamb had just been sacrificed which provides a covering of
one’s sin.
Leviticus 23 : 5 -6
[5] 'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD'S PASSOVER.
[6]And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.
For Jews living today, it is a reminder of the haste in which they left Eqypt.
The bread had no time to “rise”.
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
JESUS’ BURIAL
Luke 23 : 50 - 54
[50 ] Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea kingdom of God
[53]Then he [Joseph of Arimathea] took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid. [54 ] It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.
- This was actually a “High” Sabbath as recorded in John.
John 19 : 31
[31] Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
- The Sabbath [the Holiest of Days] is the end of the Week – the traditional day of Rest [Saturday].
- A High Sabbath is a Holy Day such as a “Feast” Day.
- Day of Preparation refers to preparing for the Feast of Unleavened Bread; which starts at sundown.
Paul Encourages US to Celebrate with NEW meaning
1 Corinthians 5 : 6 - 8
[6]Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? [7 ] Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. [8 ] 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.
Once again we see JESUS as the Divine Fulfillment of Scripture!
~Love Much…Forgive Often…Seek Earnestly!
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